The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-30
LION HILL FINDS
RICH SILVER ORE
Ophir District Company Opens
Bonanza Rock in Drilling
Main Tunnel.
SALT LAKERS OWN
A COMING PRODUCER
Large Area of Mineralized
Ground Responds Generously
to Development,

Local stockholders Of the Lion Hill
Consolidated Mining company on
Thursday were delighted with the word
that General Manager George Sinclair
sent In from the mine at Ophir Sew
eral days ago the management ran into
a fine showing of silverlcad ore while
driving the main tunnel farther into
the mountain for the purpose of making
the proper connections with the other
mine workings This find was rather
unexpected, but from the first it has
shown up so strong that there has been
no hesitancy on the part of Manager
Sinclair TO follow it.
So an incline was started on the ore
from the tunnel level, and this work
ing has opened the ore for sixty feet.
There are two and n half feet of ore
that ranges from 7l6 to 1896 ounces
silver. 1875 per cent lead and 80 gold
per ton. A picked sample assayed
J3iS ounces silver and II per cent lead.
In addition TO tins two and half feet
OF ore there are from Jwo feet to twelve
feet of rock which runs from 10 to 500
ounces silver per ton and II per cent
lead, with so cents gold.
The Lion Hill Consolidated company
has rounded out group up IN the Ophir
district consisting of some 500 acres of
ing composed Of the properties Of the
Northern Light, Chloride Point. Colum.
bia and Circle companies, all on Lion
hill. That rich discoveries on the prop.
crty were logical has been apparent,
for some of the groups now belonging
to this organization have been liberal
producers of rich rock in days gone by
Ono thousand feet beyond the point
where the above big strike has just
In, =
opened in the Columbia territory some
time ago. and numerous fine shipmcnts
were made from that point. The old
Northern Light company sent to market
fourteen cars of orc which ranged any
where from $1,000 to $4,000 per ear,
The tunnel via which this new dis
covery was made has been sent into the
hill about 1900 feet. and, as stated, was
destined TO complete connections badly
needed in the NINE, as under the old
way Of doing things the ores had to be
handled about six different times be,
ore reaching the surface. a short dis
tancc is now needed TO complete these
connections, and this work will be COM
pleted as soon as possible, thus assuring
to the management IN economical and
easy extraction of the resources in the
future,
E. W. Clark. who Is the general man
ager OF the w. A. Clark property at
Ophir, is president OF the Lion Hill Con
soldated After viewing the find men
he Informed his Salt Lake asso-
ciatcs that were this mino Just six
inches over the line in the state of Ne
vada, there would be one of the widest
stampedes ever recorded in the Sage
brush state now on. But Utahns never
enthuse 10 any such extent. Frank L.
Hiatt is another mining man who re-
Gently has inspected this discovery, and
who returns greatly elated over the
same Directors Hubbard Airis and
Dooly expect TO leave for the mine Sat
urday.
Ophir is so aroused over this find that
a party of ten have secured lease
from the company, and have started
work III driving u tunneI on the oppo.
site side of the mountain from where
this strike was made, and this work
Joined with the company s activity
will make the Lion Hill Consolidated
one of the busiest in Utah
This winter The company is in ideal
financial condition. e. w. Clark is
president, Will j. Dooly is vice-presi-
dent. and Edward Holmes is secretary.
w, f. Hubbard. Il. II. Airs. George
Sinclair and Z. j. Raddatz complete the
board of directors.