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Show HORN SILVER MINE IS OPENED; GOOD ORE LEADS FOUND SYSTEMATIC EXPORTATION OF SADLY NEGLECTED TERRITORY TERRI-TORY UNDER WAY Operations of the Tintic Lead company com-pany at the Horn Silver Mine, Beaver Beav-er county, sixteen miles from Milford are rapidly putting the famous old mine in readiness for. production. Fifty-three men are employed under the direction of Manager A. E. Kipps. The shaft has been opened up to the 500 level and the retimbering crew is working near the 600 level. When the 700 level has been reached, the worst of this work, it is said, will have been accomplished. The company is completing a bunk-house bunk-house large enough to accomodate thirty-three men. In addition, preparations prep-arations are being made to concrete the area around the collar of the shaft. From more than one standpoint the Horn Silver operation of the Tintic Lead is unusual. The company after two and a half months has operations ope-rations advanced to a stage that i would consume eighteen months, if a new property had to be opened up. I In all, on the 300 and the 500 levels, i a score or more of strong showings j of ore have been exposed for pros-! pros-! pectir.g- These range from the likely : looking streaks to faces of ore mea-! mea-! surir.g from four to six feet wide. The - amount of ore left and making into j virgin territory is proof that the re-1 re-1 sources of the mine were but inade-; inade-; quatcly tested by the old-timers. j Much Ore Left Attention must have been centered ' almost exclusively on production. Had the "ton for ton" policy of development, develop-ment, now rigidly adhered to in big U':'h m'lifs been fallowed at the Horn .'.'.v r, no one knows what might have been the result in the way of augmented aug-mented production. Suffice it to say that did the same showings exist in any of the big Utah ; mines, they would be carefully mined I until depleted. The amount of virgin ! ground that exists in the Horn Silver for prouction can be judged from the fact that entire output from which l over $7,000,000 in dividends was paid, ' came from a block of ground 1,000 hy -100 feet to a depth of 1,000 feet. Total leneth of workings is but four or five miles, and but little of this was "dead work." At Tintic or Park City, for a mine boasting a similar production, it would not at all be out of line for the property to have 20 , or 30 miles of headings. I Faults Not Worked Out i Displacement of the ore body by faulting was to the southwest. On the 1000 and 1600 levels, as well as . on an intervenin glevel, no work has ben done to the southwest of the 'I shaft where it is natural to believe j normal faulting has displaced the ' ore. Manager Kipps ascribes this ) neglect to the fact that "old-timers" below the 700 evidently followed an- other shoot north, one carrying pre- dominate values in copper and silver, I instead of the main silver-lead shoot, in the belief that the north shoot was the main ore body. Just as soon as opening up of the shaft is completed, Mr. Kipps plans to start drifting southwest from the ) 1000 level to explore the area, where ! study of the faulting indicates the J ore body will be. j The Horn Silver ore body lay along a limestone-trachyte contact cut by Jjfive parrnllel northwest-southeast j: cross fissueH. But three of these have been explored and u prouction of mil- I I lions resulted without exhnusting ; the possibilities of the mine as is at- tested by the number of ore showings t making into virgin ground. ; A number of these ore bodies will J be exploited hy leasers. This will give the company an opportnuity to open ( up the lower levels, while making the upper levels productive at a mini- mum expense. Long hole drilling is under way on the 300 feet to prove , whether the limestone font wall of ' the ore body is the true or false hang- '. ing wall. f This method of drilling, perfected at the Chief Con., mine nt Kureka, allows the company to prospect its I limestones at a cost of a $1.00 or $1.50 a foot as compared with n cost of $10 , or $15 a foot for running a tunnel. |