The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-22
AMERICAN FORK
ROAD IS OPEN
Supplies Rolling Into Camp
and Mines All Getting Ready
for Business.
MUCH ORE IS READY TO SHIP
PACIFIC COMPANY HAS ORE
RICH IN ZINC.

American Fork. July 2l.-The canyon
road. which has been closed for the past
week or ten days on account OF land
slides caused by the melting SHOWS, is
again open for travel. and the waiting
miners and ore hau1ers have either start
ed TO work or getting their supplies
ready to go the first of the week. Among
the mines to send men and supplies since
Thursday are the Pacific, Whirlwind,
Dutchman and the Surprise. Work will
be rushed 10 make up for lost time du-
ring which the road has been closed.
1t is thought that there WIN be no fur
Their trouble with washouts- or the road
until snow flies again, and the next six
months VIII see the greatest activity in
the American Fork district that It has
ever known
There are thousands of tons of ore at
The different properties awaiting shipment
10 the shelters. The Wyoming, which
Is being worked under lease by the Tying
Bros, will be the heaviest shipper, and
it is expected that II Will be sending
down a car OF ore per day as soon as
the teams get down TO steady hauling.
The Surprise people viii undoubtedly De
next with from three to five cars per
week There is some litigation on be-
tween these two properties. but II is eX-
pected that this will be settled so as to
~
The wild boys who have been work
ing the old Dutchman under lease the
past winter have several cars ready for
shipment, which Will net them nice
profit.
The whirIwind company recently made
a very important strike in its property
on Miller hill and expects 10 be shipping
ore in a very short time. 1t is reported
that they have a 5-inch vein OF very rich
carbonate ore that goes well In values
in lead and silver, and that the vein is
getting better as Il is being developed.
old timers who have visited the mine
say that ii is one of the next to be booked
as good producer
Stockholders in the Pacific are feeling
very iubilant over the good reports from
their Blue Rock claim on Miller hill. They
have an immense body of sulphide ore
that goes $50 per ton in lead and zine
The full extent of the ore body has not
been determined. Assays show that the
ore goes 81 per cent zinc. 10 per cent
lead, about % ounces silver and some
gold II there was good market Tor
the zinc ore there is no question but
what il could be shipped at a handsome
profit to the stockholders.
r E Steele and associates have leased
the Treasury property from the owners
This property joins the Wyoming claim
on Miller hill and it is known that the
rich ore deposits in that property extend
into Treasury ground. 1t IS expected by
countered in a very short time after de-
velopment work begins
The Osborn Consolidated Mining &
Milling company, recently organized, eX-
poets to put a force OF men TO work right
. way and to do some extensive develop
ment work in the next few months The
property Is very promising and il is
thought that before the season ends it
will be among the best in the canyon
Nephi Packard and sons of Springville
have gone up the canyon to continue the
sorting of the old dump at the Dutch
man mine. They shipped several cars
of this ore last season. which netted them
a nice profit. They expect TO ship from
three to five cars more this season
j. J. Jackson and his associates. who
own the Bee Hive in the Major Evans
gulch. American Fork canyon, are max
ing preparations to begin some extensive
development work on their property in
a few days. Mr.. Jackson will spend about
three weeks at the property himself.
Jack Jones, one of the principal owners
of the Surprise lease. purchased an eighth
interest in this property this week and
expects 20 make a paying mine out of Z
before the season ends.