The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-16
WEST QUINCY HAS
ANNUAL SESSION
Stockholders Meet Friday and
Select Strong Men to
Head Company.
PRESIDENT TURNER'S
INTERESTING REPORT
Core Drilling Operations Are
Showing Where the Ore
Bodies Lie.

Friday afternoon in the Commercial
club rooms the stockholders OF the
West Quincy Mining company met IN
annual session, and after receiving and
approving the usual reports incident to
such meetings, proceeded to elect the
directors and officials for the ensuing
wear G.. D. b. Turner. who served IN
the capacity of president and manager
during the year Just closed, was re-
elected; j. Il. Rand, president OF the
Rand Drill company and OF the South
ters are in New York, was elected wee
president; and II. c. Cav, secretary
and treasurer during the past year, was
re elected. DR.. Van Norman, we'll
known in this State rs successful and
wealthy capitalist of Los Angeles; w.
c. Alexander, manager of the Southport
company; e. e. Hendirck, a prominent
manufacturer of Carbondaie, Pa, com
plete the board Of directors
The report for the year submitted by
President Turner is of interest owing
TO its extended reference to the opera
tions of the Davis Cohn drills during
the past season, which were to demon
strate the merits Of the West Quincy
property at depth as well as TO drain 1T
successfully After outlining the vlcis-
situdes of the early operators of the
uClIl unQcr Une pCTSOudl super NlSlpu "
F. II. Ravis, the inventor during which
time he sent these drills from the 49O-
foot level down distance of 34S feet,
Mr. Turner states that the West Quincy
company took, charge of the operations
itself, since which time the drills have
been sent steadily downward. The re-
port continues.
''The drilling since Mr.. Davis left
has been conducted by our company in
81, ,f ho 10 O.
Lean, and the hole is now down to
depth of $50 below the 440-foot level,
or 1920 feet depth from the surface,
and 3O4 feet deeper than the Little Bell
crosscut. The formation drilled has
been limestone Of various characters,
well known and typical of the Park
City camp. An intrusion of porphyry,
highly mineralized, was also cut, By
actual survey the contact vein lying
between lime and quartzite should have
been reached at depth of 7l5 feet
The porphyry intrusion has, no doubt
fauted the bedding plane, which frc-
quently occurs at this camp, hut the
formation now being cut indicates that
wa may reach our main VEN at any
time.
A bed of ore about two feet in thick
ness was cut with the drill about 100
feet above the present bottom of the
hole between a gray and black limo
stone, the first sample OF this ore as
saycd $2S.60 silver, SO gold $3.50 lead
and So copper, or a total of S19lO per
ton. Another sample, the report CON
tinues, gave a value of 500 per ton.
This ore was In the form of lead
carbonate, and while it would not core
the management succeeded lu getting
satisfactory samples of the drilling
Drill work recently has been slow ow-
ing TO the dry water courses encoun-
tered in the hard rock. All the water
that could be pumped into 2-inch pipe
was used up, consequently IT was no
easy matter to hold the chilled shot
used for grinding in the bottom of the
hole while drilling. Mr.. Turner states
that the drilling not only will expose
the ore beds. but IL Will help to make
the West Quincy dry mine, The man
sgement now is making five feet per
day with the drill. and as lead and iron
pyrite is showing in the last cores eN
tracted il is apparent that the hanging
wall of the contact is being approached.
The report then states.
"Tbc contact referred to VIII soon
be cut, and it is important that YOU
should bear in mind that it is Identical
ly the same contact rs the Silver King,
DAILY West DAILY Judge and Little Bell.
Our present works are only few hun
dred feet from the DAILY West, Little
Bell and DAILY Judge. therefore we have
good reason TO believe that the mine
will develop 10 immense proportions
and that it. would be like a freak of
nature if We do not discover equally as
good ore bodies as the mines above re-
ferred to. The ore bodies arc developed
around our property in half circle
and now that we have cut ore it is, TO
say the least, very encouraging,
Negotiations Arc again under way
to gain permanent working rights
through the tunnel near by. and | think
that this time something can be done,
as the water problem is no longer to
be feared. in fact, ! may say that we
are meeting with encouragement But
If we are left to our own resources our
shaft can successfully be put down be-
fore long. The mine no doubt soon will
be drained, the principal evidence of
this being that the drill hole carries
away a great deal of water. and does
not rise higher than about 200 feet
above the bottom of the hole, The water
so far has gone down more than 80 feet
| below the 400-foot level in the shaft.
but as we are continually running water
| over that level the shaft is practically
| Kept full as sump, and no doubt will
have to be pumped out when il is de
cided to sink the shaft F."