Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-06 | Page 12 | Engineer Reports on Dugway District

'oven REPORTS 01 DUGWAYDISTRICT Pierre Peugeot Says Various Prospects Are Full of Promise. An unusually interesting: report on the Dugway district, the result of two weeks' examination of various properties in the section, was brought to Salt Lake yesterday yester-day by Pierre Peucreot, consulting' engineer engi-neer for the Dugway Smelting company. Several investigation trips have been made to the district by Peugeot during dur-ing the last few months, but upon his return re-turn lie announced that the district looked better to him than ever. At tho Dugway liertha, he said, approximately ap-proximately u0 tons of good ore had been accumulated and the ore pile is growing every day, as the miners are working in ore all the time in erosscutting and drifting. drift-ing. After erosscutting for a distance of fifty-two feet the miners encountered the hanging wall and now they are blocking block-ing out tonnage. The grade of the ore, i Mr. Peugeot reports, is holding up well. The miners are driving both ways on the ! vein. The Lucky Star Copper company is now working- in a full face of ore which has been opened by a drift twelve feet wide and ten feet high. The drift is in about thirty feet and the footwall has not been encountered. Mr. Peugeot considers the showing remarkable in view of the limited amount of development work. The Lucky Star ore dump also is growing rapidly and the ore is of good grade. On the Piedmont property Mr. Peugeot explored about fifteen openings, all of which showed copper almost from the grass roots. In an incline down 220 feet he found a vein of bismuth which was plainly visible the entire length of the incline. The Hidden Treasure has a six-foot vein of copper which averages a little better than 5 per cent. The Hidden Treasure has contracted to furnish the proposed smelter with five tons of ore daily. v The Dugway Mining company, controlled con-trolled by the Cannon interests of Salt Lake, has contracted with the smelting company to furnish ten tons of ore daily. The lease on the property expired recently re-cently and it is understood that it is to be operated by the owners. Of the various properties examined, Mr. Peugeot reports, none created a more favorable impression than the group of claims known as the Belcher property, controlled by Salt Lakers. Several old prospect holes have been run on the property prop-erty and the results obtained in each ; are of a highly encouraging character. A tunnel, the lowest working, is in 220 feet and within about 400 feet of a big blowout. I To cut tiie blowout at depth it will be necessary nec-essary to continue the tunnel for another an-other 600 feet. Mr. Peugeot estimates. About 300 feet from the tunnel portal an outcropping has been opened by means of an open cut, ten feet wide and twenty-five feet long, and is all in a mixture mix-ture of iron, copper and carbonates. Forty feet further up the mountain is another blowout which has been developed devel-oped by an open cut and a winze. The cut is 'more than 100 feet long and the winze is down about thirty feet, all in copper and iron, i At a point seventy-five feet further up I the hill, about 300 feet above the tunnel level, is a prospect hole down about eight , feet and all in gossan. Gossan also was disclosed in an open cut 200 feet higher on the mountain and three winzes, twenty, thirty and fifty feet deep, 'respectively, 're-spectively, all are in gossan. From these workings one car of ore was shipped some time ago. The majority of the workings are in lime, but the "last 100 feet of the fissure extends into the quartzite and maintains its full width. It is understood that a gang of men was sent to the Belcher property the latter part of last week to resume operations.