The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-03
DEVELOPMENT IN
RED BUTTE CAMP
District Has Responded in Good
Shape to Work of
PrOspectors.
SILVER-LEAD AS
WELL AS COPPER
New Year Will See Increased
Activity Among Claim
Owners.
Special TO The Tribune.

SPt'idI W iIt lI1puGs''
RED BUTTE, New, Nov. 29.-Tbe
advent of 1910 will mark the COM
nencement of the third year since the
discovery of ore in the Red Butte MN
ing district Although very little out,
side capital has been furnished TO fur
thcr development in the district, the
claim owners have done considerable
permanent work, and the necessary an
nual operations have been carried on In
as thorough a manner rs possible by
the prospectors, whose means have been
more or less limited. a number of good
showings OF ore have been uncovered in
the years work, and operations have
demonstrated in the district the pres
ence of deposits of silver and lead ore,
besides the big bodies of copper which
characterize the sections mineraliza-
ton.
Benin, Wheeler and Clark in the
north end of the district, on the Hen
rietta group, have crosscut their vein
by a tunnel and now have Two feet OF
gray copper. ore. AT the point of dis
covery on the surface, the streak was
six inches wide, and at a vertical depth |
of twenty five feet, which has been at
tained In the tunnel. the ore has wild |
ened to two feet.
Pyrite Copper.
Lockman, Gushing and kronenweath- |
er, owning ground adjoining tho above
claims, through which runs n continua-
tion OF the same vein, are crosscuttlng
for the main lead, and expect to cut
it within the next twenty or twenty
five feet. Stringers have already been
cut, which are from two TO six inches
in width and which give good paintings
of gold,
Fred Muscott, who has charge of the
work for Frank Clark of Berkeley,
whose property adioins the above group,
is sinking an incline shaft on strong
body of free-milling gold ore. The
main streak is now two feet wide and
averages $50 per ton in gold. j. II.
Lockman, who has spent the greater
part of his life in the copper mines of
the Lake Superior country, states that
the work so far done in the Clark
future. This property lies to the south
and west of the DeVoe and Currey
Kickapoo group. which on the surface
shows extensively IN copper pvrite ore.
4 tunnel has been run on the Kickapoo,
which has cTosscut a body of copper
pyrite. twenty::siX feet wide, at depth
OF fortyfve feet. This product aver.
ages better than per cent copper. and :
shows also some values in gold and sill ;
yer.
The Florida Group.
Langdon. Wells. Muscott and Holland
have A tunnel in 105 feet on their Flor :
ida group. in the southern part of the .
district. Small stringers of copper ore
and some cinnabar were cut in driving Z
the tunnel, but the main vein as it APP
pears on the surface will probably not l
be encountered for another forty-fve ]
or fifty feet. !
On the Excelsior group, living between !
the Florida group and the Nevada Ana
conda, and owned by George A. Child 5
ers. n hig deposit of lows grade chalco-
pyrite is showing over an area, it is s
said, 300 feet wide and 500 feet long. s
The ore occurs IN porphyry with diorite 5
walls.
A D. Ramel has driven tunnel to
crosscut the vein on the Gold claim. :
which panned well in coarse gold, and I
some high-grade copper ore was also I
extracted during the course of the [
work |
Work has been resumed on the May y
flower tunnel, the property Of Otto Dahl I
and Joe Cant of Pioneer The May 7
flower company owns a gFoup Of nine y
claims J
William Breckenridge and Frank Ash, J
both of Berkeley, Cal, arrived today 10
look over the annual work on the prop
erty. OF the Red Butte Consolidated
Mining company. which owns promis-
ing group Of six claims adjoining the
Nevada Anaconda on the southeast
Three or four men will be kept en-. a
ployed on this property for the remain.
der of the year.
A. D. Ramel has returned 10 camp c
after spending two months in Salt Lake
City, and II. Ramsey, n California min. ]
ing man, has been in the district look l
ing the situation over. Mr. Ramsey will
probably become interested in some of
the promising properties of tine section.
Twenty groups of claims Of more than
ordinary merit are on record in Red
Butte district, and prosperous future
ls looked for, d