The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-08-17
SOUTH HECLA'S
PROGRESS RAPID
Property in Alta District Now a
Steady Producer

toll OF millions or wealth. 10 the Wotlu,
unfathomable nature was grooming
the south side for its big production 10
come in later years, says the salt Lake
Herald. Then the old Emma, Flag
staff and a little later the Columbus
and others were giving lasting fame
TO the camp with It's red blooded town
OF 5000 people. But on the south SIT
OF the camp ground, which then W.
considered practically worthless is [,
day employing more men than all the
rest OF the camp and shipping more
tonnage OF ore than all the others put
together.
Just two years ago tho writer n the
article spent several days inspecting
the surface and nearly every foot OF
the then 10000 feet OF underground
workings Of the South Hecla Mining
company property. This property en-
braces practically all the south side
OF the camp. II extends from near the
famous Superior gulch on the west TO
the well known Albion property on the
south and east where 100000 has
been expended. Two years ago not a
pound OF ore was being marketed by
the South Hecla. Yet it looked 10
promising that The Herald Republican
said a few good things about IL, pre-
dieting that il was the making OF big
mine one prediction was: South
Hecla could put fifty men to work and,
judging from the appearance OF the
mine today. at the end Of a year there
would be more ore in sight than there
is today"
A week ago the same writer in
spc,tcd the South Hecla. A force OF
fyI,y mon is employed and the mine is
pru-J~-u. more trst-class ore each
week than any mine in Paris City.
When Colonel George II. Watson
eight ears ago rounded out the mcr-
pc!' Of more than half a dozen groups
OF claims on the south side into what
is now known as South Hecla, prob
ably less than half dozen mining
men gave him the benefit OF one en-
couraging word Yet he saw possiblli-
ties in the old Alta K Hecla, Column
bus Wedge. Alta-Quincy Ivanhoe,
South Columbus, Bingham Centennial,
Lilburn and South Columbus Con. lie
felt that a consolidation OF these
groups into one big company with a
vast territory Of $50 acres, nearly all
Of which is patented, could be made a
mining success. So with plucky de-
termination he undertook the labor.
Obstacles which would have dscour-
AGED most men were overcome one by
one and today the South Hecla is oc-
cupying an enyiable position in the
eyes OF some Of the biggest mining
men in the state. 1t looks so good that
several syndicates have been negotiat-
ing for it with the expectation Of MAX
ing it one Of the big mines Of Utah.
A Huge New Ore Body.
In the past several months this
south-side mine has opened huge
body OF ore. It is 80 feet wide, 40 feet
thick and has been proven for l,2OO
feet along its strike. This promises
to equal some Of the old Columbus
Slopes across the dale OF the north
where a single shoot yielded up ST.
100000 Of wealth From the No l stope
OF the South HeCla ore shoot 5000 tons
Vi ore nave Deeh shippeu III the past
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