The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-22
BOY IS
IN HIGH GRADE
Rich Stuff Is Being Shipped
From Mine With a Pc
cuIiar History.
Especial to The Herald)

Goldfield New. March Zion the old
Bodie stage road, above Hawthorne, in
the northern part of this county. Esmer-
aida, is a mine which is ne~ making a
remarkable extraction of high-grade ore
and which has had a peculiar history II
is known as the Lucky Boy mine ana
was comparatively unknown in the field
of producing properties until within the
past few months. Recently shipments at
the rate of $4,000 daily have been sent
out from lease on the property.
Nearly two years ago j. D. Huppard,
at present director OF the Goldtlelu
Consolidated Mines company and former
ly president of the Combination Mining
company, together with eastern associ-
ates, secured bond and lease on the
Lucky Boy group OF claims from j. ID;
Miller. the principal owner The sum or
$4,000 was paid on the contract OF pur-
chase when. by reason of default having
been made in one of the payments, the
bond was declared void and the property
reverted to the original owners. IN the
final settlement of the controversy Hub
bard and associates were granted lease
on a portion of the property
The old stage road crosses the man
vein of the Lucky Boy and some eight
in repairing the road at this point dis
covered rich ore at the surface; IN 1act,
found that the wheels of vehicles mad
been polishing the seam of rich TOck
covery was made on the ground under
lease to Hubbard, who at once began de-
veIopment work, with the result that a
mine has been opened which is pro
nounced to be of great richness. Inc
road which crosses il is and has been FOR
generations one of the main thorough
fares connecting southern NeVada with
California. ana many thousands have
crossed this ground, leaving tnls rlcn
discovery for this late day
J. F. Mitchell, a prominent mining man
of Goldfieid, who, with J. NJ. Fairfield,
has secured a lease on a portion OF the
property, says that the Hubbard tease
during the past few days has shipped
eighty tons daily of ore which runs S25t
Der ton besides which the company
shipped another eighty tons from the
Lucky Boy NO. .. Five hundred sacks OF
the hiEh-grade are ready for Shipment
and IL is estimated that another 800 tons
of ore is on the shipping platforms ready
to be sacked The mine now employs IL
horses in hauling the ore TO the railroad
and 100 more horses will soon be similar
" employed
The section is known as the Alum Creek
district and contains besides the Lucky
Boy the Alamo and several otner ioca-
lions upon which good ore has been
found. The Lucky Boy has taken out over
a quarter of a million in ore and has q
large tonnage blocked out at the ,Ot
level and is sinking to the 800 point. AS
depth is attained stronger copper values
are shown. although the ore is chiefly a
siIver-lead, occurring between weli-de-
fined walls and accompanied by sutflclenI
lime to render it particularly desirable
foi, smelling Mr.. Mitchell, who exam
ined and reported on the Lucky Boy q
short time ago for the owners, says That
at the 800 level. in a short drift, there is
exposed five and a half feet of exceeding
" rich ore, with three feet IN the center
of solid steel galena, black silver and
bromide of silver. which assays from SUO
70, =