The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-24
SH0SH0NE ORE IS
COMING TO ZION
Famous Property Sends Rich
Ores Direct to Salt Lake
SmelterS.
NINE IS OPENING
INTO A BONANZA
Resources Richer and Better in
Extent As Depths Are
Gained.

James {. Conner, one of the first
fortunate ones TO become interested in
the famous Montgomery -Shoshonc mine
at Bullfrog, and who served as secre"
tary and treasurer Of the old company
before the headquarters of the organi-
zation was taken TO New York, passed
through Salt Lake Tuesday enroute
from the NINE 10 his home In Colorado
Springs, Mr.. Conner still is one Of the
heavy stockholders in the reorganized
company, now known as the Montgom-
-Shoshone Consolidated company,
one Of the many successful SchWab or
CARNATIONS Of the southern gold coun
try. When seen by The Tribune yes
terday, Mr., Conner was very enthusias-
tic over the present ideal conditions ex-
isting in the great Shoshone property.
With depth the management has
turned out larger and richer ore bodies
with such generosity that the mine has
become one of the banner attractions
Of, and advertisements for, the Nevada
mining section, The three-compartmen
shaft has been sent to the fourth level,
and connections have been made with
all the previous workings of the prop
erty. The great tale ore body, upon
which the owners of the Shoshone first
banked their hopes, maintains itself
finely, stated Mr. Conner. and there is
not shadow Of doubt but what it
will be found equally as Temuneratlve
as the workings go deeper. 1t is the
plan of the company to send the new
shaft on down to the lo00-foot level.
Shipments are being made from the
property direct TO. the Salt Lake smell
ters, the great dump that has been
growing for al least two years provid-
ing the material for the consignment
10 market. This ore will run on an
average of 800 to the ton, and the cars
being run right up 10 the dump makes
loading a simple matter. This dump
has been the result Of pure development
work. the management never having re-
sorted to stoping for any OF the ore.
The Shoshone property presents quite
different appearance from what IL did
when Salt Lake first knew the mine.
Mr.. Conner has recent photograph of
the property, showing the mill, the vari-
Gus workings and regular little city OF
buildings erected by the company.
There are about $50 men now at work
in the mine,
One of the most interesting items in
the life of the Shoshone company now
is the new mill and its progress in con.
plant is entirely under cover, and in
readiness for receiving its machinery.
The railroad blockades, during the past
several months, have greatly retarded
the incoming equipment, but now that
everything is cleared away 1T should
not be great while before all the ma
chinery is in place and ready for opera
conviction that the stock of the com
pany would be selling for $50 inside of
year
Near by the Shoshonc, and adjoining
it in several instances, practically the
same crowd that first brought the Sho-
shone into the limelight have secured
the Amethyst, Providence, Lucky Jack,
and other properties, now all actively
engaged with heavy equipment in going
after their respective resources Be
tween the Mayhower and the Shoshone
is the Bullfrog Indian Springs property,
another group owned by the same par
ties. which experts agree contains the
same ore body now had upon the fourth
level of the Shoshone. The manage
ment has encountered the sulphides in
the tunnel on this group, and Mr.. Con-
ner expects results of great promise ear"
lv within the year.
Over at the camp Of Skiddoo, is the
Skiddoo property. found and now .oper,
ated by Bob Montgomery, the original
finder of the Shoshone mine Mr.. Mont
gomery thinks in the Skiddoo he has
another Shoshone, and on all of the
thirty claims within his group he has
found mineral, Mr.. Conner, while true
TO the Shoshonc. deems the Skiddoo
property a winner of large proportions,
so much so, in fact, that he has secured
group adjoining Montgomery IS prop
erty. AS TO the camp of Bullfrog. Mr.,
Conner states it no longer can be listed
in the doubtful list. II is a permanent
and demonstrated camp, improving
greatly and constantly, one that will
have many years of usefulness for its
friends.