The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-30
GOLD SPRINGS
AND STATELINE
Wild Irish Reorganization Talk
Jennie May Change
Management.

al9lsna, June Zs.-During the past week
Tue wild irish prospect at Gold Springs
was carefully examined by Mining Eugi-
heer E a. Taylor and George Smith of
Sait Lake City. An entire week was I'm
TACT spent ON the property. Should the
returns OF sampling prove up TO expecta-
Iohs' reorganization will doubtless en-
sue and an effective and vigorous cam
palgn OF development will be inaugurated
Judge Thomas MariOneauX invested quite
heavily IN the stock of the presept CO..
PaIiE IN May, and other parties are said
70 DC uesllOuS OF getting in on the ground
tloOf- Judging by the outcroD the villa
IIIsh should make available upon proner
inc r.g gitien' an immense tonnage of mill
+ns ote. Dy comparatively small OUTLAY
Inc management of the Jennie mine is
, aoout TO chanse hands This excellent
- - y mas peen a disappointment TO the
amp as Wen as a number of its stock
hoIuers Although an excellent pronerty
II mas thus FAR failed to come nm IN ey
pectatlons in the cleanup. This has
Deeh owing TO a number of matters that
could probably not be controlled and 70
Others that should have been confroIlei
a year ago. The mine is one of the hest
BOld properties opened in wears. hut has
Deeh opened to no greater depth than ID
was year agO-lS5 feet Tu.S vorlr he
so far been confined to drifting frns,, a.,
upper level and in following a system of
stopping that disclosed the usual Vaga ries
OF ore, as II makes close TO the surface in
t ems oI such generous proportions. Every
Inulcduoh points TO the uncOVering of ars
SURPRISING anything yet encountered
When the new management engages in
SINKING 10 lower levels And this is not
ldiy predicted or mere assumption. but
illogical hypothesis
Upon his return from Gold Springs. e.
A. IaylOf accompanied r. l. NOlf on A
Iflp or inspection covering the Holt mine
fourteen miles southeast of Modena, and
prospects in the near vicinity. Owing 10
water being encountered at the l75-foOt
level in the mine. Manager A o. Acker-
son Is drifting on the vein pending the
arrival OF suitable pump. While still
IN the prospect stage. some splendid ore
Is coming into evidence The vein is from
SIX TO seven feet in width carving con-
per, lead and silver and little gold
and mugs of lead sulphide ore
are being encountered in the drift from
the lower level that carry up To 50 per
cent lead and coo ounces in silver The
property Is in the hands of the Escalante
Mining * Milling company and gives
every indication of developing into a pro-
ductive and paying mine upon very little
additional depth
Detroit owners in the Ophir at State
line visited the property during the week
and declined further leasing of the prop
erty. A Waterman was placed in charge
pending their return and c. c. Miller, who
opened and shipped a fine quality of sill
yer ore under his lease. has transferred
his energies TO the Fay mine on the Deer
Lodge side.
c. L. Peak has resumed operations on
the SideWinder property at Stateline.
The property has been productive of some
$50 gold and silver ore, and is likely to
open up something heavy being in the
vicinity of the fancy surface ores of
Rice mountain and near the Big Fourteen
discoveries.
Work on the Bull Valley mine is report
ed as progressing favOrably. The latest
adVices Obtainable state that the shaft -
down seventy-fiye feet, with a soft
gangue seven feet thick. The values for
seven feet are said TO make an average
Of about 500 per ton. the ore being dis
seminated through the mass and not MAX
ing up in the fancy figures of the former
and making down in true fis-
sure manner