The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-17
A new MINE At
GOLD SPRINGS
Jumbo Owners Getting Into
Real Stuff-The Holt Mine
"A New Mineral.

Modena, Nov. ia. H. Schwan.
general manager of the Utah
mining company, and J. P. Wedel, a
heaVy stockholder in the company, ar
rived from Los Angeles during the
week TO inspect the property of the
company at Good Springs.
Inc Jumbo, as the mine is more IA
unfairly known, is destined to be her
AIDED as one of the big things of the
Gold Springs district, when the present
campaign of development has reached
the objective point. The Jumbo is To-
Gated near the Independence and
southeast of that property. and covers
one OF the biggest quartz blowouts in
tnat field The property for several
years was somewhat prospected by
tunnel work, but Mr.. Schwan adopted
the more sensible scheme of develop
ment by driving down a shaft. The
shaft has been sunk to a depth of lao
Feet between the immense blowout and
system of smaller vein outcrops, and
drift toward the main body is now in
over ninety feet on the bottom level
OF the shaft. and in close proximity to
what is confidently believed to be a
great quartz vein forming a mass of
quartz at the surface approximately
100 feet in width.
While stringers of ore have been en-
countered on the property going con-
slderably above $50 in gold per ton,
the prospect of opening UP great
body of low-grade free milling ore is
too alluring TO the management to
waste time and money on the uncer-
talnties of the smaller veins proving
profitable and productive enough 10
justify the hazard, as against the
splendid prospect ahead of the work as
outlined. Mr.. Schwan exhibited some
rock from a four-foot streak already
crosS-cut which would indicate that
the goal is close at hand.
Holt Mine Looking Fine.
P. P. Garfield of Enterprise, A. o.
Ackerson, manager of the Escalante
Mining & Milling company. operating
the Holt mine, and William Lund and
Louis Lund of Modena have been ope-
rating lease on the Homestake prop
erty, twenty-five miles east of Lund.
for several months and have an excel
lent showing. The property is located
on the slope of Iron mountain. adjoin-
ing the holdings of the Colorado Fuel
& Iron company and other big iron
holdings.
The Homestake has been worked
spasmodically for a number of years.
and while some very pronounced ore
indications were in evidence the for
ner operators of the property, al
though making a few small shipments
of ore, were not sufficiently experienced
to follow up the indications of ore in
diligently. 1t is believed that the
present leasers have succeeded in read
ing the ground correctly. and every in
dication points to the Homestake be-
coming shipping proposition at an
early date. The ore is principally hem
attic, carrying copper on one contact
and lead and silver on the other. A
large body of peculiar iron ore, car
rying to 10 per cent copper has been
opened up with occasional pockets car
rying up to % per cent in copper. Sew
enty-f1ve sacks of highgrade lead and
silver ore are on the dump, and num-
Der of tons of sorted copper ore,
Astounding in malachite. azurite. bor-
mite and chalcopyTite forms of copper.
Wonderful New Mineral.
Wonderful is the name given by r.
L. Nolf to a soft mineral found in the
Desert Wonder mine and or adjoining
property. 1t has some of the charac
teristics of steatite, but contains ele
nents that are not found in any of the
the only known mineral approaching IL
in the number and kind of constitu-
ents.
1t is a soft material that readily
Yields to any shape or form in the
manufacture of ornamental bric-a-
brac and owing to its high polish is
very attractive. Beautiful blends of
colors combine with those of azurite,
Malachite, manganese. bromic silver
and iron, making a beautiful specimen
when polished, resembling some OF the
matrix stones of the turquoise deposits
A means of hardening the mineral has
been worked ont, and although it
grows as hard as some silicious stones
it is as light as well-seasoned pine
A collection of polished pieces made
from this material viii be placed OH
exhibition in Salt Lake City soon.