The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-27
SUCCESS GROUP IS
A SPLENDID ONE
Success Company, Operating on
Duck Creek, Has Ideal
Mining Proposition.
WILL RUN LONG AND
DEEP DRAIN TUNNEL
Great Lead Showing Attracts
Attention of Some Very
Strong Talent.
About eighteen or twenty miles due

whose showines OF lead have oecasioned
the prediction on the part OF nuner-
ons experts to the effect that II wall,
upon due development, be the Creates
lead mining section of the world. inns
section is called Duck Creek for the
reason that. it borders the mountain
stream of that name. An investigation
of the Duck Creek region presents am
ple argument for this practically unan-
imous conclusion. as the mlneraliSstlon
of the Duck Creek territory Is extern
sive and wonderful.
A few years ago, d. {, McDonaio,
one of the Ely pioneers, began TO make
a systematic examination or the Duck
Creek mountains, with view TO acqnr.
inc groups of properties. He confined
himself 10 the head waters Of Steptoe
creek and Duck creek, both streams
finding their origin at practically the
same point, being divided at their
sources bv the Steptoe-Dnck creek dn-
vide The streams arc then set upon
their respective journeys of usefulness,
Duck creek winds down 10 the great
valley upon which Ely is situated, fur
nishing the water TO the Nevada Con.
solidated and Cumberland Ely conceu-
trating plant and mammoth smelter aJ
McGills, there passes on to Join Cher
rv creek to the north. Steptoe creek
passes on To the valley whose name II
bears. providing the water to maintain
a long line of fertile ranches. the lat
ter now being in the bands of mining
companies owning Ely properties which
soon Will be utilizing the waters for
individual concentrating plants.
On the S,eptoc side of the divide Mr.,
Mcdonald located what is known as the
/" Fair Play group. Here rs found
the beginning of the Duck creek min
eralized wonders. Well down the noun
tain from the divide there outcrops in
very prominent fashion a gigantic
quartzite dixie and q lime zone, the
latter showing on the surface with an
average width Of 800 feet. Throughout
The lime groupings are seen numerous
seams OF galena. while along the strike
Of the zone are scores of groupings of
iron oxide. Mr.. Mcdonald located
group Of thirty-ore claims along this
lime zone, CARRYING his boundary lines
far across the divide and down into the
Duck creek territory. The latter group
was called the Success, and the whole
property Just recently was acquired by
Senator Thomas kearns and David
Keith of Salt Lake City, who organ
lied the company now known as the
Success.
The Success company began develop
menr work under the management of
Mr.. Mcdonald whose patient wait for
The appreciation of others had been re-
warded by success IN interesting mining
talent that had made most honorable
history in the mines of Utah. This de-
velopment work consisted of an incline
shaft on the Duck creek side, and upon
the above mentioned lime belt, mile
or more from the splendid outcropping
as described above
The incline was started upon 6s
sure in the lime six feet in width. 1t
was all solid shipping ore, and the same
had widened from six to twenty feet
by the time a depth of thirty feet had
been gained. This ore is of an ideal
character, carrying fine excess of iron,
9l2 to $40 in gold, % 10 6S per cent
lead, from 1913 to 130 ounces silver to
the ton, Assays 10 as high as IS per
cent lead have been obtained from this
ore, and TO as high as 500 ounces sill
yer TO the ton. The shaft is now down
110 feet, all in ore. 1t is the intention
OF the company to send this working
to the thousa nd-foot level, which will
he possible with the present equip.
nent, and to send out exploratory work
ings at the various levels as they are
reached. In driving to the present
depths the company has marketed $4,000
ment work. The company has equipped
the shaft with splendid line Of hoist
ing machinery, compressor, drills and
complete sawmill plant. The property
rs equipped with a boarding house and
similar surface improvements.
80 far, however, the company has
been feeling it's way, gradually over
coming the difficulties of carrying for
ward mining operations in new terri
tory removed some distance from its
base of supplies, Plans are now being
formulated by the company to open up
the Success ground in such a manner
that no mine in all Nevada will pre-
sent more workman-like appearance
nor could any property present more
satisfactory condition for quick and ef-
fcient development. These plans con
template the driving of long tunnel
under the divide and from the Steptoe
creek side, The lime zone will be fol.
lowed from the point of the bold out
crop, and those competent TO Judge do
not hesitate to express the belief that a
short distance, less than 200 feet from
The month of the tunnel, viii find the
lace of this working penetrating a
large body of splendid ore
1t is the plan 70 drive this tunnel
Ior one and half miles, or more if
necessary. As it pushes It's wav he
meath tine divide IT will have vertical
depth of fully 1000 feet, and it will
tap the ore now had in the incline shaft
at a, vertical depth of from 700 to
soO rect. Such a tunnel would easily
dram the whole acreage within the
Success company's lines, and better
still, it would obviate the necessity of
the present hard pull up hill to the
camp on Duck creek Through i, could
be sent all the ores of the property. and
from its mouth there is an easy haul,
down grade, and splendid roads to the
railroad or smelters at Ely. No more
satisfactory tunnel site could be de-
sired, and il has the additional advan
tage of entering upon the very thresh-
hold Of magnificent ore zone. From
Ely to this tunnel site the roads are
very fine, passing through ranching
section, whose fertility is astonishing
to one whose acquaintance with the
State Of Nevada has been confined to
deserts and uninviting mountain ranges.
The Journey, therefore, to Duck
Creek from Ely is one of the most en-
Joyable that the most prosaic could un-
dertake. From the Steptoe- Duck creek
divide he will pause long to admire