Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-22 | Page 17 | Silver Trail Future Good

'SKI TRAIL raw sin Interest hip developments aro expected n the Silver Trail mining property consisting con-sisting of five claims situated three and a half miles from Basin, Montana, according ac-cording to J. Asher Cowan, manager of the company, who arrived in the city yesterday. yes-terday. The Silver Trail claims, as they have been only prospected, are virtually undeveloped and tho possibilities are yet to be proven. Last summer ore was found lit promising quantities at the grass roots on these claims. Within thirty days, Mr. Cowan had acquired the control of tho property. A compaany in which K. W. Griffith and other local men have an interest, in-terest, was organized to develop the property. pro-perty. The surface indications are most promising, prom-ising, according to Mr. Cowan and Owen K. Urinton, weil-krown engineer, who examined ex-amined tbe property and macie a report thereon. Bix well-defined fissures in tho granite crosa the claims. In each of these, excellent showings of ore have been opened up by prospect holes. Three and a half tons of ore shipped from these surface sur-face cuts show a report of 11- ounces of silver and $3 in pold, according to Mr. Cowan; fourteen tons showed a value of 36 ounces of silver and $3 la gold. Samples Sam-ples of the ore, a quartz with a rich showing of argentitc. were brought from the mine by Mr. Cowan. An adit has been already begun to cut these six fissures at depth, it is said. The main fissure, the second to he cut, will be opened up at a depth of 180 feet. 380 feet from the portal; tho sixth fissure fis-sure will be encountered 1000 feet from the portal at a depth of 300 feet below the surface. The first fissure will be encountered en-countered in 100 feet although the potentiality po-tentiality of this fissure, because no prospecting pros-pecting has been done In it. is unknown, promising mineralization is already making mak-ing its appearance in the tunnel. The formation passed. thjeugh now is a black, decomposed, heavily' mineralized granite, so soft that six feet per day can be made in one'shift by handwork, it Is said. A surface cut in the second fissure, to a depth of twenty feet uncovered an eighteen-inch streak of ore on the hanging hang-ing wall. Tills streak sampled $75 per ton. As soon as possible a power line will be run from the main power line, which passes within a half-mile of the property, to the Silver Trail and electrical elec-trical equipment will be installed. Mr. Cowan plans to spend a week in Salt Lake before returning to Basin.