| Show I Unusual Development of Fortuna l I I Properties Within the Last Year I N Ml a. a l I II I I FORTUNA GOLD QUEEN I t With th the exception of ot the high-grade high recently found In the tho McGarry Davis l l' l lease ase on the Golconda group tho the Fortuna Fortuna For For- tuna Gold Queen has produced the Fortuna district district dis dis- highest st grade oro ore of tho the and is giving giving- evidence e of or being one of the tho big Sol gold mines of or the tho west This p property opert lies on the east cast side been practically practically of or Rocky Hollow Hollo and anel has call cally bisected b by that narrow gulch which exposes ore cropping's on both sides Ore from th the surface has been found running as high as 1000 a n ton while present samplings at depth re return return return re- re turn from 40 ao O to This ground was first brought into prominence nearly nearh a year car a ago o when R. R R H H. Strickland now vice president of ot the Fortuna Gold Queen Mining in the Interested company compau became becam showings found foun b by William Wllliam Pearson and J J. J E E. E Fouts the original locators of ot tho the ground consisting of ot 60 acres Mr Strickland was at that time a prominent engineer of Salt Lake City associated ls d with A. A J T. T Burton Durton and this firm ultimately moved to Beaver Deaver count county county coun coun- which t ty to look after aCter the tho interests they acquired there To these two Is Is for tor bringing largely largel due the cret credit lt the attention of or orthe Beavers Beaver's gold fields to the world Having Ha found showings s to Justify liim In his belief belie that he had a really big bl- gold old proposition Mr Ir Strickland sou sought ht the aid of Salt Lake capital hl hIt property Ito He to help him open F F. Eberhardt of found It In the persons er ons Mattress I Lake president of the Salt of ot the Gold company compan who IH is president s secretary and Queen J. J A. A Thomas treasurer H Ii P P. Colt Coir Coland and Charles Cor Cor- fk fluId ld All 11 of ot these the men are prominent their and Utah In the In iii mining game ame county count was one entrance Into Beaver of ot the tho influences Influence of I. the encouraging Work ork started in the lh ground In the the au nature late In late fall faU of ot 1914 being of or to to open ope up P the tho outcrop a. aa MN T Tat at depth Since that time a n. shaft has been sunk to a depth of feet teet an ana and anda a number of ot additional fissures lures have been discovered In the tho ground which make It one of ot the tho most highly mineralized mineralized min min- properties In Beaver county The claims cover feet In length on three and west fissures fissures fis fis- ane and several north and south fissures fissures fis fis- fis have be been n expos exposed The deep shaft Is on the north and south range which Intersects three cast east and west fissures It Is the Intention of oC the management to sink gink to the foot toot level and cro ut after acter which they the will drift along that portion of ot the vein tram from which values ran ranging from 40 to 6 have been ob ob- ob Shipping Shipping- ore Is now being sacked at nt atthe atthe the Gold Queen tho process requiring very little sorting since It is lI figured that 25 ore can be handled at a profit The great bulk of the ore Is I being stored store on the dump to await the c con construction n- n of a a. private or custom mill mUl which will undoubtedly l soon be re required required required re- re at Fortuna It Is thought there thero Is enough tonnage In sight Right at the present present present pres pres- ent time to Justify the th construction lon of ot ofa ofa ota a plant J I I FORTUNA INDEPENDENCE I It t T t Althou Although h Incorporated only last spring tho the Fortuna Independence Gold G ld Mining company compan Is really one of the pioneer properties of th the tho l Fortuna district district district dis dis- where the tho early surface showings were were of such an nn unusual nature as to to attract prospectors fr from m man many parts of ot the west west- It was the first property lp- lp In the Bald hills under the tho present present present pres pres- ent rev revival Iv and lies ver very near the spot where th the the first work was done on Rocky Hollow over twenty years ago URO B By some strange freak trenk of fate tate those earl early miners who sensed the fact that there was mineral ale along the gulch which cuts through the tho Bald hills ex exposing exposing lX ex- posing tho the veins like like an open book hook al always always always al- al ways picked the tho wrong kind of ot ore and went broke while directly alongside I i 0 r w t V 4 P Y Yv v S t 2 p a J a i iJ t 3 4 y e ut utI i I w C Y Ye t e c y yi yr ya i r t tAt a Y y At the month mouth of the tunnel |
