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Show WESTERN MINING GAZETTEER. short a time and there is no doubt the stockholders have been Tin: E3IPIKE MINE, UTAH. Seimthing eiver two yours ago this property came into tho hands of tho prosont Company. It is situatod in Uintah District, near Park Citv, Utah, and is considered only second to the celebrated Ontario in point of value, and a view of tho underground workings,ore bodies uncovered, etc. will convincd any unbiased mind that the future, of the Empire is bright beyond a peradventuro. On account of the many conllicting reports regarding this mine, the writer took considerable pains to make a thorough examination of the property, and it seemed to lie a pleasure to the officers of the Company to answer all questions promptly and satisfactorily. The n hoisting engine, was manufacpower tured by Griffith & Wedge, of Zanesville, Ohio, am the boilers are of Bahceick & Wilcox patern, 300- - horse power. 00-hor- Link-motio- se T1IE MAIN SHAFT has attained a vertical depth of 400 feet and is divided into three compartments, the two hoisting compartments being each Tim shaft 4x4 feet and the pumping compartment 4x5 feet. is well cribbed with timbers and equipped with the most improved hoisting cages with safety clutch attached. On the 100-folevel the station is nine feet wide, eight feet high and eight feet long. A crosscut intersects the vein at a distance of 10 feet at which point it (the and of tine grade, the pay vein) is four feet wide streak some thirty inches, say 100 per ton. Kretin tin face of this crosscut a drift has been run 250 feet on the vein. In the face of the east end of this drift the vein is 12 feet wide but of low grade and in the west end four inches of 00 on. level is nine feet high, fifteen Tin station on the 200-fofeet long and nine feet wide. The Blake steam pump is workA crosscut was run 110 feet to tap ing nicely; sie No. P.J. tin vein and a drift started east and west on the vein and is In the west end the vein is small now about 500 feet long. but shows up handsome bunches of black sulplnirets. In the east end is quite a body of low grade ore, which would aver3-in- 50-to- ch ot GLENCOE 31 INK, UTAH. . ot age something like 20 per ton. level the station is fifteen feet long, nine On the 300-foThis crosscut is in 4T5 feet to feet wide and ten feet high. where it cuts the vein and then 400 feet of a drift east and west on the vein. In llu fact? of the crosscut the vein is five feet wide, the pay streak being ten "inches wide of i5 ore. Thirty tons of ore wen taken from the stopes which average 200 per ton. That is the timbers broke and this amount of ore fell into the drift for it was not' the intention of tho manThe vein in the face of the agement to stope at that time. west drift is two feet wide and in the east drift barren. is 25 feet long, 20 feet wide and 12 feet The It high, and is one of the best pieces of work on the Coast. The crosscut for the vein is is built with 12x14 inch timbers. The vein is now in 2ST feet and the face is in quartzite. thought to be about 20 feet alidad. The Empire, for a new property, has certainly been develEleven hundred and fifty oped with system and dispatch. feet of levels and live hundred and ninety feet of crosscuts have been run and at the lowest workings in the 'mine the showing is such as to please those interested. The writer was very much surprised to see the amount ol work done in so ot 100-stati- fairlv dealt with bv the management. The hoisting works have? boon put up in a good and subTho building is 130 feet long by 40 feet stantial inannner. wide. There is a good boarding house, assay office, barn, blacksmith shop, coal house and business office. There isalso n a ore house hourly completed and about TO tons of 150 About 1,000 foot of timbers ready framed ore on the dump. for tunneling and probably 52,000 feet of round timbers. Twenty-lmen are now employed though the usual number is ive sixtv. A tramwav is being built to connect the hoisting weeks and on house and when that is finished the work of hoisting ore will be commenced. it is impossible to say just wiUu amount of ore can be raised daily but would think in the neighborhood of forty tons without more, development. No stuping having yet been doiie, the size of the ore body is unknown, but it is safe to predict that the Empire will come fully up to the sanguine? expectations of its friends. It is situated line west and is half a mile from the Ontario and being on the mother lole of this great belt there is no telling what it may not do. The Company has levied an assessment of 1.50 per slum which has been paid in. Its accounts are kept most systematically and an open at all times to. the inspection of the stockholders. On the 1st of Januarv a report is to be issued to the stockholders. on v. This line prospect is situated in Blue Ledge District southeast and about two miles distant from the celebrated Ontario Mine. It was located last spring and bonded a few months since to Col. M. Shaughnessy and 1. Grant. Though this bond did not expire until the of November, the full amount in cash was paid last Wednesday ami the property The price paid was merely a nominal one condeeded over. sidering the present showing. The developments consist of a tunnel 150 feet, tapping the vein after being driven about 50 feet. When first struck the vein was one foot wide, but has continued to improve in width and quality up to the present time, and in the face shows a vein three feet wide, of fair gad lena on, encased in walls. The face of this tunnel is about 100 feet below the surface and the future advance will carry it nearly ono foot below the surface for every loot drive'll. It will be observi'd that this property is very situate I for envelopment by tunnel anel when in 1,000 feet will be nearly that depth below the surface, and the immense ore ehposit known to he above can be steepeel down and run through clmtes into the ear below in the tunned, thus saving the usual heavy expenditure for hoisting works at the Then is on the dump perhaps 100 terns ef fair millemtset. ing eire, which we estimate will average 40 per tern silveranel 00 per eent. hael; it will certainly go this much, if net more, 'llie vein in the faee of the tilimel will average a little over The eonveiiiencc of timber anel water was this amount. there being perhaps 10,000 we rth of weioel em the g claim ami a stream coursing elewn the canyon, within 50 feet ef the inemtli ef the tunned. An cxeaivatiem is being opemel tor a boarding hemse an I sheping apartmeMit fe r the iiiimrs and a ivsidmie: for tlm sup vi.itendeut, all ef which will be finished in a few weeks ami then a full force will be put on tei elrive the tunned under the apexnf the mountain with all inveiiiiMit dispatch, at w'liedi point the faee will be g like 1,300 feet bedeiw the surfaee. This is withemt elembt ono ejf the fimst prospects in Blue Ledge District, and as tho tunnel advances we shall expect important dcvelejpmcnts. 2-St- wcll-deliue- sly no-ticeab- newer-failin- e soine-tliin- le, |