Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-05-31 | Page 14 | Confederate Ships High Grade Silver

( CONFEDERATE SHIPS HIGH GRADE SILVER I nother Deep Creek Property Enters List of producers; New Work Planned. I A carload shipment of high-grade sll-ir-lead ore was made this week from io fc'outhern Confederate mine, situ-;ed situ-;ed in the southern end of the dis-Ict, dis-Ict, and steps to develop the prop-ty prop-ty on a larger scale are being taken, iys the Gold Hill Standard. A cora-my cora-my is to be incorporated by the owners, at additional capital may be raised r more extensive operations, the prin-pal prin-pal new work to be undertaken being e driving of a tunnel between 300 and 0 feet In length. The new tunnel will Un foot for foot in depth, and, as it ill crosscut the formations, some inter-ting inter-ting discoveries are anticipated, as ere are apparently several veins of ore the wide fissure along which Uie claim tends. The Southern Confederate claim is t of the oldest locations in the dis-ict, dis-ict, being 1500 feet long, bufc only 200 et wide, as was provided by the inlng laws previous to 1872. It was veloped by a shaft to the depth of little more than 100 feet, the ore pro-iced pro-iced in the early days being treated i the smelter at Clifton and some ;l It hauled to Stockton. The ore is III fine steel galena, tiie best of which rries around 75 per cent lead, with jveral ounces of silver1 to the ton, and He shipment sent out this week is ex-BJIicted ex-BJIicted to be settled for at the rate of Bib to $100 a ton. BilThe Southern Confederate is owned 1 Sol P. Worthington of Oakley. Idaho; I G. Jensen and M. L. Richardson of h l it Lake, and A. T. Orton of Sandy, liil an. Mr. Orton has had charge of the Pllopertv since operations were started ill out the first of the year, and plans to H. a contract to drive the tunnel, which Is desired shall be completed in the Bnortest possible time.