The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-16
LEAD AND GOLD
IN NEW CAMP
Granite District Is Proving Up
Some Fine Properties as
Development Progresses.

City Marshal ]. w. Hudgens has re-
turned from a visit to the mining prop
erty at Steptoe, In the Granite mining
district in which he is interested, says
the Ely Expositor. While there Mr.. Hud-
gems made a personal inspection of all
the properties being worked in that sec
ton, and expresses himself as somewhat
surprised at the wonderful gold and lead
silver showings to be found on the dif-
ferent properties which have heretofore
been but little mentioned.
That the Granite district, which Is
about on the Utah-Nevada line, Will yet
make the world take notice of its gold
properties. as well as those of the lead
silver variety, is the belief of many min
ing men in this section who have per-
sonally looked over the geological forma-
ton and the condition of the ore de-
posits in that section.
In speaking of the development and the
showings being made on different prop
critics there, Marshal Hudgens said:
"A new strike has been made on the
Bunker Hill-Sullivan property In the bot
tom OF the main working shaft at a
depth of ninety feet. Here they now have
three-foot ledge of solid gaiena ore, be-
sides the ore exposed in many of the
other workings on the claims, which will
add many hundreds Of tons to the big
ore reserve the company already has on
hand ready for shipment to the smell
tiers.
ION the Elvan group OF gold claims,
which is owned by W. D. Campbell and
associates, ledge ten or twelve feet
wide has recently been uncovered. In one
place a cross-cut and tunnel has been
started, and all the ore taken out in do
ing the work will pan plenty free gold.
as well as showing considerable to the
naked eye. Assays taken from the ledge
at this point run from S16 to 81 600. Be
tween the ledge and the rhyolite foot
wall there is also six-inch seam of tale
Nt1DA 10
pan of the dirt shows plenty of the vel
low stuff
ION the Stimson group in a winze sunk
from the face Of 16O-foot tunnel and In
the porphyry contact, a six-inch vein has
been opened up by the miners that will
assay easily 500 to the ton.
''On the north end of the Ben Hur
mine, owned by w. D. Campbell, an en-
tirely new discovery has been made of
an heretofore unknown ledge. The sur
face dirt has been stripped for more than
one hundred feet, exposing a ledge of
from four to five feet ins width, which
| shows free gold in every piece of rock
broken from il. No development work has
yet been done on the discovery, nor as
says made Of the ore, but IT is believed
by the owner to carry sensational gold
values.
ION the Columbia mine, the leasers. In
a sixty-foot shaft have developed a good
| body of ore, besides a six-inch vein which
| assays from s35 to $40 in free gold. They
also have several tons of ore on the
dump, which is now being hauled to the
mill at the Campbell ranch for reduc-
ton.
ION the Sunset and Cuban groups of
| lead-silver claims, owned by CharHs Ma
han. and upon which he is doing sdevel-
opment, there is now exposed four-foot
| ledge of high-grade galena ore. Mr.. Ma
han also has several tons of this class
of ore on the dump ready for shipment.
"On the Lee Roy and Flag group OF
I 11sw- za.1l.
Campbell and myself. in doing the preIim-
| mary work this winter, which has Jus.
been completed, by the sinking OF fiji
| teen-foot shaft. fOur-foot ledge has been
uncovered that will average SIS in free
gold to the ton.
THE leasers on the Buster mine now
| have in the face of fifty-foot tunnel
three or four-foot ledge OF SIS or $40 gold
ore. This strike was made at a YER
teal depth of nearly 100 feet, and bears
| every indication of being permanent.
The contractors on the tunnel at the
/ Blaine, which is being run to intersect the
| ledge in the bottom of 3Oo-foOt shaft,
| from which good values were taken out
| of three-foot ledge, are making good
! progress The tunnel is now in 700 feet
| they expect to encounter the ledge within
and from the indications of the vein mat,
| ter making its appearance In the face.
| the next twenty feet. If the ledge at this
point is as strong as it is in the shaft and
carries as good values, which there is ev-
| cry reason TO believe II Will. the Blaine
| will be one of the best gold mines IN
| this section of the state.
ION the property owned by Horace
| Baker and Tex HAIL. which adjoins the
| Ben Hur and Columbia on the east side
| in doing the preliminary work this win
| ter ledge five or six feet wide has been
opened up in many places which will aver
age about SIS IN gold to the ton.
"On the Silver Bar and Little Joe group
| OF six claims, owned by Walker g. Bore
ms N nv how -
claims a good ledge that will average 81
| in gold and nineteen ounces in silver.
| The ledge in the shaft here is about six
| feet wide On the Little Joe mine there
| is also a good ledge of lead-silver ore
which will carry 50 per cent lead and forty
ounces in silver to the ton. We have not
yet done a great amount of development
work upon these claims. but from the
amount of work done and the surface in
dications, the showing is far better than
We anticipated"