| Show INDIAN CREEL MINES BRAVER utah june 26 1 I visited the he indian creek mines on friday saturday and sunday and report tir their development quality and ana quantity of ore bodies anti ana uther other items that will doubtless interest the numerous readers 01 the NEWS I 1 lei t beaver on friday mOrDi morning Dg traveling east about one mile toward ft cameron thence diverging to the north for six miles and crowing crossing north creek at shepherds ds farm here I 1 climbed the north creek bench for about one hundred and fifty feet anu and traversed its ito beautiful and level plateau through a continuous lorest forest of 01 white cedars with occasional bunches of 01 pinion pinina pine traveling in a northeasterly course lor three miles brought us tu to a small mail canyon rudling at the foot and ana south slue side of sheep rock bock this latter prominent land mark out conspicuously and in striking contrast with the hills bills for miles south and north as they break to the level of 0 the north creek bench JIJI passing up the small canyon near the southern base of sheep rock bock for a lew few yards we came to the camp of mr J Q G meade of chadron Cha drou I 1 neb the gentleman is one of the main owners of the cremona group on matting making known the object t if t or visit he prompt promptly Jy and willingly requested one of his men to guide us to bis properties saying alet lot them see all the tunnels anu anti cuts and what ores we have taken out so lie he can tell the truth about the claims 11 in ten minutes climb over hills a sprinkled crinkled every few rods with zoat float quartz we stood in front of a ledge of gold and silver tearing bearing quartz which is in easily traced by nent crop and boulders lor for 1 leei ee I 1 showing bowing the trend of the ledge to be 18 Gel degrees grees east lf if north the main tunnel is ia now in feet in a due easterly course and aad feet feel south mouth from the discovery monument moL Aument which cuts several spurs anu feeders ot of spar but is mainly in porphyry and quartz two distinct ledges six to ten teet feet wide containing good paying ore were crossed in this tunnel the width of both narrowing narrow log from the top of the tunnel to the bottum bottom AS this Is IE it contact voil vein 11 between quartz and lim eMr meade is confident of the main ore body lu in the lower tunnel tannei at feet from the mouth which is leet icet below the upper tunnel just u described bed in all abere are seven cuts anu tunnels on we itie cremona all striking within a few leec jeet of the sur surface fILCe me lue breast of the outer ledge the rock being profusely necked flecked with black sul and iree free gold averaging tro 88 to 10 per ton one assay made on a piece of rook rock found at the discovery monument went as high as 2063 2053 at thle this point pretty well north on the claim a perpendicular cliff of mineral quartz risse rises out from the brow of the nill hill from ton ten to twenty rest leet and as aa it now stands exposed with only eight or ton ten days P labor on it shown abow a breast of gild bearing quartz twelve feet high and four to six wide assaying from 20 to A mr terry of extensive mining experience in colorado broke brake off from the breast of quartz I 1 juel ref referred orrea to a piece of rock which assayed in salt halt lake a few weeks since gold and ana fifteen ounces in all silver ver there are five other clai claims me embraced in this group and adjoining un on the north and south viz the august bamboo extension brat west weal aau houlios the owners and locators being J 0 J meade wm win campbell jolin john W chandler oscar Borglund hill and james A hill bayaud day and night work to is being prosecuted with a force ot of eight and ten men about 1000 feet from the cremona tunnel is a good spring of running water sufficient tor for all culinary purposes anti and by reservoirs and tanks plenty can be had and piped to the mine for hoisting purposes mining umber timber is in abundance a few east on the hills above and thousands ot of acres ot of cedar and pinion pine extend fur milts to the west north anil and about half way between the early mining and the cremona group anu about 1000 feet t aei east of the latter is a claim that has been worked at intervals for two or three years pasi pas by the heil beil bros of indian creek some very good c ore is here on the dump in by reducing in the mortar and washing in a half lorn boria particles of coarse gold Is seen tula this claim is by no means bhole a hole in the ground and as t a camp develops the shaft will be deepened as the owners nodding significantly ma say y I 1 we know what we have there 11 leaving the cremona group aud and traveling in a northwesterly direction jor live five or six miles we came to the busy bee but to the right and east oi 01 our road we casseu some twenty claims recently located nearly all of which are now being developed bysh bys balts aiu tunnels and cuts on a continuous line of quartz cropping ti anu ano bluffs stand ing in out prominently at intervals from one hundred yards to a quarter and naif hail a mile apart descending Deec ending from frem the love level of the bench we suddenly dropped into a narrow gulch running from the mountains bains on the eabe Ls Is course to is a little north of west from where we enter it to its junction with indian creek a few hundred yardis below here w we 6 struck the main tunnel of the busy hee bee which we entered and found to be in iju about sixty five feet in a northerly court courte e from the level ot of the gulch anu anti n ot ol of the middle part or the claine ahe vein or ledge undoubtedly runs runa in ill a northeast anu southwesterly courbe churbe at the end of this it a shaft ha been sunk forty feet all the w y tb rough and quartz the tunnel iw is in ane sume same formation about one hundred feet east of the tunnel and shuff another abaft is sunk fifty feet through quartz and iron arox formation tur mation in the lower tunnel sod and shaft anwaye assays from quartz and porphyry ore have been obtained ranging from 8 to 1800 in the upper shaft to found plenty of ore averaging 26 in gold with traces of silver the owners are confident oi of tapping the th main ledge in the he shaft abaft at the end of the lower tunnel in a few days as eight feet of blue tale talc to is now being out cut through that assays essays five dollars to the ton the locators locator are joseph duew and al fennemore doctor george fennemore la Is now largely interested ed in my next will be a description of the celebrated rob bob roy boy mine with the inci incident deit that led to its ita discovery length and sizes of its shafts tunnels elf cuts cute and drifts quality of the ores and mill now being constructed as also the helen More Kor ano ami other valuable claims east of the rob bob roy boy on the north bank of indian creek JOSIAH ROGERSON BoGE BaON |
