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Show Important Strike Of Interest Here The following article, appearing in tbe salt Lake Tribune the Brat of the week, will prove of much interest in-terest to many in Gunnison who have recently acquired holdings in the Valdasla property: "With the passing of the heavy snows in the Tushar range, one of the biggest development programs of the Marysvale district in many years will be initiated by the Val-dasia Val-dasia Mining company, according to Patrick Henry, who is in Salt Luke in connoction with financing of operations. op-erations. A long tunnel is to bo driven to tap the four Valdasia veins at depth, which will give drainage for the entire Valdasla estate aiid to give rapid extraction of high grade gold and silver ore already exposed in the upper workings. He has just shipped in by express a trifle less than a ton of picked ore which returned re-turned nearly $1,200. The bulk of the ore averages close to $100 a ton, Mr. Henry says. "The Valdasia ground lays southeast south-east from the famous Deer Trail mine, which is now producing at the rate of better than $750,000 a year. Both properties are said by engineers to be on the same geological formation, forma-tion, with a limestone base and porphyrinic por-phyrinic and dioritic intrusions with suartzite. The conjecture has been hazarded that the Marysvale district will yet become the gold Rand of the west. " 'In addition to the alunite and aluminum,' Marysvale is unquestionably unquestion-ably rich in gold and silver,' Mr. Henry said. 'Ore frongour property was shipped to Swansea, Wales, 4 0 years ago from the working of the old Copper Belt shaft. The stuff went nearly $1000 a ton in free gold and horn silver, and was handled under the most extreme difficulty. They were drowned out of the Copper Cop-per Belt because they didn't have the facilities for handling the Water, Wa-ter, 'but the ore is still there, and we will tap it at 700 feet when our tunnel is driven to the diorite dyke on which the Copper Belt shaft was sunk. "'From oufcroppings on the. surface sur-face we are assured of three veins which will be opened up by the tunnel tun-nel before we reach the main dyke. With the progress of the tunnel we plan to extract shipping ore from three stopes where it is now exposed at. higher levels. We have water and power for a mill which will eventually be needed for the property.' proper-ty.' "There will be much activity in Marysvale this year, which promises to give the district a very prominent nbice on the milliner man. The old Bully Boy property, which has been a heavy producer of high grade gold . ore, is to be opened on a larger scale by Philadelphia capital. Under the direction of Michael Barnett of' the Quaker city, a carload of machinery machin-ery has been shipped in and will be placed as soon as the snow permits. The Bully Boy adjoins the Tushar, where four feet of high grade gold, silver and copper ore has just been I exposed. Harry Ethridge also of I Pennsylvania, has charge of this property, which, under the name of the Tusha?- Range Metals Mining i company, has just taken over the Glen Erie and the Shamrock groups, all of which will bo worked this season. sea-son. The I X L group, in the same vicinity, will be worked under the direction of American Con. Mines company of Salt Lake. High grade gold ore has been exposed in this 1 property. One hundred and fifty men arc now employed at the Deer Trail, where there is said to be enough ore in sight to insure production for sev- j eral years. With the crews that will be put on other properties Marysvale will be one of the livest mining sections in the state this I summer, according to Mr. Henry. |