The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-26
BINGHAM
HAS BIG STRIKE
Tremendous Body of Lead Sill
YER, Gold and Copper Ore
Being Opened Up.
SHOOT TWELVE FEET WIDE
NEARLY 400 FEET OF STOPPING
GROUND ASSURED.
SHOOT TWELVE FEET WIDE

a BODY of ore is being opened I'D in
the Bingham-Butte Consolidated com
pany's property at Bingham that gives
every promise of making a record
breaker in the lead ore line for that
camp, not excepting the $4,000, 900 shoot
that is claimed to exist in the Kempton
lode, the title and right to mine which
has just been decided in favor of the
United States company after years of
litigation. Until yesterday it was not
possible to get a single line on what
was doing at the old Tiewaukee. by
which title the property was known pre-
ViOus to its acquisition by the present
company, something like six months
ago. But the story is none the less
good for holding it, and it viii be par
ticularly gratifying to the Butte con-
tingent which is so largely interested
in the enterprise.
AT distance of $40 feet in and about
500 feet vertically beneath the surface
the streak of tale and other mineral
matter was cut in the drift that was
being pushed ahead. That was several
days ago. Ore began TO appear, and a
week or SO ago there was stX-foot
breast of it that averaged 81 per cent
lead and about 10 ounces silver, with
small values in gold and copper and
a
time the ore had been followed in for
sixty feet, there was twelve feet of
fine milling rock, such as described
above, and eighteen inches of solid ga
lena that had not been asSayed, but
which, according to the records OBJ
tanned in old shallow workings, ought
TO run from 40 to 80 per cent lead, 20
TO so ounces silver, some gold, some
copper and an iron excess over silica.
This drift is being crowded ahead by
Manager George A. Bellinger with ma
chine drills manned by old Butte miners
of experience, and, as every foot is
showing up better, all the experts OF
the camp who know the formation and
know how such bodies Of ore are made,
are predicting, as a result OF their oD-
servations. that it is going to Outrank
the best of them and continue 10 I'M
told depths. To get directly under a
shoot of similar ore that is exposed
for a width of twelve feet in work
ings 800 feet above, the present drift
will have TO be extended 100 feet The
nresent strike, therefore, makes it ap-
parent that the shoot is a great deal
longer and a great deal thicker than II
was above In the upper workings
there is twelve feet of milling ore ana
eighteen inches of high-Grade. Below
the same conditions prevailed on sun
day, with everything TO ndlcate lldI'
by the time the drift had reached d
Doint directly under the upper work
ings. there might be anywhere from
twenty to thirty feet in width.
Local experts and mine managers OF
Ringham have been silently dropping
into the mine for the past several days
az the mana cement was willing to ad-
init them, and it is now apparent that-
every one of them has caught the fever
that inevitably accompanies an exam
nation of a big thing by men able to
appreciate its magnitude, whether they
happen 10 be personally interested or
not.
There is already about 400 feet OF
stoping ground assured in this splen-
did shoot of ore, and there is yet no
telling how much longer and wider II
will pFoVe TO be below, nor how much
deeper it will extend into the earth,
hut every expert says it is in the right
formation and is making right TO con-
tinue TO greath depth. 1t is one more
bonanza for Bingham.