Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-02-04 | Page 6 | Montgomery Mountain Verifying Johnson

MONTGOMERY MOUNTAIN t VERIFYING JOHNSON The new Montgomery Mountain shaft shar with feet of depth gives promise of early erly substantiating the Judg Judgment Judgment ment of or Expert 51 r 1 M Johnson In its con connection connection the Bullfrog Miner Two To says Bs ys substantial necton leads of ot talc have materialized to date neither of which may be heralded as a body but both of which well Minor seams of look exceptionally well lnor the same character are of frequent oc occurrence occurrence currence The talc ore are body by of ot the Shoshone mine is limited on the north by a great basalt bal dyke clearly defined and dipping but slightly The same came dyke or a similar one lame apparently has been having the same lay encountered In the Bank which is a half halt mile mie to the west west Between Bk these two points lies les the Mont Montgomery Montgomery Montgomery gomery Mountain and there Is hardly a doubt but that the dyke is continuous judging from the mountain size and its It definite cleavage as now ascertained The Te values defnie In this belt bel a appear to t run rn In tale talc tat character and by the rules of good mining the ore should taper away from the basalt balt found In Shoshone Since the basalt basal was National Bank ground and the supped supposition Moun Mountain tion arose that the Montgomery tain ton tam was WM similarly tha traversed it has been the purpose of ot those In charge to prospect the cleavage That Is I the purpose of ot the present ce shaft The shaft for or surface con eon considerations shae was placed some eighty feet off of the calculated basalt line lne It I will willbe wi willbe be continued to the level and at that point a crosscut will wi be run fun to the dyke Work goes on in the tunnel with no new I development ge of note The drift remains rains II on the ledge unchanged from last las report