Show THE GOLD MINES there is a perfect network of fissures all over the whole west as well as east slope of war eagle mountain many of which have produced thousands and hundreds of thousands in the bullion bars which are resuming new life or have been worked periodically and are working again while new properties are being opened among the latter named is the mckinnon gold mines company of which salt lake and chicago parties are at the head and the name given in honor of mr C B mckinnon of silver city the discoverer and locater of the ground the property lies on the west slope of war eagle mountain below fae famous poorman and includes five full size mining claims and a favorably located enill on the banks of jordan creek across the mountain extending from the east to the we west st cutting the granite are two m moth porphyry and rhyolite dykes passi t through rough h the poorman s and mckan Mc mclennon lUnnon grounds from these dykes fissure veins of which there extend true tn 0 are four with win in the bounds of the mckinnon pro all the veins have been opened at I 1 various perty places so as to prove the ground and trace trac the course of the jhb ledges one of the veins was worked at an early day and consider able rich ore extracted from an open cut bannings Pann ings made from ore from these veins by a mining review representative showed long strings of the gold silver metal metal in its free state the gold predominating in values the work of running a tunnel was recently begun to tap all four veins the tun V 7 1 31 0 w N C 0 MMES nel about forty feet under cover having already cut three stringers that are rich beyond expectations as the colors show the purpose of the company mr mckinnon states is to drive on and cut the first fissure fl within less than feet the mckinnon is admirably located tor for cheap development as a tunnel less than 1500 feet will have cut all four veins given a backing of nearly feet the last vein to be cut being the jennings vein which has produced from a shaft feet deep the tunnel will also alib enable cheap mining cheap handling and the dumping of the ore from the tunnel mouth almost into the mill on the jordan creek where a sufficient flow of water may be had all the year round mr L H B boason ea of salt lake city is president of the mckinnon company |