The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-23
+MAYFLOWER HAS
GOOD PROSPECTS
Quiet Development Work for
Four Years Now Promises
to Bring Returns.
INDICATIONS FAVORABLE
FOR BIG ORE BODY
Material in Shaft Bottom Is
Changing and Pay Dirt
Looked for Soon.

The quiet campaign of development
work that has been conducted In the last
four years by the Mayflower Consolidated
Mining company will soon bring tangible
results, according to men interested in
that property who have returned to the
city after a trip OF inspection.
The shaft which has attained depth
of $50 feet, is passing through material
whose appearance indicates the approach
TO an ore body of great size. The COM
pany has fifteen claims lying in the Free
Coinage mining district, in the Stans-
bury range about eight miles west OF
Grantsville, and six miles from the West =
ern Pacific railroad, the nearest shipping
point
The company has well marked and
clean cut contact of uuartzltc and lime
for 5000 feet on Its property, and IL is on
this contact that the shaft has been sunk.
The shaft is in a mixed clay and graphite
at a point where an iron vein convcrges
into the contact. The values on the hang
ing wall average S3 In gold and eight
ounces OF silver. while on the footwall
they average about $2.4O in gold with
some silver.
A large body of oxidized iron is found
on the surface, but at the bottom of the
sulphide and the graphite is going out.
Expect Ore at $50.
From a careful study OF the country
and from the indications In the shaft. It
is believed that the ore body will be
tapped at 2o0 feet. Every indication points
to the presence of a largo and permanent
ore body al about that depth.
The company is now working n small
force. but plans arc being matured TO in
crease the force in the early spring. The
comfortable bunk house. blacksmith shop,
stables and shaft house, with ample ac-
commodatIons for a large force. The
shaft is worked with whim.
TiNa r1, tr eli, foI ,..lt, al
axis, the strata dipping east and west.
The country rock is lime. and this is cut
by assures of quartzte running east OF
north. and cross assures of iron. run
recent origin than tho Guartzite as II
cuts through the quartGite without serious
interruption.
The Maynower property is one mile
north OF the Third Term, which has pro-
duced many shipments Of first class sill
yer ores. The Third Term shaft is sit
uated like the Maynower. on an Iron
cropping.
Ancient Mine Nearby,
The contact of the lime and quartzte
can be readily followed FOR two miles
south OF the Maynower. to a hole In the
top of the range which is said In that
district to be an ancient Spanish mine.
abandoned for centuries. The hole has
never been explored beyond a depth Of
lao feet. whore tunnel has been cut
for a considerable distance. The depth
of the hole has been estimated by sound
ings to he 700 feet In depth. Tho rock
al the top Of this hole carries an average
OF 81 in gold.
Among the local men who are inter
cstcd arc Thomas Bell and William EN-
ford while Eugene r. Woolley, a bank
or Of GTantsvillc, is also prominent
stockholdcr and director.
The company plans 10 carry its sink
ing operations TO the go level I'm tho
spring There is an abundance Of tim
brr In the district bur I'm summer "A
shortage OF water is experienced which
hsndcaps operations to "A certain extent.