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THE GAITtfNEH VEIN Superintendent Whitney Reports rinding It CopperGold Find Supt Wliitney reports that hc his struck tho vein on the J P Gardner Group for GJIncr which he has been drifting for the drltng pust month on the 100foot level on the norlhwcst drift The drif ore was encountered In the level at a distance 3 oC about forty feet shOwing four onehaIr and both slver feet and or ore lead it and Is Very rich In be promIses to b hlpmenls secral per This cent hlrhel than former ages the greatly eneour ascs management that It Insures for the reason the rcaon vein when the water exact location of the from shaft can be the main imt hoiSted depth from it l present about ISO feet about 180 The tags had to be abaiidone lower wOilc ago to await I the Cbanoncl s some time arrival 3wat oC alrla1 machinery with from which to keen I the mnchhle1 the away aboe workmen This forced them Cbo the vater level olced for the water veIn and the search wan then With Honle doubt commenced ns to veInn which ot tiic two thp Venn one south and the oIlier would north prove to bo the flOp Under the mother I lode and PaUl mnnagCl1t oC B H YounG I also Ir Gardrcnr Is oped h3vlng about two a group or claims deel miles vost or his amp rhla < main group consh3s o Iiye claims and Iscownas the Mable group Your correspondent examined some very fine samples of galena ores at this camp a few days ago but cannot can-not stale assay value COPPRRGOLD ORE G i P Gammon and partner have opened up uI Inige deposit of coppergold ore on their l Congressional group adjacent to the Colemnu and Henry lode An open cut on the I quartz capping has been run Into the ledge about twelve foot showing a breast of sulphide ore showing six feet in height but up to date neither foot nor luingingwall have been neiher reached The copper appears in carbonate carbon-ate form intermixed with iron and quart The quartz has a bluish cast and across the entire twelve feet of the opening every particle of it shows copper sulphide The work being done at the present time Is to find the proper plnce for sinking n large single compartment com-partment shaft on the main ore dip This group of claims joins and Is apart a-part of the Copper Key group of which a description was published In The Tribune Trib-une a month ago The S D K group in which Capt McVIchle and H II Green of Salt Lake City and Col Knight of Bay field Wls I arc Interested has reached a depth In the shaft and Incline of about 150 feel The Indicationat the present time Is I that the ore body Is not far distant as decomposed spar iron and quartz comes to the dump from every shot CONSOLIDATED FIND At Dutch mountain the Gold Copper Cop-per Mining company have made a strike In Its Consolidated group which proves the existence of 1 large body of fine lead ore The ore body varies from three to seven feet the assay value of which is lead 62Ji per cent silver six and SI This ounces gold grovp contains twelve claims and Is owned by the Garrison Brothers of Salt Lake City who arc doing fine prospect work preparatory to the advent of a railroad or the construction of concenlraling works At Gold Hill the contractors who hare been engaged all winter In running run-ning a 175foot tunnel on tho J F Woodman property completed their work a few days ago and returned to the city The tunnel Is several hundred I hun-dred feet In length and just before their departure the quart vein was reached In the attainment o which the record of several years labor has been made I The quartz Is known to be extremely I rich in gold and the ledge a very large one Since the death of Col Woodman the property has been unrepresented J H Wolcott has resumed wOk on his coppsrgold grunts west of Clifton Clif-ton I Is his Intention to devote his labors for the balance of the year on his holdings here some of which are very fine |
