Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-12
MINING, BUSINESS AND STOCKS.
MAKE GOOD. PROGRESS
At NORTHUMBERLAND
Tunnel Will Soon Reach The Quinn
Vein. Wherc Shipping Orc In Large
Quantities Is Expected.

The new lower tunnel on tho Mon
tana-Bingham property Is advancing
rapidly and within a short time 1t Is
expected that the famous Quinn fis-
sure Will be reached The tunnel Is
now IN a distance of 4os feet accord
ing to Supt. NJ. r.. Miller. who Is in the
city today. Within the next 200 feet
it Is expected that the vein will be
reached. ,8 Ff3
Grant Snyder. Il local mining engi-
neer, Engineers Jorgcnsen and Laird OF
tho Hawaiian Islands and w. e. Hub
bard yesterday made a thorough in
spection OF the property and are quite
complimentary relative to the progress
being made and the future of the prop
erty. Tho Hawaiian men are looking
into the methods of long tunnel build
ing In Utah in line of their duty in the
islands. where they have charge of a
long tunnel that Is to BIO used for irri-'
eating purposes.
The Montana Bingham properties
consist OF the Puritan and Eddie
groups OF patented claims, adjoining
the Starless mine. owned by Col. Il. a.
Wall. and only 1000 feet from the Utah
Copper mine. The company also has
options on adjoining valuable mineral
ample dumpage and IN excellent mill
site,
IN QUINN FIssURE.
The quinn nssure, the main copper
bearing fssurc In bingham, runs
through the Boston Consolidated, the
Utah Copper. the Starless and through
the center OF the Montana Bingham
property. The upper tunnel OF the
Eddie group OF the Montana Bingham
has been driven along this assure about
4bO feet In length; cross-cut runs 70
the east 500 feet and an incline to the
west 80 feet; both cross-cut and Incline
are In low-grade copper ore, carrying
some gold and silver. Sixty feet OF this
ore runs from 9 to 2 $50 per cent cop
per, making a good milling ore similar
10 Utah Copper, Ohio Copper and star
less ores.
The company is now driving q tunnel
75O feet lower than this one. This tun-
mel Is now in 4O8 feet, and the past
14D feet has been in q low grade ore
with strea]ss Of high grade In It, one
streul, Is from a, foot to IS inches wide
and runs from 10 to 16h per cent COP
per. $3.50 in gold and . ounces In silver.
Another streak carries slightly higher
values.
Il is believed the big body OF ore
encountered in the upper tunnel VIII be
OF u good milling grade on tho lower
level, and will be richer there. The
slOWer luIlIlel eiV3 Va opo 49, -
than any point touched along the tls-
sure by the Utah Copper or the Star
less.
The lower tunnel Of the Montana
bingham Is being driven for the main
working tunnel and Will control a big
mineral territory to the east, and that
can be worked to great advantage
through this tunnel, so that transport
itation alone will give the company
big revenue. also 1t will cut Quinn
Fissure ut depth of over 300 feet
greater than the Stnrless ore bodies
$on4the same assure.
The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
runs about 100 feet from the mouth
OF the lower tunnel. The railroad COM
Spnny will build a siding SO ore can he
run on tunnel level and dumped into
the cars Also ore cars can be run
to the mill sight. only 200 feet distant.
and dumped into top Of mill and
viii make very economical mining and
milling, ftfa 4EIp