Show the sevier consolidated mine of gold M mountain buntain 0 by WILL C HIGGINS i it is not so many years ago that a great t deal adeal of interest was centered in the new gold discoveries made in gold mountain dis r brict in piute diute county utah and it is not necessary tor for the prospector and claim holder to do much talking in order to convince the experienced min mieng ng man that here was a region so prolific in its deposits of the precious met als that a little intelligent development under the direction of practical men was all that was necessary to give to the world several great producers of imperishable wealth and more nowhere in the dihe mining west did there exist a section so favorable to mining operations where water was so abundant and where the s canyons and mountain tops were cov ered with heavy timber where a few miles of wagon road on a downhill down hill pull M I 1 connected with a branch of one of the leading railroads of 00 the west the den ver ra rio 1 0 grande after the first important discoveries in gold mountain dietr district at were heralded heralded throughout this intermountain region and when intelligence of new and big finds began to circulate in mining circles in the east heavy capital began seeking investment in this new and promising camp and it was not long before three big enter arises were launched tor for the purpose 04 operating and developing an equal number of groups embracing some of the choicest ground to bea found in the district 0 charlie lammersdorf Lam the veteran mining operator took the lead with the sevier mine james long jr followed suit with the mammoth and the annief ann laurie last but not least began operations which resulted in the payment of in dividends before conditions condi tons including the death of the late peter kimberly caused a cessation of work which led to the sale of the property and of the company under a different name and title and the sevier like the annie anne laurie has had its ups and downs all great min mines i es generally have this eap exp experience ermence eri ence land and yet neither property could be condemned because of a lack of payable ore nor could could it be said that either of them were not hot possessed p os oi of bright futures were they but given the chance to prove their intrinsic value and true merit and the sevier be it said is certainly U WRE ax K sevier consolidated mill photo by W C Alar rhall place in due course of time among the great dividend paying mines of the west in the past the sevier has been prolific in its production of sensational ore ore calculated to attract the at tenton of the high grader while in its underground workings there exist such large bodies of milling ore that many mines in many other camps would seem small in comparison As a matter of fact there are no better showings to be found anywhere than in the sevier mine cropping strongly above the surface imposing in th their e I 1 r magnitude there are large fissure veins values in gold and silver while at the contacts of the many evany different rock formations there are other veins which are rich in their metallic contents history of the sevier the sevier was located by charles lam mer adorf in the early and a year later S r mr air lammersdorf Lam erected the first mill in the district the equipment of which embraced ten pound stamps below which were were placed copper plates for the recovery of gold and silver later on two to concentrating tables were added to the plant another addition still later being an old style medium of the courts the property of the company was placed in the hands of a receiver and in the sale following it was sold to the salt lake hardware company one of the creditors of the sevier consoli dated and as the period of redemption has expired the title to this splendid and ift A I 1 riz clr 7 z AV 62 i A I 1 sevier consolidated stamp mill photo by bj W C Mari marshall hall chilian mill with a cyaniding cyan iding annex employing the plain percolating process after the building of this mill which was housed in a log structure land and after it had been in successful and profitable operation for a short period mr lammersdorf Lam sold the sevier property to parties who organized the sevier consolidated mining company the stock of which was wa placed principally with washington D C capitalists in the year 1906 the company expended in the neighborhood of in the construction st of a ton stamp mill and cyanide annex a h horsepower orse power electric electia ic power plant a seven mile transmission line bunk and boarding houses cabins assay office bullion refinery telephone lines and roads and w when hen building was finished it could boast of the possession of one of the finest milling plants with its accessories to be found in the rocky mountain region but of this vast amount expended in equipment and improvements upwards 0 of f one half was obtained through credit in other words the company burdened itself with a debt of nearly in addition to the mortgage on its property of mr lammersdorf Lam the owner who because of failure to comply with its provisions was obliged to bring foreclosure suit thus forcing the company into bankruptcy before it had time und and opportunity port unity to give the mine a chance to redeem company obligations through the attractive property is now vested absolutely in the hardware company who has taken care of the the claims of mr lammers property giving a black eye to a distri because of inexperience an and d 0 a brodig I 1 waste of money in mine and mill equips II 11 and operation after a tho thorough rouell and exhaustive aaion of the sevier consolidated by w marshall the mining engineer for the M lake hardware company it was found that the miller group of fourteen paten patentee tet claims adjoining the sevier on the south and west contained a number of rich vein and this group upon the advice of mr mar laar shall was purchased from thae ahe kimberl estate and added to the sevier group thia giving the hardware company full ani complete title to a group of twenty one patented lode claims a domain in itsell and located in the heart of the richest portion of gold mountain dietr district t A large and valuable estate in addition to the extensive holdin holding of the salt lake hardware company above referred to the com company P any also owns tie the humming bird group of four claims located three miles south of the sevier groua and also a group of three lode claims on dry creek four and a half miles ea ea of the sevier besides the company has ha title to three acres of land on which i ita power p plant lant is located geology and formation mr marshall in his report on the sevia consolidated for the hardware company denoted demoted consider considerable abe I 1 attention to the geology of the district going extensively ln into the genesis of the ore and ini mineral depoe V y ise W N 1 1 I A 4 4 7 A 0 sevier consolidated power plant on clear creek phoil p hj by y W C Mar marstall ikall dorf and other creditors in the transaction this is another case of history repeating itself another case cafe of failure because of incompetent competent hi management of a good eions of the gold mountain region fal ing the metamorphic a changes conditions and anden eilrich befits so interesting to the geologist engineer in brief he says the ishar mountain range in which the gold mountain mining district is situated i is composed of the igneous rocks of the tertiary and aed pre tertiary periods a complex condition characterizing the mala main por tion of the mountains these rocks in elude clude lites ande sites and mon Imon in the main intrusive dykes of obsidian feldspar flour spar and jasper quart of different strikes and stages of alteration are numerous the rocks of the gold belt consist of dykes and benzes of andesite which range from the to the I 1 I 1 including andesite and pyroxene ande sites gabbro t apatite and varieties of quart I 1 ande andesite brec cias clas and conglomerates aa 1 1 F CP 4 11 00 1 N 00 1 1 V acae 33 otili g ty vache arecca Br ecca itc ditc A apatite pd life aford kt Andes Hes dett Z 2 11 a C to i i geological crosa se on zine line AB of fia fil I 1 looking north cross section through the sevier consolidated in large dykes occupy the central portice cn of the belt the colors ranging from a lightbrown drab to the dark brown and black basaltic and in massive structure with green ihorn horn blend is found in abundance with calcium carbide cf c frequent occurrence some was recognized but the strains to which these rocks were subjected have been so great that the feldspars feld spars are now crus crushed aed and granulated almost beyond recognition and apatite are present in addition to the iron magnetite and 4 sulphide the secondary minerals y kaolin small scales of muscovite chlorite ohl and an abundance of calcite are found ins im no 3 tunnel the veins are divided into inta tour four classes the true fissures the contacts the fault enrichments enrich ments a and n d the breccia veins F the ores of the tam camp Dearry carry from 1 to in gold and silver the main ore bodies ranging in value efrom from 5 to 10 per ton the me gold and silver contents of the veins are not evenly distributed throughout the veins or through the vein fillings but come more in shoots and in certain strata of vein quartz this is characteristic chara terlsa of all such veins there being both a mangran gran and a low grade milling ore in all vin jain j vae high grade occupying the shoots and near the surface caused by seco secondary enrichment the low grade filling the bal anee ance of the vein ore in sight A conservative estimate of the ore in sight in the sevier consolidated known as positive ore amounts to tons of milling ore alering about 8 per ton making a gross value of a there are a number of crosscuts cross cuts on the veins on which no drifting or has been done taking these and the many different headings into consideration the ore in sight can easily be quadrupled A small amount of crosscutting west from no 3 tunnel and east from the lower miller tunnel on the west side of the ridge will make many new headings at a much greater depth on these as well as on other veins known to exist on the property the ores are principally sili clous in character surface improvements the surface improvements on the sevier consolidated consist of a new up to date ton mill and cyanide annex a horsepower electric plant assay office re finery bunk and boarding house a number of cabins a seven mile electric transmission line a telephone line seven and a half miles in length three and a half miles of six inch vo fooden oden water pipe line transformer house blacksmith shop machine shop and office building mill equipment the new mill on the sevier consolidated had been completed and placed in commission but a short time before the affairs of the company passed into the hands of a receiver by order of court the equipment of the plant consists of one sturtevant crusher of large size two austin no 3 crushers eighteen quick drop stamps of 1 pounds each twelve amalgamating sil ver coated copper plates feet each six wilfley concentrating tables four pierce amalgamators eight round iron leaching tanks feet with flat bottoms eight iron tanks as foll t olIo lows ws two one two and three foot four cone bottomed iron tanks feet one lead lined tank feet one wood tank 4 1 feet two and two 15 four iron zinc boxes and eight wooden zinc boxes 12 V 6 of twelve compart compartments menis each one star engine oil city boller boiler works gould and sand pumps one drying furnace these with ore bin constitutes the main part of the mill equipment the machinery is operated in sections or units by different electric motors ranging from 3 horsepower to 50 the motors are of westinghouse odb e make combining straight and alternating currents the machine shop I 1 the machine shops occupies a portion of the mill building directly over the ore bins compressor room and storage tanks included in the equipment of the shop there is a J J mccabe double spindle inch lathe a W F J barns no 5 lathe one 24 inch B C crank shaper one dresser radial drill press a forbes belt driven pipe cutting machine one W whey jiley russel combined pipe and bolt thread cutting machine one kennedy otto hand or belt driven blacksmith drill press a whirlwind blast forge and outfit one fairbanks morse registering beam scales the different machines in the shop are run by indi india vidual motors the compressor room is directly under f TI ir I 1 k r A sevier consolidated machine shop photo I 1 Y W C maritall Mar iball the machine shop and is equipped with a chicago pneumatic tool com companas comp p anys compressor capable of operating ten 2 1 2 inch piston drills one mccabe double spindle swing lathe and a zinc lathe occupy space in the compressor room blacksmith shop the blacksmith shop has a champion forge blower one wiley russell no 22 hand drill press and a numa drill sharpener the power plant the electric power plant is located seven miles northeast of the null mill on clear creek the motive power at the present time being steam the water power equipment for the plant now being in course of construction st the plant hag three return tube boilers in addition there is one tandem compound condensing ball engine engin e a 10 horsepower vertical engine an volt gen aerator of akron electric company make one general electric three phase generator of horsepower one continuous current generator of 5 12 1 2 K W one continuous generator of 3 horsepower three step up transformers of from to volts and several westinghouse induction motors A number of starting compensators compensatory a complete set of high tension cutout and other switches panel switchboard switch board hoard complete with instruments switches and equipment lightning arrestors arresters and resistance coils combine to make the power plant very complete A victor turbine wheel has been installed and a dam some four miles up clear creek is partially complete A power transmission and telephone line connects the plant with the mine and mill of the company the transformer house at the mill has a number of step down transformers lightning arrestors arresters etc mine equipment the mine is equipped with 12 pound rails the track being 20 inch guage there are seventeen one ton and three 1600 pound steel mine cars two timber trucks and a a skip four 2 1 2 inch and four 3 inch wood air drills A good telephone and elec light system is installed throughout the tl e mine mill and company buildings mine development the sevier consolidated mine has been developed by tunnels no I 1 tunnel which is near the top of the ridge gains 0 only about sixty feet in depth no 2 tunnel cutting under no 1 1 at a depth of about feet another tunnel about eighty five jeet feet below no 2 is called the eighty five tunnel still below this anaut feet is ia no 3 tunnel A crosscut cross cut tunnel some 1200 feet fet length driven from the west side of ridge called the tiptop tip top tunnel comeri the mal main ln workings on the property the th are several smaller tunnels from fifty feet in length on the miller cl claims airas ins ay on the humming bird and dry cred cre group in all making about feet tunnels and drifts feet of slopes w upwards of 2000 feet of back slopes or om 0 exposed levels and breasts of drifts no question exists as to the intrinsic antrin merit and value of the sevier mine in point of development it shonu make a regular and heavy as well as a pro finable producer in the matter of equip menti ment the property is complete with every even thing new and modern rn and ready for the turning of of wheels the dropping of stamp and the extraction of metallic values almo almori at a moments notice months have been employed in perfecting this equipment and am years have been spent in mine development and in the 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