The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-07
BULLION FROM
JENNIE MILL
First Bars From Property in
GoldSprings Brought Up by
Manager Short.
STRIKE IN THE WILD IRISH
BOSTON MEN LAUNCH NEW
COMPANY AT CAMP.
STRIKE IN THE WILD IRISH

Manager c. A. Short. of the Jennie Cold
Mining company. came up from Gold
Springs Yesterday with the initial bars OF
bullion from the new thirty-ton mill. The
bars weighed fourteen pounds and were
the product OF 800 out OF a possible 100
working hours since the mill was placed
in commission The bullion carries % per
cent gold and the balance in silver. and is
worth approximately 500 a pound.
Manager Short explained that the usual
troubles in getting a new mill down TO
regular business had been encountered
and that, for Il greater portion of the
time mixed dump material AMI lOW-grade
stuff had been going through. The first
plates put IN We're no good and the ones
placed later proved little better. Others
were sent for and the usual waits and re-
adjustments and other things had made
The work anything but satisfactory. on
the whole. However. under all the adj
verse conditions. IL was demonstrated that
A saving of better than 50 per cent of the
values in the ore treated had been recOv-
cred on the plates No attempt has vet
been made to handle the higher grade ores
but during the present month, Manager
Short says, the plant will he right down
To regulation business and then the earn
ing capacity Of the plant can be better
judged
IN the mine the station on the 175-foot
level has been finished and the cross-cut
ledge for thirty-five feet. Connection
with, ore bodies on this level are expected
any day and when this is made good news
IS confidently expected.
Strike in Wild Irish.
A few days ago. Mr.. Short reports. a
strike bordering on the sensational was
made in the Wild Irish Gold Mining com
panys ground in Gold Springs district
Steve Moore, manager of the property,
who has been on the ground for two years
and who thought he knew every inch of
1t, made the discovery. Near the road
that had been gone over thousand times
and in clump of trees and underbruSh,
he noticed an outcropping and went in to
knock off some of the rock. The FIRST
piece broken disclosed the presence of
free gold and the samples gathered as
sayed. the first one S2 per ton. and the
second SS6. Prospecting disclosed the fact
that an entirely new and unsupported
ledge had been found; that it could be
traced through trees and the brush for
800 feet. 1t was stripped for that distance
and proved TO be from ten TO twelve feet
wide. The first samples came from
streak about two and one-half feet wide
on the hanging wall side. A general sam
pie of the material taken all along for the
800 feet went Sl9.69, nearly all in gold.
New Company for the Camp.
G. Pray Smith and A e. Fowler. of
Boston. have recently organized the Buck
Mountain Nevada Mines company to Op-
crate the west portion of the original
Snowflake group of claims. the litigation
over which was settled several months
ago. The company gets the six claims on
Buck mountain and preparations are now
well under way for the further develop
ment OF the property on a large scale
and the building of a lection mill, c. S
Curtis. mining and milling expert Of
Detroit, a man who has built a number
of mills in California and elsewhere, is
row at the property and the presumption
IS that he will be the manager of the
big cOmpany's properties which Mr. Short
states rank with the best IN the southern
camp. The proposition has been splendid
" financed in the east and, within a short
time. MeSsrs. Smith and Fowler will be
out again to get the big doings under
way.
Charles Crismon and others have also
recently jumped into the district and Sc
cured valuable block of ground upon
which a campaign of active and aggres-
i've development has already been inaug-
urated As a matter OF fact that entire
region is now beginning to boom and Mr.
Short looks for more activity in all the
camps Whereabouts than was ever known
before. Ii is just beginning to be appre-
ci2ted that Gold Springs. Fay, Stateline
and Pixies Diggings districts cover a
wonderful mineral belt, one that demands
better treatment than IL has previously
received The Jennie company started the
ball rolling. and c. a. Short started the
Jennie.