Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-06-21 | Page 8 | First Ore from Manuel Mines Consigned Here

FIRST ORE FROM MANUEL H1INES CONSIGNED HERE From the properties of the Manuel Mining company there has Just been unloaded at the railroad loading station sta-tion at Austin 60 sacks of ore, weighing weigh-ing between thirty and forty tons. The consignment is the first to be sent out by this company from the mines, at MilleU, and it required four twelve-mule twelve-mule teams to haul the product to the loading station. , ' . " : .. Manager F. P. Carey of the Manuel I accompanied this first consignment, which has been billed for Salt Lake City, and is scheduled to reach this point tomorrow, while the mine assays show values of an average of $550 per ton. Mr. Carey says that the ore wat taken from the Blue Bird and, Manuel claims, which are operated by his company, and that the fifteen miners employed at the property -are getting out another shipment that will follow this consignment as fast as the teams can cover the forty-mtle haul overland. over-land. The property Is showing Increased values as depth Is obtained, and in the Blue Bird the Incline shaft has been dropped down a distance of fifty feet all in ore, while two crosscuts a distance of twenty-five feet both e.ist and west have been run, and both avenues are In ore that is as strong at the face as at any point in the channel. chan-nel. This vein has been traced on the surface a distance of 1500 feet with good values in the outcropping, and in addition, to this work the management manage-ment has started a tunnel that will penerate the ore zone, a distance of from 800 to 1000 feet. ' At a point-about 600 feet distant from the tunnel that is opening up the vein on the Blue Bird property, the management has started a tunnel on the parallel vein on the Manuel claim, and the ore is being sacked for shipment, ship-ment, as good values are being obtained ob-tained in this ledge also. . - . On the Emma, located about 3001 feet west of the Blue Bird, a vein has been exposed which averages eight feet in width and showing values of $16 In gold. 20 ounces silver and 30 per cent in copper per ton. . This v'-'in is being opened up by means of a shaft, and a -sufficient depth has not yet been obtained to determine the extent ex-tent of the ore at this point. However, How-ever, Manager Carey feels sangulr.e that this will prove to be one of the company's most valuable claims In the entire group of twenty-six properties. President Vincent of the Manuel Mining company has been called back East on urgent company business, ana in a communication from New York he states that he hopes to be able to head this way in a short time, to take-a take-a hand with Manager Carey in rushing rush-ing the development 1 work, and snar- '"fnlhJmeanTime the entire country round about Mlllett Is very much excited ex-cited over the showing that has been made by this company In a very row months, and the men employed at the mine are beseeching the company to give them shares In the company s stock for part of the pay they are drawing down for their labors.