Show IN JESSE EWING CANYON special correspondence review vernal august aukrust 10 the attention of the mining mining men of this section has been directed toward the jesse ewing 0 district by the report which emanates from reliable sources of an important strike in the old tunnel on the exclaim ex claim the property of james hacking lycurgus s johnson and peter hanson all vernal parties the old ex claim has a histo history rv coveri covering nr a period of over twenty years it was here that jesse ewing for whom the district was named first made the canyon ring in a jerr persistent but misdirected effort to tap the vein that crops up the mountain side by means of a tunnel driven from the bottom of the canyon a distance of some seven hundred feet under the hill this old tunner tunnel which follows in an easterly direction diagonally across the formation which is composed of quartz altered granite and schist has a north drift in which was encountered by the early workers of the ground a body of low grade pyrites of copper to which no ut attention was paid evidently being considered below the grade of pay ore the point at which the north drift ran into this body is feet beneath the surface droppings choppin crop pings s where an incline ran on the ore chute resulted in a dump of probably a hundred tons of copper ore of varying richness some being k very high grade 11 1 1 and giving i i evidence of increasing values with depth the old tunnel with its different drifts are in as good condition today as when over twenty years ago an assassins bullet ended the career of jesse ew ewing inar who like the average age denizen of the browns park region region settled his little disputes in a summary way the trouble in this case was a woman and the old pioneer of the camp bit the dust in the settlement for many years the canyon was as silent as the grave the company of iowa men who had expended many thousands of f dollars under the direction of jesse jess e ewing were never heard from again but the name of the old prospector still clings clings t to the rugged 11 hills hill 1 s which long aro ago ceased to reverberate with the sounds of his black powder blasts as he toiled away in his vain effort to tap the hidden wealth that he knew lay under the hill just where the old work ceased in the north drift where the body was encountered the whole formation is loose with every evidence of an upheaval the side of one wall is a slippery tale talc that is pronounced sides by men of mining lore taking this evidence of a mineral in nature as a clue the new workers pushed on through the low grade pyrites after going but a few feet ore of a promising character char acte r was encountered in the bottom of the drift further exploration developed what from all accounts appears to be an ore chute several feet in width and carrying splendid values in copper with some gold and silver it is the opinion of manager hacking that the drift encountered the ore ch chatt upper extremity and had the botton bottom drift been but a few feet higher ti of tte up body would have been miss missed ed entirely the oft the explorations as far as shows the ore chute to be clear carried aria and w well 11 fined and with every indication of beu bein manent the owners are per feeling natural nato na much elated over the strike and believe the fates have been rt 1 l more kindly than when poor old jesse jcsse bisp ased ewin ewing lono 10 worked so persistently but in v ain to los the that he ore knew was somewhere hand near at al the present owners acquired the erty through r milton lyons L y ons an old hunter pro prod as trapper who in his wanderings wande ran rail acron the old workings working and believing there iras merit in the od prospect relocated tie the ground when the present strike was waa madd note done of the owners owners were on the ground 9 round the aoa being bei ng done by H if A woodruff an expert mining man in the employ of the company manager hacking accompanied by the other owners ow ners of the property are now outfit auto ting for a trip to the mine and will go prepared par ed to make it a thorough th crough investigation of the strike owing t to the difficulty experienced in securing the services of an experienced operations at the dyer smelter have been delayed until the first ol of the month although a trial blowin blow in of the smelter may occur before that management of C B short formerly employed at the hanauer smelter whose services have been secured |