The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-29
MINES AND MINING|
THUNDER WILL
ROAR AGAIN
Things Are Shaping Up to
Give Northern Gold Camp
New Lease of Life.

\ recent Issue of the Boise Statesman
contains much encouraging news relating
TO the future of that once roaring min
ing camp, Thunder Mountain, and tells
of development work that has been quiet
~ done, no intimation Of which has be
Tore reached the outside world. The
statesman says Thunder Mountain will
he worked the coming season as never
before. 1t was worked some before. and
SO were some moneyed men of the far
east also worked.
Ben Auguin, formerly foreman of the
SGnnyside mine at Thunder. and nrw at
Chatey, New, where he has charge of
a mining property, has had a lifelong
experience as a miner. The following let
ter recently written by him to J. b. Pyle
uf Boise reveals his expert opinion of
the Sunnysidc:
Il hear all the mines in the Roosevelt
vicinity intend to resume operations. I
hear that James Russell is IN Boise now
making preparations TO get started. !
would like to see the Sunnyside do some
thing, as it has the best showing of any
mine IN any camp ] have ever been in.
II II were here people would go crazy
Mr. Auguin has mined, not only in the
western part of the United States hut
IN Australia and Central Africa so he
ought to recognize a mine when he sees
IL Russell was shown the letter and
said Auguln 8 statement was a substan-
uation of a we'll known fact as anv man
VINO has spent any time or had any prac-
tlcal experience in the Thunder Noun
tain country knows positively it has a
bright future. Mr.. Russell. who repre-
sents the Sunnyside company has been
approached by three different parties in
Boise to open negotiations for leasing the
property, but says he knows the COM
pany would not consider a leasing propo-
sition.
1t is the Sunnyside company's intention
to remodel its mill, he says, and resume
operations on a more extensive scale as
soon as the weather will permit this
spring. r ". Purdam, the former gen
eral manager recently had a bid from
2 Pittsburg broker of $50 per share for
al his stock. The par value is 81. The
offer was refused.
A well founded rumor. the Statesman
SAYS, Is that operations are 10 be re-
sumed in the Dewey mine about July /.
This NINE produced up to June 1907
gold to the amount of $4,000. With a
ten-stamp mill the average yield was So
600 per month.
The Venable Bonding & Leasing com
pany- financed by st. Joseph Mo, ca nj
talists, has a fiVe-year bond and lease
on the Monument group Of twelve claims
which dd1Oln the SunnNslde on the north
east. The property has been in course
of development for nearly four years. A
tunnel has been run so feet. cutting one
of the lodges at a depth of 500 feet It
IS 30 feet wide and 10 feet will average
g ton in free gold. This company
shipped in last fall a teH-foot Gillian
mill capable Of reducing % tons of ore
4 day II VIII be running by the first
Of July. This company owns the Fair
view group Of six claims, and IS driv-
ing. by contract, ? tunnel which is now
in 6S5 feet. The company expects to cut
the ledge AT any time at a depth of 600
feet.
Samuel and George Hancock two years
ago OC3ted the abandoned property of
the United Mines company and discov-
cred ledge of ore in place on which they
sank two shafts. They are now dgiv-
ing tunnel that will cut the ledge about
30 feet deep. This claim is about two
and one-half miles east of the Sunny
side and Fenable properties.
The Standard oil company will resume
operations the coming summer on its
property in Thunder Mountain district
The ledge, which runs through the Sun
nyside claim, has been cut by two tlin-
nels. each at a depth of 80 feet. Drifts
have been extended 800 feet. Two wines
have been sunk % feet below the level Of
the drifts. which show an increase Of the
value of tie ore in depth. The average
width of the ledge is 90 feet. on account
Of the broken formation. country rock
is mixed with the ere. Experts who have
examined the property stated that by
throwing away from one-third to one
fourth of this waste the remainder would
WELD from s. to IS "a ton. The ledge
has been cross-cut on the Busby Frac-
ton. making a total distance where the
ledge has been found of 1f,o00 feet