The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-17
ORE FOOLED THE
LOCAL EXPERTS
Sensational Returns in Gold
and Silver From Black Stuff
Taken Out of Inlay.

When f. NJ. Smith anc A. Parson
Rockford, H., stockholders in the I'M
lay company, dropped into town Fri
day after having visited the mines of
the company in Humboldt county, they
marched into Judge o. w. Powers Of
flee loaded down with samples of ore
that they had taken from various por-
tons of the mine. Samples from the
recently opened gold bearing ledge in
the north drift on the l40-foot level as
well as samples from the new chloride
ore shoot tapped in the south drift
while the visitors were there, were eX-
hibited, and before saving such parts
of them as the visitors desired to take
home. a half dozen samples were made
up and sent out for assay to r. H. Of
ficer & Co. Judge Powers got returns
yesterday afternoon and found a num-
Der of surprises in the certificate.
Before giving figures, it should be ex-
planned for the benefit of the unin-
formed that the gold ledge encountered
in the north drift is about twenty-five
feet wide where tapped. and it is filled
for the most part with a dark iron
quartz, a great deal of which carries
from 2.4S ounces to 4.2S ounces in gold
1919 to 30S.I ounces silver, to 20.3 per
cent lead and l to pa per cent copper
per ton. This is remarkable enough in
itself. but listen. Cutting down
through this mass of dark, rusty-look
ing quartz is a seVeral-inch Streak Of
clay-iike stuff that is almost as white
as snow. and it looks as though there
was no more mineral in it than might
be expected to exist in Similar-siZed
streak of chalk. This stuff was as
sayed with the rest yesterday, and it
was found to carry 1872 ounces gold
1879 ounces silver and a trace of cop
per per ton. The streak is said to be
six or eight inches thick.
But that is tame. Running up and
down alongside of one of the walls to
this vein /, a streak of blackish, man
ganese-lOoking stuff which some of the
local experts yesterday morning de-
clared to be nalaconite, which usually
carries from so to 20 per cent copper.
Everybody that saw the ore believed
that it's chief values would be found In
the copper, no matter what else It con-
tanned. And they were all mistaken.
The assay returns showed 66.51 ounces
gold. 704S ounces silver, rs per cent
lead and S.S per cent COPIED. This in
dicates an assay value for the ore of
nearly 81, 800 per ton. The streak is de-
clared to be from one foot to eighteen
inches wide, and since the tapping of
the ledge. a week or two ago. Superin
tendent Turner has been suspicious
that the stuff was valuable and has
kept from disturbing il. He was wired
yesterday that it would be just as well
to sack the stuff Since the assays were
made the stuff has been closely scru-
tinized. and it is found TO be filled with
tiny particles of pure gold, while the
silver evidently occurs as a sulphurette.
ASSAYS on the chloride ores from the
ledge cut in the south drift and includ-
ing rock from the upraise in a ledge
previously opened on that side assayed
from COS to 0.96 ounces gold, 50 to 61S9
ounces silver, 6 to 25.2 per cent lead and
from nothing TO per cent copper.
= Comment on such a showing as this
from the Inlay is, or ought to be, as
Judge Powers might say. incompetent.
irrelevant and immateriaI."