The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-16
Old Cottonwood Properties Are
Combined and New Com
pany Formed.
SPLENDID BODIES OF
RICH ORE UNCOVERED
Activity and Interest i'm District
Increasing and Good Re-
suits Shown.

Good results are being obtained IN the
famous Baby Mckee and it's equally ia
nous neighbor. the Park City Mines q
Power company property in the south
fork OF Cottonwood canyon. which have
been recently acquired and consolidated
by j. NJ. Howell. son OF Congressman
Joseph Howell. as the Howell Mining
company.
Tho property of the Howell company
adJoins that of the Cardiff company, in
which an excellent strike of high grade
lcad-silycr orc was announced yesterday,
The Cardiff ground lies TO the west OF
The Howell ground. The Howell also
per ground, which lies to the north and
II is also in tho vicinity OF tho RcXall
group and 10 the west Of tho Reed and
Benson property. 1t is Just over the hill
To the north from the Columbus Consol:
dated and Columbus Extension, OF Alta.
The owners OF tho Howell ground say
mat they have the same contact and
ore found in the Columbus Consolidated
and Columbus Extension.
Tho Baby Mckee was organized as
company twenty years ago, though IL had
been worked In 81 dcsutory fashion at an
even earlier date. II has produced
ers. who merely "gophered' the ground
never having developed u along extern
siye and systematic lines 1t remained
puired by Mr.. Howell and w. J.. Har-
wood. who put the workings into good
condition before the consolidation with
the Park City Mines & Power company
WAS effected.
An excellent power site is owned by
the. Park City company. from which. with
limited equipment, twenty-horse power
is now being developed, With an en-
largcd equipment this power can be null
tiplted many fold at but little expense
beyond the original cost of equipment.
Big Values on Fissure.
Tho company has run tunnel into
the Baby Mckee property, on which
all of its development work is now be-
ing concentrated. for distance OF 500
feet and have cross cut this to the north
and south on the assure One OF the
cuts on the assure has been run a dis
tance of 200 feet, and for this entire
distance the ore has been found rang
ing in width from ten inches to five
feet. The orc is still in the face and
is improving In quality and increasing
In quantity.
This ore runs as high In silver as 500
ounces, and In lead IL reaches as high
as 10 per cent, The low grade ore aver
ages not less than "a ounces In silver
and 10 per cent lead,
The cross cut running south on the
same assure has opened up a new body
of ore that is two feet in width at the
point encountered, but has not been de-
portions or its values The ore has the
same general appearance as that in the
north face
The Howell company is now shipping
70 tons day and working fifteen men.
Ihe shipments can be Increased az
quickly as added facilities for handling
the ore are installed. One man work.
ing alone has been able 10 break down
enough ore to keep six teams busy. The
ore is hauled To Murray. n distance of
% miles. all down hill. with good roads.
Lhe haulaGc cost averages s. ton
The roads arc open for ten months in
a. ,,-i,
rule the snowslides during one month
make ii dangerous TO traffic.
The, workings have, recently been con-
nected with the. old workings In the
ably Mckee, and two feet OF solid lead
silver orc has been opened This ore
runs % per cent lead and carries 159
ounces OF silver,
Activity in South Fork.
The men most deeply interested in the
I9rpoIs''2n lin5.o1i \, are Congressman Joseph
:. Bagley and ". l.. Harwood- The COM
oany is now close corporation, no flota-
ton having ever been made.
There Is a greater degree Of activity
m south FORK OF Cottonwood CANYON tha
there has been shown in the last %
wears. according to the men who are in
lerssted in that section. The strike re-
encouraged the owners Of the smaller
properties TO such an extent that they arc
planning TO go ahead with DEVELOPMENT
work on more extended scale than In
The past
The Cardiff. the Utah Mines Coalition
md the Iowa Copper shipped all throuph
he summer and are stacking up good
're shipments for next summer They
nave resumed activity. and The payroIl
or the district is not a small one by
any means. ~
Development work in tho Kcnncbec
property, across tho canyon from The
lowell property is getting good results
md though small force Is being worked
me results are perfectly satisfactory.
, According to mining men Interested in
nc district, the South Fork country is
loinG as well and has as great r,roIniee
or tho future for those who work con.
;istently and intelligently as any dis
rict in the state.