The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-04
GOLD CIRCLE HAS
SOME BIG MINES
Eastern Star and Elko Prince
Are Making Fine History
for District.
UTAHNS HAVE INTEREST
EccIes Interests of Ogden Are
Developing the Esmeralda
Under a Bond.
UTAHNS HAVE INTEREST

Things are humming in the Cold Circle
district, and more men are working than
have been employed for several months,
writes correspondent OF the Golfield
Tribune. The Eastern Star, which Is
crowding development work north and
south on the second and third levels. has
opened large body Of ore that runs 500
per ton. The vein i'm THIS south drift Is
twelve feet back from the hanging wall
with no footwali IN sight yet, and the en-
tire vein filling Will mill s25 per ton. The
best ore in the mine lies on the foot,
where there is about eight inches of
quartz running better than $500 per ton
ON the upper levels. When this is cut on
the third level the management looks for
something unusually good.
The Eastern Star WAS examined re-
Gently by q mining engineer. who esti-
mated the ore In sight and probable ore
TO be OF the value Of s650.00o. With an
average value OF sos per ton. The ore
shoot is rs feet long OH the first level
with an average width or five and one
half feet. The vein Is about nine ieet
between walls on the second level, eighty
i've feet below. and on the third level,
eighty feet deeper It's limits have not
been determined Drifts are out but
few feet on the second and third levels.
Twenty tons OF ore from four headings
on the second and third levels is being
acked for shipment 10 Denver Tor analyr
sis When the returns are in the COM
pany will decide on the kind and size OF
the mill which the directors propose 10
install in September. The mine is making
enough water for n 100-Ion plant, but IL
is proba ole that the first unit VIII consist
OF ten stamps. tube mills for regrindins
and cysnidat!on after plating. Fifteen
aen are employed on two shifts. both
working in ore.
mine which was sold recently TO Butte,
Mout. mining men connected with the
Anaconda Copper company, took the mine
over July :. and already have twenty-five
miners at work on two shifts. By the
terms Of the purchase no ore can be
shipped or milled until final payment has
been made. The deal called for the pay
ment Ol 81 d share for the 39OOOO shares
outstanding. Of which a liberal sum. said
10 be SiCO. 600. was paid down, the remain
Ing installments covering 4 period OF
eighteen months THIS mine is 500 feet
deep and Is believed TO have almost
100000 IN ore developed. of an average
value OF S65.
Control was owned by Savage OF the
savage Arms company and the mine was
developed under the management OF his
son Leslie Savage, who was engaged
in the brokerage business in Goldheld
during the time the big leases We're
under the management OF Superintend-
ent Westlake. who came down from Butte
TO take charge. The company an
nounces that the property VIII be
generating power from "oil tops, a
low grade distillate. These engines have
proven very successful and are the most
economical type that can be found for
regions where fuel is scarce.
The Cold Circle Queen mine has a
ffteen- horsepower gasoline hoiss In op-
Grafton and IS sinking the main shaft.
now at ninety feet. The Queen vein is
six feet wide on the eighty-foot level.
all OF which is 2 good grade Of free mill
ing ore. John 2. Pelton. president, and
n. S Bolam, superintendent OF the East
ern Star. are heavily interested in the
Queen and Bolan is directing the devel-
opment OF the mine TO point where
mill can be used TO advantage.
The Esmsralda. adjoining the Queen.
which Is being developed on lease and
bond by Eccles OF Utah. has recently
completed the raise from the tunnel that
is to compose the main shaft and is
awaiting tho arriTal or a hoise that has
been ordered. This property is equipped
with a small amalgamating mill which
u 20 be moved 20 the shaft. enlarged
and improved while development work
is under way.