The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-29
RYE PATCH MAY
ERECT BIG MILL
Working Force at Mine to be
Doubled and Development
Pushed.
MINING ENGINEER
MAKES REPORT
Property Produced Wealth I'D
Early Days aud Was Not
Worked Out.

At the local ol1lCee OF luo NY
Mining company it was stated Sostei
law that within a very short TIME INC
working force at the property wiz oo
doubled and that in all probablhty
concentrating mill with a capacity oil
between 10 and 100 tons per day VIII
ne erected and he in operation by carry
,nrina. The RIVE Patch company, con-
trolled largely by Joseph L, Ray and
sons OF this city, owns 100 acres Oh
mincralizcd land i'll Humboldt county,
Nevada. about three and onc-hali htilSs
oast of Rve Patch station ON the 9outn
,rn Pacific Included in the holdings
ire The Alpha and Silver Bell patented
.laims aud four unpatcnted clalHs.
Forty or fifLS years ago thcsG ci'all' .
uroducod immense wealth, and tho pres
rnt oIynhrs of the ground have rcascn
q believe that they can again put '"e
Did mine on n paying basis
&. l.. Dignowity, Il wcll-known h!n
,uo engineer. who has recently returned
from an official visit 10 the properly;
has inst issued a very tlattcrIpg report
ON conditions, formations ana ludlca
tions as he found them there. MT. ~
uuwity in his report states tnat lue
mineral is found largely IN tue stfati-
fed belts dipping from twenty ~
thirty degrees TO the west, ana ai!er
nalina with the porphyry aud blue hinc
formations. ,,
There arc also TWO distinct ore,
hcariug channels following the mineral u
lonc Of this district, With northeaSt
and southwest strike aud Il westerly
lin. one known as the contact or beddch
,iivcr,load vein, and the other pclnS
Inc true fssure of richer SILVER 'SV'ul u
values. The contact vein apeXes on tue
silver Bell ground of the Rye Patch
.omnanv's holdings, and averages about
rouy feet in width as far as demon
,tratod on the surface and IN wlnle
workings. The values range from eighI
nrnccs TO 200 ounces III silver ana rom
> pcr cent TO 10 per cent lead. MS
.ontuct vein has been developed IN
yarious places from the surface to lnc
Gssurc vein. for distance OF about 'uV
feet and much ore has been taken
from it in former days, though LOT
considerable distance on lts SrrlAS
nortbwsrd within the company lahd
n has not bccu prospccted at all, ana
he report states that from TINS isec,
tiou thousands of tons of orc could
be proftably mined and millcd
On the Alpha patented claim lhere
urc three distinct assure veins par
,Ilcl 10 each other. from % to 90 feet
apart. and these follow the same strike
as ihc contact vein on the SILVER bcl'
nropcytY. These assure veins vary from
,iy inches TO three feet on the surface
md where developed AT dePln thcE
average from foot TO three rect IN
width From the center or lower VEN
allied the Alpha vein, there has been
mined A great tonnage of gh'gTade
,ilver-aold ore, It's intersection win tho
silver Bell forming large deposits ol
rich orc. There is still moro than l.Vul
feet of virgin ground extending along
this assure to the north, aud there j
reason 10 believe that the rlch orc !ou
tiuues to make that end Of the CLAIMS
No work has bceu done, either below
ne 9o0foot mark at any point on th'
vein. though the Indications arc ina
Tho mineral grows more extensive ant
richer in character as 1t goes down.
Records on file IN Nevada, cXamlnc'
hv Mr.. Dicnowity. show that III th'
.arlv days the Silver Bell and Aiph'
properties were controlled by diner
mt companies. aud that for years
,lttcr law suit was wagcd between tn
No for possession Of The. ore deposits
During this litigation the pricc OF sil'c
lfoppcd materially, some of The com
panv works were burned and intcres
generally was allowed 10 lag. Stock II
The Alpha company was at Que TIM
sold i'm London It SIS per share, tn
yaluation Of The mine at this rate belni
,laccd at S7,s00,000. Some 81 .OU0uO
was taken from the one claim fort.
years ago.
1t Is figured that if the mine coul
lie profiiabIy operated III the earl
daVs, when 1T was necessary TO hau
ihc orc some 800 miles by oS team Owe
the Sierra Nevada mountains, an
thence hy boat over $4,000 miles aronn
cape Horn to Swansea, Wales. II ca
surely be made source of revenue 0
the present time. considering the ac
Nanccd methods of treating the ore an
the fact that the product could b
brought to the Salt Lake smclters froI
the mine for less than IS per ton.
is argued that the decrease in the pres
ent price of silver would be more tina
Offset 10y the lcsseucd expenses undo
which operations can now he carrie
on.
The report places conservative e
timato on the net profit of the ore
already blocked out at S52J,OUO, WIN
the expenditure OF few thousand do
lars in following the development wor
up from the point where ii was left OF
would ii is SAID, prove up still create
deposits OF ore.
The property is advantagcously /
Gated for economic operations.