The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-25
HOFFMAN TELLS
OF COMING CAMP
Manager of Sullivan Proper.
ties at Manhattan Describes
Recent Rich Strikes.
GOLDFIELD LABOR OUTLOOK
CONTAINS NO ELEMENT TO
CAUSE UNEASINESS.

Ed Hoffman, formerly superintendent of
the Carisa and now general manager OF
the L. NJ. Sullivan Trust company's
Manhattan properties, arrived yesterday
in Salt Lake to spend the holidays visit
ing relatives and friends. Mr.. Hoffman
is more than delighted with the develop
ment work that has been going on under
his supervision. He yesterday said that
there was no longer any question about
the Stray Dog, Indian Camp and Jump
ing Jack being mines. Enough ore has
| been blocked out in them to warrant the
assertion that they will be heavy pro-
ducers for a long time to come. Said
| Mr.. Hoffman:
Some of the values we have encoun-
| tered are SO sensational that l hesitate
about mentioning them for fear that my
friends in Utah will think that for once
1 am INDUCING in eXaggerations. Take
a look at this specimen, for instance,
and Mr.. Hoffman passed over a chunk of
rock that was thickly flecked with free
gold. That came" he continued, from
what we call the Priest winZe in the
Stray Dog.
We started that winze on a fourteen
| inch streak of high-grade ore. The streak
has widened out, after fifteen feet of
sinking, until now it is four feet wide
| and the values are running from 500 to
$500 per ton. 1t Is the most remarkable
| ore 1 ever saw in my life. We are
sacking it as rapidly as possible and stor-
ing it in what we call the treasure vault
on the 100-foot level 1t will be shipped
as soon as practicable. The vein is widen
| ing with every shot.
| ssThere are other distinct veins on the
| Stray Dog group that carry nigh Values
| and we are sinking the main working
| shaft straight down to the 500 level to
| catch them again at depth and work on
them. There is enough ore in sight on
this property to make 1t a certain dIvl-
dend payer within comparatively short
I time.
''The Indian Camp is another sure win
ner.. Here we have a tremendous body
of sulphide ore. The other day We struck
in the shaft at a depth of 115 feet a big
vein of high-grade ore. The sample l
have with me is, as you see, sprinkied
with free gold. We have thousands OF
tons of ore in the Indian Camp that will
run all the way from $50 to 5000 per ton.
am as confident that the Indian Camp
may now be clasSed as mine as L am
.srThe Jumping Jack is also looking
| splendidly. We are sinking the man
| shaft there now as rapidly as possible
gin blocking out the ore upon my return
|. after the holidays. The As You Like Ii
: is still in the prospect stage, but we arc
| busily exploring it and all the lndicatlons
DOint TO splendid Developments
, Mr.. Hoffman expressed great pleasure
| at being home again. but ne Is of the
harlan particularly. is destined to en-
, ioy a tremendo mining boom during th'
coming year AZ have the utmost conn
: dence in the future of Monhattan. III
! said This confidence has been gained
I from my experience with the Sullivan
, properties and from careful oDserVauon'
: / of the camp and the country about it.
''Why, one-half of the richness of tina
l territory has not been told. Inc GROUND
has hardly been scratched. You JUS
| watch Manhattan's smoke during the mex
few months if you like to look at rea
doings in the mining line"
Mr. Hoffman states that he left the
mines in the pink of condition and Il
. assure no cessation Of work. other thar
the holidays call for. the SULLIVAN com
{ many decided to meet the demand of min
ers for increased pay and settled the mat
ter Thursday last.
You can say for me-" said Mr.. Hoff
. man that there is goirg to be no trou
| HE at Goldfield over wages. The SEIZED
ME demanded by the miners viii b'
I granted and everything will move alon&
! Smoothly after the first of the year
l Nearly all of the leases expire at tina
! time and then the operation of the prop
! critics will be taken up by the compame!
4 | themselves.
! ssyVith the leasers of course, no attemp
. at DEVELOPMENT beyond the power OF tn
; isaee Owners to take out the ore has beel
atfennpted AS G result the companies VIII
| confine themselves largely, If not entire
IL to the further and systematic develop
ment of new ground. Shafts viii be SUM
y to greater depth and the ore booles opehe'
, by Ieasers nearer the surface VIII
| tanned on new levels. There is nothln:
at an in the labor situation at Goldfield Z
y | cause uneasiness. The coming year WI
e he the best not. only in the history o
e that camp, but of all the camps IN Ne
!. Vada-'