Show rws OF GOLD CITY SALT LVICE PARTIES VISIT THH PLACE OX YESTERDAY Strike Itx the New State Property Pove n Cool One Details of Workings In the Cnmj Tlie Mayflower May-flower Croup Captain Smith Talks About Prospects Captain Hank Smith J C Armstrong of Kansas City J Ur Hamm and Mr Vigus the local manager of the Associated Asso-ciated Press together with several othe mining men visited the mines at Gold City yesterday and are enthusiastic over the prospects 7 The party inspected the New Stalp property and paid particular attention to I the new strike reported exclusively In i The Herald some days ago and rehashed yesterday for the benefit of the few readers read-ers of the other paper across the street In the opinion of Captain Smith who is 1 an old mining man of years of experience experi-ence this find Is a good one and leads to the conclusion that there is a good big body of ore In the near vicinity The 1 quartz is of a very lively character and 1 free gold Is seen in a good portion of the vein After Manager Dalton left Saturday I Satur-day the vein widened considerably and the men said that had he waited until they had fired another snot he would have been able to have secured some toC the finest speciments of rock yet obtained ob-tained While the owners of this property are somewhat reticent about giving out information In-formation contending that they do not care for a boom the gentlemen who visited the place yesterday say that there Is about twenty tons of flrstcloss ore sacked and on the dump ready to ship while the second grade ore will amount to at least seventyfive tons The first class ore will run from 200 to 400 per ton while the other will average about B5 There are six men employed In this mine Four men are working on the Stewart group which Is higher up than the New State and find a quality of quartz similar sim-ilar In character to that found In the New State A shaft about ten feet In depth has been sunk on the vein which Is from eight to ten Inches wide Thera are nine claims on the Stewart group and > the assays on them have run as high as ISO This company will file articles of incorporation In-corporation soon Manager Hilpert has a force of ten men working on the Yellow Jacket They have tunneled in 130 feet and have plenty oa lowgrade ore in sight It runs all tlir way from 6 up to 13 The owners not money enough to put up a mill and are very anxious that some one should come there and erect one In order that they may have a chance to sell their product pro-duct Herbert Slade and three others arc working in a primitive way on the Lost Chance They have a fine body of talcky quartz which is low grade but as there is nearly four feet of it they think they have a bonanza Messrs Walker Blacl have a force of men on their property prop-erty and are working two shifts They are driving two tunnels and get two grades of ore One dump is green and the other yellow Both grades carry gold IL In paying quantities Five men are now employed on the Mayflower and the manager Is confident of the future They have encountered a good vein as stated in The Herald a few 1 days ago and are pushing work as rapIdly j rap-idly as possible Manager Smith has proved that he understands his business j by the way he has proceeded He ted t-ed in the side of the hill syid caught the ore with about onehalf the work whlcn would have been required had a shaft been sunk and now has about three hundred dollars worth of the stuff In sacks ready for shipment There are eighteen men in Ferguson gulch working various properties while In Big Cottonwood forty or more are prospecting with good results The Gold Dollar has six men employed and the Lucky Boy as many more Inasmuch as the quartz In this district Is nearly all the same Captain Smith and i his companions are of the belief that In 1 time the main body will he found and that It will be a big one Experience has proven that In such cass as these where so many small veins have been found that persistent development has uncovered uncover-ed the main body which In nearly every case has been of a highly satlsfactorjT nature |