The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-20
REPORT OF SEVEN
TROUGHS COMPANY
Manager Friedman Gives the
Details of Operations in
Past Year.
FAULTING ON THE SIXTH
Seventeenth Level Work Is
Looked to for Solution of
the Difficulty.
FAULTING ON THE SIXTH

Under date OF December l.. General
| Manager T. \. Friedman Of the seven
Troughs Mining company has issued
statement TO shareholders which VIII pc
| gladly received by all interested Ihe
statement follows In full:
For the benefit of the stockholders l
hero with submit q statement OF work
done on the property during the past
year.
! The production made By the Florence
| Mining & Leasing company from It's lease
| holdings on the property OF Inc seven
Troughs Mining company. during the hrst
| four months of the present year was Se'
gross tons. details of which Will be IN
| corporatcd in our annual report ne
! greater part Of this tonnage was optiuhea
| from slopes adjacent To the sixth Level,
north drift, the ore shoot having been
/ encountered AT n point Ia rect norll v,
the south line of tho Florence lease ana
was productive throughout An area OIL
bout 800 square feet This shoot was
followed by the north drift distance OF
! 1870 feet, when the vein narrowed TO q
iSnife blade, tho quartz dlsappeaTree66 re6 Sui al1o
J further, il has not again opened. inc
ore shoot on IT'S upward pitch toward
I the west carried values OF high grade
quality for a distance OF between % and
30 feet, where IT completely disappeared
and all efforts TO locate IT further IN TINS
direction have failed, On the cast si1c
ward dip sixty feet. through WinEe
| This wlnze was in rich ore. to wlih'n inc
last two or three feet where the vein
again frightened and the values disap-
Vein Is Broken.
Twenty-Five feet from the south end
line OF the Florence lease, the vein has
an acute westerly dip and winze sunk
30 feet on its pitch has developed con
| siderable very rich silver ore THIS ter
ritory is now being explored Intermittent, :,
" and such tonnage as is being treated
from the Florence lease al the present
! time is from this source. Between these
! two lenses. one with an easterly, the
Nat and broken and has not been pro
ductive, and very strong eruptiVe condi-
tions are In evidence.
prospecting the property a. greater depth
the Quintin Mining company: co-opera :
tive with the Florence Mining & Lcas-
Ing company. under lease arrangements
! made with the parent company, early In
the summer months began the work OF
retimbcring and Strengthening the Fair
view" shaft from Its collar 10 tho 700
foot level. this In due time accomplished.
a 1i-foot sump WAS sunk and IL feet of
| prosecuting driven from the bottom OF
the stump for water storage purposes. and
(Which had been driven In northwest :
erly direction by the parent company
commenced,
New Equipment.
In the meantime the 15-horsepowcr en-
stne had been replaced by horse.
frame erected, an engine house and
blacksmith shop built, cage installed in
the shaft and all preparations made for
| an aggressive prosecution OF the develop
ment Of the property from the 700 and
lower levels. Since the first OF August,
besides the work which has been done on
the 500. 10 and 50~foot levels. 100 feet
Of old work on the seventh level has
been recovered and rctimbered, drift
300 feet 10 the north and a crosscut 135
feet 10 the west from the drift have been
made. The drift has get some 100 feet
to 90 before IL gets into the region o.
the big ore shoot which was so produc-
tive on the sixth level. when the proper
distance has been reached a crosscut to
the east Will be I'm order to pick UP the
orc shoot on it's casterly rake. AS yet
more than a mud filling, showing nc
quartz and carrying no values The
crosscut, which DIVORCES from the north
drift at point about $50 feet from its
shoot. which is being worked near the
south line OF the Florence lease. This
shoot having a westerly dip. IT was. cT.
pected that the crosscut would hit II
within 40 feet. but up 10 the present
time. though the crosscut is now l36 fee
! In length, there is no evidence Of the
vein. As there has yet been no wall en-
countered TO the formation through which
the crosscut is running. IL Is the inten
tion TO Keep this work advancing In
a recent mill run has been made at thu
Darby mill on SO tons of ore taken from
the sixth level. and on - tons Of low
banks shaft. above the 5O-foot level
D The returns from, these lots have no
being made from both sources.
High-Grade Silver Ore.
DuriD- be months ~ ,bo ~
q very considerable WELD OF high grad
silver ore WAS obtained from the stope
everything the 2oO-toot level OF the Flor
enee enc WORKINGS, This stope ran up. abou
Gus upraises and long drift TO tn
north failed 10 demonstrate anything o
value and the country contiguous 10 TN
Florence shaft has not been touched 70
several months and Is practically aban
doned.
The future Of tho property as a min
depends largely. though not entirely h.
0 any means. upon the outcome Of tn
work now being carried OF from the 20
level. most distractng condition ha
T.. been found on the sixth. where the vel
is badly fractured and fauited and show
= dips 10 the four cardinal points of tn
compass and the ore shoots and all sem
hlance OF the vein ceases abruptly in a
directions. The new work. with It's com
plement Of machinery, buildings. etc, ha
cntailed tho expenditure OF a large sur
OF money. and the cost. comparative :
what must vet be made To determine IN
country between the sixth and sevent
levels. is but fractional.
Additional TO the surface Improvement
before recited. and retim6erins III
lowing footage IN DEVELOPMENT worl,
Twelve hundred feet drifts. 535 feet cross
cuts, 50 feet wines. f27 feet uprsise
and large, area Of stoping sroun
moved. which has not been reduced /
measurement