Show strike in in columbus rexall tile the alta cottonwood district situated about twenty miles southeast of salt lake city has a way of bringing forth a sensational strike whenever interest in utah mines lags a little occasionally it produces one without walting waiting for interest to lag and to tile the latter class belongs the strike in the deep tunnel of the columbus rexall consolidated mines company A month ago this ground was nothing more than a promising prospect now it has all tile the earmarks of a big and steady producer its stock has proven the sensation of the local board climbing from 15 cents to within about twenty days al R evans of salt lake vice president and general manager of the company is extremely conservative and has had little to say regarding the find preferring to let the course of events prove its extent the strike was made at a point more than feet from the portal of the companas comp anys deep tunnel and at a vertical depth of about I 1 feet it is in rexall ground on the big cottonwood side of the divide and fully feet from the line of the companas comp anys famous neighbor tile the cardiff the vein where first cut showed a width of three feet and gave average returns of 1675 per cent copper per cent lead 25 ounces silver and a trace of gold or an average value of approximately a ton at this writing the tunnel has been extended twelve feet in the ore which has widened to five feet the product averaging a ton and showing a decrease in its copper content and an all increase in lead shipments have already commenced tile the ore being taken out now is from development only no effort being made to for the present the ore lies in a limestone bedding which lips dips to the north and it is said to be of an all exceptionally clean shipping grade many of prominent mining men have visited the columbus rexall during the past two weeks and all report that the outlook for the property is most promising TI J dailey formerly superintendent at the great silver king coalition at park city this state was among the early visitors he states that lie he found the miners following four feet of high grade clean ore in tile the lime with indications of permanency and extension at depth and by drifting mr dailey said that lie he regards the strike as one of the most important of tile the many which have been made in the district in recent years E W griffiths of salt lake another prominent mining man has just returned from a personal examination of the present work at the property he pronounces tile the strike as of a magnitude and richness not yet generally understood by the public and states that the ore is of such high grade that it is being shipped in double sacks to prevent waste it seems to be the consensus of opinion that mr evans and his associates have made one of the big finds of the year and they are being generally congratulated upon the deserved success which has crowned their eff efforts orts mr griffiths in speaking of mining conditions as a whole in the district has the following to say 1 I have been familiar with the great camp of alta on both tile the little and big cottonwood sides for at least thirty years and after returning from a four days stay in tile the camp can call say with confidence that conditions are better now than at any former time of that period I 1 was informed that there are about 1000 men ilien in the camp and the appearance of activity everywhere does not make the statement at all improbable |