The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-23
CANNON BALL
HAS FINE MINE
Engineer Redman Says Prop
erty'S Ore Values Exceed
Managers Estimates.

Fred Redman. the mining engineer, re-
turned Yesterday morning from a profess
sional trip Of several days into Idaho.
The particular business for which he went
away was to make an examination OF
properties near GOOding. Finding rev
days on his hands in which he would be
idle during the trip, he improved the op-
portunity TO visit the property or the Cah-
non Ball Consolidated and chum 1t TOT
a short time with Manager George L.
Edwards.
what sort of a proposition Mir. Edwards
had I'd there" said Mr.. Redman yester-
day. "and / am free to confess that /
was most agTeeably surprised. owing 10
the heavy storms OF the past winter and
early spring il has been impossible to
get the new min finished as soon as Mr..
Edwards expected, but when l was at
The mine the only portion OF the equip
meut nos then delivered was the engine
and boilers The roads are now in shape
for heavy hauling and this part of the
equipment viii soon be on the ground.
Foundations have all been set and, bar
ring accident. il will not be long till the
plant Is ready to go into commission.
During my stay at the property TOOK
occasion to go all over the ground OF
the com Dany and to take samples from
the different workings and the exposures
along the ledge at the surface. Manager
Edwards has claimed that the ores devel-
oped in the property viii average sd
ton in value. Let me say to you that L
am certain he has been too conservative
in his estimates. A tunnel has been driV-
en- on the vein for a distance Of 80 feet
through an average of better than four
feet Of ore all the way. At the face
where the ledge was being crOss-cut when
I was at the mine there is twelve feet
of ore which I sampled. The returns on
my samples gave $46.40 in gold, So ounces
silver and q per cent lead, making to-
tai value of over $40 a ton for the ore.
j did not attempt to make general sam
pIe of the ledge for the entire distance
of SIS feet, but the several samples which
/ did take for my own satisfaction and
10 get general idea of the value IF the
characteristic ore gave me $50 In gold and
SO ounces silver, or approximately S52@
per ton These samples were taken of
the pvritic iron, which is the character
istic vein filling, and on which the man
agement relies for results, without count
ing the lead. Even this sampilng, you
see. shows an excess of $3.50 over the
average claimed by Manager Edwards,
and that Is why I say that he has been
ultra conservative in his claims.
'sThe Cannon Ball. in my judgment is
going to make a splendid mine and, with
the new mill in operation, there is no rea-
son in the world that / can see why the
proposition should not pay handsomely.
Mr. Edwards Is going to run a CrOss-cut
tunnel to the vein from point on a level
with the bins at the mill and then open
up the vein in both directions. From this
tunnel he will be able to dump the ore in
the bins without having to use a chute
down the hillside, and thus simplify
the business of mining and milling. There
is water sufficient right there to generate
20 horsepower, while the country is full
of timber. 1t is an ideal mining and mill
ing proposition, and one that showed up
beyond my expectations