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Show NEW ORE DEPOSITS ON 1350 LEVEL OF EAGLE & BLUE BELL The following article regarding Eagle and Blue Bell mine la from the pen of Will C. Higgins. tha editor of the Salt Lake Mining Review: "The Writer oan well remember, some twenty odd years ago, when the mining camp of Eureka, Ttntlc district. Utah, was hardly more than a strangling street, with the nearest railroad point at I ronton, five miles down the canyon and out In the flat "At that time the Eureka Hill. Bullion-Beck Bullion-Beck and Champion mines wore virtually at their beet. The Oemlni-Keyatone waa .hardly more than a prospect, although producing some sensationally rich ore at the time, and the Centennlal-Eureka was Just reaching a producing stage. "At the time we apeak of John M cChrys-tal cChrys-tal then In all the vigor of middle age, and one of the most Important and Influential Influ-ential men In the district, was manager of the Eureka Hill, and also of the Oem-Inl-Kevetone. No one. hardly, wae more famlllsr with ths history of ths camp or its geological conditions; and, so profoundly pro-foundly was he Impressed with the splendid splen-did possibilities at Tlntio that, before his death, several years ago. he bad acquired poaaeeslon of a number of mlnlnf groups, favorably heated. Included In the number being the Eagle and Blue Bell, situated Just east arid adjoining ths Centennlal-Eureka Centennlal-Eureka The Eagle and Blue Bell slsraya stood wed In the estimation of Mr. Mc-I'hrvstsl. Mc-I'hrvstsl. and his old tlms friends well remember re-member hie oft repeated assertion that this ground. In time, would take rank as one of the really great mines of Ttntlc district. Hsd he lived to this day hs would have been gratified at the wonderfully wonder-fully fine showing now being made In this property, and would have had every assurance as-surance that his Judgment was good and sound, and that his prophecy was In a fair way to be fulfilled "The Eagle and Blue Bell group of fifteen fif-teen patented claims Is almost surrounded surround-ed by producers of note. It Joins the great Centennlal-Eureka on the west, the King William and Grand Central on the south, ths Vlrtoris Consolidated on the east, and the Chief Consolidated on the north. The trend of the ore bodies In Eagls and Blue Bell ground is northerly and eoutherly, and the group Is traversed by three parallel par-allel veins, principal operatlone at the present time being largely confined to Mammoth-Grand Csntral-Victoria are channel. . . "The Eagle and Blue Bell mine haa always al-ways held the attention of the mining public snd this attention and Intereet has been Intensified of late by reports cd ! a rich .trlke made In Its underground wonr-Ings. wonr-Ings. a description of which rosy wsll be a Lo'rces of gratification to Mining Review read era. . This new dsvslopment which was la -spected a fsw days sgo by the writer, Ir, company with General Manager Inter Pett. was made on a blind level the 1140. This level wss sstabllshsd sftsr sinking a wlnse on a pipe of high grade ore from the llto level. At a depth of forty feet In this wlnse. the ore decreased In value, and. as the raise from the 1110 to connect con-nect with the wlnae wae nearly completed. com-pleted. It was decided to drive a drift In a southwesterly direction In the hope and expectation of finding ore of higher grade. Soon after starting this drift ths values hegsn to Improve, snd when the strlks wts mads it became a certainty St tht. Eagle and Blue Bell had been launched upon a great producing and profit-making career. "The drift from tne bottom of the wlnae had been run for a distance of forty fast In commerelsl ors before the big strike wss made. This magnificent body of ore really came aa a surprise; the miners were Into it almost before they knew It. As yst no definite Idea has been ssrertslned aa to Its magnitude. At the time of the Inspection mads by the writer It hsd been drifted upon for a distance of thirty feet, and since then haa been driven fifteen feet further; and raised upon for thirty feet, the drift being twelve feet in width, with ore on both -ides and neither wsll In sight. Ths ore Is a tne textured quarts, and the whole mass as broken down averages about 140 gold snd 71 ounces In sltvsr to the ton. Much of the ore is s sugar ouarts. elmoat aa white as ths driven snow, and whleh pulverises almost ss fine as sand. In this body of ors there Is e sons of about six Inches In width that carries values of tfo aold snd ss high ss 2f0 ounces silver Ho far ss developed the new find represents repre-sents a small fortune In itself How big and large It Is no ons can even conjecture, conjec-ture, sa It Is In virgin ground. But. its strength and evident permanency gives ground for the belief that It will prove to lie one of the greatest and richest ore bodies ever encountered In Eureka mountain. moun-tain. A car of ors from this new source of wealth was shipped on the 11th, snd ss soon ss facilities for the better handling han-dling of the ore are provided the management man-agement will be sending out three or four cars a week from the new find. "At the present time the Eagle and Blue Bell Is shipping In the neighborhood neighbor-hood of 100 tons dally, ore of marketable crads exists on the 300 -foot Isvsl north- east of the shaft. Here a body of mineral ranging from two to twsnly fset In width Is being mined thst averages from 114 to 174 per ton. while aeveral shipments have been made from thia point going lift to the ton. The lleo level, up to the present time, has been the principal source of ore supply for several years. Here en ore bodv exists, along the Mammoth-Grand Central-Victoria channel, that has been n-oven and partially mined for a distance of 4oa feet along the strike of the vela, with its extent on its dip not yet determined. deter-mined. This shoot of ors ranges from ten to seventy feet in width. In thle huge deposit values vary greatly. A large portion por-tion of It Is good shipping material. Smelter Smel-ter returns have run ae high as 14609 on a carload of fifty tons while. In placee. values ran down to ors of payable mllllnc contsnt. It Is believed that the new strlks Is on this name sone "Much of the credit for the gratlfvtng condition of the Eagls snd Blue Bell is due to Osnersl Manager tmer Pett. during dur-ing whose Incumbency a profit-making basis hss been eetsbllshsd. to eay nnthtns of the recent discovery of the splendid bodv of ore sbove described. In firmly establishing es-tablishing the mine on a reenter producing produc-ing and paying schedule Mr. Pett has been most shlv assisted by his superintendent. superin-tendent. William Owens, a well known and popular mlnliwr man. Assisting Mr. Owens are Rugene Sea bolt and Jerry Murphy, Mur-phy, shift bosses. Daniel Fields is assay-er assay-er st the mine." NEW TOBX CURB CLOSE. James A. Pollock at Co.. bankers aad brokers. 149 South Main street, furnish the following, received over their private wire this afternoon: I Bid. I Asked Elv Consolidated J 4 1 First Nst Copper II Glroux Cos ill it Yukon OoM 1 New Ksystons 11 Nlplaalns It Ohio Copper 9-li U-lt Is Rose 24 19. Sooth I'tsh P l-lf British Col. Copper 21 21 Rer State Gas I i) i Hraden til 41 Mason Valley , t Sioux Consolidated tl f Colorado 10 1 11 eon Blossom 199 140 Nevada Hills St I tl METAL MARKET Silver at 'st cents sn ounce. i4 at 14 3' per 100 pounds Copper catliodea at 116.121 per 199 I pounds |
