The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-28
TROUGHS
REPORT IS OUT
Enqineer Dick Talks Plainly of
Proposition That He Con-
SiderS a Good One.

In the report submitted by Engineer j.
c. Dick on the Seven Troughs company s
mines, two or three days ago, the con-
clusion is reached that the property Is
a fine one. one that he declares fully JUS
titles "a certain line Of development work
that he recommends to the directors IN
whose interests ne made the examination.
Some Of the points in his report Will be
of special interest TO lay shareholders and
the public in general He tells OF having
examined tie workings on the l5J' ~,
300 $50 and 400-fOOt levels, and explains
that he did not get deeper than that IN
the shaft workings because the SHAFT was
not Open at the time he visited the mine,
below the 600. because OF 10 Work SONG
on deeper. He then goes on TO say;
1.-THE shoot from which the hlgh-grade
ore was mined near the sha-- on the
south side is about all cleaned out The
stOning shows the shoot was about SIX
feet wide and probably twenty rect In
length on the 230-fOOt level. Another
shoot seventy-fiVe feet TO the north OF
this shows mp well on the l60-fcot level
This is prime ipally silver ore. They are
now Stopping ID ten feet above the 10
level The shoot is about fifty feet long
and two feet wide, ! sampled across II
at three different places and tried TO get
A general sample of the ore as they would
mine il. NV assay returns show a gem
eral average of rs ounces gold and l4i-2
ounces silver per ton. l thlnk thls
Fnn0L illENN CONTINUE IEItA al u ANt ANNN tAlAA
downward fifty feet. Ii So it would make
about 200 tons of ore.
In other words, Mr.. Dick figures that
there is probably better than $4,000 IN
this one shoot of ore alone. Whie ne
was unable to see what conditions were
below the 400 level he was given every
chance to inspect the workings OF the
Florence lease and what he saw there evil
IDENTIFY convinced him that the company
could d. work in that neighbOrhOOd 10
splendid advantage. for he recommended
the sinking of new shaft about 4lJ rect
north Of the Florence shatt ana the I'M
mediate extension of the -5j-tOOt level
to the south lines of the Florence lease,
where there is a fine chance, evidently,
of encomtering the same shoot of ore
that is now making big money for the
leasing company.
The Florence shaft Mr. Dick reports,
IS $50 feet north of the Seven Troushs
company's shaft IL is 900 feet deep, but
the orr has not vet been cut on this level.
on the 3l1 level the leasing company
drifted west from the shaft a distance
of twenty feet and struck d small vein
that was drifted on to the north. This
Neiu which Is described as quartz string
er on the fOot-wail of the dyke, opened
up into an ore shoot at distance OF
about no feet from the. shaft eight feet
wide from wall to- wall. A sample taken
across the eight feet went 10 ounce gold
and l3.j ounces silver per ton From this
point Che management cross-cut the dyke
to the hanging wall side and started
drift south toward the shaft, opposite
whirn they encountered a big shoot of
ore Al the time Mr.. Dick was at the
mine this ore body had been stopped out
for a SPACE sixteen by sixteen feet and
seven feet high and the work was being
continued south toward the Seven Troughs
shaft. he did not sample this shoot, but
expressed the opinion that il would cas-
lis ron 80 ounces silver per ton As II
IS only 100 to -tG feet i'm this direction
to the south lines of the lease, Mr.. Dick,
as mentioned above, has urged the Seven
rroughs company to extend its 230-fOOt
level i'm this direction. as it corresponds
closely with the 209 level of the leasing
company and should get this splendid
shoot of ore.
Engineer Dick sees great possibilities in
the Seven Troughs estate and he takes
occasion to say that the formation of that
part of the district looks good Z" him.