Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-13 | Page 6 | Cut a Fissure in Old Galena

iff GUT k FiSSlSRE ' H IN 0L0 GALENA Important Disclosure in. "J. S. Domain Do-main While Dropping1 Dowii the Old Shaft H' 'lie old Galena shaft on the proper- Il ties of the United"1 States Mining com- pany at Bingham, upon which sinking was resumed' a short time ago, has Just dropped through a llssurc In the porphyry which opens up the most roseate possibilities at its intersection with the contact, and for whlch point the management will begin drifting at a dcptht 400 feet, which level is now being rapidly, approached. The fissure, U Independent of any previously tapped i In. that domain, has a' width of three I, feet between walls with an ideal nuartz as a gauge and In structure Identical with those of the camp and especially those of the Old Jordan that for many years were so productive. In the.fiesure ,is an eight-inch streak, raid Superintendent Allen last night, a :.arnpling of which revealed as much as :0 per cent lead, thirty ounces sliver, .1 per cent copper and $2 gold with a , heavy iron excess, a product that can- 1 not but afford a handsome margin, es pecially In the company's own lead nirnaces. The remainder of the filling ' In the fissure consists of milling ore disseminated with lead and the other I nietnls in lesser percentages. Hie slg- l niflcance of the strike Is In the cross- t ing of the Assure and the contact be tween the porphyry and the limestone, the latter having been passed through above-. It was a similar condition that preceded the great Emma stope and I ,spme others not distant from tho pres ent workings in Galena ground and I Stout i he history of those extraordinary j rvclopmcnts will be repeated, the management is quite confident. With ( the lead-blast furnaces at 'the com pany's smelter now being installed, life I strike in Galena territory and the pos sibilities of a big ore body ahead is doubly gratifying.