Show it BINGHAM OPERATIONS j tarlus and West Mount n Amanda ri Carload k OquirrhBingham R n The Bulletin says The Starlus and j i I West Mountain groups of clalmsthe I main workings of which are within unshot of Bingham postofflce com s rise eleven locations with t en an area of 15 acres are now being intelligently IntclScnt f leveloped by OqulrrhBingham opper company present owner of this i alunble property I i In former years considerable money I as spent by different owners on the I arlous claims In surface work sink t nS shafts and tunnels In search of I jpld or copper deposits but nothing vas done In the direction which best s bCt I I nformed mining men would consider he one for proper development The I I rrnn foot n rv sttiMt i i rcltst amount of work wan done In I he StrluG in running a tunnel SS2 cot In length from the main canyon j his tunnel was started l east and had t held this course would probably cat have ho 1 eeloped a vldendpayjng mine L udalnS from surface workings and I I H Immense cr ° PPinS on the apex of tho the r ountaln which this tunnel would 11 ave cut und1 several hundred feet III below surface I Inteac of following the I tOlowlng course how t Yer the tunnel was turned SUnncl gradually Ii to tl the grdualy north and then to the northwest 111 so that its SrffiS Ia general course II nearly Parallel to the the Ii canyon breast be o COpper ing only 350 feet horizontally from the I Belt railroad track I About tour years ago a cavc oc curred In this tunnel 550 feet from iu mouth rn t50 It J SKI The 0fluJrrhBInsham Copper I company R fdams under the direction of George i I 1 work log the nrsLof superintendent lfist December commenced in talc up the cave and then found by I tn I survey that the tunnel beyond that point extended north and northwest Instead of cast as was supposed A fifteenton carload of ore was I taken 1teenlon Amanda vein 100 feet t1om below surface and shipped to the Blngham Copper and Gold Mining companys mel r the first of this month The control sample of this shipment assayed by It H Officer of Salt Lake showed 1 per cent copper and 342 gold To strike the Amanda vein at a depth of 500 feet on Its Incline In-cline at Stailus tunnel level and also to crosscut the formation under crop pings on thc mountain above l cross pinGs cut drift Is now helnrr run from n point ill the Stsrius tunnel 500 feet from Its mouth southeast It Is estimated that thlsidrlft will strike the Amanda vein at 250 to 3Q feet from the tunnel The advantages possessed by the OqulrrhBingham Copper company for I the economical mining inc delivering of Its ore to the smelter are all that could be desired The main tunnel will cut all veins nt 0 considerable depth and pr ducts can be mined and dumped on the Copper Belt railroad cars directly di-rectly at the mouth of the tunnel The probable total cost of mining and delivering de-livering to smelter at West Jordan should not exceed 5250 per ton |