The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-13
BINGHAM HAS A
NEW DISCOVERY
Old Workings on Bingham
Copper'S Property Show
Up GaIena Ore.
TUNNEL WILL CUT 1T DEEP
MANAGEMENT REACHING OUT
FOR BIG RESULTS.

Probably no work now going on in
the camp of Bingham is attracting so
much attention at the hands of mining
engineers and the men who are shap-
ing the destinies of all the big COM
panies' properties in the old reliable
camp, as hat being done at the Bling
ham Copper company's properties.
Day after day some of the mine super
intendents and other we'll posted men
in the camp are making pilgrimages to
the ground and sizing up the results of
work being lone in the tunnel hat is
being driven TO develop the great con-
tact lode. with its numerous intersect-
ing assures that traverses the COM
pany's domain for a distance of more
than 1000 feet.
Just a day or two ago a party of
mining men decided, while at the prop
erty, TO make an inspection of some
old workings on the company's Green
Grove claim. From an old tunnel a
winze was found going down for about
twenty feet. Just below the tunnel
level a several-inch streak of lead ore
was found by scraping off the grimy
surface of the wall. Much to the sur
prise of most OF them. a little scraping
and s%hoveling in the bottom of the
winZe disclosed the fact that the whole
bottom was in ore. much of which was
a heavy galena, carrying some iron.
1t is all fine looking stun and, were it
the policy of the management to do so,
men could be employed there and ore
shipped that would yield handsome re-
turns.
The new tunnel that is being driven
by the company is headed for this
point on the contact now, and mother
EnA fnnf mill oct Yr,ID- fAa-o ia -r-1-l
lngs all of 600 feet, while this ore shoot.
Itself. is likely to make its appearance
when 400 feet more has been gone.
The n purpose of the management.
however, is to keep the tunnel going.
II has already cut two or three fine
shoots of ore, any one of which, if
stopping was resorted to. would prove
profitable to operate. But there are so
many known ore shoots and blowouts
along the contact that such a hin as
stopping every time one is encountered
Is not to be considered as anything
more han incidents in the opening up
of what is believed will prove one of
the greatest mines the camp ever
knew.
Away to the south of the Green
Grove, and close to where the COM
pany's ground adjoins the Utah Con-
EOlidated company's holdings, there
have already been fortunes dug from
old surface workings and. as this por-
ton of the Bingham Copper COM
pany's ground is reached, the present
tunnel will afford a vertical depth of
over 1000 feet. AS the tunnel pro-
crosses one after another of the ore
shoots and cross-fssures will be tapped
and next year, long before the main
objective point has been gained. the
company will be in a position to mine
from n or two, but possibly a
dozen shoots of ore. any one of which
would be counted as the making of a
mine by the average company.
The company is in good fnancial
condition n the statement is made by
insiders that work will be prosecuted
regularly throughout the winter
months and then on Indefinitely,
whether mining is undertaken or not.
Next year the Bingham Copper COM
pany is going to hold a prominent place
in the ranks of the Bingham shippers.