The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-08
Alpha Gets Ore.

About a half-mile south Of The
across Bourne gulch, is the four
of the Alpha group, which wer|
chased some few months ago by r
Palmer, son of the late Potter r
of Chicago, On this group one
has been sunk TO depth Of Sol
and it Is in ore of good millinc
all the way down. A tunnel ha|
been run on the same vein for 35|
and il taps the shaft at depfh d
feet. The average width of kho
is three feet. Ad Rickard. one d
best prospectors in the business
the ore on the AIphas. His col
called for a halfinterest in th6
erty if he would uncover body
in place twelve inches wide that
average SIS per ton. When be d
up tho vein the owners assay
eighteen inches varied from $8O1
cured by Howard Rummel, to 81
cured by Tom Beadle.
For some little time John al
who is Honore Palmer's repress1
here, has been negotiating for tb>
itors' claims against the Ncsth
Mining company, owner Of the =
group on which the original sd
Jarbidge was made. 1t is concel
be good property, but-as unforfu|
is too often the casa mill VA
with equipment not adapted tor
ing this particular ore. With na'
the values going in the tailingB q
the creek. the inevitable happens
of the local creditors has rec<l
definite offer for his claim from
ing. Idaho. and it would appea'
another besides Mr.. Palmer was
the property. If the latter Becur
Bourne. it is believed that he VIII
it in connection with the Alphas
Buster Plans Work.
The force at the Bluster mn
been engaged this week in getu''
timbers. After the necessary :
ing and cleaning up has been d
the mine the work of furthsr 81
tion and development will process
present force consists princIps'
heavy owners OF Bluster sfock.
are men who are used to mous'
thev are not afraid Of physlcsl
They can swing an Ak or hammer
with the same sang froid WIN
they write a check when the mo
in the bank. ri
The crosscut tunnel on the MAJ
proup, owned by B. D: Holconl
associates of Tacoma, wash, -
605 feet and the men expect 70 2
vein most any day. The NJ
group is Just above town, on ~ ~
Side of the river, and has q ~
cropping for 500 feet IN lengsn
surface, The tunnel win gam :
of $50 feet below where tiie NJ ~
Frand Middleton and Dave NAT
son are daily at the LegitimaIess !.
progress. The present contssSss !
for running the tunnel aoout ~ T.
to tap the vein under the ore ~
posed in the Wine, which a'sts ,'
Der ton across four feet. An
soon as solid formation was eS.
stringer of red oxidized ifon 'ist1
which pans free gold; was p,rr, rs'
This stringer runs with the tann'
is doubtless from the main Veia. ~ !,
Colonel Charles E. Hayden .S o. Il y
ternrise tunnel has sent woia -
will be in camp again the iass q
week. He has made a eontiSTS: ~
Jones, the freighter of Twin -
bring in the threc-drill Lerne' gss
presser recently ordered. irS III,
will weigh thirty tons ana W. mn 4
to arrive within q week OF na se' IN
Work on both tunnels at tns nell n
&c beinc prosecuted with smsn =
In The upper workings the ore u,
than the face of the tunnel ana. o..i
no assavs have been made resss' @
is evident that it is OF sssy
GRADE. The lower tunnel Is ~ Il
twelve or fifteen feet of wnefs 1 49,, =
neeted TO catch the downward CIV -
Of the vein, and small stringefS =
F.