The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-14
FIND SOURCE Of
FLOAT IN MOSCOW
BannOCk PrOSpeCtOrS Uncover
Gold Ledge in Salt
LakerS' Group.
Especial to The Herald-Republican.)

Especial to The Republican,
Bannock. New. Feb. 13.-NewtOn Jud-
son, who recently secured lease on the
Moscow lode belonging to w. 5. Alexan-
der and others of Salt Lake City, the
move instigated By finding float on the
claim that aSsayec from S39.O 10 slgi ia
gold per ton has found the ledge from
which the float was broken off. II IS pct
ter than two feet wide at the surface
and has been traced 800 feet in that as
tance giving splendid Colors from the pan
Mr.. JudSOu will set to work Immediately
to OIen the property. The claim lies
northwest of town, in what is known as
the gold-copper belt, near the shipping
mines Of the Western Scotch SyhuicdIe
group. south of which lies the placer
ground which has created a stire here and
is making good whenever the weather
permits the rockers TO he worked.
The Nebraska BaunoCk Mining com
pany has let contract for fifty feet OF
sinking i'm shaft to further develop a
@la-foot quartz and porphyry ledge opened
last fan by the locator of the claim, W al
ter Murray. Assays from the surface 10
cation work went 1919. and were Sood
enough indications, together with the well
defined condition, to warrant a coterle Z"
Omaha investors to take hold. The com
pany is headed by Charles p. Ross, enSl-
neer i'm charge of special work for the
Mon Pacific system. The Sunrise ad-
joins the Big Five on the north, and
lies within few hundred feet of the Val
lev View No. 3. belonging to the Nevada
Omaha company on which a ledge OF
SO gold ore IS being developed.
B. A. Hanks and associates, leasing on
the Pioneer and Smuggler claims, Of the
Ruzzard group. belonging to Messrs. Fox
and Leach of Salt Lake city, are pre-
pairing a shipment of ore from the abdn-
dOned workings. assays from which have
returned as good as so TO the ton. The
values are mostly in gold. but the vein
carries also silver and copper. They eN-
pect to get their carload out this month.
Walter Duncan, until lately employed
ny the NcbTaS ka-Omaha company as q
MINER, has branched out in his own in
larest. and has set up a rocker TO work
the placer ground on his Little Nell, near
the head of the gUlch. where the placer
miners of the camp are getting out good
pay.
The miners working i'm the upraise of
the Mayer-RebeT shaft have only about
fifteen feet more To cut to reach day
light. The entire shaft is in ore that
pans we'll On completion of this work
the holding company Will start work Of
continuing the shaft 266 feet. \ hoist has
been purchased from the Mazuma Hills
company at MaZuma and will be ready for
service WHEN needed.
About four miles north of town Camp
bell and r'ItZharrIS are showing up SPLEEN
did conditions in their gOld-Silver-cOpper-
lead ledge, opened about month ago. At
four feet the ore body was nearly seven
feet wide and aSSaYed $3.50 per ton. Now
the vein is returning values more than
double the figures mentioned. The re-
formation of quite a little settlement near
The head of Wilson creek, all well fixed
for carrying on a vigorous campaign of
development.