The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-01
MILL At ONEOTA IS
READY FOR BUSINESS
Completion of Tiptop Plant
Presages Era of Develop
ment for District.
SALT LAKER is THERE
Owns Promising Prospect ON
Extension of Tiptop's
Principal Vein.
SALT LAKER IS THERE

Henry Jones, well-known Utah mine
| operator, is in the city with the latest
! news from the Oneota district of Ne
vada. He had a copy of the Western
Nevada Miner, published at Mino,
which contains the information that the
mill which is being constructed by tho
Trent Engineering works Of Reno on
the Tiptop property Of the Torndyke-
Bley Mining company, is completed
and will be put into commission soon,
some delay having been caused by
heavy snow and cold weather.
The plant has ten l250-pound stamps
and is of the most modern pattern. A
large tonnage of orc, running better
than $50. is piled in the bins aud on
the dumps ready for treatment as soon
as the mill is started. The big ton.
mage of ore blocked out in the under
ground workings indicates that the
mine is likely to become one of the
biggest producers Of bullion in
southern Nevada. The ore is straight
cyanlding proposition and an extraction
of % por cent is the degree of eff
cheney tests show the new plant should
attain.
The building of this mill has infused
new life into the camp and the owners
Of promising prospects are getting busy.
Operations on the Brownie group in
which Senator Fred Balzer and Cover
nor Oddie are interested, are showing
up good ore values.
Mr.. Jones owns the group of three
claims adjoining the Tiptop on the
south and his ground carries the ex-
tension of the vein system. The
Brownie group above referred to, lies
Just west of the Ruby Queen, one of
Mr. Jones s claims. A study of the
situation and careful geological investi
cation have convinced Mr.. Jones that
his group has the true vein system and
will develop into first-class producer.
Mr.. Jones has done some work on his
property, three si1teenfoot holes, each
having opened good values. Early this
year he plans to resume work on more
extensive scale and develop the ore by
drifting on the vein. The ore, Mr..
Jones says, as shown on the Tiptop
property, occurs in lenticular bodies,
separated by narrow barren strips
across a zone which is from 100 to 200
is understood, development work can be
carried forward without loss of time
or energy.
The Oneota Mining company, owned
by Seattle, Wash, people, will resume
operations soon and G. c. Higgins and
Ell. G: Potter are also developing some
promising holdings.
The Thorndyke Bley people recently
purchased of Fred W. Brewer, one Of
The discoverers and pioneers of the dis
trict, a group Of eight claims and
fraction northeast of and adjoining the
original Tiptop ground. The claims af-
ford greater depth for the Tiptop
mine.
The outlook for the Oneota district
is bright and the indications are that
in the coming spring it will be one Of
the liveliest mining sections Of the
state. 1t has been demonstrated to be
both large and richly mineralized,
while less than four miles away is an
water power site capable
of furnishing 1000 horsepower for the
district.
The nearest railroad point is Sunland,
five and half miles from the Tiptop
mine.