The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-15
FAMOUS UTAH MINE;
WONDERFUL RECORD
important Discovery on North
Stockholders
Output.

With production record of over
Sl'O000OO, a dividend credit Of $780,
geo. the now famous little Utah mine
at Fish Springs in Tooele county. with
fts deepest workings at 500 feet. where
the water level has been reached. is
IN better physical condition than for
sometime. according 10 f. NJ. Weller.
secretary of the company, who has
JASt returned from the mine
VIC have between thirty and thir-
ty-nve men employed at the mine,
said Mr.. Weller, "and are taking out
about siXty-five tons a month. The ore
varies but little. running in values IN
carloads from 10O TO $50 ounces sl-
Yer; lead around as per cent. and
Httle gold. The mine has never shut
ooNn since '9l-fOr nearly 0yepty
years. Instead OF paying dividends
The past year, adjoining property has
been acquired, as We decided il is bet
Ter 10 have more ground than 10 equip
the mine with expensive pumping ma
chinery. and follow the ore bodies he
low the water level. But the ore gees
down below the soc and some day
someone viii come along and get these
ore bodies out. We are only little fell
lows, you know.
New Ore Body.
I'VE have just opened up a new
body near the 500. 4 selected piece
went 50 IL per cent lead and 222
ounces silver. Nearly all the mines
output has been taken from assures
cutting through the lime We have
found a little against the porphyry.
hut the richest pushes away from the
porphyry dixie. AT present We are
taking ore from the six levels. We
seldom hnd large bodies; / don't be-
4leVe we have gone deep enough. But
we have never lost the ore streak from
me grass roots down Sometimes il
punches TO a streak almost as thin as
q pencil. then again il opens out into
flch pay bodies. We have followed
II up. down, over and across and down
again, in fact. in almost inconceivable
directions, and yet il has never PLAYED
out on US We have drifts from the
main shaft running in ali directions,
some Of them extending nearly 500
Feet Burley drills are used 10 eXpe-
dite the work.
Important Discovery.
what / consider the most impor-
tant discovery in Utah mine in years
Is hndins little ore on the north side
A porphyry dixie forty 10 fifty feet
wide cuts the formation on a north
west-southeast strike Experts have
unanimously declared we would never
md paying ore bodies north of this
From our various levels we have at
odd times cut through this dixie in
hopes OF finding ore. Until a short
Time ago. this has been all dead work
Recently we tried il again. this time
from The 500 level. and found some
ore on the north side Of the dixie. If
We get paying bodies there. il means
practically a new mine. as all thar
ground has hardly been touched. Dis
covering this on the lowest level, may
give us an immense stopping territory.
This, however, is only conjecture AT
this state OF progress. The ore found
was extremely rich"
OctOber's Big Output.
Yesterday Utah mine was having
another car OF ore sampled. 1t runs
l5f ounces silver. 46 per cent lead. and
little gold. This month viii show
an increased output, the total amount
ing 10 about eighty tons The ore will
average better than SIOO a ton. or
over $4,000 production for the month.
The seYenty-fi ve-mile wagon haul
from the mine 10 Oasis and the
freight charge from there TO Salt
Lake, absorb a good portion of the
pfonts, 50 Utah mine owners are hop
ing for the promised railroad within
the next year or two. But the present
maui hardly equals that of early days.
when the first shipments were dragged
by wagon from the mine over rough
mountain reads into salt Lake. a dis
lance Of upwards Of $50 miles.