The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-17
FINE ORE BODIES
IN GOLD BAR
Two Millions of Dollars Opened
Up on One Shallow
Level.
VEIN EXTENDS FOR
THREE THOUSAND FEET
Superintendent Bedford Is in Salt
Lake, and Tells of De-
velopments.

When the history Of the Nevada
camps is written, no venture on the
part of Sale L.akers will be given
more prominence than that through
which the famous Gold Bar property
was acquired and developed by Salt
Lake mining and business talent oc
prominence. Those who took hold or
the Gold Bar shortly after the location,
monuments were erected are Messrs,
Brown, Terry and Woodruff, Messrs.
Dixon and Ellis, Judge Sherman and
Davis and LOTUS. most OF whom have
contributed not a little to the present
mining life and history of Nevada
l., E. Bedford, the present superin-
tendent OF the Gold Bar, who took
charge Of the mine when there was
nothing more than a 50-foot hole On
the same. is in this city on his yaca-
tion. and little realizes that in unfold
Ing the story OF the Gold Bars mag
ni1cent growth from a mere prospect
to one OF Neyadas splendid mines he
at the same time explains the part he
himself has played And this part is
not !nconsiderable. as the officials OF
the company readily acknowledge, Mr..
Bedford has had complete charge oil
the property. and it's present condition
is due in no small measure to the
quality Of judgment and effort he dis
pldyeu IN the CeNelopment or the
mine.
Opened Up Long Distance
There are few properties In the
more recent Nevada camps that enjoy
the reputation the Gold Bar has at
tained. The management has opened
UP Its main vein for a distance OF
1900 feet along the strike, and 1900 feet
OF this have displayed by means OF
surface workings surface values in |
every opening made. All the work the |
management is now doing is accom- |
plished through the main shaft work
ings. the shaft now being down for d |
distance of $40 feet. 1t is the intention |
OF the company TO establish the 500 |
foot level as soon as the equipment Is |
capable OF taking care OF this depth |
and the ore being extracted above.
The management figures that, exclu-
sive OF the 260-foot level. or on the
15O-foot level alone. the Gold Bar has
opened up at this time ore of the value
OF $2,000.00o. a record that the company
may we'll be proud Of. The greatest
amount OF work has been done on the
1oO-foot level, where the numerous
workings. including a crosscut for 160
feet. all are in ore. The best values
OF the Gold Bar are encountered along
the hanging wall, but interest has CEN
tered upon what may be expected on
that no working IN the mine has as yet
disclosed. The management has dr!fted
along this vein for several hundred feet
in all. and there has been disclosed
well-dehned, clean-cut fissure with ore
continuous
Company Going Deeper.
The 250-foot level has been opened I'D
by the management during the past
thlrty days. and better values have
been encountered than on the l50-foo,
level crosscut from the main shaft
mas proceeded a distance of 90 feet.
ana 90 feet or this IS In high-grade /
niilihs ore with two streaks OF high.
grade rock. the balance of the 90 feer
peing prospecting work in the hanging
wall Drifts have been started both
ways on the 250-foot level. and It IS
the plan OF the management to cross
cut every hundred feet until the foot
wall Is found with its expected high
values with the marked Improvement
on tne lower levels, II Is matter OF
comforting speculation to the company
as TO what they Will open up below the
150-foot level.
All along the vein the company has
had excellent values opened up, in one
place being down So feet on what
proved TO be the richest continuous
grass-root proposition IN the entire
a5serlct, saso values averaging from $3.50 to
SsOo- over thousand feet south Of
this point there has been ore IA feet
Wide encountered on the surface that
runs from IS to SO per ton.
Ihe Gold Bar Is in the best possible
condition and IS we'll established as
one or Nevada's greatest mines. Su-
per!htendent Bedford. whose home is
In Ogden. will leave for the East 10
spend the rest of his vacation.
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