The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-23
ORE BODY CUT
IN CARBONATE
Drift East on 700-Foot Level
of Beaver County Mine
Brings Results.

Going east on the 7OO-level of the
Beaver Carbonate company's property
in Beaver county, fine galena and car
Donate ore was encountered on the foot
wall side of the great ledge Wednesday
morning. Manager Grant Snyder, who
| was at the property when the ore was
struck, came up yesterday morning
with samples of the rock. Word came
up from camp last Thursday or Friday
that a strike had been made, but Man
ager Snyder, who was in Tintic at the
time. discredited the story on his ar
| rival in town. Monday night he went
down to the mine to see how work was
progressing and to learn what had hap
pened to cause a strike story TO get out
when I reached the mine," said
Manager Snyder yesterday, IT found
that the footwall side of the ledge had
been reached and that drifting east, as
had instructed should be done when
that happened, had commenced /
found that a little low-grade ore had
been struck while getting the drift I'M
der way, and it was that fact, 1 pre-
sumo, which started the story that a
strike had been made. 1t was not I'M
til the first round OF holes was fired
yesterday forenoon that ore commenced
to come in as it ought to. and even
then it was next to impossible to say
just how much there was of it, owing
to the way the ground broke and the
character of the ore which. as you see
by these samples. carried both galena
and carbonates. l left the mine before
learning more about the disclosure, but
have no doubt that we are now cut
ting through the feather edges of the
shoot that was mined above in the old
carbonate shaft Where the ore COM
menced to make on Wednesday is about
fifty feet east of the shaft and, as nea.
as it is possible TO figure from the I'M
certain data that We have concerning
the manner in which the shoot made in
the Old shaft workings, I judge that we
yet have 100 feet to go to get directly
under the main body. The ore we have
struck is characteristic of the mine and.
as the work is advanced, I expect to
soon be able to report that we have a
clean body of fine shipping material. |
have sent a general sample of the ore
encountered TO the assayer. Just how
it Will run | do not know, but of course
II Will not size up with some of these |
galena specimens, which will go 30 to
so per cent lead The general sample /
was taken more with a view of aiding |
the foreman in determining how to sort !
the ore from the waste. what to dis !
card and what 10 save. But the whole |
thing looks good TO me now. and 1 be- |
lieve il Will only be a short time till |
the mine Will more than pay its way |
Last night Manager Snyder stated |
over the phone that the sample sent 10 |
the asSayer went a little over 20 per !
cent lead and a fraction better than |
thirty ounces silver. with a little gold |
When the present company took over
the old Carbonate and Rather group of |
claims ii was decided that il would cost |
more 10 undertake the mobilization of |
early-day workings than it would to |
sink a new shaft Consequently, a point |
a few hundred feet west OF the old |
workings was selected and the shaft |
was sunk 10 the 700-foot level The |
ledge was opened and, after the foot |
wall side was reached, drifting in the
direction of the old workings was COM
menced with the results to date as
stated. Everything has worked out
about as it was expected to do I'D to
the present time and, with smelter re
turns and Hundreds of assays taken
when the mine was producing from the
bid and shallower workings, Manager
Snyder is now morally certain that he
will make handsome paying PROPOSE
ton of the company's property in the
near future.