The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-28
WABASH MINE
is IMPROVING
Manager TreWeek Talks En-
COuragingIy of Progress
of Development.

| Marked improvement is resulting from
the campaign of development now I'M
der way al the Wabash company's
property in Park City, and Manager
| Nicholas Treweek, who has been spend
ing two or three days at the mine,
returned Friday night firmer than ever
in the conviction that the making of
| big producer is simply a question of
time, with everything favorable to the
| time being short, at that.
THE advancement of development
work for the past month has been COM
| paratively slow for the June month"
said Manager Treweek during the day.
Through the breaking of the compress
or and the miners holiday, eight or nine
days time was lost, but everything is
Cumming along nicely again. The main
drift in the new or No. vein has now
been extended $50 feet, and the face
was showing considerable good ore Fri
day when / left the mine. The vein is
looking fine and strong, with all of
the gangue an ideal ore-making quartz,
and it looks as though a body of ore
might be entered at any shot. This
drift is being extended along the hang
ing wall side of the big contact. In
few days we shall cross-cut near the
face to the footwall side to learn what
change, if any, has taken place on that
side in the $50 feet that have been driv-
en- since the first cross-cut was made,
and where the ledge was found to be so
feet wide
Back from the face of the drift $50
feet we have raised between 20 and so
feet, and at a point 20 feet up we are
now drifting both ways in ore, con-
siderable percentage of which is high
grade. We are getting stringers and
| feeders of ore from the lime beds all
the time, and it certainly seems as if
we shall strike a point where the real
bodies make before long. We shall
shortly start another raise from the
main drift nearer the face AMI see how
the country looks there. At the same
time we are extending the main cross
cut into new territory, and while we
have not struck anything resembling
pay ore as yet, the ground looks good"
Colonel TreWeek has been making a
close study of surface conditions at the
property during this trip. and he states
that the mine workings are now reach
ing a region which, from a geological
standpoint, is just what it ought TO be
to carry the ore. There is the black,
sparry lime, the porphyry and the
quantities. which are invariably in evil
dence where large bodies of ore make
in any of the big Park City mines, and
Colonel Treweek considers it impossi-
bic that the Wabash will fail, now that
ii has opened the veins and found con-
siderable ore already. He believes il
simply matter of drifting, raising and
prosecuting TO hit the place along the
contact where the ore shoots make,
and conditions are showing such rapid
and favorable changes that he is con-
fident of soon being able to tell his
I fsnY zI,o IA
assessments is past
Il don't want to say anything that
will be misleading to our stockholders"
said Manager Treweek, but 1 consider
that, now we are. prospecting in ground
that ought TO make mine, they are en-
titled to know just what conditions are
l expect to keep them posted by tell
ing the plain truth, as near as possible
about conditions underground. With
that duty performed, it will be up to
the stockholders themselves TO keep or
dispose of their holdings"
About thirty men are now employed
at the mine, working two shifts. When
ever conditions warrant it, the number
will be increased, and the colonel does
not expect other than that he will need
to double up the crew before a great
while.
Il note gradual improvement all over
the district" said Colonel Treweek.
and believe that. just as soon as the
price of silver advances a few more
points, and lead shows a disposition to
at least hold as good as it is at the
present time, Park City will be en-
ploying more miners than at any time in
its history. There is no question, l be-
lieve but that the Silver King is a big
ger mine today than it ever was; l am
told that the Daly-West is also max
ing a remarkably fine showing, while
the Daly-Judge is tearing through new
ground at a rate that is sure to bring
great results. The Ontario and the
DAILY will soon be running wide open
again and employing many men, while
the operations of the American Flag,
the New York, the Keystone, the Sill
YER King Coalition. the Scott Hill and
other properties will add materially to
the camps prosperity. l believe that
by the end of this year. at the outside,
Park City mines will be employing
1900 miners, and possibly more"