The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-29
MINES At ALTA
GIVEN PRAISE
South Columbus May Turn Out
Bigger Than the Columbus
Consolidated.
RICH COPPER IN FISSUM
GREAT ORE REsERvEsM THE
COLUMBUS coM.
RICH COPPER IN FISSURE

E. NJ. West and Y H. Keetley spent
Thursday at Alta Inspecting the mines of
the Columbus Consolidated and South Co
lumbus Consolidated companies and both
returned pore than pleased with condi-
tions at/fhe properties.
''In/fhe South Columbus Consolidated"
ssM Mr. West, there is a prospective
Value that is hard to determine. The
property has the ear marks Of making
much bigger one than the Columbus Con-
sOlidated. In reaching out for the con-
tact on the Quincy tunnel level a fissure
has been followed that has disclosed fine
values in copper and silver for a long
distance. For some time past there has
been exposed an average of two and one
half feet of ore that carries 10 per cent
copper and, at a point where sinking was
commenced in this ore 1t showed TO be
getting bigger and better at depth. Water
came in, however, and work was suspend
ed pending the time when the new lower
tunnel will tap the same vein at an addi-
tiOnal depth of 100 feet on the dip of the
vein. The face of the new tunnel has
already gone through four or fiVe-fOOt
fissure of chloride and oxide ores carry
ing average values Of about SO per ton
and if the history of the mines of Alta
is to be repeated richer values will APP
pear as the ledge is raised in toward the
surface, 800 feet above this tunnel level,
The management figures that this vein
that is that the richer ChlOrides, oxides
and carbOnates will be found above, while
the sulphide ores will be found below the
tunnel level The face of this tunnel is
now in such highly. mineralized ground
that the copper fissure may be encoun-
tered at any time, though the manage
ment figures that if it holds its dip, it
will take two or three weeks to connect
with it.
Everybody knows pretty well what the
Columbus Consolidated is. There is now
exposed in this mine a shoot of ore run
ming from ten TO thirty feet thick and
800 feet high from the third level to the
tunnel. 1t is several hundred feet long
and the ore averages, taken as ii comes
from all openings, better than $50 ton.
In addition to this development is opening
up tremendous bodies of milling ore and
the company's milling plant is kept in
constant operation with the ore taken out
in developing these secOnd-class shoots.
The Columbus Consolidated has not
yet perfected its system of getting ore
TO market. otherwise the output would
be largely in excess of what ii is The
BFFsent season will see the necessary rail-
road connections made with the tram
way and then there will be big gOings on
in the matter of production and earnings.
The company has j magnificent power
plant that supplies its own mines with
power and light and permits the selling
of power to neighbors. These outside
contracts places the company where il
earns approximately SLIGO per month in
excess of the cost of operating its power
plant and this amount of money helps
to cut down the cost of mining and mar
keting ore.
The management of both of these prop
critics deserves great praise for the
manner in which everything is handled.
All moves like clockwork and the best
of harmony prevails in all departments