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Show WESTERN ram m is in i JlJ Jj! iw I p. VOLUME I. ebklt Newspaper devoted to the JILmma Jnterests of the SALT LAKE CITY, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1881. C&ctuKtl (Somspcrc&ttce est, NUMBER 24. LETTER FROM BINGHAM, UTAH. Special Correspondence of the Western Mining Gazetteer. LETTER FROM STOCKTON, UTAH, The new hoisting works on the Lead mine are in full blast and giving excellent satisfaction. About 60 tons of ore are raised daily level. Sinking the main vertical shaft still confrom the 200-foAll honor to the Gazetteer for exposing the subsidized Salt Lake tinues; total depth now attained 230 feet. At 300 feet a large station the of Yocorrespondent Engineering and Mining Journal , yclept will be put in, after which sinking will be continued till a depth of semite. The Wood River county is certainly good enough to stand 500 feet is reached, which will be about May 1st, The ore body upon its own merits, and does not require the putting down of some of the mine is simply enormous and without a break; by acthe old reliable districts of Utah in order that the new Eldorado may throughout mine in Utah. Early this tual measurement surpasses any silver-lea- d receive attention among Eastern capitalists. Since you have made so coming Spring concentration works will be started near Sandy to animus the that Yosemite moved to in herald East the as apparent handle the 2d class ore from the mine. These works will be connectplayed out, some of the most promising mines and prospects of the ed with the mine by a Railroad independent of the Bingham road. will us let he hereafter deal those he of hope Territory, truthfully These works will have a capacity of 200 tons of crude ore per day. and let alone he those knows knows, severely naught of. The lessees on the Old Telegraph mines have increased their force This, the oldest camp in Utah, was, three years ago, regarded as the past week to 25 men and the old mine is again coming to the played out ; but Jas. De Courcy and Chris. Mateson leased the Basin front as a large producer. mine and developed the great ore chimney that within the past year The Tiewaukee is booming with 500 tons of rich ore at Sandy, to has made that mine famous. And during the season of greatest dewhich several cars are added daily. pression here thfc First National company continued to spend money Only prospect work is being done on the Stewarts and Jordon. on the National mine. The latter property is now looking better The latter company is experimenting at their mill near the mine. than ever, and camp rumor says they have opened a breast of $50 The large mill on the Jordan River has not started up yet. ore over four feet wide on the 400 level. A strike of a large body of fine ore has been made in the West The Basin is down 850 feet, and they have several feet of water in works of the Yosemite. the incline. Sinking has been stopped until arrangements can be The tunnel on the Telegraph is in a little over 200 feet, and the made to relieve the shaft of water. All that is necessary to say of formation being favorable, it is hoped to cut the vein within sixty the Basin is that it is one of the four biggest mines of this Terrifeet. The First West Extension of the Telegraph is making daily is stock now a at The valuation of over million a half selling tory. shipments of fair grade ore. dollars for the property. The lessees on the Miners Dream are taking out ore and will because that mine is the oldest live locaThe Basin lode make a shipment in a day or two. Simple Simon. tion on it is covered, commencing in the foot-hill- s on the west, by Bingham, Jan. 27th, iSSi. the Clasbv, Legal Tender, National, Honerine, Basin and Quandary No. 2 ; and the Vulcan, Chance, Alice, Bell and others are located further east, and all supposed to cover a portion of the great lode. As FROM MARYSVALE, UTAH. the croppings do not appear further east than the Quandary, and as no depth has been attained by any location easterly from the Vulcan, Special Correspondence of tlie Western Mining Gazetteer. it is difficult to determine which of the latter are on the lode. An average sample of the Fillmore mine returned $47 per ton and the The Leonore is down 1S0 feet, and they are drifting west on the mine is being rapidly developed. The Crystal, owned by Scott & Conledge to connect with the lower tunnel, when ore shipments will likely verse, is opening up nicely. The ledge is large and well defined. A is mine from The one to two feet of ore in car load of ore is begin. promising, having being packed down to this plaee for shipment and I the face of the east drift and four feet in the face of the west drift from have no doubt the grade will astonish the Salt Kike owners. Developthe 140-folevel, and from eighteen inches to two feet in drift from ments are advancing on the Ruby, Belle of Utah, Matilda and Beecher; the bottom running to the tunnel. The ore assays (shipments) about all of which are showing up nicely. All ofour prospectors arc preparing 30 ounces silver and 55 per cent. lead. for a lively time in the Spring. Miner. The Calumet is constantly improving, and is soon to have horse Marysvale, January 22, 1S81. power hoisting works. $20,000, has been offered and refused recently for this fine prospect. The Lion (old Josephine) is 250 feet down and has a tunnel running Frisco and Milford are very dull, especially the latter. Some big to connect. The ore streak runs from six to eighteen inches wide, strikes, however, have lately been made in prospects in the mounand averages 50 ounces silver and 60 per cent. lead. tains south and west of Milford, and the denizens of that burg are Prospecting is going on upon the Clara, Old Quaker, Argent, Wade in a glow of anxious expectation. Specimens on exhibition in some Hampton, Kathrina,, Central Clasby, Rover, Silver King No. 2, of the business houses there are very promising, and furnish a good Ohio, Nellie and Louisa. The Kathrina is producing considerable foundation for the hopes of the patient but pushing inhabitants of 375 ore. the railroad burg. They realize now, if they were not disposed to R is surprising that such a good prospect as the Legal Tender con- believe it before, that the mere fact of being a terminal station is not tinues idle so long; especially so when the owners are abundantly able enough to secure the permanence and prosperity of the place, and to develop it in like their neighbors,, they look with longing eyes to the mineral belt good shape. The Honorinc is driving its first cross cut for the ledge, and they reposing in the bosom of the everlasting hills which shield them from the rays of the descending midsummer sun. We trust their best expect to strike it inside of ten feet. Prospector. wishes may be more than realized. Stockton, January 26th, 18S1. Special Correspondence of the Western Mining Gazetteer. ot j j j J I ! I so-call- ed LETTER ot ' ! , i |