Show THE BABY mckee up near the head of the south fork ot of big cottonwood canyon a few miles southeast of salt lake city is the old baby mckee mine from which numerous shipments of fine ore have been made during the past summer the baby was recently taken over by the howell company of salt lake in mentioning this property the herald republican can says conditions at the properly of the howell mining company in south fork of big cottonwood canyon are exceedingly encouraging is the report brought down this week by manager J M howell and jay elliot johnson who have been up inspecting tho the mine and making a selection of the site for a big tunnel which will be started in the spring to tap the present known ore bodies at depths of from 1000 to feet this new tunnel will be feet below the upper tunnel it will start in right on the vein and can be driven the length of four claims following this ore bearing vein all the way with increasing vertical depth all the way practical old miners who know the howell property and have inspected the site of the new tunnel have in ih to drive this tunnel on a lease taking nothing but a proportion of the ore they are aee certain will be encountered most of its length upwards of feet the man who originally located the old baby mckee property knew his business said a mining engineer yesterday as he end lined four claims with the outcropping cropping out fissure vein along the center of all of them ore has been found on or near the surface at various points from one end of these four claims to the other it is the most inviting tunnel site I 1 ever saw with chances big that ore may be found all the way and gaining depth on the vein at every blast then think of what a territory manager howell says the work is now being confined to the south drift on the vein which is mineralized all the way the north drift started feet from the portal of the tunnel has followed the ore feet the pay streak varied from ten inches to five feet at one point three feet of solid ore is in the floor of the drift what a on this would prove can be left only to the imagination the ore taken out of this drift in the development work is mostly carbonates running from forty five to seventy per cent lead and eighty to as high as ounces silver some sulphides sulp hides are encountered the hanging wall is quartzite the lime a most favorable formation for the making of big bodies of this character satisfactory progress is being made on the south drift said mr howell yesterday it looks like we are coming into an ore body the rock showing some values in carbonates now we may break into the ore at any time the purpose of this drift is to further develop this yein vein and to cut the c contact of quartzite and lime in this part of the property teams are still busy hauling ore from the cardiff and utah mines properties there was only a little snow in the fork but in other places it is several feet deep |