The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-19
SEVEN TROUGHS
IS ALL RIGHT
Engineer M. M. JohnSon'S tx
animation of Mines Gives
Camp High Rating.

The EXPERT examination Of the Kinder
garten. Therien and other properties OF
the Seven Troughs Coalition company, as
we'll as the inspection Of the mines OF the
Seven Troughs Mining company and the
Mazuma Hills, made a most favorable
impression on NJ NJ Johnson, the chief
engineer on the NewhOuse staff. His
report has not yet been compiled Tor the
interests he went out there to represent,
because his trip to Seven Troughs was
followed by one 10 Rhyoiite and 4erlhg-
ton, from which camps ne has only Just
reached home.
Il can say. without mental reservation, "
declared Mr. Johnson yesterday. that
consider the camp a most interesting and
puolhsing one. 1t is a camp which, IN my
Judgment, AMI that is expressed without
having had time 10 see the northern por-
fion at an iustifies the expenditure of
money and development on broad ana
comprehensive scale believe, from the
showing that has already been made IN
some of the principal mines, that great
tonnages of splendid milling ore, ore that
will run from so to $50 ton can and
will be opened up there. II Is camp IN
which the intelligent expenditure OF large
sums Of money for development ana equip
rnent is practically certain to bring ade-
duate results. 1t is a bigger and better
district than I ever imagined it TO be
There is lots of exceedingly Tlch ore
there. also, and have no doubt that the
quantity wherever the lodges are opened
and the larger bodies Of milling rock are
developed.
II was all through the workings. lease
and otherwise. OF the Therien and Kin
dergarten properties of the Seven TTOughs
Coalition company, and the whole propO-
sition looked good to me. l did consider
able sampling and | was as carefm as
possible not TO bother what was known
to be the high grade ores. 1 saw lots Of
the latter and I am sure the boys would
have taken delight in permitting me 10
sample them, also, Notwithstanding the
fact that it would have been easy to take
ore worth 81 or $50 a pound and from
that up. But ] did not care for that;
satisfied myself II was there; but what |
wanted to know was what the ore would
go that was not counted as particularly
valuable by the men trained TO measure
everything by the rich, free gold rock. On
the S75-foot level of the Wihuia lease
alone / found there was three to four
feet of ore opened up for 200 feet straight
away that would mill SO to 80 ton.
while the rich ore made ia punches and
streaks through this material for the en-
tire distance. The Wihuia workings on
the Therien are located near the lines OF
the Kindergarten and the same ledGeS
make in both properties The vertical
shaft on the Therien has been sunk to
deDth that is going 10 permit connections
being made with the deepest workings
IN the Wihuja lease on the TherieG very
kindergarten to be economically deVei-
oped In these properties ! believe the
Coalition company has a block of mineral
ground that must develop a highly pro-
ductive area. The cOmpanys mill is a
fine one and I consider that the showing
made I'm the properties justfies the doub-
ling of It's capacity.
Mr.. johnson also had good words for
the Fairview mine of the Seven TrOughs
Mining company. He declared it was
fine mine and the Harris lease. a few
hundred feet away from the main work
ings on the property. he said. was one of
the best things he saw in the camp fer the
amount of development work done. He
was loud IN his praise Of the showing
made in the Mazuma Hills. which he was
most eourteously permitted to inspect.
In fact" concluded Mr. Johnson, Il
saw a whole lot of good things in the
camp and I am generally favorably i'm
pressed with IT, The formation is good,
the climate is excellent, there is good wa
ter and the camp is connected with the
railroad by good roads and easy grades.
Il is a camp where the investment Of
money should be and can be profitably
made. and the report ! shall make 20 the
people who sent me in there will so
state"