The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-06
BIG ORE BODIES
IN THE CEDAR
Developments of Past Few
Weeks Mark Beaver Coun-
ty Property as Whale.
CAVE OF Rich ROCK TAPPED
CONDITIONS ON BOTTOM LEVEL
SHOWING UP WELL.

S. S. Pond, one of the directors of
the Cedar Mining company, who has
been spending a twenty-day vacation
period at the mine pounding drill
and working off some superfuous flesh
and knocking the life out of the asth-
matte wheeling with which he has
been bothered for months, returned
home again Tuesday night as happy
as a clam at high tide. He brought
back samples of ore that have recently
been encountered on the 400-fOot level
and also some exceedingly rich rock
that has just been struck i'll absolute
ly virgin ground on the 225-foot level.
1T is a little early yet to say just
what this strike is going to amount
to- said Mr.. Pond yesterday, but the
night before l left a cave was broken
into that looks as though it might be
the depositary for one of the biggest
and richest bodies of ore ever found in
the property. Here is some of the wall
rock of the>~cave. Pretty rich looking
stuff itself, is it not? Here is the ore,
and while il has not been assayed, il
is so characteristic of the high-grade
ores of the mine thatI would be will
ing to wager that it will go better than
ninety ounces silver and high in lead.
At the point where this strike was
made we had previously run a cross
cut drift seventy feet, and the ground
had become so hard that the work was
finally stopped. And this drift was head
ed for a fissure that was known to eX-
list, it was decided after l went to the
mine TO extend it and keep going till
The fissure was out. After running
about thirty feet we cut into this cave.
That the naturalization has come from
the fissuge there is no doubt, and it
ought to make a big body or ore
On the 400-fOOt level, Mr.. Pond
states, a drift has been extended back
from the shaft in body of quartz and
ore that gives every evidence of lead
ing into something big and rich. Here
they find a layer of rich carbonate
ore. then a layer of quartz and an
other layer of ore, all dipping at the
same angle as the lime beds, and with
thin stringeTs of galena lacing the
mass together in perpendicular bands.
Whether this showing occurs in a ifs
sure or whether it is a deposit in the
lime beds and made by the mineral
ICED assures in that vicinity has not
yet been determined, but the belief is
that it will also lead to solid bodies of
ore.
While Mr.. Pond lays no claim to
being a mining expert or an authority
on FORMATION, he dld follow mining Tor
years in his younger days. and he
claims to know enough abSSt the bust
ness to be entitled 10 having some sort
of an idea concerning the value of
ground and the occurrence of ore. He
declares that the true system of find
ing the ore bodies in that section is
now understood, and he no longer has
the least doubt but that a big mine
will be made of the Cedar. By cross
cutting the lime beddings and follow
ing the ore out TO the fissure, or by
following out into the lime beds from
the fissure, ne contends that ore bodies
will be found at and surrounding all
the intersections The Cedar is now
open to depth of 400 feet, and the
development of ore bodies of greater
magnitude and richness than ever be-
fore discovered is simply a matter of
development on lines now perfectly
understood.