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Show values of $56 in gold to the ton. The Rice brothers are employing J four men in the development of this property and in doing this are running a seventy-foot tunnel for the purpose of cutting the ledge at a considerable depth. There are many other promising locations in the camp, which now has a population of forty or forty-five forty-five miners and prospectors, and it is anticipated that before .the summer sum-mer is over this will develop into a lively and prosperous district. Salt Lake Herald. The Utah Spur Mine. H. Rice, one of the owners of the Utah Spur mine, in the New Line district, in western Iron county, is in the city on business. The Utah Spur, which is already acquising considerable notoriety in mining circles in the south, is the joint property of Mr. Rice and F. M. Millett. At present) however, two separate leasers are engaged in opening the property, one of them being Ed. Frudenthal, the other Darnel Ross. In all, the leasers are working eight men, and the outlook is most favorable. Mr. Frudenthal, at the time Mr. Rice left the camp, had his shaft down a depth of 68 feet, ' in the sinking of which he has followed a pay streak from the surface averaging averag-ing from eightteen inches to three feet in width, that assays 200 ounces' in silver and $8 in gold to the ton. The formation is a contact between porphyry and quartzite. The ledge is believed to be a permanent one, and its strike is in a northerly and southerly direction, and the formation form-ation favorable for the continuity of the ore bodies. Spur, has been developed so far by a thirty-two-foot shaft, showing all the way from the surface to eighteen eigh-teen inches of ore that goes 300 ounces in silver and $10 in gold to the ton. Mr. Lynch is employing six men in his mine, and has about twelve tons of this high grade ore on the dump. The Rocky Mountain lode, owned by G. A. Rice and brothers, is located across the gulch about a mile and a half from the Utah Spur mine. This is a strong fissure in granite, the ledge being four feet wide on the surface, the croppings of which show |
