The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-05
SILVER ISLAND
GETS GOOD RETURNS
Shipments to Be Maintained
and Ore Reserves in.
creased.

Evidence OF tho encouraging conditions
existing In The properties OF the silver
Island Coalition company in the Silver
Island district is given in the returns
OF the recent shipments from these mines.
Ore in shipping quantity has been devel-
oped In Two different places on the Co
alitlon ground. one on the bonded prop
crty In the Leroy vein and the other on
the Emancipator vein on tho property
owned outright by the company,
The latest shipments. turned into the
samplers New Years eve, amounted in
the aggregate TO about thir'y-three and
one half tons. for which the company re-
ceivcd SSei9.si The smclter returns on
the shipment OF little over nineteen
tons or ore from the Leroy vein were as
follows: Gold. 90 ounces: silver l93 50
ounces: copper 5.Ii per cent: lead. 32.2
per cent: gross value per ton. Si22 49, net
value per ton. SllSl9,
From the Emancipator vein on the To-
Gated property the shipment amounted TO
fourteen tons, running as follows. Gold,
q" ounces; silver. llo,T ounces; copper.
S,Sf per cent; lead. % per cent; net value
per ton, $9S2.59
Ore Blocked Out.
Murray f.. King of tho leading interests
in the Coalition company states that
winZo Is now being sent down on the
Emanclpa tor vein and AZ a depth OF about
twenty feet the ore Is from fourteen 10
eighteen inches wide, showing improve
crosses. The first ore shoot has been
passed through and within another twenty
feet the second shoot Will he cut, at
depth OF from seventy 10 eighty feet
In the Leroy stope. from which a con-
siderable tonnage OF ore has already been
taken. the product has been followed and
stopped out for distance OF about lis
feet. The tunnel on tho Leroy vein is in
over 200 feet. the track has been laid
all the way. and workmcn arc now driv-
Ing ON TO cut tho second orc body, which
VIII be encountered within the next thir
reached. depth OF 225 feet on the orc
Will have been attained Mr.. King states
That conservative estimate OF the orc
now blocked out shows valuation Of
about $4,000. while within short time
the work Will have progressed to a point
whore the product in sight will be worth
at least $50 600.
The management intends 10 continue
shipping al winter. Tho consignment
for which returns have Just hecn received
was the sixth sent out from the Silver
Island property. three by the former opcr-
ators and three by the present owners
Mr.. King states that the bond on the
Leroy property is being paid off BY means
Of royalties from the shipments. the COM
pany already having realized some SIS
ooo from Its marketings. Future shipments
now In sight. 1t Is said. will more than
pay off all present Indebtedness. and. as
the property Is looking better every day
the management is expecting easy sail
Ing in the near future.
Other Activities.
Mr. King states that at the properties
OF the Silver Island Consolidated and Old
Glory companies work is being prose-
cnted and encouraging results are being
met with in each instance.
Mining men In general are beginning to
realize more fully the possibilities of the
Silver Island section. and 1910 is eX-
pccted TO see the making Of some big
mines in that locality,