The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-09
BINGHAM MINE
HAS BIG STRIKE
Lever Tunnel in New Haven
Opens Ledge of Copper Sui
phideS 120 Feet Thick.
SHELTER BEING DISCUSSED
MINE DESTINED TO RANK WITH
HIGHLAND BOY.

strike OF the greatest Importance
has been made in the empire Of ground
owned by the Bingham-New Haven
company. thanking the southerly boun-
dairy lines Of the Utah Consolidated
property at Bingham. Information
concerning il was released by General
Manager G. II. Doolittle Yesterday aft
er an inspection tfat followed his trim
10 New York and New Haven. where
he had been i'm consultation with Off
cials of the Bingham New Haven and
titan q Eastern companies At a point
so feet from the portal OF the new
lower tunnel, now in distance of O30
rect. the first of the four great fault
assures that arc known to cut through
the cOmpany's ground was encoun-
tered. a crOss-cut has demonstra ( ed
Inc ledge to be 100 feet wide. and a
sampling Of the mass of ore. which Is
q sulphide identical with that found in
The neighbOring bonanza. shows that
~ carries B per cent copper $3.50 In
Gold and 21z ounces silver per ton. II
IS expected that the next fissure will
be struck within $50 feet. or some
where about the end of the present
month, as the tunnel is being advanced
at the rate of eight to ten feet a day.
Significance of Strike.
The strike was made before Manager
Doohttle went east, but ne was averse
&c making IL public until he knew lust
now IL was going TO open up The ore
came i'm precisely as it was calculated
Ut would do, and that the other man.
lnOth breaks through the lime lode
will be encountered according to ex-
pectation there is not a shadow of
doubt. Neither is any fear enter
tanned but what they will prove Just as
opened.
Assuming that the ledge Just opened
VIII hold its size that the shoot will
hold out for 100 feet on either side Of
The avenue that has been punched
through it and extend down 200 feet
or to the same horizon on which the
Highland Boy tunnel or the Utah Con
solidated was run. lower down the
canyon, 1t will produce approximately !
l,OOO,OOO tons of ore. What the assure /
VIII produce above the tunnel level is 1
not taken into account That The ore
VIII go down and that the shoot will
prove longer than the estimate given |
no one familiar with conditions i'm that
particular portion OF the camp will
question. The strike is considered the
equivalent TO the making of another
mine IN the camp full as big and inn
pOrtant as that of the Utah Console
dated; there is simply no way Of cs-
Gaping II.
Smelling Works to Come.
This disclosure and a knowledge of
what IS TO be expected ahead induced
Manager DOOlittle to take up the mat
ter or erecting a smeter for the treat
ment Of the mines product i'm combina-
ton with the ores from the Utah q
Eastern company's Dixie bonanza i'm
Washington county. II was discussed
with the big men i'm each company and |
the probabilities are the combination
VIII be searching for a favorable To-
cation at which to establish works of n
large capacity very soon. The heavy
sulohide ores VI the Bingham mines
and the rich oxides Of the Dixie would.
Manager DoOlittle says. make an ideal
smelling combination and he is san
guine that the companies. the control
of which are largely i'm the same hands,
VIII act favorably on the proposition.
Mines Upper Workings.
While the development of the sulphide
copper ore zone i'm the Bingham New
Haven company's ground is being
crowded with all possible speed. every
is being gwen to the develop
ment OF the gold-copper, silver-lead
zone i'm the upper workings. These have
produced since the company got down ,
to business about two years ago, some
thing over 10000 tons OF fine ore, ore
that has provided the means of operat-
ing, allowing of the accumulation of
fine surplus and met the payment of
two 1Oc dividends. one in August and
one, the last, on the 18th of December,
The two aggregating s45.s00. Six feet
Of fine galena ore has been opened i'm
these workings, i'm new ground. during
The last few days and this portion of
the mine is producing at the rate of
about seVenty-fiVe tons Of ore daily. 1t
will continue the performance for an in
definite time and, if the management
II the company so Wills il can be made :
10 provide the means for building the q
smelter. il is more probable
however, that the company will issue
bonds If smeiter is built and continue
dividend payments from earnings. Ap- 5
)roximateiy 10000 shares of the COM =
oany's 100000 share capitalization re-
mains unissued, a treasury asset.
At the Dixie.
Concerning operations on the Dixie.
II which Mr.. DoolittIe is also manager.
he states that everything is I'm fine q
shape. splendid body OF fine ore
vas recently encountered on the 100
DOT level. north from the big shaft. The a
zig three-eompartment shaft is now
Town TO 1.100-foot mark And levels are