The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-31
PROGRESS OF WORK
At AMERICAN FLAG
Superintendent Kishman Put.
ting Mine in Condition for
Milling Contract.

Superintendent Kishman OF tho Amcri
day the appended report OF March opera
tions at that property. The report is c
special interest lust now I'm view of IN
contract the American Flag has extcnde
into 20 furnish the reconstructed Grassel
plant thirty tons OF ore day for fiv
years. Tho report follows:
Mr.. F. Y. Bodfsh.
Salt Lake CITY, Utah.
During the month ending March 81
have made no attempt TO mine any
ore for shipping purposes. In view
OF the contract the American flag
mine has with the Park City MILLING
company. ! have carried out your In
structions TO place the mine In condi-
ton to supply the mill with fifty tons
OF ore per day, and ! recommend that
this policy be maintained until the
mill is ready 10 receive the ore. Tor
several reasons.
First. tho Easter vein. where your
principal production has been made
during the past year. has been openeedd
up for mining only between the 900
and 1000 foot levels. The larger
bodies of first class ore. which oc-
Cured at the limestone -quartzite CON
facts. have been largely mined in TINS
block. To remove the remainder OF
the first class ore. occurring In the us-
sure, and in the four-foot bedding
under the limestone, IL Will be neces-
sary TO handle a large amount oil
room in the mine for this product
and IL will cause an unnecessary e%-
pense TO rehandle il on the mill dump,
and VIII increase the cost OF minlns
materially TO attempt TO make clean
first-class product at this time.
I am at present drifting south on
the Easter vein on the 2Oo-toot level,
i'll the uuartzite. and the fissure is
n,.r-I..g ei-
OF first class ore We will enter the
same shoot OF orc that was mined be-
tween the ninth and tenth levels pF
raising to the limestone strata above,
but it will be thirty days before the
drift will have been advanced iaf
enough oprocccd with the IA ises.
ON the fourth level the main vein
Is being drtfted on north. The vein Is
well defined. and carries rom c'sn'
TO twelve inches of ore running ap;
proximatey $ls per ton IN gold ana
silver By driving this drift north
we will enter bed of limestone. at
present exposed in the west cross
cut on the 200-fooJ level, but in which
no prospecting has been done.
7 consider this one OF the best pros
pects IN the mine. as l nave reason
10 believe that this is the limestone
that contains the rich bedding OF the
Silver King mine. This drift Is be
ing advanced at a cost OF $3.50 per
foot
Above the 1lOo-foot lcNel We HdNe
opened up q body OF sulphlde ore. as,
saving SIS per ton In gold. silver. lead
and copper. Work here has been dls-
continued until milling facilities are
at hand. A.,
A winze has been started on the
I1oo-foot level north OF the smart,
at point about midway between the
Main and Easter veins. IL mas az
tained n depth of twenty feet at TINS
time, and no serious water ho" has
developed, It is my object 10 s1nh
level. which will give US 200 feet
additional stopping ground on both the
Main and Easter veins II this, work
can be accomplished II will enable ns
to win the ore that was exposed IN
the Wine and undcrhand slopes NJ
the time the Ontario drain tunnel
caved. ,,,,,,,,.
70 the mill the tonnage your con-
tract calls for at any time ne, they eSr NAY f5s
GOOD OF the mine I would not advise
that time NJ. ". KISHMAN,
NN superintendent