The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27
WASATCH MINING COMPANY

One of the big sensations in the Lit
tie Cottonwood mining district which
will develop before the year is very
much older, if the expectations of the
management are realized, will be the
cutting of the vein of the property of
the Wasatch Mining company. The
company has been daily expecting the
miners to blast into this vein. which
is the main ore body of the property,
according to the theory which has been
advanced by the mine superintendent,
F. W. Schulz.
The company has been drifting to-
ward this vein for several months. The
vein dips at an angle of 40 per cent
from the outcropping on the surface or
the claims of the company, and the
shaft, which is down 200 feet, has been
the startiang point OF the drift.
According to the theory of the su-
perintendent of the mine in whom the
directors have the utmost confidence,
the vein ought to be cut on the zoo
foot level.
Valuable Ore.
That there is valuable ore in this
body has been fully demonstrated by
the ore which has been taken out OF the
west workings oe the mine from the
drifted 100 feet on this part Of the
workings and discovered ore which ran
into the high figures Most Of the ore
which was taken out from this tun-
mel was of a high grade kind. There
are both gold and copper values in the
ore and a little silver.
Some samples of. the ore which was
shipped from this pocket, as II IS
known, showed values as high as nine
to twenty-five ounces of gold to the
ton and from 10 per cenV copper.
1t was thought at the time that the
company ran into his ore On the tun-
mel which was driven westward from
the mouth for distance If over 100
feet that it was ore which had broken
off from the main vein and turned over.
The ore was discovered in fits and
starts and was fragmentary. but was
of the same character as that which is
shown in the outcroppings of the vein
on the claims of the Company.
Big Indications.
The outcroppings OF This vein can be
traced on the surface for n distance of
more than ] 900 Feet. 1t is nearly foot
or more wide at parts of it, and tire
average width of the vein is ten inches.
! All of the geological conditions of Inc
mine. which have been carefully exaIE-
| med by the superintendent, point to the
| location of the vein at the point where
| the company is now striving to get al
| it, They expect to cut it at any time,
and when they do. it is expected ii
will create a sensa ton in the mining
/ interests of the district.
| When il was decided that the ore
which had been taken out from tie
broken off portion of the mine through
| the tunnel near the shaft ii was
| thought that the best way to reach the
main vein was to drift from the 200
| foot level toward the vein in norta-
easterly direction. This work fias been
carefully planned after thorough ex-
animation of the workings which have
been made in the mine.
Expect Rich Ore.
| Tt is thought by the engineers of the
! company that when this vein for which
they are seeking is encountered they
will run into some of the richest ore in
| the Little and Big Cottonwood mining
districts
| The sixty-odd claims of the company
which are located in both of these dis
tricts. comprise a large acreage in
the heart of the district, and near some
of the best properties in that part OF
the state.
| Inc Oiu SoihPohy' u Ni'NA eiiC PA GO
! ent management is the outcome, was
| known as the Consolidated Jefferson
Gold & Copper Mining company. II
sunk the original shaft on the vein
which was indicated by the outcrop-
ping, and drifted for more than $40 feet
| through tunnel Since the formation
of the company upward of $4,000 in
| high-grade ore has been shipped by
the company.
New Company Recently Formed.
Only recently the new company was
formed 1t is composed of Chicago cap
| italists- Nearly all of the stock is held
by Chicago people. The new company
was Incorporated in September Of last