The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-26
Many Mines Working.

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the Vernon end of the district being
prospected and opened up as vigorously
as men and money will admit of. The
Ruckhorn is suO-ledsing and While there
are no producers or shippers of any mo-
ment at that end as yet, the character of
the work being done would indicate con-
fidence and stability that will count big
when the ore bodies are opened up.
The management of the Climax COM
pany continues to meet with encourage
ment I'm a most substantial manner. They
have driven their tunnel $40 feet over
200 feet has been through porphyritic rhy-
olite, assaying from 81 to 81 per ton They
will encounter the ledge, which their
tunnel will cross-cut, within the next sew
enty-five feet. This property lies between
two well-defined formations of obsidian.
or as locally termed, "black dikes." with
rhyolite intervening as the country rock.
Near the center is a ledge of striped jas
per enCasing a ledge of limpid quartz.
which has assayed on the surface, dis
tance of three-quarters of mile, almost
s. to the ton. The district quartz, at
the center of the ledge. is the character OF
rock, when imbedded in lime and de
composed conglomerate. that has pro
duced the greatest amount of high-grade
in adjacent properties.
A wagon road has been surveyed from
the Signal Peak mine to the new custom
mill. 1t will make a n-grade haul
least one-third the distance by the pres
ent route
While the Western Federation of Min
ers' scale of wages prevails in this camp.
at the recent election of officers the most
conservative members of the union were
elected. Past performances condemn
the federation In the eyes or many
investors. Prior to two months ago,
reports of attempted intimidation and
deportation we're rife The more
conservative element condemned these &C
lions and has now gained control OF the
organization. Some of the present off
har s4rrazarz-ef1iz- anpnHnePd their
intention of assisting in the prosecution
of anyone attempting TO intimidate OF
deport any non-union men. Any nom
union miner can come into the district
without ever being approached to join
| the union for thirty days. At the end
of sixty days he may be asked to join.
| The matter is then left to his own Voti-
| ton. The sole aim of the union, Is has
been officially declared. is elf-protection
against any combination of capital to re-
duce the scale of wages, which, under
existing conditions here, is fair and ten
able. In future their meetings Will be
open to the public and their methods and
| purposes made open and above board to
any and all persons interested in their
proceedings. They are maintaining a
bOspital for sick OF disabled persOns-the
| only one in the district The tempera-
ment and general disposition Of the pres
ent officials of the union are mild and
charitable. as against the violence and
| Incorporate agitation that has character
/ lied Nevada unions in the past
| A Masonic club, comprising about forty
| six members of the fraternity from all
parts of the world, has been organized
| here. They give a banquet at the Ma
| yuma hotel on the Path inst, the object
being to become acquainted for better
social relations.
Camp In Transition Period.
| The continuity Of ore veins is becoming
a vexed question with the owners of
| some of our best known properties. Ne
| gotiations are still pending on some large
/ deals that should have been consummated
/ several weeks ago. Disappointment came
/ to many when if was found large invest
ors were not seeking high grade" prop
| critics. however fruitful they might ap-
1 pear for the time being. That the camp Is
1 undergoing that close scrutiny that has
lulIed the activities of every great mining
| district Is quite apparent. Cripple Creek
| had two years Of ''innocuous desuetude'
| before credulous investors began to re-
alize that she might become the great
4 est precious metal mining camp on earth.
/ Bingham was twenty-five years adjust
ing conditions" They worked the Com
1 stocks fifteen years before they reached
| the zenith of her career. IT is now, more
| than ever, apparent that We must go deep
! in the sulphides, install better than three
! to fifteen-horsepGUer gasoline engine
hoists and quit "badgering" for punches
| of high-grade before the camps greatness
is confidently established. Happily, as
the opening up of properties passes from
the swaddling to the more comprehensive
methods geological precedent and the
mineral formations keep apace- A year
ago we heard of this camp only as q
free milling proposition. At present
our mills are installing the latest i'm
provements in concentrating and cyan
iding plants. Chalcopyretes are showing
up in properties that have. up to a week
or ten days ago. never suspicioned cop
per stain The line of demarcation be
tween iron oxides and the sulphides is be
coming less apparent. The latter appear
far above the water line in some prop
critics. The man with innumerablt
claims and high-grade at grass-roots is
subsid!Dg and is either working a wind
or rr,oufn- tunnel.