The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-16
MUCH NEW WORK IN
LUCIN DISTRICT
Old B0nanzaS Are RejuVenated
and New Mines Are
Brought In.

Monteno. New, May 15.-Mines of the
Lucin district are coming into their
own after years of idleneSs; this spring
seems to be d propitiOus season for the
developing of the big lead, silver and
copper deposits of the Lucin range
and the rich silver ores OF the Towana
range.
Jacksons mines have made an excel
lent showing as steady producers,
thirty-two carloads of high grade lead
silver ore having been shipped to the
Salt Lake Smelters within the last
eighteen months. That property Is
opened by three shafts, The deepest OF
which is a little more than 1OU Ieet
The formation is QuartZite with blue
limestone and pOrphyry intruSlons-the
same Identical formation as that OF
sandstone cal Donate with streaks OF
fine gray galena and iron carbonates,
making the most desirable OF all smeit-
ing ores Jackson and sons, the own
ers, are working the mines in an en-
ergetic manner.
Adjoining the Jackson mines are the
Dake and Kimber properties, which
have shOWingS Of great promise, while
south are the Landrigan and kava-
naugh mines. which bid fair to equal
anything yet discovered in this sec
ton
pany has been the scene of active work
all winter and spring. The main tun-
mel has been driven more than 800 feet
IS the intention of the company to
drive this crOsscut tunnel 500 feet fur
Their and 20 install a plant of modern
machinery
Salt Lake Copper Ships.
At the mines of the Salt Lake Cop
per company some twenty men are at
work. The property is under lease to
Barnabei & Steiner, and their ship
ments are from seven to twelve car
loads Of ore a week tunnel, which
is being driven from the east side Of
the mountain, has attained the depth Of
about 900 feet. Some fine StringerS of
rich lead ore have been encountered,
but the management does not expect
TO reach the main vein within 200 feet
further.
. Below the Salt Lake Copper com
an Old-time producer II was worked
in the early '7Os by Dave BueI and Joe
Farren. They built a smelter at Buel,
ran il successfully for a time and sold
Gently taken over by a Salt Lake
BlackfOOt syndicate. which is Operat-
ing il under the management OF W. L.
Harmon, an old Leadville miner of eX-
perience and good judgment. A large
body of jogging ore has been developed
and some ore is being shipped The
past production of the company runs
into the millions, and ii is said that
the old stope is forty feet wide by
nearly 400 feet long.
The Whipple group is owned by an
Ogden company, which IS about to re-
sumo operations on a large scale. 1t
is fine property, needing only little
development to place it in the shipping
list.
Big Mine in Utah Lead
South and east of these old bonanzas.
and on the same vein. is the property
OF the Utah Lead Mining company.
which started operations here a year
ago. Several thousand feet of tunnels.
shafts and drifts have been driven, and
the property is equipped with every
detail of up-to-date machinery. Hun
dreds of feet of iron and lead carbon
ates have been explored, one body
alone being said to be twenty-four
The company owns forty-five claims.
besides fractions and mill sites, in the
very heart of the Ore-bearfng zone, and
it seems a pity that the shadows of
litigation are lowering about the prop
erty
Adjoining the Utah Lead on the
north is the Hogan group, where has
been opened large body of lead-silver
ore. and where plans for extensive de-
over of the old Black Warrior mine by
Simpson and Williams means another
scene of activity with chances good for
q great producer. The Black Warrior
has the record of having shipped ore
valued at $1,000 a ton
Altogether about 800 men are en-
ployed in the district for which Mon
teIIo is the supply point, and the ac-
tlvity is increasing at a good rate
Scarcely a day passes that some group
OF claims is not bonded or sold and
supplies ordered for starting new work