The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-22

CUSTOM MILL
READY TO RUN
Fine New Plant at Seven
TrOughS to Start on Coali-
ton Ore.

Mazuma. April 2D.-Part of the machin-
cry of the mill Of the London syndicate
was turned over yesterday, and it will be
but a few days before the entire plant
viii be ready for operation. The first
ore on which the stamps are to fall IS
from the Wihuja lease on the ground
of the Seven TrOughS Coalition. Inc ore
is from the dump of the big lease, and is
naturally not Of a very high grace sam
uel P Harris, who represents the Eng
lish syndicate, has been here for a week,
and last night, d. D. DemareSt, builder
of the mill arrived from San Francisco,
TO remain until the mill IS completed,
when he viii turn il over to Mr.. Morris
The WihUja lease has not yet finished
its run through the Coalition mill. dn0
will continue shipping all the rest of the
week Meanwhile they are taking out
some of the finest high grade which the
Coalition has yet disclosed, even in the
palmy DAYS OF that property when tney
were taking out stuff which went as high
at $1,000 a ton. This was the sort of rock
that the Kindergarten was yielding when
they were forced to withdraw from the
underground workings on account of the
water coming I'm. 1t was then that the
management decided to sink the vertical
shaft TO 800 feet They are now cross
cutting fOt the kindergarten vein at this
depth. and are liable to cut II any day
In the meantime the rich vein is being
extensively developed in the Wihuja lease
at the incline depth of $40 feet The
Wihuja is working on a shoot from the
vein and another from the WihuJa vein,
and from both they are getting ore fit
to adoTn a jewelry store. They are nov
about TO sink to the 4T5-fOot level, and
il is here that they expect to get the real
big thing in the mine, for il is confidently
anticipated that there VIII be junction
of the two leads, at which there should be
developed some wonderful rock
on the Harris lease of the Fairview
they are down on the vertical shaft TO
71n1r- had a
Wine from the 300 level for 60 feet, and
this brought them into very fine ship
ping ore; but IL was an expensive and
cumbersome way Of working the prop
erty. and # was decided to sink and come
I'D under the ore On the Wine two
veins merged. and there is a width of
twelve feet. without either wall showing
up. The values of the vein are small.
not going more than 81 or 50 ton, but
there is no telling what depth may bring
The Huntington mill continues TO run
day and night on the ore taken from the
EngIisn-George lease on Badger hill Now
they have opened up their vein on this
lease at another 100 feet Of depth. hav-
ing crOss-cut il from the shaft, which
was sent down 100 feet. This gives them
200 feet of backs in the hill. and the
management has no doubt of the ore go
ing far down into the earth. On the Van
Wrinkle lease. adjoining the English
George. another strike was made In their
tunnel which may be productive of some
f1ing EOOQ. lot iIefe were StttdhS VI MS .
grade running through the rock. and a
good lead. two and one-half feet in widtn.
No word has been received to start W
on the Mazuma Hills. so it is supposed
that the daddies and grdnddaddies on the
directorate have not patched up their
quarrel. They have done something,
however. and that is in the shape OF an
extension for two years on the Reagan,
Potter-Arnett and Prior hadbOuTne
leases The POtter-Arnett has already
resumed work under the new agreement
having installed a J0-horsepower engine
and a No. Cameron pump, and started
to sink 800 feet. The Reagan. il is un-
derstOod. has engaged to go to the 800
foot level. They are at the 800 level now,
and the rior-ChadbOuTne is at the 20