Show MINING AT farmington to the north of salt lake a few miles is the pretty farming town of farmington the place is admirably named and yet at no distant day the mountains bade back of this picturesque place will doubtless teem with producing and paying mines if surface indications and a limited amount of development count for anything farmington mining district has long been in the public eye but the public has evidently had on long distance glasses for it has been prone to overlook this promising section and to imagine that fields beyond were better and greener the district has one staunch supporter however and this in the person of W J huselton general manager for the southwest consolidated mining milling company owning some of the most valuable and promising ground in the district mr huselton who was in salt lake on mining business last week informed the mining review that he was engaged in the running of a tunnel in the development of the companas comp anys property this tunnel has followed the vein into the mounta mountain n for a distance of feet this vein is forty two feet wide between walls and the average value of its mineral contents is 15 per cent copper 3 per cent lead 25 ounces silver and 2 in gold to the ton the vein is stratified and the tunnel was started in on a strata which gave the best surface indications for an ore body it has been decided however that the best values are to tb be found on the hanging wall side of the vein and mr huselton will now crosscut from the face of the tunnel to the north expecting to uncover 1 a I large body of payable ore within twenty five or thirty feet the vein is a contact with quartzite for the hanging and gneiss for the foot wall the company is capitalized at shares of ten cents each the officers and directors are J D wood president J H robinson vice president J 11 wilcox secretary and treasurer all of farmington the other directors are david hess or of farmington and W crawford anderson of salt lake |