Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-10-15 | Page 12 | Death Valley Mine Shipper

DEATH VAllEY SHIPPER Property Sends a Trial Consignment of Ore OreM M 31 J West of Ogden manager of the Death Valley Mining company Is in the city from his mine on the western rim of the famous depression after having started a trial shipment of ore to one of the Salt Lake smelters The mine Is believed without question to be the making of a great gold milling proposition the only difficulty difficulty difficulty culty In the way being baing the scarcity of water and that problem Is being worked out outRunning Running with the large body of milling ore which averages from 12 to 20 2 a ton tonIs tonIs tonIs Is a streak of from six Inches to two feet feit of ore the average of this streak as Indicated by mine samples be being beIng ing lug about a ton In the event that the smelter returns compare favorably with the mine assays frequent ship shipments ments meats will be made at least until a mill millIs Is installed The mine has been opened to the 10 foot level On that level the shoot has been proven to be continuous for feet while the ledge has been proven by excavations on the surface for fora a distance of 1160 feet In the property A great amount of ore which runs from 26 25 5 to 40 a ton has been exposed In the vari van various various vanous ous workings Mr West says The shipment of ore which has Just been forwarded from the mine had to be packed on the backs of burros two and a half hair miles of the 12 miles to railroad but a road Is now being built over which heavy loads may be hauled The services of a freighting outfit have haye been con contracted contracted contracted for