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Show New Company Succeeds To Properties Identified With Earliest Mining Activities Early in October, i;37, a man from Los Angeles brought to Salt l-ake City small fragments of ga-, leiia and carbonate ore and there-: by started a chain of events which I was to revive interest in mining in central Utah, recall the triumphs, of pioneer mineral seekers and create a corporate organization oj ( outstanding significance j A huge uplift known as Gram-; pian hill is the focal point of the; new development. From shafts1 sunk at the eastern base of the, hill more than fifty million dollars j wi.rth of ore has been taken. From no other place in that gigantic eminence bad so much as a wheel-( barrow of profitable mineral been produced. ' It seemed inconceivable that all the riches of that great hill were concentrated in a spot hardly big-j ger than a city block, but upward of sixty years of research had failed to reveal companion ore i bodies. Experts reached the con- j i elusion that the Horn Silver minei had it all and the rest of Gram-, pian hill was barren limestone.' , What then, was the interest aroused arous-ed when that certain man from Los Angeles declared that his speci-j speci-j mens came from the slope of ! Grampian, west and south of the Horn Silver's traditional deadline? He said he made the exposures 1 in four or five different places.) , When doubters said "float" he j went back with a little prospect-1 ing pick, uncovered the same kinu I of ore in ten more widely separated separat-ed spots. Finally he invited every-; every-; body to go and see for themselves 1 where the samples came from. 'They went in droves experts! , from Utah, California and other' ! states. They motored west from j 1 Milford 15 miles, puffed up Gram-j i pian hill, dug into prospect holes ! ! and took samples. Production ot ore by the Horn Silver under j , Grampian, they agreed, was only the beginning. "How did it happen?" hap-pen?" they asked, and the story j ! of the man from Los Angeles was 1 revealed. j His name was Ambrose E. Mc-j ; Garry. He had not always lived in Los Angeles; in fact, he was j born and reared in Beaver county, almost within the shadow ol firamninn hill. In chilHhnrvl hp Had heard over and over again the romantic history of the Horn Silver. He had been told how, irn 1875, Hawkes and Ryan, two prospectors, pros-pectors, opened a streak of silver and lead ore, staked a claim which they named the "Bonanza" and started a shaft. Down 30 feet, the l story went, the silver and ;lead : turned to iron and manganese and i the prospectors became dishearten- ed. Other miners, ,scou)ting for likely mines, were willing to take a chance, so Allen G. Campell, Mathew Cullen and Dennis Ryan paid $25,000 for the claim. They continued the shaft. Sixty feev deeper the iron and manganese were replaced by galena ore which ' grew marvelously in volume. The picture changed again. In I Philadelphia, Jay Cooke, a banker i nationally known for his success in financing the Civil war, under took to raise capital to build the i I Northern Pacific railroad. The ' j financial crash of 1873 ruined j him. One of his associates in the railroad enterprise induced him to look at a little mine in Utah. After long negotiations Oooke agreed to pay $5,000,000 and procure the building of a railroad for the mine, then called the Horn Silver. The amazing production of this property enabled Cooke to settle l his debts, buy back ihis homes and live in comfort. The nest-egg ot Campbell and his partners grew to millions. "But why didn't they dig into that hill and find some more mines?" asked the little McGarry , boy. The answer that there were . none there silenced if it did not satisfy the youngster. He was a ' grown man when a strange combination combi-nation of circumstances gave him I the chance as well as the incentive' to "dig into that hill". He and his 1 brothers became stockholders in a ' company which had optioned a' mining claim immediately south of the Horn Silver and also at the base of Grampain hill, called the Bonanza Mining company. Ambrose Am-brose visited this claim, the Lulu, I and, looking up at the great ram- part, he was siezed again by the boyhood impulse to search for the ore he felt the Horn Silver had overlooked. Undeterred by the fact that the claims above the Lulu had been patented by the King David Mining Min-ing company, he went over them foot by foot, delving into every crack which showed discoloration. The result was the collection ol samples that so intrigued the visitors. visi-tors. There was no longer a question ques-tion that Grampain hill contained far more ore than the Horn Silver managements had ever realizd. It stood revealed as a shell inclosing a network of fissures with streaks of mineral trending in every di rection. The spectacular display was finished. McGarry now faced the hard grind of whipping his discoveries dis-coveries into shape which would reimburse him for his faith and labor. Discovery was a one-man job, but development required a consolidation of interests, equipment equip-ment for deep work, supplies and : machinery and a large amount ot I preliminary labor, all of which ; demanded more capital than the 1 young prospector Jrom Los ! Angeles was able to furnish. Though delay was inevitable, McGarry has handled the multiplex multi-plex details with remarkable speed. There was the Lulu claim to be acquired, the ore exposures on the King David to be leased, surveys to be made and shafts, tunnels and drifts to be extended. The simplest way out, attorneys advised, was to form one corporation corpora-tion large enough to take over and finance everything. In honor of j the district the name "San Fran- cisco Mines, Inc." was chosen for the company. To its assets was added a large area of unpatented ground known as the Pomona group, straddling the northerly extension of the Horn Silver fault. Articles of the new company, providing pro-viding for a capital of five million non-assessable shares of 5 cents liar value, were filed in Suit Lake City December 21, 1937. The I.ulu claim, King David leaseholds and the Pomona claims were turn, ed in for stock and j!2o,0C0 was subscribed in cash for equipment jmd development work in Grampian Gram-pian hill. Ross E. Jensen was designated president, and a directorate direc-torate consisting of Jensen, J. Ilolman Waters, J. C. Whiitaker, E. C. McGarry and Ezra Barton, wan named, j Meanwhile there has been no i delay in the probing of Grampian ! hill. Two tunnels and several J shafts were being driven to gain ' depth on the fissures. The King David company caught the spirit and turned a large part of its force into claims adjoining the San Francisco leaseholds. Paul H. Hunt, vice-ipresident and general gen-eral manager of the King David, expressed confidence that, as depth is attained, the fissures will expand and produce an increasing percentage of silver in proportion to the lead in the ore. "GeojgicaI study indicates", says Mr. Hunt, "that the monzoni-tic monzoni-tic intrusion which forced up Grampian hill fractured the overlying over-lying sedimentaries in all directions direc-tions and, on cooling, released solutions so-lutions which filled the fractures with mineral to great depth". The largest deposits of commercial commer-cial ore, he believes, will be founu at intersections of the fissures. Such intersections are so numerous that, though masses of ore formed form-ed in the Horn Silver by the trya-chyte trya-chyte dam on the east may not be found, the aggregate production from the rest of the hill should be as great, or greater, than that ot the Horn. An asset of large potential value to San Francisco Mines, Inc., is a two-compartment shaft 900 feet deep in the Lulu claim. This shaft was driven by the American Smelting Smelt-ing and Refining company in 192'j when the theory was that the lava formation was the source of the ore. In the light of recent discoveries discov-eries it is not strange that neithei the shaft or the laterals from it on the 200 and 400 foot levels encountered en-countered ore. Continuation of the laterals into the limestone wil. give hundreds of feet of depth under Grampian hill and almost unlimited stoping ground in the j many fissures. Terms of the leases granted by . the King David on nine claims and a fraction on Grampian hill range from two to five years and may be extended to four and ten years. I With leaseholds included, San , Francisco Mines, Inc., controls about 400 acres. The most im- portant work in progress now is I the driving of the Van Cott tunnel in the Young America claim about lhalf w'ay up the side ot Grampain hill. With air drills tht tunnel crew is making better than four feet a round and working two shifts in its haste to tap a fissure traced downward 33 feet by the Swede shaft. The .bottom of this shaft is said to be all in galena I and sand carbonate ore. The Van i Cott tunnel on its way in has pass- ed through an open cave lined with j mineral and is now going along a j highly mineralized cross-fissure , toward its objective. Where it should intersect the Swede fissure the face of the tunnel will be be-j be-j tween 100 and 200 feet beneath i the outcrop. Another tunnel, the Bowman, j goes into the hill a short distance ! above the Lulu shaft. It is near-1 near-1 ing the intersection of two f is-j is-j sures, both of which show ore in j prospect holes. Beside pushing , the tunnel and shaft work, Ambrose Am-brose McGarry has completed 1 truck roads to his principal ore i outlets and has laid in a large sup-' sup-' ply of timbers to be used in underground under-ground development. In view of . what has been accomplished since I he started out with his little pros-i pros-i pecting pick only three months ago, he is disposed to resent in-: in-: hill will depend somewhat on the 1 speed with which the present ob-i ob-i jectives can be reached in tunnels (Continued on last pg) New Mine Company (Contlmiod from first nagc) i and slinfU now being sunk ami driven. Of the five million nhnres of stock for which tho company is capitalized, 3,250,000 have been issued for property and leaseholds, 500,000 allotted to subscribers for stock in cash and 250,000 placed quiries as to "how much ore is ready to ship?" Hawkes and Kan, he points out, did not even know they had a mine for six iik nths after t'heir discovery of the Horn Silver and then it looked I so unpromising that they were i glad to sell out fr a pittance. Mc-I Mc-I Garry, nevertheless, has many j piles of high-grade ore above i ground probably 50 tons alto gether and has done more feet ol I development work in two months than was accomplished on the Horn Silver in a year. Not the least interesting of his dUcoverics is the determination that a yellow-tinted, or 'buckskin" lime is one the best indications of the proximity of ore on Grampian Gram-pian hill. With surprising regularity regular-ity ledges of this limestone have led him into profitable streaks ol 1 galena and carbonates. Ore in the ' fissures varies greatly in thick- : nes buth vertically and horizontally. horizon-tally. Seams at the surface so thin and altered as to be scarcely recognised rec-ognised may widen to six or ciht feet at depth, or intersac-i intersac-i tinns with other Veins, and pinch or swell with changes in the character of the encasing rock. Headway in opening and ship-! ship-! ping the new deposits of Grampian in tho treasury for future use. Putting the Lulu shaft into commission com-mission and extending its deep levels will be the major item ot exensc, but one which should j soon yield dividends. Development Develop-ment of the Pomona group is a long-range liability. The 16 claims, I which adjoin the productive Quaa- metals mine, discloses outcrops ot good ore, but have hardly been, prospected. They are regarded i now as an ace in the hole. The expense of opening and equipping . them may be fairly large. j |