Show 0 o re r s made in ocafon stockton mine development J I 1 ahe y HE mining review has often made the r statement that no matter how favorable surface indications may be it always takes from three to five years to transform a I 1 meritorious prospect into a paying and pro educing educing mine those who have kept tab on mine develop ment will bear the I 1 review out in this statements which holds good in t the h e j case of the stockton S gold mining mill ling jing company of this ils city whose property is located in sol dier bridge c canyon a n y 0 n inear stockton county this estate state y for nearly three thre e years past the stockton aton mine under the jable management of J J has been energetically i and intelligently de ve loped many thou sands of dollars have been expended in its jex and equipment and to amany almany the time between the develop ament ent and producing I 1 in the e opera ion on of the mine has seemed long and tiresome tow ow however the time has arrived it is confidently believed when the efforts of tie e company will be rewarded as the mine now so thoroughly opened and prospected atiat at it is only a question of a short time beare re the receipts from regular ore shipments will usher in an era of prosperity that will relegate to the shades of the past the months and years when it was all outgo out go and no income with those interested in this promising 11 property and who have stuck to the management through thick and thin during the stage of its exploitation A representative of the mining review made a visit to the stockton mine in august last since then so many changes have been made in the way of surface improvement and equipment that the place was hardly recognizable while corresponding development has been made in iii the mine workings 13 in the way of machinery equipment an 80 horsepower boiler has been added to the power efficiency of the plant a 10 horsepower engine has been installed for the operation of the blower a six drill leyner air compressor has displaced the two drill plant and a horsepower hoisting engine will take the 7 4 AF z 14 ma 7 0 M eight abot of ore on the lewel bevon mine place of the 25 horse power hoist now in use within the next thirty or sixty days while the shaft and hoist house have been considerably enlarged in addition the company has put in a pipeline feet in length which connects with the west argent ardent mine thus giving the stockton company a reliable and econ economical water su supply aply thereby greatly curtailing the heavy expense io formerly r entailed in this direction an equally fine showing has been made in the mine workings since last fall necessary and important c 0 n n e c eions have been made between e the new and old workings of the property depth the real life of a good mine has been obtained known ore bodies have been tapped in the new and deeper levels and blind veins more than doubling the former estimated value of the mine have been encountered while avenues have been opened for the 06 economical and speedy handling of ore and waste from the underground chambers to the surface so that taking it all ali in all much has been accomplished during the past seven or eight months in the transformation of a comparative prospect as far as development was concerned into what within a whort short time now will prove I 1 to be a steady producer and paying mine jn in the mine workings since august last the crosscut cross cut on the level from the new working shaft has cut the noted catherine vein at a distance of feet from the new workings an upraise of feet connecting the crosscut cross cut with the old forkl workings 1 ng in which in several places fine bodies of shipping and milling ore are exposed the up upraise raise giving an outlet to the shaft t through which all ore an and d waste will be raised in this fact crosscut on the where the catherine vein vein wa t tipped V d drifts rif ts have been run both wa s on thes ledge for feet exposing thousands 0 f tons of fine milling ore the ore body in these drifts being fourteen feet thick in places in the cross cut west of the the workings have been driven a dis vince fc ince of feet cutting two veins in its course one of these it is believed being an extension of the great honorine vein while the other is a blind ledge from the former several carloads of fine ore have been shipped to the salt lake mark e t with an axce 1 1 I 1 lent e n t showing of pay rock still in si on the a crosscut has been run to the northwest for a dig distance tance of fifty feet exposi exposing ncr two ore bod of solid galena and carbonate shipping ore from bom which con consignments consign ments will soon be made to the valley smelters shelters sm elters this unexpected find greatly encouraging the management and causing elation in the ranks of the stockholders of the association the company has a force of thirty three men conits payroll pay roll and it is more than likely that in the near future reduction works will be erected for the successful bandli handling ncr of the immense tonnage of galena and carbonate milling ores now on the dumps and showing in the mine workings at the present time a great deal of actie ity is noticeable in stockton haunts atthe at the silver coin adjoining the stockton mine a new shaft and whim house and blacksmith shop have been put up the incline shaft has been sunk to a depth of feet from the bottom of which a ninety foot cross cut has been run for the ine in the near r va vicinity cin ay t is t the e E east a st ilono ine which recently atly f fell e ii into nto 11 line ne as a F shipper shipp h apper and also the cyclone c lone clone in tl the e d development ev ea 0 ament 0 which systematic je wo work rk 1 is q being done wl wat satisfactory results ailts an important feature of Stock tons present activity and prosperity and one that cannot canno but impress the observer and those in aej am t way interested in the growth and ad advancement vaLce of this great mineral bearing section is ij the progress being made by the oregon short shor line railroad in the building of its salt alt lake leavington leamington Lea cutoff cut off at terminus the present end of the old road and but two miles from the stockton mine and from stockton at least five hundred men and teams are em the railroad builders have a bi hiir b camp here and tents dot tha foothills foot hills by the score A steam shovel is tea tearing into the low hill that divides salt lake valley from rush and all the from salt am J Y gnu 7 C 7 ak Y I 1 akl 4 0 1 V 4 jveta hoisting works at the honorine mine ies one as shown in the accompany ino ing t flashlight halfton half halt ton torie i e is eight feet in width this ore body has been exposed by an upraise irom from the to the 20 0 level the whole mass representing thousands of tons of ore blocked out ready for extraction averaging 20 per cent lead 10 ounces silver silver and small values in gold to the ton the ore being a carbonate and galena that can be handled easily and satisfactory by concentration in preparing it for the market since august the working shaft has been sunk from the level down to a depth of feet it being the intention of the company to sink to water level on the a cross cut of ninety feet has cut the bi big 9 way body of milling ore showing on the in addition to which in the face of the crosscut cross cut eighteen feet west of the first ledge a blind vein was encountered on the ath dinst showing eighteen inches at the honorine a near neighbor and which is one of the truly great mines of the state new hoisting works have been erected of late an il illustration lustra tion of which will be seen on this page the company is now sinking a triple compartment shaft which is now down to a depth of between betwee ri three and four hundred feet and which will be continued to the five and to hasten and facilitate operations a forty drill dir air i compressor is now being in installed i besides which a large amount of development work is being done and improvements made under energetic and skilful management 0 in order that the mammoth ore b bodies exposed in the rine mine work workings ing P may be P made more more easily accessible 1 adjoining the honorine ilon oran e is the cygnet cagne t mine mane a producing and paying proposition which has recently been purchased by 0 H ulie ol ibe neavy owners in the honor to terminus ties and rails are piled up by bj the thousands shousan d s and grading is in progress the intention being to have the new road running cr into stockton within the next two or three months when mine owners will enjoy far better shipping and transportation facilities than is now the case stockton is one onesi of the grand old camp of the west in the eat early y days of mining in utah before some of our more recent wealth pr 0 d u c i n g sections were even drea dreamed nied of this camp cam produced its millions lillior in the precious metals from mere surface wor workings kinas I 1 and even then mine owners there ban no idea no nc conception of the millions below water level ece nt develops developments e ants in the honorine show ang ng that below this level there exists gigantic bodies of sulphide ores richer jn val value ue and greater in extent than were the ore bearing bearin zones so extensively worked near the grassroots |