The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-26
GOLDEN CHEST IS
BIC GOLD MINE
Salt Laker Develops Property
Into Fine Producer in
Short Time.
IMPORTANT FIND Is
MADE JUST LATELY
Herbert Auerbach Brings the
Mine Into Shape for Ac-
tive Production.

News has been received of an impor-
taut gold strike in the Golden Chest
mine Ut Murray. Ida, Murray is one
OF the pioneer camps ot the Occur
4 Alenos aud lies about twelve miles
north of Wallace, the principal town
of that district, The Golden Chest COM
pany owns group OF fortY-hVc claims
bearing veins in The heart of the Muir
ray gold belt The Chest mine is sit.
uatcd about Il mile east of Murray and
is one of the bcst-llnoWn and oldest
gold properties of Idaho, having been
worked for the past twenty years, dur
ing which time over S2.0O0,0OO IN vel
low metal was extracted,
Of late wears the property has been
handicapped by litigation, and il ceased
70 bc IN active producer The mine IS
now controlled by party of New York
capitalists who have equipped II with
m up.to date twenty stamp mill. and
they have installed n l2-drill lngersoll'
Sargent compressor in addition 10 9TH
or modern milling machinery. Three
Pclton water wheels under high head
supply abundant water power during
the greater part of the year, AND an
auxiliary steam plant consisting of a
200-hoTse power Corliss engine fur
nishcs power during the dry season.
The upper portion of the Chest mill
contains many miles OF old workings,
tho lowest of these being termed the
Petit level, upon which number Of
veins are exposed. the most important
of which are the Claeeett. Katie and
Dora, FootwalI and Klondike, the lat
ter being an immense shoot of high
grade ore. From the Petit level an in
clined shaft follows the Klondikc shoot
down for a distance of 800 feet
The Idaho tunnel 5000 feet in length,
has lust been completed and from il
lS0-foot raise connects with the klon-
dixie shaft II is in this raise that a
large body of high-grade ore was en-
couutercd The Idaho tunnel exposes
over million tons Of ore in the Idaho
Hill and opens several hundred feet of
virgin stopnG ground in the Chest hill
besides draining the entire property,
furnishing M airwav, and serving as
gravity outlet for all ore mined. The
veins occur in altered sedlmentaTy for
nations, The country rock consisting of
slates and quartZites. Their values
range from 81 to $500 per ton They
dip at an angle of about 40 degrees, and
tho orc bodies vary from one foot to
forty feet in width. These ore bodies
have been explored 10 n depth Of 1000
feet below the groupings, and while the
ore becomes hascr as depth is attained
the values persist. The values occur as
native gold and high grade telluride
combinations IN connection with pyritc.
galena, spalerite and Schcelite Scheel.
tic is a tungstate of calcium and com
mands ready sale at So per unit. It
is used for hardening steel, in the man
ufacture of smokelcss powder and in
the new tungsten lucandcsccnt lamp.
Hundreds of tons of this rare mineral
are blocked ont at present and this
property bids fair TO become the larg-
est producer of Scheclite in the United
States
At present thc shipping of concen-
trates calls for a siXtecnmilc wagon
haul, but il is expected that construc.
tion work on the IDAHO Northern Rail
way viii commence this spring, and
this line will pass through the. prop
crty From present indications The
Golden Chest VIII soon become the lead
ing producer of gold in the State of
Idaho. Herbert Auerbach. eldest son
of =. II. Aucrbach. of this city, as.
sumed the general management of this
property less than a year ago, aud has
pursued development work so success
fully that Tho mine viii be on a pro.
duc,ng basis within another month