The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27
AROUND MODENA.

At Modena the Desert Wonder mine.
which during the year became involved
in Iong-drawn-out negotiations cover
ing a deal for control is being gradual
ly gotten into shape for a campaign of
real development New forces gathered
by Mining Engineer E. A. Taylor of
Salt Lake City recently secured control
of the property and shaping up of the
ground for regular operations has been
under way for some weeks. A new
blacksmith shop and tool house has
been erected on the property. and Il
hoist is TO be installed and shaft
driven TO the water level. where it is
expected the sulphide zone viii be en-
countered. A gangue of ferro-man-
ganese. carrying gold. lead, silver and
copper, twenty-five feet wide, has been
cross-cut at the fifty-foOt level of one
shaft. A QuartZ-spar vein carrying
gold and silver values, fourteen to tnir-
ty feet wide, traverses the property and
some five or six heavy calc spar veins
Indicative of lead and silver ores.
Wonderful. a new mineral, is found
in one portion of the property in great
quantities, for which a leaser has Of
fered g per ton and mine it himself.
Bric-a-brac and curios of various de-
scriptions are made from the material.
and a small manufacturing plant is
practically assured TO Modena.
At the Holt Mine.
Fourteen miles east of Modena is the
Holt mine. under bond to purchase by
the EscaIante Gold Mining company
A shaft has been sunk to depth Of $50
feet, and work temporarily halted
owing to water making in the ledge
The property comprises some eight or
ten claims, and the Holt mine proper
is a property of exceptional merit
The vein is q true fissure in meta
mOrphOsed granite, and abounds in
gold-silver. lead and copper ore. Drift
ing has been done on the vein from the
175-foot level in both directions from
the shaft, and ore running as high as
600 ounces in silver and 80 per cent lead
has been encountered. AT that depth
the vein is full six feet wide, and i'm
pregnated with copper throughout. 1t
is confidently asserted that the proper
ty VIII enter the shipping class IN an
other 100 feet of sinking. a shift OF
two is steadily kept employed.
Homestake More Than Iron Mine.
The Old Homestake mine on Iron
mountain, once cIassed as an iron mine
exclusively, is destined to surprise some
one. The property consists of five pat
ented claims. situate twenty-five miles
east of Lund, and of easy access. Much
money was spent on the ground in the
past ten years, and much ignorant min
ing done.
LeaSers took hold of il recently oW-
ing to certain copper indications, and
are making a fiattering showing. Con-
siderable 20 to 25 per cent copper ore is
on the dump awaiting shipment, and
Seventy-ive sacks of first-class lead
silver ore. At the bottom of 10O-foot
shaft, several drifts have been run and
| forty-three feet of a blue lime silicate
cross-cut, carrying from 8 to 10 per
cent manganese, up to So per cent iron
and small silver and copper values.
With the opening of the Majestic smell
ter a market will doubtless be created
for this great body Of fiuxing material
| Extensive lenses of specular iron, car
/ rying from TO 10 per cent copper,
| have been encountered, and some very
| good pyritic copper ore. Salt Lake
parties are said TO be considering the
| purchase of the property.