Show making gold mine in bull valley man manager maniger iger R G of the bull valley villey gold mines company corapi uy oper operating biting in washington county twenty miles of enterprise c is in in the city for a few bals dals boino some NA wonderfully rich cli ore has been taken from this ground in churbe of the de elopement elop ment in oi k that has placed in sight ight a large laige tonnage of ore of 1 excellent milling grade the property consists of sixteen claims most of them patented and the development work now aggregated about 1000 fecat the main tunnel which is a drift on oil the vein is now in feet nearly all this distance it has been in ore of good average value alue with occasional small deposits that were sensationally rich the vein varies so far as explored from two to eleven feet in ni width and has a dip of 68 to 70 degrees turning at times to an almo almost t heiti cal position it can call be traced clear across the mountain from the tunnel at a dist distance ince of nearly feet from its portal a shaft has hag been sunk on the vein for eighty feet and the bottom is still till in ore of practically the same quality as is that encountered in the tun tull nel this work together with the tunnel and other shallower working serves to demonstrate the vein for a length of fea and to a depth of feet this makes reasonably certain the presence of a sufficient tonnage of ore to justify a mill and that question is now being considered by the directors of the company the ore is soft and friable and moat moa of it is as easily casill mined as a clay bank it carries no met metallic illic values except gold and should yield be beautifully to milling and cyaniding cyan iding mr Mc is confident this process would save 95 per cent of the values and that the property will develop into a great mine the company lias iris been working from five to thirteen men and tins this work is being continued right along the property is 13 a new one and in a new district most of the locations included in the companas comp anys holdings having been made roade by mr lie in 1910 and 1911 nearly all ill the country for some distance about ahio property is located but not much work has been done except the tile required abe abetment u i work vork dhere are now however some twelve or fifteen men NN working on prospects in that vicinity the location of the bull valley property ib is well upon the mountains on the tile Co colondo lorido river riser side of the divide at it an elevation of something over fiet the climate js is fine the lear around except that it geta gets pretty hot in bummer and there is plenty of pinion and cedar timber and sufficient good water the tile country is volcanic the surface very ner rough and broken and the formation more or less faulted john T hodson is president of or the company M R evans ens vice president willard of ogden secret secretary iry and tre aquier and mr Mc manager and one of the directors tribune |