OCR Text |
Show WESTERN MINING GAZETTEER. is running very nearly south. Of course, this is as yet mere theory, but them is excellent foundation for it. Time, and not a great deal of it, either, will tell. One thing is certain, all 0 Cl: ASSKhSiUKNT D1KKC OJtY. these properties are very promising. Should they prove to be all the same fissure, it will rival the Comstock in time. Friro NAMi: OP OOMPANV. District The Southern Utah Times of the 25th says: ((MiMilldaliil Jadlic.... Prosi'Ecrs Bright. The mines around Shauntic arc said to f.0 Aug. Gould .t (Mi try be looking well. The prospects for a boom in that district are 25 .July Glvim Dale1 4 Addenda 40 Auj;. 31 P0 Auk bright. And the men who reside there and own claims that Mill HcInionM 2) 15 they have staid by for lo! these many years expect to realAuk Maryland Ouei-iize handsomely from ore shipments this fall. 1 Auk Hoe 25 Auk Inch tel i oiiKolidated.... Hooker Consol dated Attracting Attention. Star District is attracting the at r Auk Auk Mavbelle Consolidatifd. io; tention of experts and capitalists. The former invariably reSuimnit 25 Auk. otosl bo; Aug. port favorably upon the district and the mines, most of them (fuinn . . . . 95;Aug. show well so far as developed. We look for an unprecedent7 10 Ausr. 21.. Sej)t.21 . . , . Sept.28. . . Oct. 16.. 1'rrspeet 8 25 Aug 17..- . Sept 17 Rod Clmul Consolidated. Oct,. 1.. Sept 23 edly large mining boom in Star district in the near future. 18 Alta Auk 25..- . Sept.2' . . . . Sept.29..., Oct. 18.. Aside from the richness of its mines, the juxtaposition of the 65:3 00 Aug 25..- . Sept. 45.... Sept.vft..., Oct 18.. Sierra Nevada Kentuck Oct It 30 Aug. 35 .. Sept.25 io.. Sept 29..., district to the railroad, is largelv in its favor. 24 Helclier Oct. 20.. u 75iAug. Sept.27 S(f)t.5... u pi ter 10 40. Aug 27 . . . Sept, 29 Oct. 22.. Strike in the Don McKay. A big strike has been made Oil 37 Oct. 25.. Ophir Aug Ofl Sept. 26. . . Oct. 2 10 Aug. vi in the Don McKay claim, on the West side owned by II. B. ct. 4 Nov. 1.. l.tvdn.., Sept.2 7 & 27. 01 Oct. .. Nov 1.. Raymond io;; Aug i Sept. 4.... Ely Compston and B. P. Derrickson. This wonderfully promising claim is in sandstone formation. The ore is horn silver and il UTAH . Dlstri-Uintah t galena, of which there is now perhaps a ton on the dump. From tho .Record of the 25th: The shaft is only down a short distance, but sufficient develop- ;i Ore Shipment. Hayt Bros have sent a small lot of Badger ments have been made to show a vein of rich ore about six feet wide. Some of the ore is very high grade, and will averore to Salt Lake to be sampled. IIawkeye. The surface water tunnel at the IIawkeye is age from 500 to 000 per ton. about completed, and sinking will be resumed next week. Sanders. The Sanders claim, owned by the Chicago and Three Steam Whistles. Soon there will be three steam Frisco Company, mention of which was made last week, is it whistles in McHenry Gulch, where, for eight years, prospecting showing up remarkly well as work progresses. The formation has been carried on without a pound of machinery. of this mine is lime with the ore vein leading to the granite. s "Working W ell. The new salt batteries at "the Ontario mill The ore is carbonate and galena. At the foot of the incline, are working very successfully. It makes a difference in the two drifts are being run. The one running north is in about iS amount of ore crushed of ten or twelve tons evervv twentv-fou- r seven feet, on a vein of rich ore fourteen inches wide. The q J hours. south drift is in fourteen feet on an ore vein four feet wide, I Glencoe. Drifting in the Glencoe started up again on Wed with every indication of a true and vein. The ore ( permanent There is between nesday morning. forty and fifty tons of ore now being taken out will average from 100 ozs. to 200 ozs. silon the (lump which will average 50 ounces silver and 40 per ver per ton, with some gold. cent. lead. Carijonate. Sinking at the Carbonate has been resumed A New Location. The Lizzie Howell is the name of a proand the main shaft is now down 50 feet below the fourth level, mising prospect located this week in Snake Creek. It shows a where the wall has been encountered, and demonstra- M hanging vein of eight inches of ore, picked samples of which 51 ted to be as smooth and regular as the foot wall. This is the i ounces silver and 01 per cent, lead near the surface. It assay is about first time the hanging wall has been exposed in the workings I 1500 feet south of the Caribou. of the mine, and coming in as it docs, indicates a of Tiie Wood Surely. The mines are all punching in wintheir getting the vein, a thing we think much to be desired, as the ore below ter supplies. M ood for fuel m one of the necessities r that is get- Mould our in be from free certainly, the estimation, present tingscarce, which will be supplied without stint when the railOn the third the lias drift level, run gangue. ore IS roads reach us. There is vast forests along the Weber through river, feet and is now in barren ground. The west drift on the fourth from which the wood can be floated down to the Wan-shiat depot level has been run 00 feet in ore, of an unknown thickness. A Mentor. II. C. Bodlev is opening up the Mentor, a pros-pc- t crosscut from the fall has been run in IS feet in ore, and dislocated by him last year, near the divide between White continued with its face still in the same material. This ore seems to be entirely independent of that in the east workbody Pine and Big Cottonwood. It is believed by that the both lie on the lootwall with upwards of one hundred Utah vein r ins through the gulch and across the many divide. If so ings, it certainly passes through the Mentor, as the vein matter bears feet of barren ground between them. The concentrator will be ready to start up in about two weeks. the same characteristics. A contract has been let for sinking a A A lm Sirikk. 1 he busan B. shaft, to be completed in sixty days, and an additionAnthony claim, about one al 100 loot is to be let should the of r mile from Frisco, lias shown development justify such a quarter up one of the most course. remarkable bodies of ore ever uncovered in this Another Fissure. It is now believed that there is a neat I erritory. 1 he lormation is lime on the west andpart of the porphorv hssure vein running nearly parallel with and from half a mile on the east. The ore it runs between the two forma" appears to a mile south of the Ontario, which is traced for several tions and is about 250 feet wide. The ore assayed 114 per miles on the surface. It begins with the Glencoe on the ton silver, 8.05 gold, and 05 east per cent. lead. This is thought thence running through some of tho who those have seen it, and some 200 visited it Charley Jones claims in by yesterday, liich it is linuul, then the Wasatch, and around to be the biggest claim, outside of the Horn the north Silver, ever unsideol Bald Mountain, crossing Out trio Gulch about half a earthed in Utah. mile above the Ontario mine; then lm-- Amkimcan-- Fi.au Mi u.. Messrs. through the southernmost Godbe, Hampton & ol Johnny Dalys group, next in the next Putthe have purchased the American Mnzeppa, Flag Mill of twenty nam, m which it crosses Saw Mill Canvon, and we believe has nigelow at stamps, lioehe, Nev., and will immediately boon und on the hill west. It is last found in the Jones Bothe work ol crushing mv. They have also purchased the Tailing of the nanza, heading for the head of Snake Creek, It makes an ank winch Raymond Ely mine, they propose smelting into liul- . gle wmy nearly abreast ni the spot where the Ontario turns ion soon as the part.es can erect both taking a course south of west. In the Jones Bononza smelting works. Mr. Hampit ton who has been in P.ocl.c m the interest of the company, I 3 38 3 31.... 'Sept. H... Sept HO. . 5..- . Sept. 5. . . Sept. 9... Sept .30.. 28..- . 'Aug. 28.... Sept 1... Oct. 1.. 10... IScpt.l'-...Sept 13... Oct. 1.. 11... Sept 11... Sept.13. .. Oct. 1.. 4..- . Sept. 4.... Sept. H. ... Oct. 4.. 10... ISept.15... . Oct. 4.. 9..- . Sept 9.... Sept 14. .. Oct. 5.. Oct. .. 11... Scpt.ll.... Sept. 1 " 16. Oct. .. 10... Sept. 1 6.. Sept. 7..- . Sept. 7.... Sept 14... Oct. 7.. 1 ... Oct. 11.. Sept 12 ... Sept.20. 18... Sept.18 :Sept2... Oct. 13.. 0 .. Sept. 0.... 'Sept .3..., Oct 13.. 50 .July 31..- . Aug. I . . i i I Auk-v- 5 Com-olidatcd- . i I mt 4 i I . I -- . IK9 .1 Sept.-,7- . i OK ; 1 i m i ! . p. 100-fo- ot : 1 be-ri- n |