The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-12
GOLD MINE FOUND
UNDER BROADWAY
Quartz Assaying $4,000 to Ton
Brought Up From
la Feet.
ROCK IS ALSO CHARGED
WITH SILVER AND LEAD
Holes Drilled for Elevator
Plunger in Skyscraper Re-
veal Hidden Treasure.

NEW YORK March IA real gold mine
whose quartz assays 5000 to tho ton has been
discovered on lower Broadway and within
stones throw of Wall street The strike
was mnde ia feet under the street level. under
tho handsome building being erected Tor
the Title Guarantee and Trust company at NO
l76 Broadway
willis the excavations for the foundations
for this building which Is already under roof,
were being made, not particle oil rocE Was
found that showed any trace OF valuable
metal 1t decided to equip the building
with plungcr elevators, and IA the plungers
murt 60 below ground for Gs tho building
rises above 1t. four holes. each about nine
inches in diameter. were drilled. Nothing OF
any extraordinary nature WAS brought to llSht
until the depth OF Ia feet was reached about
ten days ago.
Tested In Smelter.
Then Samuel c. Pyio OF Wilmington. Del.
who. besides being foreman OF br1ckloycrs Is
q mechanic, mlnoralogist, Geolpgist and metal
lurgtst noticed stray bits OF stonc that wcre
brought up from tho plunser holes. and pock-
cted several pieces that had q peculiar sheen
When at hIs leisure he looked closer at tho
rccks and examined them with q microscope.
no convinced that there wns gold In the
rock. To determine the matter dinnltely no
took several pieces 10 his home. where no has
small 0melter, Hc worked at his specimens
until he had a nice little lump OF tho pure yell
similar tcstS with other samples OF the ore
| found in the same borinSs upder broadway, ana
he says that In some OF tho ore the sold runs
| as high 5000 ton.
Gold Under Manhattan.
"only some of the quortz. however. will nun
| ms heavy az that Mr. Pyle said yesterday.
| ''and eomc OF tho rock has not enough OF the
yellow stuff In II TO pay for smeltering c&-
| penses However,, from whnt / have found. l
am convinced that a arge part OF Manhattan
| island. II not NIL of II, is undcrlnid with sold.
| The rock is mixed quartz md hornblende.
| Tho latter Is usually found In the snme places
| with gold There is also silver In considerable
| quantities in the orc. and some Iron.
| Mr. Pyle, kept hia discovery sncret until
| he had applied his tests and was sure OF his
| ground Then he told the facts to some oi
the cnginecrs OF tho Standard PlunGer Elc'
| Notor company. who arc constructing the ltta
! ard other engineers Of the Thomp son Starret'
| company, and they informed Horace Anderson
| who has charge OF the building. Mr.. Ander'
| son In turn, Informed other officials OF his
| company. and yesterday there was considerable
comment over the dlecovery.
| Silver Ore in It, Too.
| Mr. Pyle says that he got from about twen
| lars worth OF silver. some Iron and come lead
| Ho believes that tho vein Is an extensive one
| nnd thnt IL the immense surface value Of tn,
| realty I'm this district did not forbid, craze
| aiTilar TO the ones In tho days of SO at th'
| opening of the Cripple Creek region and IT
! the DAYS OF the Klondlhe boom might easily b
| started
! Judging tho matter from the qunrtz he han
| died and from the topography OF lower Man
| haitian. Nr Pyle soys that the gold veins AK
| tend at least from Bowling Green to CITY Hal
park. Tho metals extracted by the many sided
bricklaycr foreman arc In little bottles In TIT
| ot1co OF the Ti5le Guarantee and Trust com
pany. There also several Jumps OF tho golf
| taken from the borinGs