The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-16
UTAH TALENT
AFTER SILVER
Famous Old Ryepatch Mines
Form Basis of Local
Corporation.

The organization OF the Ryepatch Con-
solidsted Mining company. which Involves
the resurrection Of one of Nevada great
est silver mines. has just been cons UNI
mated in this city. following dlscONsfes
of q startling nature that have Just coI.le
to light in the old Ryepatch mine Work
ings, about fifty miles from the seven
TrOughs district in Humboldt county, Ne
vada. The Ryepatch mines, including ths
Silver Bell and the Alpha, which have pro-
duced in the neighbOrhoOd OF Sl4yOO'VOo
in values, and which were tied up in nope
less litigation prior to 1873, have Deet
found by c D Ray and associates 10
still contain evidences of wealth that
promise to completely eclipse all the IoI-
mer glory of these famous properties.
Following quiet investigation covering
the old mine workings, the surrounding
grounds. Humboldt county records and
deeds and titles in San Francisco ana last
ing for more than eight months, MT Kay
has effected the purchase of both the Ia
nous old producers and much surrounding
territory. and the organization OF com
pany. which began taking out ore several
days ago, and 1t can be safely preuicteu
that operations and disclosures are H.
vOlved Of greater Importance than any
thing that has come to light in Nevada in
recent years.
The officers and directors of the COM
psny are c. d. Ray. president, James H.
Linford of Logan, vice president, S. A.
Greenwood Of Salt Lake. secretary; ives
ton Vernon Of Logan. director; J. Z. Ray
of salt Lake director. The company Is
capitalized at 100000 shares at a par
value of > cents q share.
Most sanguine predictions a to the issue
of the new enterprise are based upon
series OF careful examinations and ASSAYS
covering the last six months and Gull
minating in an examination and report
just made by Professor Bowen, geologlst
and chemist at the B. Y. college at Logan.
These examinations and reports show that
the colossal product of these two proper
which is 6s- the HnmbDl0t
county bullion tax records. came entirely
from above the tunnels. which attain a
total depth at the deepest point of only
200 feet. In this surface ground there
have been opened up by twenty-five enor-
nous Slopes. some large enough. il IS said,
to contain an average building block, and
one in particular. the Borland stOpe, from
which upwards of 81 600 coo in values was
extracted in ninety days in the early sew
entities. These Slopes represent a bewilder-
ing maze of ore chambers. formed by the
displacement of the lime. ramifying afrOm
the parent veins like huge branches and
leaves from the parent tree trunk.
The possibilities of the ground may be
guessed when it is known that one walks
on the downward continuation of these
ore bodies in tTaversing the tunnels, and
that the face of the Silver Bell tunnel eX-
poses the continuation of the ore body,
which at this point shows an average
width OF five feet and an average value
for this width of 10 ounces to the ton in
the floor and faces Of the tunnels disclose
extensive shipping bodies, with average
values ranging from 80 to 800 ounces in
silver. in addition to small values in cop
per lead and gold. Picked samples from
the vein assay as high as SO per cent cop
per. / per cent lead. SIS in gold and 1850
ounces to the ton in silver.
Basing its judgment upon these reports
and assays. the company confidently ex-
poets soon to be able to take from the
two tunnels approximately $500 in values
per week. What the disclosure of so much
ore in the tunnels means may be judged
from the fact that they are ali above the
200-foot level and 200 feet Of virgin
ground still lies ahead of the tunnels to
match against the 500 feet already ex-
plored. Seven hundred feet ahead OF the
Borland stOpe great ore outcrOpDing
was recently discovered. fully fifteen feet
wide. In the dumps at the mine fully so
600 in profits have been figured Contracts
for drifting have been let and tools cars.
sacks, etc. have been ordered
The Ore-bearing formation consists in a
belt Of lime several hundred feet wide
between granite and quartzte. In this
zone occurs several well defined charsc-
ters Of lime, shot up with iron and basalt
assures