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Show SILVER-LEAD SI South Fork Big Cottonwood Camp Has Great Find of Good Ore. SEARCH OF YEARS IS NOW TO BE REWARDED Three Feet Shipping Rock Appears Ap-pears in Face of Long Tunnel. News of a very fino strike of rich silver-lead ore was. brought Lo Salt Lake Thursday morning by W. L. lFar-wood, lFar-wood, tho general manager of the Park City Mining and Power compnny. The-Park The-Park Cit3' company among other properties prop-erties owns the noted old Baby Mc-Kee Mc-Kee territory, adjoining which on tho northwest is the Bran burg property, tho Hccne of the present find of ore. Mr. Harwood states that the Branburg prop-ert3- has been under development for j main- years, the owners slaving by their property with a faithfulness that eati never bo rewarded too generously, and the day of big rewards for this organization or-ganization is now at hand. A tunnel some S00 lo 000 feet in leugth has been sent, into this property, the location of the ground being up tho South Fork of the Big Cottonwood in the vicinity of the Kennebec, llexall, Cardiff and other well-known mines prominently among which is the old Carbonate propcry. now one of the big producers of thai section. This long tunnel has tapped three foct of ore, the average of the eutire width being (35 per cent, lead and 45 ounces silver per ton. The ore makes in tho contact between quartzite and porplryry. and is a clean sulphide, samples of which Mr. llarwood brings with him to show tho innumerable Salt Lakers interested iu that corner of the mountains. The present face of tho tunnel is not over 400 feet vertically from the surface. Mr. Harwood sa3s this fine striko lias infused new life into all tho South Fork regipn. There arc a half dozcu or more propositions hard at work, among them being the properties abovo enumerated, enumer-ated, and on all there are results of magnitude due at practically any day. "That section is going to surprise Salt Lake mighty soon," said Mr. Harwood. Har-wood. "Tt is one of the richest portions por-tions of the Stale. The Baby McKee, liexall, Cardiff, Carbonate arid others aro worthy of the attention being given them. Coming down the can3on road and there is not a better mountain road anywhere in the world I passed four wagons bringing the ores dowu from the Carbonate leasers. The Branburg strike demonstrates that wo aro not working iu vain, even if we did not havo history to back us up as to South Fork resources." |
