The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-07-25
PIONEER LEASE IS
IN BIG RESOURCES
Ore Body in New Ground Yields
More Than Mill Can
Handle.

Breaking orc 20 furnish an output Of
thirty tons a day - an easy matter at
the Pioneer lease just now. says the
Bhyolite Herald.
IL IS reported that the miners arc able
10 break more than enough ore with
ono round OF shots 20 keep the May
iower min Jusy. some OF the rounds
having broken sixty tons Of ore
The output e. coming from the 2f0-
foot level. where there is a big ore
body or good quality. The width OF ore
now being broken may not hold out. but
just now ne is an easy matter 20 break
largo Quantities OF ore with little ef-
fort.
The main stopc above the 24O-foot
level f. about eighteen feet wide. and IL
has been carried fifty-fivc feet with a
height Of forty feet. These dimensions
are worth considering. inasmuCh as this
MAGNIFICENT ore body IS in virgin ter
ritOry-in country where the experts
have declared no ore could exist.
This ore is away out I'm the footwall
81 the vein- north OF the old slopes. be-
yond what Is known as the stark fault.
No ore was opened there before the adj
miutstratiou Of the present manager.
Capt Herman Davis. In fact. no at
tempt had been made TO look for ore
beyond the ina ginary wall. as the con-
seusus OF opinion seemed TO be that
tho wall or clip cut off the ore en-
tircly. But 81 didn't.
New Kind Of Rock.
The orc Is also Of n different charac-
ter from anything previously unCov-
cred In the mine. Red rhyolite quartz
has been the rule In the Pioneer. but
the stuff now being mined and millcd
f. white rhyolitc and dark bottle-grcen
rhTolitc material, with none Of the red
stuff in evidence. But tho yellow metal
that ts stamped from the hungry look
Ing rock brings just as much credit per
ounce az the mint as anything ever pro-
duCcd from tho property with very fair
values per ton or rock.
some ore is being broken on the go
and the 2S0-fOOt levels. where 70 IS cN-
pcctcd a considerable quantity OF pay
rock will be mined. The ore has not
been opened as yet on the 300-foot
level, but the management hopes TO
pick 10 up there I'm tho near future.
Forty-thrce men are on the payroll OF
the leasing company. Including the mill
crows The company pays it, men AZ
tho end or each week and the mine Is
closed on Sundays-thc first instance OF
sunday closing OF any producing mine
in camp
70 is a matter Of regret that larger
milling facilities are not available. for
~ seems now that the lease could pro
duCe 100 tons OF orc day. easily,
which tonnage would mean bullion
output Of close 20 100000 month. pro-
vided the saving OF $50 a ton were of-
feCtcd. as now reported.
winEficId May Take Hold.
Recent developments I'm the Pioneer
lease suggest great possibilities FOR the
property upon the expiration or the lease
and the resumption OF operations by
the Pioneer Consolidated. which owns
the ground. when the merger at Pho
nccr was made. 90 was announced that
some big things y ould be pulled off at
that si1cc. and ~ is likely that the
plans wculd have maturcd had not liti-
cation aud other discouraging features
interviewed.
with ,he splendid prospect now en-
sight. there % no reason to doubt that
WinEfield and Brown will proceed as
oriEinallv planned and do something
worth while in the development Of the
property.