The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-29
RICH STRIKE IN
HONERINE Elk.
Disclosure One That Is Likely
to Pull Stockton Out of
the Dumps.

strike has just been made in the
Honerine Extension company property a'
Stockton that is likely to make history
NOT only for the Honerine Extension COM
many. but for the camp, during the next
few months. Six hundred feet vertically
under the old Honerine Extension tunnel,
In what is known as the Honerine COM
panv's old 6OO-foot level tunnel going east
in the Honerine vein. a blind fissure was
cut four or five days ago that has since
been making ore at a rapid and most en-
couraging clip
satnrdav the tunnel had been advanced
twelve feet in a body or ore that is WIDER
than the drift and "A message from camp
yesterday stated that the race was sun
ali IN the ore a general average saIhple
0r the mass gave returns of . per cent
lead fourteen ounces silver and 80 cents
in gold per ton. Sorted as such ore would
be 10 make a milling as well as shlpplng
grade, it was found that the first-ciass
would 20 % per cent lead. thirty ounces
silver and go in gold per ton
.sThe cross fissure in which this strike
has been made said Manager +. j. Rad
datz Yesterday, does not appear on the
surface OF the company a ptop pei.
though il was cut about 229 feet under
the surface by the old tunnel. II was
rnineralized at that depth but did not snow
any pay ore. We have been opening our
ground bUU feel deeper imam the Oiu NuAAi4CA
gave through the old HOnerine tunnel,
which is being extended easterly into cur
ground In 125 feet more we shall cut an
other nssure, one that has made "A fine
body of ore on our old tunnel level above,
and when it is. we shall have nearly LOO
feet of backs in this ledge. There are
still other assures and dykes TO the east
OF this vein and long before the hmltS
of our ground are reached L am certain
other fine ore-bearinS assures Will be
opened up. Relying on its apparent dip,
am Of the opinion that the fisSure in
which the strike has just been made VIII
dip into Honerine ground before the drain
tunnel level is reached. over 40 feet below
and probably afford a good stopping area
in that property. At any rate. the strike
appears TO be one of the most important
ever made in the old Stockton camp
Then such disclosures as the one men
toned are made east of the old Honerine
ground. and as "A result of following the
same vein that made the HOnerine known
far and wide because of the fact that. AT
the junction with every cross-break or fis-
sure. on any level. ore bodies Of greater
or less magnitude have been tapped The
Extension company has now cOnclusively
shown that the crOsS-fissuring and ore !
making characteristics of the district do |
not cease with the eastern limits of Hone |
rine ground. even EaDugh some OF those
with the old Honerine company |
have held that there was no ore in the |
ground east OF the present face of the !
drain tunnel. which is vet 900 feet westerly |
from the eastern limits of HOnerine terri |
tory
The strike made seems to open up new
possibilities for the district and there is a |
likelihood that a big coalition company /
may yet be formed to take in several /
properties and make a humming camp of |
Stockton.