Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-15 | Page 8 | Sesational Strike in Bingham & New Haven

SENSATIONAL STRIKE IN BINGHAM & NEW HAVEN . For more than two months rumors H have been In circulation of a great Mriko in tho Bingham & Now Haven Copper and Gold company's mines, above" the Highland Boy, and reference to thorn has been made in these columns. col-umns. The management, however, has been reticent, and oven this week says nothing, though allowing current reports re-ports to go for what they are worth, says the Bulletin of Bingham. But the Bulletin has at length learned exact conditions at the company's property, and is qualified to make a reliable statement state-ment of them that comes from an undoubted un-doubted source. Three months ago, at about 2000 feet in, the main tunnel encountered the Zelnora vein, for which It was malting. It out through eight feet of copper. Drifts, amounting to 200 feet, also have since been run each way on the vein, raises have been made, all In oro four to ten feet wide. It Is pronounced to bo uniformly the best copper ore Bingham has produced about one-third a first-class first-class shipping product. Several days ago a chunk of chalcopyrite that came out too heavy for the strength of one man was found to assay 33 per cent copper, and there are lurge quantities of the same material that assay about the same value. Today on the Frisco dump (mouth of long tunnel) aro about 600 tons of the shipping oro and over 1000 tons of milling. mill-ing. As soon as the Clipper Hill road Is open teams will begin hauling the first-class to the depot. The road Is In bad condition, resulting from freshets; but n gang of men has been working on it several days and It should be In repair re-pair some time next week.