Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-05-25
Various Properties Are Installing
Machinery and Increasing
Working Forces.
DEPTH is WHAT MINES WANT.
Best and Biggest Deposits Are Being
Found az Two Hundred Feet
And Lower.
Special Correspondence

Searchlight New, May 21.--As devel-
opment on the Duplex progresses this
| property is demonstrating that 1t Is
| soon destined to become another Quar-
| tette. despite the fact that several for
tunes have been taken from the work
ings. the property is just beginning TO
| assume the shape Of a mine, and only
this week another good strike Is report
| ed. A large body OF rich ore has been
| encountered which Will give the mine
| reserve for years to come and at the
| same time allow steady mill run The
! Importance of these developments Is
contained In the fact that consistent
| prospecting Is bringing In far greater
| mineral bodies than were found In the
/ surface workings The new discoveries
augur well for Searchlight, for as soon
| as ore Is blocked out an opened sufii-
| GENTLY an addition will be made to the
| mill, which viii double the capacity
! and also be the means of adding to the
| payroll.
Reports from the lower levels of the
| Quartette indicate that even richer ore
is now being found than has even come
u light in that great property. AS de-
! Velopment progresses every aVallable
man is being put To work, and as soon
as the 20-stamp addition to the mill Is
| blown in the property Will go in ior
record-breaking production.
DISTRICT ACTIVE.
These circumstances, coupled with ac-
tive development at Mob HILL on the
Silver Legion and IN Eldorado Canyon
where the Fortuna Is now producing
heavily. and where lesser properties are
placing on extra miners. has had ten
dency TO inject a spirit of activity never
before witnessed In this district, Bust
ness houses and commercial institutions
have felt the change, and the banking
institutions have doubled business with
in the past 30 days,
AT THE MIDAS.
Contractor T. i. Fredericks is making
record time IN completing the work on
the Midas shaft. which is about fin
ished, and is now nearing the 200-foot
level. The contract calls for a total of
1926 feet of work has been accomplished
in little more than 30 days, The rich
stringers cut in the progress of the
sinking have passed out of the work.
ings, and drifting viii have TO be re-
sorted to in order 10 pick up the ore
bodies. Experts who have viewed the
territory agree that no effort should be
made toward ore production under 300
feet, and as other workings i'm the vicin-
ity have demonstrated that at this
depth the ore comes into solid forna-
ton, and attains its richness. This was
true in the Boston shaft of the Quar-
| tette. AS yet but little water has been
encountered in the Midas, but the work.
ings show strong Indications OF a good
flow, and another 80 feet OF sinking
VIII In all likelihood tap ledge dipping
from the east and al the same time sup
plying the mine with plenty Of wa
ter.
STANLEY FORBES EXTENSION.
Development at the Stanley Forbes
Extension, which is a new corporation
| formed to work the east extension of
the new big ore producer, continues to
| show rich surface ores. A large force
of men has been employed three weeks
| now trenching and searching for the
| best point to send down q shaft. and
| this matter has been finally settled.
| at n point where the ledge shows an
| abundance of free gold from the grass
| roots. There are 1--WE claims in this
| group, and on every one of them is
| traceable strong lodges. When tho
Stanley Forbes was started it could
| show but moderate values from the
surface and It required an approximate
depth of 200 feet to come into the main
| ore body on the Extension the vein
! outcrops many times larger than the
original, and carries as good values at
surface as the original had at $50 feet.
| The corporation Is a strong one, Joseph
Macarthur, president of the Stanley
! Forbes, holding the vice presidency,
and practically directing affairs. Col.
NJ r. Meyer is president, j. j. Tyn-
DIAL. secretary the board of directors
including beside the above. Len j.
Kiser, OF Searchlight Joseph Nc
Arthur's success with the Stanley
Forbes speaks volumes for the con-
servatve, careful management that
Will be given the Extension and with
pay ore from grass SCOTS. another
shipper will doubtless be blown In" at
Fourth OF July mountain In the near
! future.
SEARCHLTGHT BELLE.
The shaft on the Searchllght Bell Is
now cutting fine body of quartz,
which pans long string OF colors.
This new body of mineral is larger
! than the stringers cut above and Is sup
posed 10 be the forerunned to the main
ore shoot, The company Is waiting
for the arrival OF It's big plant OF ma
chinery, when work win proceed with
greater dispatch.
MAJESTIC GOLDFROG.
Owing to the great rush for ma
chinery IN the east, the hoist for the
| Majestic GOldfrog has been delayed
| In shipment, and superintendent p.
Saylcs finds himself IN the presence Of
nice body Of ore, but can make but
ordinary progress. Efforts have been
| made to reach tho water level and the
main ore body with windlas, and while
being A slow method, 1t is fast plac-
NH