The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-15
GOLD HUNTER IS
A BIG BONANZA
Sixty Feet of GaIena Ore Open
ed in Tunnel After Going
4,300 Feet.
PROPERTY AT MULLAN, IDA.
ENGINEER.
PROPERTY AT MULLAN, IDA.

Another mammoth lead mine has just
been proved up in the Occur d Alene
country ana not little excitement has
been created in the district as a result
During the past few days representatives
from nearly ali of the big mines of that
region have I o. inspecting the property
and in every .4stance the declaration has
been: you have got ii, sure"
The strike was made in the Gold Hunt
er cOmpany's property at Mullan, ana ID.
p Rohlfing the well known local mining
engineer and operator, as manager of-the
property-the man who has guided its
6estinies from the starts the man who
has made the mine. The fact that the
ledge had been cut in the 4,300-fOot oper-
ating tunnel a tunnel which opens the
mine at a depth Of LEO feet was com
municated to Manager Rholfing and the
practical owner of the property, million
aire Thomas F. Kelley of Chicago, sew
eraI DAYS ago. Mr.. Kelley came on from
his home and with Mr.. Rohlfing went to
camp from here
Sixty Feet of Solid Ore.
On arrival at the mine they found that
prosecuting of the ledge was In progress,
but that its width had not been deter
mined They waited until the opposite
wall was reached and then knew that
the cross-cut had gone through sixty feet
of galena ore, fully one-half of which is
of fine shipping grade, while thirty feet
of ii is clasSed as a splendid milling ore
ore that Mr.. Rohlfing. who reached home
yesterday, says viii run fully Is per cent
lead, with an ounce OF silver for each per
cent Of the black metal The first class
VIII run up to 20 per cent lead and as
many ounces of silver per ton.
''Of course said Mr.. Rohlfing, I'VE
don't yet know how long the shoot viii
prove to be, but judging from the work
done in the upper workings of the prop
erty and particularly in what we call NO.
3 tunnel we have right TO expect that
it will prove to be loo feet Ions any
n Of he or
workings of the property did we find the
ledge more than thirty feet thick, so the
discovery that il IS twice that width I'm
the lower tunnel comes as q welcome
surprise TO all of US. 1t now looks to me
as though the Gold Hunter was going to
make another Bunker Hill x Sullivan bO-
nanZa- The ledge is a fisSure in qUartzite
and the strike just made Is assurance
enough that the ore bodies are going to
be continuous to great depth and that
the quality of the ore IS going to improve,
though that is something that could hard
" be wished for as against the char
aeter of the ore body just opened
Is New Lead Bonanza.
The property has been operated for sew
eral years. 1t is equipped with a mill
that is located at the mouth of the new
tunnel Ores from the upper workings
were sent down to it over an aerial tram
power house at the mill for a mile or
more to supply power for the drills en-
plOge0 IN operation. I1e ore was not
OF good enough grade in the upper work.
inss to make mining profitable and Man
ager Rohlfiug, about two years ago, ad-
VlSed the running Of the new. long, deep
and large operating tunnel, firm in the
belief that the mine would, as other mines
in the district had done. prove its worth
at depth Mr.. Kelley relied on his fudg-
ment and never WaveTed in meeting the
heavy expense, and the result is that to-
DAY he is practically sole owner of what
Is now considered as one of the biggest
Iead-SlVer mines in the world. as very
little of the stock is held outside of Mr..
heeley'S immediate family.
Manager Rohlfing is pardonably proud
of the fact that his judgment on the
Ialge OF the ground has been verified. and
He IS equally proud of the fact that he
mas had such a sturdy slayer as Mr.
Kelley TO back his judgment and follow
ms advice Both wore a smile yesterday
mat was good to see. Mr. Kelley is
heavily interested in Beaver county prop
critics with Pat Ryan and Mr.. Rohlfing.