The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-11
NORTH STAR Gets
RICH ORES DEEP
Ten-fifty Level Is Scene OF
Fiirst-Class Find Last
Week.
ORE is WIDENING OUT
Everything Points to This Be-
ing Same Vein That Is
Had Above.

Shareholders OF the Tonopah North Sta
company will he gratifed 70 learn tina
mine conditions are improving continual
and that the mana cement at the preser
time Is In the most ideal position in 1t
charge OF this property for making a rec
ord which seems certain to lead up [
dividends within the near future.
The Tonopah Miner gives the follown
Interesting account of mine conditions o
Saturday, June Z:
The North Star workings on the
l0o0-foot level entered the downward
extension OF the vein this week and
drifting on the footHall ore body is
now In progress on about three feet
OF quartz showing from sixteen TO
eighteen inches OF rich ore that Is
evidently widening Is the drift is be-
ing extended.
This ore body has a we'll defined
trachyte wall and q survey OF its posi-
tlon shows that II is in the right loca
ton under the vein on the upper lev
el, allowing for its dip TO the north.
and the ore body has the same gen
eral east and west course as on the
level above and no doubt is enter
tanned by the mana cement that II is
the footwall shoot OF the vein. An
other drift has now been started on
the hanging -wall side. which shows
the trachyte wall with some broken
ore.
The delay In reaching the vein on
this level was due solely to the fact
that the MIzpah fault at this depth
suddenly took an elbow turn, causing
great disturbance as well as two or
three minor faults and in crosscutting
through this broken ground, which eX-
tended further to the east three small
veins were cut and some drifting was
r>,,. f1-rr a..
Ing high values, but its course being
southeast and northwest, IT is evil
IDENTIFY feeder to the main vein. The
entire length OF this crosscut in the
broken up faulted zone showed quartz
and punches OF good ore and the pres
ent drift on the footwall ore body was
started on the most promising looking
OF this and the face Of the drift IS now
out of the fault plane in solid forma-
iion, and the new drift on the hang
ing-wall IS also entering more solid
country as IL is driven east.
From the 95o-foot level large ton
mage OF high-grade ore is being ex-
tracted from the raises on the vein,
$50 tons having been shipped this week
to the smelters. On this level the east
raise on the hanging wall ore shoot Of
the vein. known as raise 9So, Is still
following the ore under the Gaping,
the vein maintaining width OF from
nine to ten feet of excellent shipping
grade, and the west raise also in the
ha nging- wall drift is being extended
upward on about eight feet OF excel
lent shipping grade ore. through which
are streaks Of splendid specimen ore.
these two raises having furnished the
greater bulk Of the shipments made
during the week This raise, known as
9S4. is expected 70 extend upward z
considerable distance before encoun-
teHng the Gaping, and being about
seventy-hve feet west OF raise os5 A
large body OF ore between the two
raises will be available for stopping,
the vein having been proved up for
forty feet above the level in both
raises.
Raise $50 on the footwalI side Of the
vein is also being extended under the
Gaping. the ore In this raise being
from two and a half TO three feet wide
OF very good grade, but mixed with
some grade quartz. which will be
sorted out before any shipment from
this raise IS made, About $50 tons OF
ore are awaiting shipment from this
raise.