| Show THE GREEN MOUNTAIN MINE equipment of property with tramway and mill in contemplation in the last issue of the mining review mention was made of the encouraging results being obtained in the development of the green mountain mine in miners basin near moab utah since then according to the times of moab further very important ore discoveries have been made and the statement is also made that the property is to be equipped with an aerial tramway and mill the times says the threefoot three foot body of ore containing values in gold silver and copper amounting to over a ton recently struck in the green mountain mine in miners basin continues to show up well and shipping of the ore has commenced according to dr R S gillbee Mill bee who has a lease on a group of claims belonging to S E mcgraw plans for the installation of an aerial tramway and a concentrating mill are being considered mr gillbee was in salt lake the first of the week and was enthusiastic over the prospects in the basin A crosscut tunnel known as the dewey has been driven due east for a distance of about feet the object of which was to cut the dewey vein at a depth of about feet the hanging wall of this vein has just been cut and the tunnel is being continued for the purpose of cutting the green mountain and the dot veins the green mountain vein will be reached in about feet of further driving from the portal to a point of about feet the tunnel was driven through a quartzite capping and when in a distance of about feet the began with a pocket of rich ore which averaged in gold silver and copper about fifteen tons of this ore was mined and sacked for shipment beyond the pocket of ore was encountered a body of low grade milling dirt which averages about 8 to the ton at a point feet from the portal of the tunnel a four inch stringer of very rich ore was cut the ore from both the dewey tunnel and the green mountain tunnel has to be sacked and packed on burros to the foot of pin hook hill a distance of about two and one half miles with a drop fall of about feet in that distance from the foot of the hill it is hauled ty by team to cisco dr gillbee has sixteen men employed at present and should the find in the green mountain claim continue to produce he plans to increase the force materially |
