Salt Lake Tribune | 1902-01-01 | Page 55 | Ajax Mining Company

I AJAX MINING COMPANY I 1 I Ono of the motromiiing I sIn s-In the Tintlc mining camp Is the Ajax group During Clio past year extensive developments have I been accomplished ac-complished principal on the 1000foot lovcl where the dSveloprnQnts for the past two months lUve been very en couraglnir on tho main fissure and also on the Hungarian fl ure On the main fissure a good showing of ore ofqum l one Plate for bout 250 feet I in length ThUi orebody Is being explored by raises and winzes and the I showing he I most encouraging An a result a Iarye > bqdy of one is being developed I de-veloped which tan b > marketed at avery t I a-very handsqmtf ftt During1 the year about > > liOO tons of 5 copper or were shipped which average ave-rage about 20 per cent copper and carried car-ried the usual values In gold qnd silver sil-ver More than 150 tolls of lead ore were shipped which averaged about S12in gold S3 ounces silver and 22 percent per-cent lead Practically a now plant of machinery was placed upon the property during the past year This consisted of a doublpcyllmlcr 10 by li holstlngen Klne and cable an IngenjollSargeant air compressor two bpllcr I heater teed pump air receiver several mining mi-ning cars and three air drills The new machinery will greatly aid In the economical development df the property prop-erty ne previously more or lfi18 delay has been suffered on account of the defective machinery and because of the compressed air witch wu purchased pur-chased from the Mammoth company f S