Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-03-05 | Page 27 | Fortuna Gold Queen Opening Largest Ore Deposit in Camp

GOLD QUEEN QUEENI I I OPENING lARGEST OR ORE DEPOSIT IN CAMP CAMPt t FORTUNA March ar h 5 C.- C. AS As an U of offset se to the latest move love of oj toe United States Smelting Refining and Mining com company I to dismantle ifs Us hoist and abandon the the ground gound it i recently bonded a al Fort Fortuna I Utah the tile Fortuna Cold Gold Queen Mining com company pan is is entering what is undoubtedly undoubtedly I edly one of of til the biggest and best beat bet ore re shoots ever discovered in the tile gold camp t I a a. a little more than a a hundred feet from fromI what was the tile U. U S. S shaft and at at a I point tion forty feet deeper In the he forms forma ora- ora After following a a quartz ledge front toI six to eight feet wide forty feet In Under under under un un- der the hill hl at a depth five fifty fity feet fee lower than the bottom of ot Hok Rocky blocky Hollow Hol 1101 low gulch and antI encountering milling values and a gradual improvement the tha greater greater eater part of this distance the te mine min management reports that it i is entering a large and splendid looking lokin ore shoot which shows occasional specimens and that will wi average substantial ore values val vai- vai ues across six feet feet The Improvement at present is so rapid that It is the expectation that any round of shots will wi disclose good quantities of picture rock rok The conditions are said to be be the best st HO so far opened up at this depth in inthe inthe the camp The Tile vein Is a big regular massive quartz lode lod with wih very distinct walls wals It I has a dip dtp of about boul 40 de degrees Ie- Ie grees gees from th the perpendicular The discovery occurs feet deeper beeper than tJan I. I the collar colar of wh what t was the U. U S. S shaft shaf Machinery Stored Stored The U U. S. S people people it I is s said ld will store their hoist machinery In Beaver Beaver about bout boutI I miles n from Fortuna or n T The TI U. S S. S formerly 1 b had i a on two VO VOT claims I S of t the Moore Lumry-Moore Moore Lumy-Moore ground They sank eighty feet teet between two veins at a point on the hillside sev seventy nty feet above above- e abo the rocky bottom of Rocky Hollow Hollow Hol fbi low gulch and crosscut the te two veins vein at this this' point The Hodges McGarry-Hodges McGar-Hoges McGar I Ilease lease on the same ame ground around gound has mined I between and tons of silver gold gold siver I ore from front a shoot which outcrops a short hort distance s south uth of ot what was the theU theU U U- S. S shaft They have followed this de I shoot o on its southward fw rake their own shaft to the sixty-foot sixty level level I They have also followed it i on th the te thirty foot level for nearly twenty feet southerly from their r shaft and it is aa as strong f and rich as e ever In this Jr tion ton It I is apparently a gold shoo approximately a eight feet e wide and forty g f g forty feet long that t goes to depth e B. B G. G Lott Lot who recently purchased an Interest in the Fortuna Independence Independence Independence dence and assumed charge of mine operations has bas left lett for Salt Sal Lake after a a preliminary examination and surface sampling of the ground gound He will wi re return re turn to the camp to begin company work and start up leasing operations In InI Ina ina I a short t time Goldfield Operator Fred J. J Amigo of ot Gold Goldfield Goldfeld field who has hs been making surface surface- examinations on oct the Jumbo and Mohawk properties tot fot tOI the purpose of beginning work haS lias postponed operations for several weekS week on account of the recent heavy fall fal of ot snow B. B F F. Caffey Catey of Salt Sal Lake secretary of the Fortuna Gold Queen Mining company was attracted i to Fortuna yesterday by the Gold Queen strike Ha will visit the Beaver Gold property five miles east of Fortuna in which ha he hais heis is interested before leaving He re reports ye- ye ports that the Beaver Gold Js is crosscutting crosscutting cross cross- cutting both ways from the bottom of its foot shaft for big ore bearing veins which are none other than tile the big veins that have made the Sheep Rock mine a producer