The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30

point. a distance Of seventy-five feet
north and twenty feet south. A streak
of ore averaging fourteen inches IN
width and carrying values or $1sQ00 a
ton and upwards, has been found
against the hanging wall of the yeiI1.s Z.
The rest OF the vein averages $40 per
ton.
During the writer's visit to the prop
erty in company with Manager Hoff-
man. the manager stopped at point in
the drift probably fifty feet north of
the cross-cut This looks Ike good
stuff" said he, "and I'm going to see
whether it is or not" Taking shovel
from a miner, Mr.. Hoffman TOOK. out as
much of the ore as would half cover
the implement. This he placed in
pestle and pounded until it was pow
derry. Then he PANIED it in a small pan
l have thought that a hashHght pho
tcgraph of the little party Of Us as we
sat there in the bottom OF that DRIFT,
a hundred feet underground, the candle
light cleaning on OR faces. our eyes
bent on the little pan Of dirt and water,
that Hoffman was Whirfing, would nlaks
an interesting souvenir of the trip. Ger
tainly wish 1 had such q photograph
1t seemed an age before the manager
began throwing off the gangue. Really
it was only minutS or two. Gradually
the waste was discarded. Now there Is
only a little dirt in the bottom OF the
pan.
Ore Worth $4,000 to Ton.
In our eagerness we crowd forward,
the candle grease dropping into the wa
ter At last-'Look there said Hoff-
man. There was the gold. In mar
row ring that half encircled the pans
its yellow CLEAN rejecting the light of
the candle, it shone. 'HThat ore is
worth $4,000 a ton," said Hoffman, and
those around him were ready to believe
he was under, rather than over, ths
mark. A winze is to be sunk at ths
spot from which this panning was
| taken, and sumo sensational disclosures
are expected from 1t.
To resume the description of the
workings: Manager Hoffman will run
the drift from which the high-grade ore
/ is being taken until he connects with
/ the HudsOn-Vermiyea No. l lease on
the Stray Dog. The shaft on this Lease
/ is down 135 feet, and a winze takes it
/ twenty feet deeper. The shaft runs
through a vein eight feet wide. partly
on one side and partly on the other,
carrying values Of $35 per ton. Hers
change in the ore from the oxydize1
I II
noted, greatly to the qualification of thu
management, for the sulphides indicats
higher values and assured permanency.
! The sinking Of the main working
shaft will. in the meanwhile, be contin-
ue6 as rapidly as is possible. At zoo
feet station will be cut and a cross
cut run sixty feet, where the vein VIII
be encountered in its pitch Of As degrees
| towards the shaft. No other station
will be cut until the shaft is down 300
| feet. where the vein will be encountered
directly in the shaft. There drifting
north and south will be done. But there
is more than one vein on the Stray Dog
Manhattan.
| AS a matter of fact, there are three,
all dipping towards the main shaft and
running parallel 100 feet apart. At
depth of 500 feet, which will be reached
before STOPPING is begun, 1t will be pos
sible to work all three of these veins
On the Stray Dog there is the greatest
activity. Three shifts of miners are at
work, and the permaEency Of the mine
has been thoroughly demonstrated, IL
there is anything in indications, it will
be years before the last pound OF ore
has been extracted and its gold value
added to the wealth Of the world
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