| Show GOLD MOUNTAIN DISTRICT Some Heavy Work Being Done at the Silver King I Richfield Dec 10 Recent advices from Gold Mountain district Piute county indicate a lively present and a promising future for that young camp Many men are busy there now sheltered shel-tered from wintry blasts in tunnels along ledges of gold and many more are burrowing through and sliding over the four and five feet of snow making their way to employment in the mines working or hurrying to get in first on ground to locate The Silver King owned by the Des eiet Mining and Milling company and at present managed by Vice President George W Vogel is putting on a bold front AH winter 20 men will be given steady employment Nine of them working in three shifts will drive 250 feet in the lower tunnel to tap the ore body 100 feet nearer China than its exposure in the original workings above Three other hands with a shift apiece to work out will do business at the old standthe upper tunnel where the monster vein of a number 1 ore is laid bare Others of the emnoyees will direct their attention to the re timbering of the whole mine Not to mention the ore bodies out of sight but knowu to exist there are on the Deseret location three leads whose presence has been felt One of them samoles for 13 feet another 16 and the third IS feet The average value of dirt from them all is J50GS while the loftiest returns received show 2068 gold per ton So soon a Boreas will permit in the spring the Desereters will add to their accoutrements a fivestamp mill and cyanide appliances Not later than the first of 1S98 they will also begin the building of necessary boarding houses stables blacksmith shops and an assay oo At the Blue Bird the highflyer of the Grasshopper group owned by the Golden Star Mining and Milling company com-pany whose president is Captain Timothy Tim-othy Egan Salt Lake City two men will hybernate until the snow begins to melt gouging into the threefoot lead followed by the lower tunnel in which is the famous sixInch seam Ol shipping stuff that has paid the com panys developing expenses to date and laid up a neat margin in its treasury treas-ury Uf Something new is the Eelknap group of t brace of claims located this year by William Morrison and A E Smith who are now at work on the cmbrvo bonanza I lies at the foot of Belknap peak between Fish creek and Deer creek To date Smith and Morrison have a couple of feet of quartz whose croppings assayed J52S gold Their tunnel in ore is 20 feet gone but none of the inside rock has ytj been submitted sub-mitted to test Abutting the Silver King on the northeast is C D BurkholdersFreder ick City The drift there has been run 10 fet and a late certificate gives a dollar in gold per ton for each loot 11 driven For 100 feet up the mountain there has been traced a line of iron deposit j that looks exactly like the wonderful paint sediment being shipped from near Monroe by Messrs Beck and Scr 511J ip Osborne has struck it at the Wandering Boy near the head of Deer creek In 235 teet on his tunnel he has cut the eighttoot vein 700 feet from the surface where it went 51S7 a ton Now it goes 518 in gold The Hidden Treasure is a group of two claims called the Hidden Treasure and Anchor Raleigh Jones of SaUna one of the owners has just returned from the diggings where the years assessments sessments have been done Ills co owner is Mas Hansen Ilichfield The property is in Henry district about seven miles northeast of SlErysvaje Gold Mountain district is rorthwasi of the Vale In a sixfoot ledge l or Uu Hidden Treasure is a 14inch streak tore > t-ore running from < 0 to 100 gold 10 the ton The proposition is a coitav between lime and porphyry I was located lo-cated hi lS3t and is still being prospected I pros-pected Just west of the Hidden Treasure isI I the Antelope being developed by a Tin tic company and northeast of the Antelope An-telope has ten made a discovery of ore which according to unauthenticated report Ions from t200 to 5330 a ton in gold Souch of this a Eureka company Is 1 working the Kfjsi group fn which is seven feet of ICLK assaying irom iv to t In gold silver and lead In th I soict mire even miles west of Mosvale ui Bullion canyon and beiDw the Webster ore has just been uncovered that assays 150 |
