Show BIG IRON MANGANESE outcropping CROPPING OUT SAID TO COVER LEAD SILVER MINE over in the old erickson mining district the national metal mines company is developing ground which according ino b to report should prove up as a sensational producer of lead silver zinc ores rivaling the bonanzas of tintic gintic park city and Bin bingham ghani in the near future the district in which the property is located lies in the southeastern portion of thoele tooele county bordering on the juab county line between tintic gintic and west avest tintic gintic districts the section has never yet attained much prominence in the metal mining world it has simply been overlooked or overshadowed by the more popular and bigger districts and prospectors without number probably raced over and passed up the very ground that now is causing mining engineers to wonder how it ever escaped notice at any rate the ground which now is producing and shipping iron manganese ore from surface pits in the bi big dike said tobe to be running 40 to 48 per cent manganese mang anese and declared to be the finest fluxing flexing ore ever opened up in the state was not considered worthy of thought apparently it is different now the little coterie of men comprising the national mines company organized less than a year ago first had their attention called to the proposition by old ranchers of that section who had located three claims along what was described as an iron outcropping later the locators found by sampling and assaying ah that the material was rich in manganese and when the war broke out and the government was raking the country for manganese the ranchers did some work in the outcroppings outcrop pings and shipped some of the ore enough while they were at it to understand that under favorable conditions the mine would be worth prospecting and opening t up last spring some of the smelting smelling sm elting companies looked into the proposition and induced the owners to start work agin the ranchmen ranchman ranch men had previously been persuaded to join the promoters and organizers of the national mines company and with N G morgan a local attorney as president judge john H I 1 I 1 morgan as vice president and F 0 mcfall as secretary the new company began to function additional claims were located and the possessions of the corporation now embrace abilock a block of ground about 1600 feet wide and feet long 6 covering the lime quartzite contact contact for that distance in a northerly and southerly direction it was found that a great iron man manganese 6 anese dike apparently from 60 to 75 feet wide at ai the surface separated the lime lim ebelt belt to the east and the quartzite on the west that wherever any egging digging or blasting was done along the outcropping cropping out dike particles of galena and occasional evidences of lead carbonate carrying traces of silver and other metals could be uncovered where the original owners had been quarrying manganese ore for shipping some feet up the mountain side it was decided to sink also it was decided to drive a tunnel near the bottom of the hill to prospect the dike at additional depth within the last few months this tunnel has been driven into the dike a distance of seventy feet and the shaft feet above has been sunk to a depth of forty five feet but for or about three weeks previous to thanks thanksgiving t ivin ar day stormy weather rain hail sleet and snow put a damper on operations and the five ton truck employed to deliver ore at the railroad shipping point ceased hauling until the weather should settle Every everything thin g 0 is i ii moving ag again ain now and it is expected to keep work going all winter and equip for major operations pe rations in the spring when it was decided to sink it was because a few inches of f lead silver ore had made its appearance in the bottom of f the surface pit within a few feet the showing had increased to two or three feet of ore running around 20 to 30 per per cent lead and 8 to 16 oz silver per ton this shaft now p is is down forty five feet and a sample of the rock from the bottom where there is now exposed fourteen feet of ore and no walls wails in sight showed 35 per cent lead no zinc and 15 oz silver A few feet above the bottom of this shaft a cave was broken into and this has disclosed the ore for a length as far as gone of thirty eight feet conditions are said to be such that another cave near the bottom of the shaft may be broken into any time work is done at the likely spot this ore its is largely carbonate and galena and the expectation is that the shoot will continue to the deep and improve in value as sinking goes on however it may be decided not to sink deeper at this time below in the seventy foot tunnel the ground has been heavily mineralized all the way and improving the idea ideas is to continue this tunnel and when a point beneath the shaft is reached begin raising 0 so o that the ore maybe may be mined without hoisting in the shaft workings a crosscut cross cut to the east has been sent out sixteen feet and the face is still in ore of the usual grade what may happen when crosscut cross cut ting to the west is started no one knows but it is believed that another cave will be encountered on that side |