The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-09

AMERICAN FORK
MINING NEWS
What a Few Live Properties in
a Live Camp Are Doing
This Winter.

American Fork. Feb. S-Considersble &C
tivity in Camp Bird stock has been the
feature of the American Fork canyon
mining stocks the past two or three days.
The miners who have been working there
came down with report that the property
was looking exceedingly good and that
some ore had been encountered. Large
blocks of this stock are held by Provo min
ing men and they have been quietly pick
ing up all the stock they could at prices
around ) cents. Tie property Is located
Immediately across the gulch from the
Dutchman mine. and the owners think
they have the extension of the ore bodies
from that mine. But little is being said OF
the extent of the strike, but one that Is
supposed TO be on the inside says that 1t
is something that may surprise a good
many when II becomes generally known.
Superintendent George SOmmeTVilie of
the Pacific came down from the mine "A
few days ago. He states that during the
month of January the miners had driven
through eighteen feet of sulphide ore that
assays seven ounces silver and ID per cent
lead. This is an average of the vein.
Picked samples 20 sixty ounces silver and
about IS per cent lead This property j.
in the very best of shape and there IS but
little doubt but that the stockholders viii
be drawing down dividends before the
season is very far advapced-
That the Dutchman strike. made a few
weeks ago, is holding out and getting big
by the leasers. The strike was made from
a new tunnel fifty feet below the Wild
Brothers workings. From this tunnel a
crosscut was driven for a distance of
thirty-five feet, where the ore was en-
cOuntered. the full face of the drift be-
ing in high grade carbonate ore. This
was opened up for distance of six feet
when the miners were put to work on an
other cvosscut fifty feet ahead in the tuTi-
mel Word comes from the mine that the
hoe -T- hsa rnsafl
crosscut. This proves that they have a
very large-body Of the goods that will
put money into the pockets Of the leasers
and the company.
No new reports have come from the
Whirlwind mine during the past week,
with the exception that it was still look
ing good and that the miners were ex-
pecting 10 open up an ore body at any
shot. They are in the white spar and the
black manganese that is characteristic OF
the large ore bodies in that district and il
is stated by old-time miners that it is al
most certain that they will get the ore
shortly. This property is owned by local
people and to get a large body of SHIP
ping ore in the mine would mean the ben
citing of more American ForkeTs than
the opening up of any other property III
the canyon.
The Knight interests in American Fork
canyon, under the management of j. G
Jensen, are making a heroic attempt 70
keep the roads open to the Mineral FIAT
property and up to the present time they
have succeeded fairly web. The danger
OF being in the canyon this time of the
year Is well known by all the mining men
in this locality. and it is small under
taking to get men and teams to make the
attempt. The road from the mouth of the
canyon TO the old smelter site IS fine
sleigh road, but from there up the snow
drifts and slides into the road and fills
it up. and it must be shoveled out TO en-
able the teams to get through. Reports
from the Mineral Flat workings are very
encouraging and miners who have beer
working there state that it will be one oil
the big producers the coming season
The miners who have been down for tne
nast two weeks from the Silver Flat mine
returned to the mine Thursday last This
is a property on which development work
is anxiously awaited. and it is thought
that news Of an important strike viii be
! forthcoming in a very short time.