Show ACTIVITY IN LUCIN DISTRICT in commenting on mining conditions in lucin district on the west side of the great salt lake and on the utah nevada line the herald republican of salt lake says there are several properties in lucin mining district shipping this fall one of which is averaging tons of ore a day all coming to the salt lake valley smelters shelters sm elters according to C F whipple of blackfoot ida manager of the mineral mountain mining company who came in from there yesterday mr whipple says salt lake copper there is considerable activity this fall in this district near the extreme northwestern corner of utah the principal property is the salt lake copper company which has an altitude of feet in the buhl mountains the company has a number of tunnels and shafts at present is working about twenty five men and is shipping tons of ore daily this is a fine iron fluxing flexing ore of which the property has an immense deposit out cropping which is being worked by open cuts this outside work will probably be abandoned this winter and the operations returned to the copper deposits with which the ground is richly favored last winter the mine was producing a lot of 13 per cent copper taken from a great overflow near the surface produced millions this ground has been mined for forty years and is reported to have given up nearly it now has a 1500 foot tunnel with a vertical depth of feet A large prospecting tunnel is now in feet and recently was let a contract to extend this about 1200 feet this will give a depth of feet which will also take them into the sulphide zone under the copper overflow the tunnel is being driven in a diagonal direction to cut across the great tecoma fault old tecoma mine the old tecoma mine is under bond and lease to leadville people it is a silver lead proposition shipments were being sent out friday of 25 ore it averages i about 30 per cent lead and runs one ounce silver to I 1 per cent lead the ore is coming out of the old henry tunnel the lower works on the property the ore is found in fissure veins and is a carbonate ore making in chambers in the lime out from the lime granite there is a prominent lime granite contact rich ore making on this contact the lowest workings are about feet in depth ana are still in the oxides black warrior the black warrior mine is now producing some rich ore it is a silver bromide with some gold but no lead picked samples just mined run in gold and as high as 1500 ounces horn silver in the this property shipped 1008 tons which brought or a ton the property has been lying idle for fifteen to twenty years about six months ago leadville leasers leaders took hold and are now making good they are opening it up on an extensive scale mineral mountain the mineral mountain mining company owns thirteen claims lying between the salt lake copper and old temora the property occupying a most advantageous position mr whipple was the original locator the veins proven in those two properties run into the mineral mountain and in some places outcrop more prominently this property is now being opened up by mr whipple and associates mostly blackfoot business men from the surface ore has been taken out running from 50 to to the ton in silver and lead copper ore outcrops in places some of the malachite assaying 35 per cent A proposed 1000 foot tunnel is now in feet mostly altered and crushed lime the result of the action of faulting when mr whipple was leaving friday the miners were just breaking through into the ore vein on the hanging wall the complete tunnel will give 1000 feet vertical depth on the outcrops and will cut the sulphides sulp hides A foot shaft in another part of the ground just reached the sulphide zone the iron mask and others the iron mask is a silver lead property which will immediately resume operations after several months idleness it has a foot tunnel which encountered low grade iron carbonates with silver and lead values the little butte will begin working right away there are extensive workings on this ground which show up some very fine silver lead ore it has shipped considerable ore worth 50 a ton the utah lead is working the present operations are confined to sinking a shaft to reach the sulphide zone recently water was encountered in this shaft at feet and the inflow was too great for the men to handle with their present equipment A pump will have to be installed before this work can be continued there are a number of tunnels on the utah which show ore the jackson property to the north is working at present this is a silver lead mine with a very good showing |