The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-30
MINERAL FLAT A
COMING PROPERTY
Company Has Many FissureS
Which, in Time, Will Bear
Investigation.
COMPANY IS NOW
FOLLOWING PROGRAMME
Everything Giving Place to Plan
of Sending Tunnel to OBJ
jective Point.
Special to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
AMERICAN FORK, June 21.-Your
correspondent has returned from trip
into the American Fork CANYON, curing
which time the workings of tho Mineral
Flat mine, the Biggest Knight prop
cfty in the djstricy. We're Inspected. The
property, which CONSISTS of twenty-five
claims, is locatr,, IN The head OF The
canyon proper, and Is practically bound
cd ty the following mines; Sunday,
Silver Bell and the oid Miller property
On he south; III. R"g ON tie east,
t'ittsburg, South Columbus aud Colu1G.
bus mines on the north, and OIL The west
by the Alaska, III which r:eh ore mas
recently been encountered In fact, all
of the above mines have produced ore,
sOrie ia large qulnIty, and Il number
are e:.Ii sending OF regular topage.
Toe Sunday mine ID doubt holds the
record for the hlghcs; grade orc, the
arge, but ran high in values The
ground is traversed by four distinct
veins, and, as will be seen, is located
in the center Of a very highly miner
allied district
The power plant which runs the com
pressor, as well as the compressor itself,
are located about one mile down the
canyon from the mine, at n point where
thev are In q position TO get EeayY
pressure of water. The compressor plant
IS modern in every respect and viii De
capable of handling all the work which
The mine Will demand. \ nisraKcn i'm
preston which is abroad is that this
plant will be used TO furnish air to ihe
Miller Hill and some Of the other
- Il h Ia.
the capacity Of the plant would no
doubt permit such thing, it is hardly
practical from the location of the other
properties,
There is LITTLE sLcw near the niue.
vet it is still causing a heavy flow
OF water from the mine. but in such
way that little inconvenience is exper-
enced. The mine buildings consisting
of blacksmith shop, store houses. bunk
rooms, and all the necessary buildings
arc substantially built, and so arranged
over the mouth of the lower or working
thnnel that they can not be damaged by
the most severe suowslidc, very much
after the plan which has been carried
ut over at the Mountain Lake Mine.
The lower tunnel which is now in a
distance Of 1900 feet, is a very fine
ooking tunnel. the candles of the men
working in the face can be plainly seen
rom the mouth. 1t is through this tup
lel that the company expect TO do prac-
;ically all the mining of ore, although
hey are engaged III running another
upnel higher up. The main tunnel
which is now being run TO strike lime
md porphyry contact, in which fine ga
ieDa ere makes in near the surface, has
lready passed through several fissures. |
~ water courses which have good ore
Indications. In one of these fssures 10
ated Near the face. aud on which some
E. L
Manager Jensen showed a very fine |
ooking vein of sulphide ore. which
looked as though it would turn to a car
,onare in n short space Work in this |
place has been discontinued however.
and all energy is being spent IN pushing
the face of the tunnel to the porphyry
and lime contact, The face of the tun. |
cordlng to Manager Jenson S explana.
ton, the objective point may be opened |
at any shot, or ii may be necessary to |
go some hundred feet farther, it all de- |
pending on the dip of the formation
after 1t leaves the surface If it has
held It's surface dip, The contact is about !
due.
In commenting on the different wafer
COURSES as we passed them. Mr. Jen- |
son stated that it would not be neces- |
sary to do great amount Of work on
any of them to develop ore and that |
as soon as the tunnel face had reached |
It's objective point, the company would |
come back and follow them up
The middle tunnel. which is now i'm |
some 800 feet. has found some interest
ing ground. This tunnel is farther
west, and about 400 feet higher up.
than the lower tunnel In this work. |
ing a small vein of spar scattered
through with lead has been encountered
as well as some iron carbonatcs. This
is in the lime and looks as though it |
would develop very satisfactorily
Some 200 feet above the middle |
tunnel is what they call the ore tun.
mel, in which the ore, a fine galena.
has been encountered. They have both
sunk and drifted on this, and as il |
goes down il holds very strong. It |
was this same vein which was opened |
on the surface prior TO the time fhe
Knight people acquired the property. |
While no work is being done on this
ore tunnel at this time, it is from
here that they at one time contemplated |
the Shipment of ore, and il is the OBJ |
.iect of the middle tunnel to successful |
~ mine what they now have in sight |
Some few months ago the Mineral
Flat company purchased the Japan |
group Of claims, which lies to the west
of their present workings. This ground |
sdioins the Alaska, and while it is i
not generally known, some very fine
ore in satisfactory quantity has been
encountered on fiss,re which runs
directly from the Alaska ground
through the Japan group. and on which
a tunnel has been sent some distance |
In commenting on this ground Mr. Jcn
son was very enthusiastic and felt that
il would develop into a mine With
reference TO the present work he stated
that at no time of the mine g history
gas the work in such An interesting
country. and for that reason he ex-
pected TO spend considerable of his
line at the mine so that the develop
nents could be more closely watched.
Ore Shipments.
The Pioneer sampler on Tuesday re-
leased cars OF orc from Utah and 3