Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-27 | Page 16 | Finds Woodlawn's Showing a Marvel

FINDS WOODLK SHOWING 11 MARE Colorado Man Expresses Surprise Over Progress Made in Past Year. Returning Sunday night from a visit of inspection to the property of the Wood-lawn Wood-lawn Mining company, operating in U ig Cottonwood canyon, M. J. Towers, a business man of Colorado Spi ) hks. w!io has been identified wit h t do Wood lawn company almost from the time of Jts organization, or-ganization, said y.r.-teiday that he was more than pleased with the showing and evidences of substantial progress made since his last vitdt, something like a year ago, "The Wood lawn has long been safely 'regarded as a good prospect," said Mr. I 'owe rs. "After vis ting the grotind Saturday Sat-urday and Sunday and making a careful personal inspection of the existing developments, de-velopments, I feel sa to in saying tha t it Vis no longer ;i prospect. It is a real mine, and all tint operators have to do is to take out. the shipping ore that is already demonstrated. dem-onstrated. "The change made in the last year is little short of marvelous. It would appear ap-pear that virtually all of the work done has been well-directed and has been productive pro-ductive of good results. in No. '.' slope, tio feet up from the main tunnel, I found that the ore was three feet wide and still widening. Further along there are t feet of ore for a distance of -10 feet, while in the face of the tunnel, now in 3 4th) feet, there appears strung indications that another an-other ore -bearing fissure is near at hand," Mi-. Powers pointed out that the Wood-lawn Wood-lawn can begin shipping just as soon as the roads are in condition to get the ore flown from the bins, and Manager W. J. Lawrence said yesterday that the shipments ship-ments would begin to come down by not later than June 10. Mr. Powers remarked that ho observed bet tor than thirty tons of hlgh-yrade ore, averaging above $n0 uer ton, now ready for shipment, with nearly the same miantity of a lead-silver product that would run around ."() per 1 ion, piled up and awaiting transportation. transporta-tion. Among others who were with Mr. Pow-. Pow-. era Sunday during the inspection of the Wood la wn property wero K. A'. Pod fish bf the Alia Tunnel & Transportation enmpany. Victor Lollln and A. C. Krez of Salt Uike. Mr. Podfish yesterday paid: 1 "The Woodlawn is proving the merit of t he strikes made during the winter i months by preparing to ship the ore that! is developed. At the present the mine can send down ore from four different places : -the No. 2 vein, which Is high-grade; the blpe on the, spur vein, which has unusually iiish-grade ore; the No. 3 vein, which has ood shipping ore, and the main vein, vvhieh contains, it appears, a good quantity quan-tity of ore that is both milling and shipping ship-ping grade. I note that work in the construction con-struction of ore bins and the securing of essential mining camp equipment Is being rushed. It would seem that the Wood-awn Wood-awn is coming to the front as soon to be faulted among the regular producers."