Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-02-12 | Page 12 | U. S. Opens Large Boody of Low-Grade

i U. S. OPENS LIT : BODY OF LOW-GRADE i Now Driving Crosscut East ! to Cut Vein of Free Milling Gold Ore. i Special to The Tribune. ! BEAVER CITY, Feb. 11. The dlselos- i ure of a wide zone of low-eratle mlllinK values la the upshot of the completion of the crosscut from the elhty-five-foot point of the shaft of the United States Smeltlns. Reflnlnsr & Minlnir company at ' Fortulia. It is said that an astonishing amount of low-grade ore was encountered encoun-tered In the crosscut and that as a consequence con-sequence the mine management has started another crosscut on the same level to the east, with the .expectation of openintr up another vein In that direction di-rection and more mtllinfr values. No shipping values were encountered In the west vein and no drifting will be done for the present for ore shoots, it boinft the Intention of the management in crosscut the east vein and then resume re-sume lnkinr operations, When the shaft was started 115 feet north of the Davis lease shaft and ore htm encountered at the collar and in the outcrop of the vein which lies west of the shaft at the eiKhty-five-foot level, it was believed that this was the famous Davis lease vein. The later discovery 1 of a good ore shoot on the Whalen lease j and on the same vein seemed to confirm this belief, but subsequent developments have led to the belief that the mvls vein 1 trlkes east of the U. S. shaft and that there are two distinct ore-hearing 1 fissures with their respective systems of i , ore shoots. It is believed that the east , I crosscut from the U. S. shaft will throw j some lipht on this theory.