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Show T THE BOX ELDER 0 NEWS, SEPTEMBER 16, 1908. Santa Maria Mines, Sierra Madre District, Box Elder County, Utah Box Elder county is not only rich in its agricultural area and in its almost boundlesss facilities built and the tunnel started ; it will be vi hen completed 1,730 feet long and will permit the removal of from 200 to 900 tons of ore Is for immense fruit production, but the time is rapidly coming when it V : will prove itself a mineral empire. v s M- , - , fjr s y silver-coppe- That part of the Wasatch range passing north and south through Box Elder county has scarcely been touched in most of its area by the pick of the miner and it is well known that, the country around the Century mines in the northwest part of the county is a region abounding in gold, silver, lead and copper as Is also that part of the country lying west of the lake, but at present it is in the southeastern part of Box Elder county in which we find the greatest activity. Sierra Madre mountain, which is part of the Wasatch range, very prominently shows about the neighboring peaks of the range and extends from Willard to North Ogden canyon and it is in this that we find the most prominent ore deposits known to exist in Sierra Madre northern Utah. mountain comprises a separate and distinct mining district and contains about 200 mineral locations. The chief among these are the Eldorado, Prince of India, Napoleon and Maghera, and Santa Maria groups. In this article we will refer chiefly to the Santa Maria, which at this time is undergoing a great amount of development and which when properly opened as is being now done will he one of the most prominent mines of the state. The Santa Maria is a Utah in- corporation and its holdings are wholly within Box Elder county, its area covering about 250 acres, is made up of what formerly constituted four groups of claims known Santa as the were Maria, The Vulture, The Mexican and New York groups of claims. Don Maguire of Ogden, who had much to do with the organization of the Sierra Madre district, after four years of effort, at last succeeded in purchasing the entire gold-silve- western part the following parallel lodes, viz: The Black Copper lode, the Blind lode, the South Copper lode, the Santa Maria lode. North Copper lode, the Charles Cross Country lode, the New York lode, 3,600 feet of the Eldorado silver-leavein, which lies in the Silurian limestone in the eastern part of the property. When the consolidation of these properties had taken place the entire property was incorporated as the Santa Maria G. & C. M. & R. Company, with $500,000 of capital stock. d 250, 0(H) shares being placed in the treasury for equipment. The shares development and are non assessable and there is no preferred stock. Immediately after incorporation extensive development was started First a tunnel was driven for 800 feet on the Santa Maria vein and the management found that the entire seven veins of the property were sufficiently high grade to constitute together an excellent concentrating ore. It was found wisest to begin a cross country tunnel that will cut the entire seven veins at depths varying from 150 to 1,500 feet below' the surface. Roadways and work were to facilitate this trails of tons between the level of the tunnel and the base of the mountain. Along with the above group of claims the Santa Maria Mining company owns a mill site and townsite at the base of the mountain, and from the tunnels already developed there flows an ample volume of water for mill and power purposes, and higher up the canyon the Santa Maria company have built a reservoir from which water is piped for the use of the compressor at the mine and also for use in the office and boarding house and for protection against fire. In its equipment the Santa Maria mine stands equal to any MAGUIRES SANTA MARIA BANK OF GARLAND : : : CAPITAL $25,000 : - a large machine shop stands near the mine and electric pow'er s carried over a pole line three miles in length which connects w it h transformers at the shops a works and this large motor w hich runs an Ingersoll-Rancompressor of 15 horsepower, w hich in turn runs the drills in the mine. It also furnishes power for lighting the entire house and ventilating the mine. Night and day the work goes along at the Santa Maria and will continue until this property is turning out from 300 to 900 tons of ore per day, and this group is one whose veins can and will afford an output for scores of years to come. It is the first mine in southeastern Box Elder county that has been taken up and worked in an extensive manner and developed in such a way as to permit the removal of an extensive tonnage at the low'est possible cost; furthermore, it is so situated as to allow all of its development by a tunnel system affording perfect drainage and permitting the removal of ore from the mine and the volume of water produced from the veins opened at depth w'ill afford wrater for not only power and ore washing , but also sufficient to irrigate an extensive area of hitherto worthless land, and thus in a dual way, be a benefit to the value of millions of dollars to Box Elder county and other sections of northern Utah. good ; MOUTH OF TUNNEL. WILSON GRO VE FARM SURPLUS $2,500 - People living in the country do not have to come to town in order to do business with the BANK OF GARLAND When ym get a cheek on this or any other bank, just write across the end: For My Credit in Bank of Garland, sign your name, place it in an envelope and address to Bank of Garland. The mail will bring it in. We will give you credit for the : : : : amount and send you a receipt, you can then check against it. Where Fancy Winter Apples and Cotswold Sheep are Grown Prompt and Courteous Treatment Accorded to All SAFETY DEPOSIT WE PAY INTEREST ON TIME CERTIFICATES AND DEPOSITS BOXES FOR RENT We Solicit Your Business Mosiah Evans, President M. D. .V Evans, Cashier 0 mine in the state undergoing development. The quarters for the men are large and the sanitation i : : four groups and uniting them into what "is now known as the Santa r Maria group of bearing now are copper mines, and as they united the group contains in its WORKINGS OF MINE MAGUIRES SANTA MARIA ; per day from the different veins it will cut. In width the gold and r veins run from 15 to 100 feet in width; each of them is a true fissure in granite; each of them terminates at a quartite contact of the Cambrian age. The values in these veins run from one to ten percent, copper with very good values in gold ami silver; the ores are almost entirely concentrating in their nature; with frequent lenses of high grade ore ready to ship to the smelters just as mined. As the magnitude of the ore bodies it may be here stated that above the 1.700 tunnel now' being driven there lies easily from 6,000,0(K) to 7,000, 000 tons of concentrating ore with still more than a million Q INSPECTION INVITED MORONI MORTENSEN, Proprietor Bear River City P. O. d |
