Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-07-05 | Page 8 | Manhattan Mine's Twenty-Foot Vein

HANHAItHN HlNES ; ; ; -T1ENTY-FC8T-VEIN manhatt.nv Nev., July ir-A Vein twenty jfeet wide has been opened ,up oa the estate of the Indian Camp Manhattan Manhat-tan Mining, company by the company, which gives an average of $38 per: ton for six feet of the width on the surface. The vein Is fifty-four feet from the point of the main company shaft, and a drift Is being run from this shaft at the fifty-foot fifty-foot level to intercept It. Progress is rapid, and within a , week the entire freln . . ' ; - T .:. -, will be crosscut at this level, and a'full-er a'full-er Idea of the Importance of the strike will be had. ... There have been shipped from the Gold-. I' en lease on the Jumping Jack during the. past ten. day's 1450 sacks or from seventy-five seventy-five to eighty tons of ore that will go better than ' JZjO per ton. as per sack sampling. The Golden . lease has - now been turned over to the company and all work of every description on the Jumping Jack will henceforth be done on company account Mine Manager, J. D. Campbell estimates tnat tne company wiu realise $10,000 per month indefinitely from the company work on the ground heretofore held by the Goldea lessees, and $25,000 per month In addition from company work at the other end of the jumping Jack claim where the Stray Dor and Union No. t veins are about to be intercepted by the drifts that are being run at the 150-foot level. - . '- , On the Stray Dog Manftattan Mining company's ground the showing improves hourly. A mlnse has been sunk from the 135-foot level where eight feet of ore averaging av-eraging $44 per ton was opened up three weeks ago and the average for eight feet has Increased i $150 per ton at the bottom bot-tom of the winze. The Stray Dog win be Manhattan's greatest shipper, of high-grade high-grade ore for 1906. Eighty miners are at work on the Indian In-dian Camp, Jumping Jack and Stray Dog.