The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-17
GREAT ORE BODY
IN THE NEWROUSE
Some Remarkable Figures Are
Given on Famous Red
Metal Deposit.
ORE EVERYWHERE
WITHOUT THE WALLS
Resources .Of Beaver County
Property Are Not Easy
to Describe.

Inc ''dIl ltdhc newspaper HAIL WHO
has attempted in the past 10 secure
some extensive or comprehensive data
from the Ncwhouse officials regarding
that property, knows how difficult 1T
was for officials TO say much. Some
often thought, no doubt, that where so
much was going on it would be an easy
matter to give out information. But
that was Just the trouble. To mention
one portion of the mine would be TO
neglect the others, and to try and de-
scribe even part of all would be too
great task for the busy oilicials. The
writer went through the mine last Sun.
day under the careful guardianship Of
superintendent A u. Moffat. II is
doubtful if he will ever cmbarrass Mr..
,Moffat again as of old. The inability
to give an adequate description of such
a property will be illustrated by what
follows in this article, II is hardly 4
description, il is simply collection of
a few facts that Will prove of interest.
a small but happy crowd Sunday
noon was ordered by Mr.. Moffat TO
climb aboard the train of empty ore
cars bound for the heart Of the New
house property. After be ing ad'
monished regarding the live wires from
which the trolley car received lis
of 5000 feet to the Cactus art gal
lery. the sixth level and It's fellows,
When the train stopped the party did
not have a great distance to walk into
the great body which has made the
Newhouse mine noted throughout two
continents. Mr.. Mofrat did not have
to drive over fifty feet from the spot
where tho party alighted to find tins
rich resource, Here the party WAS
divided, one proceeding via the cage
to the fourth level, the other into the
ore on the sixth.
The great ore body in the Newhouse
extends along its strike from east to
west. No one knows yet how long 1T
is, Some say it. has been demonstrated
on the Newhouse property for 500 feet,
Be that as it may. there is enough
Gus stakeholder IN that organization.
This body was not found until last
July. Then there was not enough ore
in sight for three months production,
and what there was of it. was lean and
hungry. Now there is sufficient ore
blocked out in the mine, and not all
milling ore, either. 10 maintain produc
tion for ten years time at the, present
rate of output, or $50 tons a day. To
this splendid reserve, the management
is continually adding TO the tonnage
hundred thousand tons month, per-
haps, and maybe several hundred thou
sand tons. Who can tell1
On the fourth level two members of
the party counted the streak of rich
shipping ore to be nineteen sets In
width. The entire body has been cross
cut for 200 feet and over. it has been
demonstrated along its strike for over
800 feet, and in all drifts and cross
cuts there is nothing but ore, no walls.
Upon this rich streak, nineteen sets
wide. the ore averaging from ID to so
per cent as mere guess. tho manage
ment has stopped up SIX floors. The top
Of this stope shows equally fine copper
to the surface it is something like 400
feet. The existence of the same rock
has been demonstrated on the surface,
This is virgin ground. and Mr.. Moffat
did not hesitate to assert that he will
stope clear TO grass roots on this same
body. When you see the proofs for
yourself you would swear to the same
thing
Although asked for an opinion, Mr..
the width of the ore body on tho fourth
level. On the sixth level, however. he
was more positive, and counts the width
of the body as something like 365
feet. 1t was TO the sixth level that
we then descended, and as we
whizzed past the fifth level en- route
Mr.. Moffat stated that the develop
ments there were on par with what
we had already seen and with what we
were about to sec. On the sixth or
tunnel level are additional evidences
Of the fact that these levels are tied
to one another by this same splendid
ore body, From figures made on a
cuff at the time, the writer finds
that he travelled from cast to west,
IL,
ore body for 265 feet If there was
wall at either side it was beautifully
painted chalcopyritically. The rich
streak is not only larger as depth has
been gained to this point, but it. as
well as the milling ore, gives 2 better
average than that above. Diamond
drill holes from the sixth level to
depth of 2s4 feet or so proceeded in ore
all the way, and the general average,
as shown by those drillings, was
31a per cent copper. On the second
level, stated Mr.. Moffat, he is work
ing on the ore body that has been de-
veIoped for 80 by 200 feet, the whole
thing averaging something like 21a
per cent red metal. So far the
fssure with depth has beer. widening
steadily. What will it be in another
back to the sixth level again.
From the sixth or tunnel level is
being started another shaft that will
proceed all the way. 500 or 700 feet as
n starter, in this rich ore body. 1T is
down now about twenty feet. When
it strikes the sixth level below the
starting point maybe another long tun
mel, something like three miles in
length, will be started by the COM
pany, so as to bring the ores direct
from the body TO the mill But that
is merely one item for the future to
handle. The real era of development
work has not been started by the com
pany yet One must not forget that
where mine may change from
prospect to bonanza very convincing
ly in a year s time or less, there is
whole lot of work TO do in order to
place the property in a condition TO
handle its new honors more convenient
ly, Within the next two or three
weeks the management will bs able
to handle greatly increased tom
mage from the mine by virtue of
new switches for its trains. bnt even
under the present conditions the man
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