The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-09
ANOTHER BIC ORE
BODY FOR ELY
Cumberland Ely Company, on
the Wedge Group, Has
New Resource.
GEORGE II. GUM is
IN RECEIPT OF NEWS
Eastern Group Upon Famous
Zone Is Showing Up Fine
Proportions.

Developments that should make prop
erty owners along the Ely city end
of the great mouzonite copper belt
mighty happy are now transpiring upon
the Cumberland Ely possessions the
group of this company towards the
eastern end Of the zone. George +.
Gum, the former manager Of the Cum.
berland Ely company, arrived in Salt
Lake Sunday from the East. and he
learned upon returning that some re-
markably satisfactory results are be-
ing secured upon this group Upon
what is known as the Wedge claim, ad
joining the property Of the Ely Witch
company, shaft has been sent TO the
l5O-foot level, and drift run from this
working.
At point 120 feet away from the
bottom of the shaft the drift ias en-
countered splendid body Of copper
ore. The management ran Il crosscut
for slxty-hve feet and found ore all
the way, and while Mr.. Gunn has not
heard whether or not the faces of the
crosscut showed that the chute may be
wider, he thinks that siXty-tive feet
represents the present width, from the
fact that the management has started
TO drift upon the body. Subsequent
developments, however. may show the
ore to extend to a greater width as
work 1aterally proceeds. Mr.. Gum
states that the general average of the
assay so far secured. and he has a list
Of thirty or forty assays. is better than
3 per cent copper, while an upraise
gave as high as @ per cent red metal.
Mr.. Gunn is particularly pleased with
the developments upon this Wedge
claim, for the reason that he started
the shaft while In charge OF the prop
crty, and in the face of assertions of
others that nothing worth while would
be found upon this portion Of the large
group. The results. therefore. are back
ing him and his judgment up as thor
oughly as could be desired and every
thing now indicates that the Cumber-
land Ely company will get another
great ore body in this heretofore un
sounded part Of the property. II will
be noticed that the general average of
the ore body is much better than the
general average of Ely as a camp, and
with greater depths there is reason to
expect such splendid conditions to con-
tinue at least, if not materially i'm
prove.
The Wedge claim, as pointed out by
Mr.. Gum. is over fve miles distant
from the main Cumberland Ely pos
sessions, where one If the banner ore
bodies ever found in q copper property
is now being developed, The extent
OF this great resource Sill remains an
uusolved problem but up TO tho pres
ent time il is known to be 200 feet
in width and it has heca opened along
its strike for over 500 feet. Each
face OF the crosscuts and the drifts
still remains In the S9mo splendid char
acter Of ore. To fully appreciate the
extent of this as yet undcveloped body
of ore one must see the assay maps
Of these workings They provide
revelation from value standpoint, and
demonstrate how thoroughly the splcn-
did workmanship Of tho management
has placed the situation N hand. The
maps show the value of the ore st
each fve feet throughout the workings,
and the values ere. eye openers.
In proving the richness Of the Cum
berland Ely group by the Wedge work
ings, the company is bringing the cen
ter OF interest closer and closer TO those
mines upon the zone in which iDpumer-
able Salt bakers are interested, Among
the mines upon this portion of the zone
are the Federal, Ely, Ely Witch, Nc
Donald Ely, Turner Ely and others.