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Show HONERINE MINES I I 1 I I I i i in Tn th crop f plenflld achlavements on which the year has Just closed, none has risen to greater itature, perhaps, than that exploited by the Honerlne "Tlnlnir company, and which has culminated, cul-minated, after expenditure exceeding f I 000,000, In the reclamation of a group of Bonanza at Stockton the -wealth of vxhlch. at this time. Is piled up Into n any millions. And yet. when thin -.node of metallic wealth was Invaded j those by whom the trail was blazed for the companv that followed and snatched from the torpor of a camp that had been so long neglected. Its defiant de-fiant riches, It presented a spectacle of desolation from which not a few of the 1 rave had withdrawn with a shudder. That locked within Us sullen embrace, owever, were many of the richest ' prizes with which the ledges of UtsJl wore endowed, was the affirmation of every miner who had Inquired Into them. One of the first camps and one of the most productive In the sisterhood of earlr days. It had been extensively explored, nnd from levels above those fl lr which the waters of an emboweled river had risen, large fortunes had been derived. To fathom those that underlaid under-laid this plane and within the stubborn crip of the waters, many had endeavored. endeav-ored. Shafts were undertaken, but tht audacious originators of these were Roon overcome by the waters thru flooded he wealth for which they strove. ne Investment after another was burled In a sea that refused to recede; that refused re-fused to relinquish Us wealth. There efforts were repeated, until finally Mr. fharles H. Scheu of this city embracod the fearful task, and with mighty pumps fought his way. Inch by Inch, into the flooded realm of riches. Tn this tremendous task he had the co-operation of friendly Interests in this city. Against the towering odds they perse- Ivered until they at last succeeded in demonstrating that ledges productive of o much above were to be made to ex-i ex-i . eed the performances of earlier days In their production of wealth below. It was upon this positive assurance that preat wealth awaited it at depth that ' he present companv was organised and the work of redemption begun. This work was inuuprurated through :he upper tunnel that at that time had ;-netrated the zone for a distance of '000 feet or more. At this point a station sta-tion was cut out, and with adequate machinery sinking was begun from the cno-foot level and upon one of the main hannc-ls of wealth Two hundred feet I below and in the incline with which the i :,ew company was dropping down, the ! I S00-foot level was established. From .his point the management began to aggressively ag-gressively extend its researches along i he Honerlne vein, long known as the master-lode In that theretofore productive produc-tive region. The disclosures along this level verified all that had been claimed for the merits of the territory, and one after another new channels were opened up, until there was a veritable forest of them. With thin evidence of the strength of the channels and their pro-duCtiveneSB, pro-duCtiveneSB, the company, in July, 1902, determined to undermine them to a lower tunnel, that would not only un-tVi un-tVi ilnmnln norl release; Its orn bodies, but th:U would afford a most b economical outlet for the wealth that had been then exposed. The task was '! a formidable one. an expensive one. but H1 since that time It has been steadily ad- H, J!; vanced into the zone. Intersecting one j ' ledge after another, until half a dozen p-jj or more were penetrated, and until at Hj i 1 this time and at a distance of 6950 feet Hi j from Its portal. It has reached a point 1 p within ninety feet of a main shaft that ftf has been since dropped down and mmit through which the ores from upper U-v- K ! els will be lowered to the tunnel out- H ' let below. Since work up:n this avenue ' was inaugurated, it has been inter- i nipted but four months, extending from j April 27 to September 15, This suspen- B J lon for the purpose of permitting the irsAer that was pouring In enormous K ll volume, to flow Meanwhile laterals I were driven out Into the countrj rock, B that the breast of the main tunnel might R adyance while the waters were being I temporarily diverted. The huge under- taking, which has been prosecuted un-B un-B rier the management of Wlllard P. Sny- der, under the superlntendehcy of E. J. H Raddats, has progressed without inter- H. j tuptlon. other than that mentioned, and Bt , In a few days will be ready for th ? H transportation of ores. To facilitate 1 this Its tracks will be opeiated with an fl - electric locomotive of tremendous horse power, and from ;ill portions of the lone B the ores discharged ot a cost not ex- ecaing a fraction of that Incurred un-H un-H der patriarchal methods. Not only has B the long drain tunnel succeeded In un- ii king the waters by which the- Honer-B Honer-B Ina and other ledges owned by the B Honerlne Mining company have been B overcome, but from their sllrny em- hrace It has liberated the ledgea of li e I Black Diamond, the Bu'llon and Qalena King, with those of the Honerlne West nd neighboring companies to follow ' t'ndoubtc-dly thiB enterprise, whic h has I incurred an outlay of enormous wealth. ; has been the salvation of a region ri h iWiB In all the most prominent metals, and iWfB which with Its veins unwatered. should H he made within the next few years as H productive as any corresponding area in iVfl this or any neighboring State. The disclosures made by the Honerlne Klncc the exploration of this territory I was begun under a management that iVfH was conversant with every condition, H are among the most extraordinary hi I the history of T'tah On the 800-foot I . j level, which is advanced for 1300 f- In I ground that had been hitherto unex- I iB t plored, ha been a chapter of most Im-portant Im-portant development, t'onneetion with the first channel was made at a short dletance from the shaft, Uic ore averaging aver-aging ten feet between walls, while along its strike the level wa extended in an unbroken Btretch Of ore for o t 100 feet. From this point and to the next channel the management passed through an Interrurring stratum of limestone, a distance of 100 feet, when the famous Buhl chute, or No. 2 channel, was encountered. This channel, one of the most powerful ever tapped In the region, reveals an average width of twelve feet between walls, "With a length of 120 feet. Extending the level 225 feet from this point and through another stretch of limestone, thi Klm-berlj Klm-berlj chute, which Is perhaps the master mas-ter of them all at this time, was encountered en-countered The developments along this chute have In a measure gratified of development was prosecuted as was It above, and with results perhaps equally. If not more gratifying The first of the series of ore-bearing channels chan-nels with w hit h connection was made on this leye was at a point fifteen feet east of the shaft. The channel here was an entirely new one. and Independent of any previously discovered In th property, prop-erty, having Its blind apex a feu feet above the avenue. For sixty feet the level was advanced along the strike of this chute, the ore contained In it maintaining main-taining a width of seven feet between walls. From this point the level was extended eighty-five feet In limestone, after which connection was made with another hitherto unknown channel, which showed a width of -i,vht feet between be-tween walls and sixty feet In length. The Interval between the second of these blind ledges .nd the next was con-elderably con-elderably less. Superintendent Raddats, The resources of this artery, which had amazed the mos-t ardent admirer of the Honnrlne's re.-ources above, were emphasized em-phasized below. For 110 feet the level w;ls extended In ore along Its strike Its w idth disclosing an av erage of ten feet. Thus for a distance of 760 feet between the mouth of lh level and Its breast, six distinct arteries of wealth had been opened up, while ahead of it are at least two more, the presence of which is positively known. To open up these channels at greater depth the management manage-ment will begin dropping down the ma-!n phaft the present month, and another level established nt .-i depth of 900 feet, this to be extended to a connection with the drain tunnel now rapidly approaching, approach-ing, and through which all of the ores contained within the channels enumerated enumer-ated will be passed to the loading bins on the railroad or at the mill without, Of the extent of the ore bodies and the volume of wealth contained In these various channels, the management, conscious con-scious nil the while that It is sufficient to more than reimburse them In every dollar that has been expended In their development, has not deprived the regular reg-ular work of time with which to make an accurate measurement 'I here Is no douht. however, that they are among the largest ever uncocrcd In the West and that contained In them Is enough ore with which to meet the requirements require-ments of the mill, while taxing the capacity ca-pacity of not a few of the valley furnaces fur-naces for many, many years Nor Is this nil the wealth now exposed In the ledges of the great Honerlne, On the eontrary, there Is blocked out and un-stoped un-stoped above the main levels a tonnnge of wealth that It is difficult to Intelligently Intelli-gently compute. The ores to which ref erence has been made consist of about two-thirds first-class, or of commercial quality, and about one-third milling. The most gratifying disclosure which has been made as depth has been attained, at-tained, however, is that the percentage of first-class ore has been Increased. Again the tendency of the various channels chan-nels Is toward a pednt of common divergence, di-vergence, and that they will at some point In the great basin toward which they are dipping oe united In one great body of wealth Is a theory supported by not a few of thosa who have Inquired In-quired into the geology of the reglcm who have studied the occurrence and the behavior of its ores. The theory of course is a fascinating one and so plausible, perhaps, that the management manage-ment Will be as liberal In exploiting It as It has been In the exploitation of others that were conceived In theory to mature in conditions. The reference made to ore bodies above Is confined to those stupendous ones occurring in the main Honerine ledge It does not Include the wealth exposed in the Ada ledge, the St. Pat-i rick, nor the Hercules, each of which Is at this time, and for some time has been, productive of a large percentage of that ore and of which 140 tons ate being dally reduced in the mill to a high-grade concentrate, while 300 ton9 of first-class ore are being monthly sent to the valley smelters While the latter ledges are subordinate to the master one, the Honerlne, they are none the lesa well-defined, none the less resourceful, to the extent to which they go. With the main one, each of the latter runs parallel, connection with each having been made by workings extending from the main avenue by which the Honerlne Is opened up. Six hundred feet distant from the Honerlne, Honer-lne, the Ada was en ountered ; -400 feet beyond, the st. Patrick, and W) feet distant from it the Hercules. From I each of these ores of fine quality hare been mined in th past, while developments develop-ments upon them through the drain tunnel have nhown thRt each of them Increases Its proportion an depth Is Increased In-creased Of this, the St Patrick, along which ledge the management Is now drifting from the lower tunnel level, affords the best example On the drain tunnel level. Indeed, it shown a width exceeding lOO feet Into this the management man-agement Is now driving Its way and only a few days ago connection was made with an ore body, which has been followed for forty feet on Its strike, while It was expecting bourlv to reach the point of Intersection between the Hhsuh-s and at which the main ore body makea In extending the tunnel connection con-nection has been made with the south fork of the Mervln, the Galena King. Hercules. St Patrick und the Ada. The next connection of importance to be mai'o with the Horenine Is at a point beyond the new trlplc-compartment shaft. The cost of this tunnel, by whl' h o many avenues of wealth have been opened up. will at its completion within the next few weks have reached a total of about f200,000 This Is a bagatelle, baga-telle, however, compared with the enormous enor-mous saving it will enable the Honerlne companv and neighboring ones to tuck away with each vear's operation. Not only will the wealth of the Honerlne be passed through it on its way to market, but the wealth of all neighboring companies, com-panies, and the saving mado as time rolls on will pll- up to enormous heights. A description of the plant through which all this is to be accomplished will Interest the student and. perhaps, afford af-ford him a lesson that Is to be derived from no other source. For this The Tribune Is Indebted to Mr W K Mur-dock, Mur-dock, Its efficient superintendent. At the top are seven storage bins, Into which are delivered the ores from the mines. Each of these has a c apacity of 150 tons. From these the ores are fed to a No. 4 Gates crusher by a 24-lnrh belt conveyer, seventy feet in length. From the crusher the ore Is elevated to a Vi-inch mesh screen, with coarse rolls, and afterwaidfi elevated with the fines to a 500-ton bin at the top of the mill. A one-teni.h sample Is taken at the discharge dis-charge of that elevator, the sample going go-ing through two sets of rolls there being be-ing a sampler between each set so that l-1000th Is the final sample, the rejection going back to the bin. The ore from there passes to a three-mesh screen, the oversnze going to a second set of rolls, with everything made to pass a three-mesh here. From thee rolls It goes through a second three-mesh three-mesh screen, the first of the tromel line, the oversize here going to a conical coni-cal screen the oversize from It returning I to the rolls, the underslze going to the I No. 1 Jig. The oversize from three-mesh three-mesh passes on to a four-m-sh; the oversize from this going to No 2 Jig. The underslze from four-mesh goes to a stx-mesh screen, the underslze from this going to No. 3 Jig, and the under-slzo under-slzo passing Into an eight-mesh, from which the oversize goes to No. 4 Jig, nnd the undcrsize with the, water to a separator, where Jigs fi and 6 get their feed About 6.r. per cent of the values are saved on the Jigs and the concentrates concen-trates will run that high In lead. The fallings from all six jigs are again elevated to a six-mesh conical screen, from It to three five-foot Huntington Hunt-ington mills, and one six-foot Chilian mill, and ground to sixteen-mesh. This product is fed on Wllficy tables, after golnp through a separator, the middlings mid-dlings from which go to five more Wllfley tables. The slime water from all tables and separators Is pumped up .V -v ' ( 7 TTl X lpir I Cr O f of X VNfii.rto if J y J ff j j f lju- j j 1 . 1 , 1 I 1 - ,,ri y Q . - j J ' i i 1 J ero,ir - mjL r r , - Muar - 9i 0oeut o" ao '"O 90 Ljvmm every expectation upon which the management man-agement in Its splendid undertaking relied. re-lied. For 100 feet the level was extended ex-tended contlnuoucly In ore, while the developments at this time proclaim an average width of ten feet. The ore In this channel affords perhaps the best evidence of the Honerine's real merits To open It tip on he dip, the management manage-ment has followed It with a winze and on an Incline to the 900-foot level, or 120 feet, while at the bottom of this winze Is a solid mass of shipping ore, running to almost sensational heights In lead and maintaining gold and silver values, without reference to a percentage of copper Continuing from the KImberly chute, the next In the series of ore-bearing ore-bearing channels was encountered a distance of 120 feet further, and after that much limestone had been passed through. At this point the widest In this olio of ore-bearing channels was encountered, the ore showing a width of twenty feet between walls, while B ong its strike the level was continued in mineral for sixty feet or more. It was through slxt feet of limestone that Irlv'ng but seventeen feet In the lime-rock lime-rock when he shot Intr, another channel, or the No. 1. as It had been designated above For eighty feet along Its strike he forged ahead In ore, the strength of the channel ten feet between Its walls. For eighty-five feet after leaving this the route was In the limestone again. Then the fourth channel was connected with, this the Buhl on its course toward the deep For 120 feet the management pushed ahead In ore along the strike of this channel, which, as it did above, showed a width of twelve feet. The distance dis-tance between the stations of wealth now began to grow less, and nfter eighteen feet of limestone had been passed through, the presence of another new channel was revealed, Its apex a few feet above the main level Here another body of ore w as opened up for sixty-five feet along Its strike before the lime again asserted its presence. Through this the hole was extended for seventy feet, when connection was made with the great KImberly chute, from which the winze had been droi , ed In a column of ore from the level a.bove. to a series of Sherman classifying tanks, seven in the set, and furnish feed for seven more Wllfley tables. The slime water from tables 6 and 7 goes to three Wllfley slime tables that work In tandem, the tailings from No. 1 being be-ing the feed for No. 2, and so on. Each of these tables Is making from lriOO to 1S00 pounds of concentrates a day. The mill has a capacity of 450 tons, nnd with one phlft Is now reducing about 150 tons a day. with this to be increased in-creased at the pleasure of its management. manage-ment. It is to this perfectly equipped plant that the Honerine's neighbors will be permitted to forward their milling ores for reduction, and with It accessible to them the work before them Is rendered infinitely less difficult, their troubles materially lessened. The possessions of the Honerlne Mining Min-ing company embrace no less thari 3S0 acres of ground, more freely endowed with ledges, perhaps, than any corresponding corres-ponding area that has been opened up In the State of Utah. The system of channel occurring as they do in the I ' .A , g 5 Honerlne Mill. the management then punched a hole before it broke into the historic Connor chute, from the upper levels of which wealth sufficient to meel the requirements require-ments of an entire camp for an Indefinite Indefi-nite period had been extracted. The width of this enormous channel, that upon Its strike v, . opened up for 250 feet, varies from six to twenty-tv.o fo-t between walls, nnd below the floor of the level Is going dow n with tremendous energy. Meanwhile nnd with Ihlw astonishing arra of ore bodies upon the wealth of which to draw when the period of active production through the lower tunnel, arrived, the main phaft, below the upper tunnel, was let down another 100 feet, and the 900-foot level established. E rom this point and along the course of the monster Honerlne ledge, the campaign various ledges and developing their great strength at the intersection of these ledges with the fissures cutting a rosS them, makes the prospecting one of the simplest of which the miner has anj knowledge. At none of these intersections inter-sections has nature failed to respond with a great volume of wealth This Is a condition which exists not only In domains over which the Honerlne presides, but In those explored by the neighbors. The- career of the Honerlne should be and no doubt will be one of the most productive in T'tah. Its second-class ores are easily and economically econom-ically reduced to a first-class concentrate, concen-trate, containing such properties ns to make them most desirable at the smelters, smelt-ers, while the first-class has always found an eager market. The completion comple-tion of the tunnl to Its objective point WH1 terminate the period 0. ment; inaugural. no ,; H of dividends. With thelafi V pany will l ave ,, ben to report n oBt B, r.emutfy record shall efpml ,hQl' "J th, m my 1 I the stalwarts In thu -1-ne of ,,,h row JUjtM forda abundant assurance 01 In tho prosecution of tht. -work. In whl.h an en I re camp fl reM.,re,i to a n ure o comparing favorably with n? most pretentious no,Bhbo Snyder, who ha been th Io? of the undertaking nr.d E j S Ifs superintendent, have earn ( theniR.-lveH ma-ter rnlneM "-ij erful following which a alwul ered around the frrr,r h ; him liberally In thin er,rDJ3 with him made it possible to ! nplendld undertaking to & ni JM tlflcatlon Mr. Raddatz. whssi Idem tiled With the r-imp fn. many years, and who refined' i with It during n period of jJ5 w-nlch drove bo many out hu every representation fulfilled! ground, and that be, within the ill make !r possible to bfglnH trlbutlon of dividends, those - J watched his couree will entajfl doubt. His work has been fajtjfl work has been conscientious. tK achieving result 1 t .lefied so M he baa done It at n rout rlearljrB the bounds of ei erv - mate TheB of thetn gentlemen the H-rql row so well In hand that th fnJ dlsl t ily reveai.i -, ,we appro! distribution of gTeat wealth. Is due the commendation of fverjl In tbe company, f rty PhareholjgB has with It. Invented ore do:iar!B are Indeed to be roncrarulateB reSUltS the-, have r. , ),le . c. the cool and Its adheren'-M iron their errj THE BUCKTHORN'S WIAlJ Riches of Old Property Sespsm. Activity of New B'.wjy Upon the zone made lllustrioSJB Honerlne and nelphborlnj preeM are the properties of the P.uclthonm polldated Mining and MIlllnrH the camp of Ophlr, producfJreH million a thi first pldB sheathed In Its ledges. Its horcf Buckhcrn Marl P.B0' Is the presblent, Frank P.. '.epbB""' t-'ecretarv anrl tranirer, an'l arsfl a,,i T I ' e-presldent and fSy manager. The cr.noi,!ated ttv was organized (: t n-hlch QT' estates insoiidated MlasJ pany, of whkh the Buckhorc was the mMjor unit, Tcere arrilSjBj with those of the Western ErplsB of which the Star.todHsj const itut. d the ore promln Each, n s prod j-r-. woBn spurs, ere h been pralnSf1 large tor.r.age.i r ore - -r T.e of ,te rli h ti-rr.e rriucs at the zenith of earlier dftTi,a that O n st roruiouM To l..:h the pfSM of other camps v,as suddenly mined, the rai ip of Ophlr f'JcesBh and I'm ;ltory wafBg, the reduced cos minlnir, IHJi capital made It.; re ,ppearand der systematic e: ..i.t It lljj showing r. 'ightir nm'j cent of old days. In . -. a the Pc .khorM- aolldated 19 taking a most aH while ores so long- e-toluded irot; mark-, t a gam -.. Ih-.'.r way flj, and smelter. Under a nunH whnh haP made this poesitlH short a time and a the head Is one of the most capable minenm State, the ore-bodies have up through a system of three IJ-the IJ-the respei live 1 iar.es alons v.hhB have been driven about ICO ''jHr Tie- 1'S Jfcf, iiaiK"--. '.: '" V lljjllfc Dels and to which the ores of ""g levels are dropped through i.ffoi .lii . 1 v-: e. v.i.cn.l' 1. To blr.s it the mouth of the -"J output -i :-r '- ls -;ellv'"m, imllli.c go. tig '- "'e big jy tor operated b - : -r ' 'irM tana the dc-Htln a tioii of the."Jli! tb. !. J-alt Lake vf"3H I 1 .. e. . f tb- B'J r-roM p - - "lfW occurre:.. - within ihem U UM -? ! bo-,- -".'kto:), t0H of its ledges developing lts.'Hfe, strength at tb In 1 tlon Mires, the rei.i ey-r.t of whose rsv, has vet 10 be demur.-' '.it-J Quality of tho ores unlike 'nP eral average and metallic conlfp each lead preponderates the .liver to "each unit of tht amount of copper In the """'M ores there Is now "eWH mines of the ccnpai y '""m which to busy the m il fo. M about three yea - - w" about one-third of the h jJJJBV t while the ' ;'' , iMz ments are ex-: 1,1 I rto rJP which there '9f'?M the Par, l-'-'"5f! Under the manage-. cn; 0 inj3Rla properties have been most H and economically op-rated. Wi an impression that . - eC year the San I'-'o. ' c k0 Sj that region is .0, '-' ; JM will extend Us H.sten. to W the Buckborn coropsny. |