Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-02-19 | Page 12 | Says Monitor Will Make a Good Mine

SAYS UTOR WILL MAKE HOOD MINE Geologist Paul Valtinke Returns Re-turns From Beaver County Coun-ty Examination Trip. MUCH ORE IS IN SIGHT Will Be Coming Into Markets Mar-kets Here Inside of a Month. Geologist Paul Valtlnko has returned from Beaver county, whore hts made an examination of the Monitor group arid also visited other properties out from Milford. lie says the outlook for the Monitor Ih moro than reassuring and that It can be built up Into a good producer. Tho examination of the district showed faulting, as rovcaled In the numerous workings, to be somewhat more extensive than had previously been realized. Tho ore makes in fissures in bedding pianos, and In oomo instancos replaces the crushed materia! on lho hanging wall side of the fault. As soon as the laying of track and the installation of the boiler and hoist arc completed the mining of ore will begin, and, Judging from the tonnage now exposed ex-posed in the mine, several carloads should reach the SalL Lake market within a month's time. The Monitor is an old mlno, having been a shipper for thirty years. Its lower developments consists of a tunnel driven into tho hill for 180 feet, from which several win7.es wero sunk in following ore. Tho upper workings, connected by wlnzoa with drifts Issuing from tho lower tunnel, present large stopes, from which most of tho 010 heretoforo mined was taken. Theso upper workings, according ac-cording to Mr. Valtinke, show very little mlnor-liko exploration. Thoy were operated op-erated by leasers who followed every ore shoot, If sufficiently high grade to ship, until these workings today present a labyrinth of drifts, winzes and raises, while pillars and unstoped ore, representing represent-ing values high enough under present conditions to be handled profitably, were left In place. The ores arc principally oxidized lead, carrying in places low zinc values. Tho silver values of the ore soeni to ho do-rived do-rived from tho tctrahcdrlte (arsenical variety). In tho oxidized ore zinc blndhelmlto is probably carrying the silver sil-ver values as far as encountered. Tho physical condition of tho oro bodies as existing in the mlno today, in connection with tho discoveries made by Mr. Valtlnko regarding structure, lead him to believe that tho Monitor mine is only in its infancy and that fur-thor fur-thor development along Intelligent lines will within a. relatively short time make It a steady producer. During a part of his stay In this vicinity vicin-ity Mr. Valtlnko was tho guest of G. E. Wilkin, superintendent of the Moscow mine. In company wilh his host he visited vis-ited onco moro tho old workings of tho mine. Thp mineralized beddings on the S0O level show an excellent gr.-ido of shipping ore. A second fault, dipping southwesterly, was soon conquered and tho continuation of the oro bodies found. The bottom of the new Cullen shaft, nov 500 feet deep, was visited, and, according- to the sinking records so far made, tho SOO-foot level, from which drifting Is intended, should bo reached by the middle of May. Tho rare mineral, min-eral, plumbojarositc, peculiar to tho ore bodies of tho Moscow mine, was observed ob-served by Mr. Valtinke in places and Bevornl very pood specimens were obtained.