Show THE BOB INGERSOLL Gold Proposition Almost Within the Corporate Limits From time to time mention has been made in these columns relative to the gold deposits east and north of Salt Lake and on Tuesday of this week the news was given out that in Emigration Emi-gration canyon a few miles east of the city three men were at work with a small cyanide plant with which they were making a saving of about 8 in gold to the ton by the cyanide process and reference was also made to the fact that there were several other I propositions of mrIt In the canyon As regards the operations of the three miners above mentioned but little lit-tle has been learned as yet although the reports have been corroborated by several parties who had heard that work was being carried on successfully in the locality described Still nearer the city is the property of the Bob Ingersoll company hidh Is almost within the corporate limits and a little north of the city cemetery This company which has been in existence I ex-istence for a number of years has succeeded suc-ceeded in driving a tunnel into the toil a distance of 330 feet the last 50 feet being in an immense body of I leaching mineral that gives average values by the cyanide test of from 5 to 6 a ton in gold The company has I been financially embarrassed for the past year or two but is confident as I to the ultimate outcome of the enterprise enter-prise and yesterday George F Adklns one of the officers of the organization accompanied by Surveyor Otto Solomon Solo-mon went out to the mine for the purpose pur-pose of making a survey of the workings I work-ings to determine how much further I the tunnel will have to be driven in order to get under a big iron blowout which shows so plainly on the surface It is believed that it will require but 40 or 50 feet more to make the connection connec-tion and when this is accomplished work will be pushed in opening up the ore reserves and in determining the extent of the deposit A wellknown Colorado mining operator oper-ator has been quietly working for sometime some-time in Dry canyon just aboe the city and he has made the statement that I the surface showing there was better than was ever found at Cripple Creek |