The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-16
WEST QUINCY
ANNUAL HELD
Managers Report of Years
Operations Contains Good
News for Shareholders.
DRILL HOLE CUTS GOOD ORE
STRONG BOARD OF DIRECTORS
is ELECTED.
DRILL HOLE CUTS GOOD ORE


The annual meeting of the West Quincy
Mining company was held in this city
yesterday afternoon. A most interesting
report of the past years operations was
submitted by President and General Man
ager 6. D. b. Turner. and following the
acceptance of that and the financial re-
port the following board OF directors and
Officers were chosen TO serve for the en-
suing twelve months: q. d. j. Turner.
Salt Lake, president, j. r. Rand. New
York vice president; II. c. Cav. Salt
Lake. secretary and treasurer: the other
directors being r. e. Hendrick. Carbon
dale, Pa; ". II. Dodge and ". c. Alex
ander. Salt Lake, and f. V Van Norman,
Los Angeles
II was "a matter for genuine good feel
ing all around that Mr. Hendrick, who is
The largest individual shareholder in the
company. consented to go on the hoa rd
and labor with the rest of the official
household for the successful rounding ont
OF the enterprise IN which the Caompauv Is
engaged. Mr.. Hendrick is the founder
ana practical owner OF the Hendrick Man
eiacturlng company of Carbondale Pa
ana "a sterling and wealthy business man.
He mas pinned his faith To the West Quin-
y and is "A firm believer in its worth. not
altogether on the reports Of the promote
ers of the enterprise because he has had
Inc proposition fully investigated bv his
own personal representatives. lie believes
III the Tar west. anyway for il was only
recently that ne put $4,000 into fruit
lands near Riverside Cal
Core Drilling Operations.
The most interesting and significant
portion OF Manager Turner's report had
10 10 with the operations of the core
drilling plant that was placed in commits
SION In prospect the formation below the
vel Ia-r huh
difficulties encountered the hole had been
bored only 81 feet by the end of October
Then superintendent y. a. McLain took
charge Of the WORK and has since droDDed
the hole down ASP feet farther. or $50 feet
below the 4iO-foOt level and 130 feet be-
meath the surface. This depth brings the
bottom OF the hole 514 feet below the
cross-cut that was run from the Little
Bell workings.
Contact Vein is Near.
This bore has been put down. the man
ayers report says. through limestone of
different characters, while an intrusion of
Dorphyry highly mineraIzed. was also
encountered. The formation row being
drilled in Is gray lime, which. in adjoining
properties, Is found everything the ore
bodies BY actual survey. the contact vein
between the lime and quartzite should
have been reached at a depth of rs feet
IN the drill hole, but the porphyry intru-
sion Is held responsible for having fauIted
the bedding planes a condition that is
frequently met with i'm the Park City dis
tricJ but the lime now being passed
through which IS heavily fmpregnated
with IRON aud lead. indicates that the con-
tact may be expected at any time
Good Ore Already Tapped.
As a further indication that ore bodies
are going to be found at the contact the
report states that at point about 100 feet
above the present bottom of the drill hole
between a gray and black limestone two
Feet OF ore was encountered the first
sample OF which showed a value of ap-
proNlmately so ton. as follows: Silver.
AL ounces; gold. 3 ounce; lead. 81. a per
cent: copper. 1.25 per cent. 4 second sam
pie showed a total value of SO per ton.
This bedding was undoubtedly fed from
the contact and is significant of what is
III store. The drill is now making head
way at the rate of five feet day.