Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-25 | Page 32 | Says Simon Mine Greatest in West

GREATEST II WEST Tonopah Engrineer Marvels at Magnitude and Value of Ore in Sight. J. P. Hart, engineer for the Tonopah Extension company, in company with C. C. Boak, vice president of the Simon-Icad Simon-Icad Mines company, and J. K. Felt of Salt Lake City and E. H. Fenner of Carson City, visited the Simon property' on Sunday. Mr. Hart, in an interview with a Times reporter, after his return from Mina. said: "The Simon mine, embracing ten claims, located twenty-two miles from M ina, was originally discovered about .fifty years np-o, and at various periods since that time has been worked in a nmall way, and, judging from the size of the old stones, all of which are at but shallow depth under the surface crop-pings, crop-pings, a considerable quantity of ore was taken out and shipped to the smelters. The footwall is in Hme, with rhyolite forming the . hanging- wall. "Prior lo Mr. Simon's purchase of the property three years ago, when a vigorous and systematic campaign of development was inaugurated, all work was in the oxidized zone, the ore occurring as a carbonate, but of good value. Mr. Simon, however, was keen to the fact that tills carbonate ore was but a surface alteration altera-tion of a huge sulphide ore body and that the great possibilities of the mine lay in reaching the sulphide zone, from a metallurgical metal-lurgical as well as a mining standpoint. Accordingly, sinking was started and the ledeje has been crosscut at the 230-foot and 300-foot levels, and the new crosscut on the 405-foot level is in Jhc ledge twenty-five feet, showing a full face of soUd sulphide ore. The 230 crosscut shows the vein to be seventy feet wide on that level, thirty feet of which is in carbonate and fortv feet in sulphide. The entire seventv feet averages $20 per ton. Drifts have been run 100 feet in each direction on the hanging-wall side of the ledge, with the same grade of ore persisting throughout." Tonopah -(New) Times.