Show LION HILL properties S scene of earliest mining operations NORTHERN LIGHT WORKINGS extensive preparations tor for mining and milling the ore ora economically mill and ready for the machinery moores box SPI I 1 tags ripe pipe line operations in the gold mountain district original scheme for raising mining funds Octo rora notes correspondence tribune mercur dec G lion hill lies iles dire directly c t north of mercur about three miles it Is about 2000 fret feet higher than the town of mercur and Is reached by a well traveled hut but steep sleep wagon road that climbs up the gulch between lewiston peak aej anil porphyry knob rid and follows a dugway duguay around the head bead 0 of yih crado canyon from a grand erand view ot or rush valley and the western mountains Is obtained raising passing over a porphyry aldge to the coith 0 ot r sll sit verado cany are on lion hill the scene ocene of tile the earliest mining operations lit in utah its ill precipitous sides are moored by wagon roads made twenty ive ave years ago and black openings in ill the snow indicate the entrance into mines front from which millions of 0 dollars worth ot of silver lias has been taken but it woo was not for or the purpose ot of N lewing clewing the scenes of 0 past activity that the tribune tramped through the snow and climbed the steep steel road to lion hill yesterday sest ester erday clay lie he went to see the operations that file aio going on today and to get un all intelligent idea ot of the underground workings it t llie elie cele ll 11 light mine and to learn how tile the voila on ait the new mill waa mas progressing after afler a hearty dinner at A 15 13 gibbons gibsons Gib sons boardinghouse board boarding ing house C pip prepared pared by clief do de cuisine your as taken in charge by superintendent frank hines we first visited llie elie Alo tunnel nio hot e the fit nisi st strike ot of silver of e as aa made over oer twenty live octis cis ngi ago the tunnel gicius of great ago as IS the tew few timbers remaining lit in tile the mine ale aie decayed away to in tinder tile the tunnel winds and fists 1 lats around in almost every direction following neatly neaily it a northwesterly course to one unfamiliar with tin tho appearance appe alance vf of oje the llie mine gives no net more indications of rich ilch ini mineral elp deposits ahari would a clay bank or a stone nning et ct till this worthless looking stuff cariles high allies front from the numerous pockets that ate aie gouged out along this tunnel million of dollars have been taken we weir shown shoun one comparatively small pocket front rom which walker bros ale aie reported to have taken it was from the rich pocket of tills this mine that H W v lawrence and capt haughnessy 1 I took their fortunes and there yet remains nit enough of the white metal jn jin the old monarch mine to make halt a dyen dozen fortunes had bryan been elected all anil silver restored to the position it occupied previous to 1873 notwithstanding the to age 0 of those woi kings they are still in good condition the hard limestone roof Is as solid and safe RR a it ever was toas both silver and gold Is found in this formation but the proportion of GOLD INCREASES the farther north and west we ie go the thickness of the fetn eln varies front from ten to seventy five feet and it is difficult to to make inake an average of values in one place we were shown a part of the mine where the vein averaged feet in thickness and carries twenty six ounces of silver and in gold this average 0 of thickness and value will cover an area of about ten acres jn ITT the tolman tunnel running runn in 9 to the east cast of the monarch the values average 1083 in gold and sixteen ounces of silver after art an hour bour or more of exploring the tunnel your correspondent was belter able to appreciate the extent and value of the northern light property bt ag shown by the tha maps which superintendent nines hines permitted us list to examine the northern light property covais acres of ground and embraces ten claims and several fractions among which are the Alon monarch arch tolman winter chance find and old northern light the property propel prop eity ly is ia on oil tile the antl anti tibne about two thirds of it dipping clipping to the west and one third to the east cast ill ilie western slope carries the high kold values and tile eastern slope greater silver alues the mor workings kings are mainly on the western slope but the mill and working tunnel are arc so located that it will be equally convenient to take the ore front from both sides or of tile the anticline since superintendent hines took charse charge of the mine last april lie he has been devoting clo voting himself mainly to clear in iner out the old workings connecting them and driving the woodruff Woodi tunnel bicorn which all the ore will be delivered front from the hinr aln to the mill it la Is being diken front from tile the northern side aide fit 0 the property pio perty it enters the side hill fit at about tile the elevation of the ore bins of the lilt mill and Is driven through hard limestone nuclei tit clr toot wall of the vein it is in an excellent piece of manship the limestone is crossed by a number of fissures fla and in many places tile gold bearing vein from above has extended itself down into the tunnel the corking of 0 the mine will be carried on in a most molt scientific and economical manhei the ore will all lie be carried down and finni the time it is shoveled into the cars at the winking face until I 1 llie lie tailings are horeled kho t velea out of the tanks conks the will mill be fie done done hy by gravity it Is estimated that the cost of mining the ore will ill not be more than SO 50 cents per ton fort and TUB THE ENTIRE COST of mining nail mining milling will be under 2 the pro will N ill all ai I 1 be stored in the mine the first station in the juff tunnel will be it at a distance of oc feet ficia the mouth an upraise of thirty feet feat u will ill lie be made bet heie a to conne council t with the old workings of the winter quart quarters an ore bin will be built at the bottom of the upraise into A which I 1 ib the ore are from the winter quarters will bo bit dumpe dumpf td d A gate in the bin wilt will allow the cars on the woodruff tunnel tr to be tilled filled automatically another tallon and ore bin 20 feet in taps the tolman 1 iron r on shaft find and whip shaft no 3 e station callon will be 1000 feet in and will top tap the northern light find and monarch three levels will also be run on the vein at this point from which an unlimited quantity of ore can bo be obtained but it will be several years before it will be b necessary to make these last connections as aa tho the winter quarters and tolman will supply an ample quantity of ore tor for years it in ili the intention to tile the low grade silver ore with the gold fold aa GO 0 per cent of the silver can an falso also be saved raved by tile HIP cyanide process all silver ore running above thirty live five ounces will be shipped also tin tit chlorides and it a tale lilt like formation in fix which abich high malueg nrc are found and which h cannot be le ached the mill in all and teady ready tor for tho the machinery part of which Is now at mercur the mill ITT in a well P built allt and substantial structure find and re alet heats ere credit on n the contractors contract contra clois white while A I 1 ford the r lie main building 0 or r mill ifor tord r la slams outside tile ore bin at top 1 it t wilt will tiye a blake axis r of if SOO tons rapacity capacity a wall roll j mals e and a cornish rolt roll revola tareena between the crusher and rolls till serve as chute ami only about 25 per cent of the 0 oie wilt will reach the last lalit re roll the tank acorn room Is 14 anil and will hold bix thirty ton tanks another tank room will be added on the ibe ort 1 as soon koon ds 8 more tanks ate an needed TIT the engine room moul win will lie be and will wil I 1 have have a 1 lo 10 horse power coralis engine ingi n 0 two SO EO holto barrt power bollei a will be b placed laced in tile hie boiler be 1 ler zoom loom 2130 in exe excavating ava till g for or the engine and boiler roonie quite IT a rich eln ehi or ore was str struck lick another rich vein of oc fiher ore was wa 3 baruck in ili grading out tile the road to the inlall in laci fact it la Is impossible to estimate how many millions or dollars llo hidden away under tile hie Noti thern light property PIPELINE PIPE LINK LINE C col 0 1 albore liaa has nearly completed hla his survey bijur vey of tile the pipe lin from box springs spring two miles to tile hie CRA ca jd the water will viii run by frailly to E u point about ilio feet feel below tile the mill it will bo be pumped up from there to a i gallon tank just jual above I 1 the he mill the capacity of tile springs Is 1 about three 9 a lions per minute or gallons every twenty tour four hours it Is estimated that chat it requires about forty fort gallons per toll ion per day day for all pui purposes poses SO en there re 11 lie be ample water the pipe Is in III a few dayn when ahr be work of laying it will begin unless some unforeseen accident oc curol everything will be ready to begin running the mill fly by ane first of tile year the pos tonice lice to be callol balle 1 zion will also be open by that time under chaire chat go 0 f postmaster ster frank boyles who now runs a bittle stoic stale and refreshment house near the mill and where vial via tors ale aie very cordially welcomed A good deal of boork Is being done on other properties on oil lion hill among these are tho the trace lion chloride point pollock and Alc Kinley group ot of iteen claims all of which have in dictations that tile her bill develop into good pa ink ing propel tips alie west dip continues to attract a attention tie I 1 it on and anuell development and assessment work nork is if being done t h ere Ales alessios sirs filble have just put ten tell inen n at N work ork con cm the syndicate neat near tile tho mouth ot of Lowi stan agyon they will also d da considerable work on the granite mountain which joins it al tO about 1000 worth of work will u III lir be lone done on oil these claims new years yeam the golden oate date is ii employ lne about corly men and running three shirts the work nork itt Is in milney tinly in inking banking tho lilt upper shrift shaft and out tile tile pie body no new indications 1 appear lit in regard to loi the early erection of ii a mill tout but it Is known thit that fit regail to tho iho nent of tile the ore core 11 lias ceased with the of a proc essi will aill save have a higher per lent lalit of 0 values than any othor method in tt ie e when the mill is built it will ili without yit hout doubt be tb the perfect in tit the world the A ire for rl a telephone line ii tween tile the opler pumping station and mercur will iiii lip le here in ili IL a few days anil and th gold clr toll lt wa welter ter company will thon then the wi alie Q and bucke connection with will the stat maelim on help bete tl aliey a alan is intend it I 1 put lit in a lele meter ci ley t their lank cattle on it the summit so fio that hie 11 1 hought of nf th alie wilier will be auton automatically indicated |