The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-22
open RICH VEIN
IN DEER LODGE
Strikes Are Made Which Fulfill
Promise of Picture
Float.
NINE FEET OF HIGH-GRADE
FIRST SHOTS IN ABANDONED
cRosSCUT REVEAL ORE.

The ledge for which prOspectors nave
been searching for years in Deer Lodge
camp has been found. And, apparently,
it is as big and as rich as the most san
guine of them ever predicted It would be.
opened first in the GOOD BOY claim
about a mile northwest Of Deer Lodge, the
vein is eight feet wide at the surface, and
shows three feet of ore, which Is said to
run better than $50 a ton.
haif-mile further northwest on what IS
apparently the same ledge, John kear-
ney has opened at considerable depth, In
the GOldbus group, body OF nine Ieet
of ore which, according to the solemn dec
iaratiOn Of a trustworthy mining man
who arrived in the city yesterday from the
district, carries values clear across IN
excess of 500 a ton. The values are Sill
yer and gold, with silver largely predom-
mating.
KeaTney's bond on the Goldbug group
has already been sold for $4,000, the pur-
chaser being C.. A. Anderson, who repre-
sents Judge Tyson, a wealthy cotton OPP
orator of Mobile, Ala. Kearney had the
property bonded for $1,000, his profit
thus being $4,000
in line for the same ledge. George Moody
has opened a fine showing. Not a little
excitement has been aroused ia the
camp, and much new work has been
started.
In Strong Mineral Belt.
Deer Lodge is in the Gold Springs State
A444E btAN VI DDl lllt " WHICH - cut bA
many strong mineralized lodges. The
camp is on the Nevada side, near the
westerly line of the mineral belt, that
particular portion of which is covered by
wash
Large quantities of the float, as rich as
any ever found in any Nevada camp, are
exposed on the surface of the Deer Lodge
section and for years have pTOspeCtOTs
been searching, hitherto vainly, for the
ledge which must have given off the
bOuldeTs of ore
Charles Rafferty, and Clark Miller,
owners of the Good Boy claim, are among
those who have expended much time and
money following where seemed TO lead the
elusive float, rich in mineral which was
found on their ground. Recently they
found a piece of ore in which the silver
had been turned blue by OXidizatiOn.
something which experience at the Jennie
mine, in the Gold Springs end of the dis
trict, had taught them was a sign that
the ledge was near They sunk only
twelve inches in the wash, when the long
lOOked-fOT vein was uncovered, disclosing
the three feet of hign-gTade ore. Since
the vein, which is becoming steadily
stronger as depth is attained, and are
now drifting Cn the ore,
Salt Laker Has Close Call.
The GoIdbug group. in which the second
strike was made has been in various
hands in the last dozen years, and various
attempts have been made to unearth the
over a wide area on the surface. The
property was some time ago taken over
under bond and lease by Tony Jacobson
and associates, it is said, who performed
upon IL an energetic, systematic cam
paigu OF prospecting. tunnel was
driven several hundred feet into the
ground. which appeared most promising,
d crOssCUt was driven about thirty feet,
and d Wine was sunk twenty-five feet
from the tunnel level Then the work
was abandoned.
Following the abandonment of the prop
erty, only a few weeks ago. a bond was
taken by John Kearney, who had per
formed the work for Jacobson and assO-
Ciates. When HeaTney saw the strike
made by Rafferty, and Miller In the Good
Boy claim, he became convinced that the
underground work on the GOldbug was
not far from the vein.
The first round of shots fired by him in
the abandoned CrOssCut broke into the
high-grade ore
Judge Tyson, purchaser Of the Goldbug
group, has been placed in several good
things. in Phoebe and other camps, by his
representative. G A. Anderson, and it is
said that he is I'm mood to push develop
Lodge upon an extensive scale It is be
lieved that the new strikes viii result in
the opening of an era of great mining
activity throughout the belt from Gold
Springs to Stateline.
MI. Jacobson, who was reached at
Alta late last night by telephone, de-
MED that he had ever abandoned the
Goldbug group and declared that his
bond upon the property was yet in
force He had not been advised of the
strike in the property nor of its sale.
Unless therefore, the informant of The
ing these details, complications are
likelV TO arise.