Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-30
MINING, BUSINESS AND STOCKS.
UNCLE SAM STRIKES
ANOTHER ORE BODY
Orc Found on Main Level Below 'T,,l,-, ,
mel Level Establishes COMMUNITY If
OF Orc from Level Below.

II j. . i s . y lll
BY far tho best news that has been
received at the Uncle sam Consolidat5-
ed Offices in q long while was that tele-
ohoned to General Manager John Derni
last night by Superintendent e.
20 C;rigrs at the property in
Tintic. 1t was that ore has
been encountered on the level known a s
&. 1hels,nain level below the tunnel level.
sollth Of where orc was struck two and
ii half years ago. The SHIFT at work
Yesterday struck the ore for which
s drifting was started a week ago after
encounterng q fine body of ore on the
level below. This strike VIII give
several hundred feet Of backs and puts
the property in the classSof DIG lihtlc.
mines.
Years ago Jesse Knight drove a tun-
mel in the Uncle sam ground and took
out some exceedingly rich ore in the
r EIunrbusI territory. The tunne! was then
2 sent along the vein for Some distance
+ aud another body of ore was ei1coun-
tered. From this bedded vein n large
amount oflrich ore was taken before IL
s. MAS worked out 40
Soon after the present owners pur-.
chased the Uncle sam property an M
cline was sent down from the second
Z orc chute 10 what is now known as the
main level below che tunnel level
r Here drifting was started in search OF
( tho ore which was lost This was car
25rietl on for some time but finally stop
j ped as a body of ore was found to the
north OF this This was about Two ana
/. half years ago and Il was from TINS
{ north body Of ore that shipments We're
made that netted the company 100000
in dividends last year. When this
chute became lean during the latter
3 part of last year, drifting was started
Il on the level below and another body OF.
ore encountered 1t is from this BODY
or ore that the company is now ship-s
ping seven cars of ore a week
IN HuAfBuG GROUND.
Recently drifting was started to the
southwest ON the properly on the lower
Level toward the Humbug ground. The
h naturalization along, the Way led the
management 10 believe that 81 still
greater things could be found. The
drift was pushed along until last week
when the drift encountered q full face
$lof lead silver ore. This was found sew
seral hundred feet out OF lire with tho
last chute found by Jesse knight, As
soon as this was found 1t was decided
that the drift in4the main level had not
been sent far enough and It was
started again, II took; just about ~
week to find the ore on that level. thus
proving that the bedded vein extends
from the main level to the level below.
This affords several hundred feet of
backs.
Thus far no assay has been made of
.heaore but 1t is a high grade lead orc,
with considerable silver, 1t is believed
that several rich streaks will be found
Iii IT. us We're found in the old chute
]. 1t would appear as though the present
J ore bod was an extension OF the Jesse
Knight chute which WIS pushed to one
5sideSor is n parallel vein
"A The new ore body dips In a south
Z easterly direction and TVS believed
4 that development will bring the Uncle
sam workings closer to the Richmond
Anaconda property than ever before.
< In this latter property some good ore
mas been found at various times but
no work of any consequence has been
Is performed for some time. 1t is prob
ibie that the Uncle Sam workings will
now be extended into this ground.