| Show IN MT BALDY Fine GoldBearing Rock in a Number of Propositions TRIBUNE SPECIAL Richfield May 15Ml T E Glllan a veteran of the mining camps of Plute I county has returned to Richfield from I a rough trip among the districts south of this city In Mount Baldy district l Just over the line from Gold mountain where Mr Glllan Is deeply Interested ho experienced some difficult climbs wallowing through hipdeep snow where his horse could not follow Going byway by-way of Cottonwood canyon he traversed trav-ersed the territory of the L N the PorjueSurprise and Mountain Queen The owners of the PerjueSurprlse have probably done the most persever ing and methodical work of any winter operators at the Vale Unceasingly through the cold weather a force of miners have added daily length to a drift from the winze on the vein and not without reward At the grass roots 1000 samples were taken from tho crop pings Where the winze was sunk the vein Is twenty feet wide and every foot of workings IB in vein matter In the nowdriving drift at thoIntersection of two veins the miners have recently broken into ore that leads those in charge to hope they have found the parent par-ent of the 51000 cropplngs In the Mountain Queen tunnel has Just been exposed an eightfoot breast of ore that averages 530 per ton The extent of the strike cannot now be determined because the entire face of the tunnel Is solid ore and tho walls have not befcn touched Dr P A H Franklin Is op crating the ground Only a few rods from the late Moun tain Queen strllco fnl K V < ATrtmU nn June 1st will inaugurate a vigorous campaign on tho L N group an ex tension of the same vein He holds the domain by lease and bond and expects before the fall snow files to consummate a deal that will net well up Into the thousands A recent report on the L vt N by Engineer John T Breckon of Salt Lake contains some Interesting data It reads In part The L N claims lie about five Jnlles South nt Hin Awr > lrt Tnlll 1 Gold mountain district and are evident ly upon the same mineral belt The geologIcal ge-ological formation IB precisely the same as that part of Gold mountain district claimed by the Annie Laurie The mother lode of that vicinity runs ding onally across the group In many places this mother lode Is 300 feet wide solid quartz and Is plainly traceable on the Gurface for a mile Along Its course It shows gold and Silver values every where from a trace to 5500 per ton On the fifteen claims of the L N group 500 feet of work has been done This Is In open cuts a 100foot shaft and 200 feet of tunneling This shaft is near a crater on the mother lode which at that point Is 300 feet wide The dump from this shaft yields an average assay of 56 per ton and the walls of the shaft from top to bottom average at least that much The character of the ore Is Idea tical with that of the Annie Laurie susceptible sus-ceptible to a milling and cyanide treatment treat-ment A depth of 1COO feet can he gained on the ore bodies by tunneling On claim nine there la a 200foot tunnel running toward the above mentioned shaft which is sunk at the Intersection of two other veins with the mother lode Another 400 feet in this tunnel will carry It to the mother lode which It J will tap at a depth of 350 feet On the L N ground is an abundance of fine mining timber and plenty of water from Bullion creek |
