The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-04
MONEY IS ALL
BEAVER NEEDS
Mines Are Making Good lust
in Proportion As Capital
Is LOoSened Up.

IF I had $4,000 at my disposal, said
J. NJ. REYNOLDS. manager OF the Brad
shaw Mining & Milling company prop
critics In 4he Bradshaw mining district
cast OF Milford Beaver county, y WOul1
sink every dollar of II IN the making OF
mines down in the country from WHICH l.i
I have Just returned. ! have raised con-
siderable money for the development or
properties down there and a good showing
has been made. But if l had such sums
at my disposal as some Of the big cor
porations pour into less meTitOTfous things
i would make mines that would eclipse
half OF the tOuted bOnanZas in the cOun-
try Every time 1 go down into Beaver
county and see the dozens Of good things
which lack nothing in the world but ade-
quate capital to make great mines OF
them / get sore al myself for not beng
able TO take hold Of them
Mr. REYNOLDS then went on to say that
the new crowd which Is operating the old
cave mine, worked years ago by ben
Hampton and his associates, and which
Is credited with having produced mil
lion or more has recently broken into ore
in its deepest tunnel, and string OF
teams are now kept busy hauling the
rock to Milford for shipment 10 the Jnlted
states Smelling conpanys works. This
ore is running $50 10 $40 in gold. the rock
icing in the form of an iron carbonate
containing only a small percentage II
silica 1t looks as though the company
was going TO open up world OF II and
make big money
A lot OF samples from the Hecla com
uanv's property was used by Mr. Key
nolds 10 Illustrate the wonderful posi-
bilit.es of that property lie showed flne,
yellow sand carbonates that he was will
ing to stake his life would carry ounces
OF gold per ton. and he exhibited similar
rock that sampled and assayed a month
OF two ago that went ounces in gold,
as per cent lead and Is ounces silver per
ION He said that everything in this prop
erty went to show that with the excep-
ton of here and there, where the process
had been interrupted. the values in the
ore had been leached and redeposited
some where below Open fissures are
found everywhere in the property. and
while no caves such as those found in
the Cave mine have yet been developed,
IT is evident that, by following the bed
ding planes down TO a connection with
the lime-DorphyTy contact. and then go
ing TO the deep, wonderful bodies of rich
sulphide ores must be encountered. One
sample of the CdrDOnateS contained MOTH
ing but the gold and iron, showing that
tire silver and the lead had all leache6
out: others that were secured in places
where natures teaching process had beer
kept from getting IN its work showed
high lead and silver values also. Thi:
condition of affairs is perfectly under
stood by the companys superintendent
George Weston, and Mr.. Reynolds de
clares that when the company is in shap'
10 let this man get busy with deep de
Veiopment. he viii have no trouble II
making a great mine of the Hecla-
located between the Cave mine and IN
Hecla Manager Reynolds states that
new shaft has just been started at a pOin
where there is two feet of iron carbOnat
ore. carrying 81 in gold and a little leaC
10 begin with. He considers the propert
the peer of any Of them, and declare
that all that is necessary TO make hi
mine there. as in the Cave and Hecls
is the opening up Of the ground at deptl
The Bradshaw has been nicely finance
and the present season s development
relied uD upon to make a fine shown
in the new workings.
over in the Star district across I'll
valley to the west from the Bradsha'
range, Mr.. Reynolds reports that 81
strikes have just been made in both tn
Red Warrior and the Mowitza, propos
lions that were floated a couple Of veal
or so ago by ". J. Merritt, who Is no
managing the Mowitza. On the 30o-fo'
level OF the Red Warrior three feet
solid galena ore has been opened up tia
compares with the best rock ever mine
in the district
In the Mowitza in the north drift on q
2Go-foot level. three feet of fine loOkir
sand carhonates are being driven throug
and Mr.. Reynolds declares the mine
going TO duplicate, if it does not eXcee
the performances Of the Red WarriO
which is now a big mine.