The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-23
RED WARRIOR IS
PRAISED BY ALL
Beaver County Mine Gives
Promise of Becoming a
Bonanza.
PROSPECT DEVELOPING
INTO BIG NINE
Sand Carbonate Deposits Make
Profitable Mining
Possible.

Until the stock Of the Red Warrior
Mining company was placed among the
regular listed securities on the local
stock exchange less than a month ago,
comparatively little had been heard re.
garding the mine, which is located in
Beaver county, but since that timo it
has been much in the limelight among
the mining fraternity, Recent devel-
opments have been Of a particularly
sensational nature, and the new ore find
reported last week as having been
opened up for distance Of forty feet,
continues TO enlarge as work progresses,
and has been proven TO be one of the
biggest strikes ever made in the dis
trict.
Recently a Prospect.
In reviewing the developments which
have led up TO the present condition
OF the Red Warrior the Beaver News
SAYS; ''Whcn superintendent w. j.
Merritt took charge of the Red War
rior mine in February, 1905, it was
nothing but a goodappearing prospect.
Some ore had been taken out and
shipped from tho old workings on the
then Anvil claim. The old working was
abandoned by Mr.. Merritt and he began
sinking n shaft in a new location on
the property All along Mr., Merritt
contended that the real ore deposits
made in the lime beddings rather than
in assures and this contention was prov
en- correct, when. on June 26, of the
same year, an immense body of good
sand carbonate was broken into on the
III level At this time the only means
of hosting the ore was with horse
whim and bucket. With this, however,
he succeeded in taking out enough to
pay for development work and con
time sinking the shaft until the com
pany finally installed a gasoline hoist,
Another New Body,
Upon reaching the 200 level with the
shaft, q station was cut and drift
run in to tap the ore body that was
found on the first level. Instead of
breaking into the same body of ore
another one of greater extent and
value was opened, This level was pretty
thoroughly developed. and at the same
time the shaft was being sent on down
ID the 300 level, In October of 1908,
Mr.. Merritt was succeeded as supcrin.
tendcnt by another man, and while the
development work continued, yet no
news ore shoots of special importance
were opened. A winze, sunk from the
300 level, tapped few ore strlugers,
but from all appearances this winze
went between the real ore bodies. On
September 10 of this year Mr.. Merritt
was reiustated as superintendent and
has since conducted an extensive cam
paign of development, as result of
which an unlimited ore BODY is now
fully exposed between the 800 and 400
levels.
The latest strike is apparently a new
shoot Of ore. further south than any of
the other shoots broken into, and the
indications arc that il is unlimited in
quantity and high in value.
Other Prospecting.
Work elsewhere in the mine has not
been suspended because of this new
strike. but is being prosecuted on all
the levels, rs well as in the winze on
the 300. At eighty feet in this winZe
considerable body of good grade of
carbonate ore is being worked, while
at the bottom of the Wine good cop
per values have been encountered, In
the Champion winZe on the 200 level,
4 good showing is had at depth of
thirty live feet.
The property was visited few days
ago by r, ]. Evans, in company with
President Bucien Merritt and after a
thorough and careful inspection of all
the workings, Mr.. Evans stated that
il was one of the best looking propo-
sitions in the country, and that the
new strike was Just like the bonanza
ore bodies of the Tintic district.
The Red Warrior is now equipped
with one of the best hosting plants
and compressors in the country, and is
prepared 10 carry on extensive mining
operations. which it is the intention
10 do. Five teams are now constantly
on the road hauling ore to Milford for
shipment The Red Warrior can now
be truly termed the bonanza of south.