Show arises are scene of ofa important activity gall gail martin editor of the western mineral survey published publish edthe the following story in his paper after a asit isalt to the mayflower star ot of utah and park galena I 1 mines on one of the most reassuring features about the park city district Is the amount of development that Is baingi being carried on fair weather Nc ather or foul with the idea of discovering mines in ground far beyond that previously proved productive in an area so thoroughly thorough ehly mineralized such persistence means the finding i of other ore deposits and the perpetua alon of 1 the mining industry at park city I 1 to the type of development manifest ing a 96 marked degree ol of efficiency and I 1 enterprise belong the three charles I 1 moore enterprises enterpriser the mayflower the star of utah and the park galena I 1 I 1 each has its well defined objectives ell endorsed both by past experience anh and by men of wisdom in mining matters each Is forgoing ahead to important goals at a rate that should make ensuing months of great interest to followers of mining in east paik falk city within a comparatively short time the mayflower tunnel should be in the heart of a promising country the star of utah tunnel within two or three months should be starting on the same stretch toward three of its most alluring objectives the park galena Is producing steadily two carloads of high grade ore a week with the prospect of adding to its reserves at any time all of these properties will be benefited by the mayflower tu anel the completion of which will supply additional geologic information and another economical entry for drainage exploration and transportation at great depth pioneers start work all empire builders do not taste ot of success and riches many die without seeing their hope justified or their work completed bound up in the aspirations of the mayflower the star of utah and the park galena ventures are arc the hopes I 1 end and life work of numerous pioneers who I 1 labored bravely and sacrificed much in I 1 past decades to develop the ground now held by th eCharles moore enterprises of these an outstanding figure Is colonel colnel 0 daring aggressive skilled land and shrewd colonel started a I 1 dozen enterprises only to have them fall and later be picked up by some one I 1 else and made a success mon along g the s same ame lines that he started fully a score of ti times C colonel 0 lonel missed a fortune 1 I 1 by scarcely a hairs breadth colonel tre neek started the alliance e tunnel now belonging to the silver king coalition j I 1 mines company he also started to ex alore the wabash mines ground a work that Is to be completed by the S star tar of utah mining company of what manner ot of man was colonel colone can be judged by the following story told of him by W mont ferry former secretary or of the wabash company and now president of the american silver producers association had borrowed around from the old walker brothers bank the money was irretrievably lost could not pay and eventually the note was outlawed integrity tested A number of years later the lucky boy idaho mine venture came in big and drew as his sh share a re the sum of f or he went to matt walker walker and inquired how bow much his indebtedness was you dont owe us anything that note was outlawed a long time ago figure out the principal and interest replied colonel my note Is never outlawed the wabash property one of the principal objectives of present star of utah work lies just south couth and southeast of ontario ground 2700 feet southeast ot of ontario no 2 shaft concerning this area U S geological survey professional paper no 77 the geology and ore deposits of the park city district utah by john mason boutwell says the wabash ground la Is situated geologically i in an area of possibilities being la in the toot wall of the ontario lode adjacent to an extensive outcrop of porphyry and roughly in the lindof the hawkeye me mc i henry fault zone deluge started the wabash shaft was sunk to the 1800 toot foot level and main work done on the foot level in the ontario quart laite alte in driving to reach the contact of the limestone and quartzite great difficulties I 1 intervened Ld the ground swelled so badly that it was impossible to hold bold the headings open at the cost of 0 herculean effort the soft ground was pierced parallel drifts were run on each side of the line of drifting to relieve the pressure in one place the formation was productive for a considerable distance I 1 I 1 at a 06 distance of feet from the shaft water broke into the heading in terrifying volume the men were forced to run for their lives heavy steel mine cars were derailed and washed down the j track A horse was drowned before it could be gotten out of the drift all work had to be suspended tor for days when the drift was again colonel and mr ferry inspected ed the foot level near the face on the left hand side according to mr ferry was war a hole three or four feet in I 1 diameter leading into an open cave from this source had poured the water pleading leading from this aperture the floor of the drift ft aas as covered with pebbles and boulders of high grade ore tor for several hundred feet the largest being found near and the smaller sizes grading out dow down n the drift depth needed about this time john II 11 crelghton creighton founder ot of crelghton creighton university aj at omaha and principal backer of 0 colonel Trew cek had died shortly after the watering lne ot of the wabash colonel tre anek veeh died while bile in the east trying to finance more work vork the importance mp ortance ot of the remarkable ore showing was never determined and operations stopped because icausi ot of the great cost ot of fighting water such conditi conditions ors forced the driving ot of the star ot of utah tunnel on the east side of the district adjoining the park galena jena water had rendered operators helpless iless who he tried to conduct operations by shaft ehatt no adequate tunnel sides existed on the west side aide one after another the Nall driver new york the daly judge extension had shut down and the star of ut utah a h I 1 tunnel project which would give a depth of f teet feet below the lowest wabash working stood out as the only feasible and economical method ot of developing ve this promising area an excellent surface plant with ingersoll rand compressor roots company rotary blower tor for ventilation sullivan drill sharpener and blacksmith shop was installed and work started at the present writing the tunnel has been advanced feet the face of the adit Is now in a soluble limestone carrying some three hundred teet feet or more back ot of the face and on the other iside side of a foot diorite dike a good showing of sulphide ore was found in a bedding plane on the contact near the top of the drift showing that the tunnel Is in a mineralized country expect results soon within teet feet superintendent john D fisher an operator ol of forty years experience pe peri ence lence in park city will start a drift south to cut the wabash fissure a distance of about teet feet ahead and a drift north to cut the wasatch fissure A short distance to the north of the wasatch fissure lies iles the new york fissure system all of these fissures are reported favorably on in professional paper 77 of the U S geological survey from the Nail driver mine an excellent grade of silver lead ore has been shipped 1 carrying from to ounces of I 1 silver to the ton and 40 per cent lead ore in the new york mine persisted as low as the foot level one shipment from this level ran to ounces of silver to the top 12 to 20 per cent lead and 1 in gold on the lower levels an eight inch streak of high grade silver lead ore was still showing when the U S geological survey engineers visited the mine MS Arai flower on way project on the mayflower er tunnel from dutch pete hollow feet be below ow the star of utah tunnel has been as care fulla considered before starting as that of jile the star of utah hopes of the mayflower mines venture are based on past pas development in the park bingham property which now belongs to the mayflower mines company and an examination of the park bingham for this company by J M boutwell whose professional paper 77 Is the park city miners bible mr boutwell Bout welI reports that as a whole the in the park bing bangham Is significant extensive and strong sufficient af depth however could not be attained from the park bingham workings because ot of water MA all boutwell points out that the evidence afforded by innumerable cases in this and other mining districts points to the probable existence in this group of veins and beds bed s of sulphide silver lead ore in limestone at depth and of veins of zine sulphide lead silvar allver ore in diorite a short distance below the surface ile he advised adv ased the prospecting of the tha lime tone stone at depths or of to 1000 feet deep lor for northeast southwest veins and the driving of drifts along these veins and of raises to favorable limestone beds as well as the crosscutting of the diorite for northeast veins of lead sliver silver sulphides sulp hides site selected Select rd the question of tunnel sites la Is studied and the present dutch peto pete tunnel site Is recommended since tor for its entire length it would be entirely in the limits of the companas comp anys property it would catch the limestone on its easterly dip about feet farther e east sl than at the he level of the park bangh bangham a m tunnel tuli nelt and would finally enter the desired ground the contact zone on the south side elde of the property more directly in line with these recommendations president and general manager moore had the May mayflower floer tunnel started from dutch pete hollow about a mile I 1 irom from the keetley loading station of the park utah on the union pacific branch with the silver king con tunnel ot of the sliver silver king coalition mines company the mayflower tunnel Is undoubtedly the best tunnels in the state built eight feet by seven and a halt half feet in the clear with a 24 inch track and a water ditch capable ot of carrying gallons a minute this tunnel has been driven straight into the formation lor for 1800 feet A four inch airline and 12 inch ventilation pipe are being used the tunnel Js Is lit by electricity the whole distance ground fissured ris in driving this 1800 feet eight strong fissures have been cut the last fissure measured 40 feet wide the rush ot of water from this opening was so great that all work had to be stopped for several days to hold the ground it has been necessary to drive railroad ralls rails and logs legs over the cup cap for at the last report t from the property superintendent I william villiam gay stated that the adit had entered n t ere d a s solid 0 lid formation again and much be better ater progress was being made within two to three hundred feet the I 1 tunnel should cut one of the main fissures of the formation and soon thereafter the sediment aries from the present point on important development can be expected at any time one of the most comfortable and up to date hotel buildings in the park city district has been erected at the mayflower the surface plant Is adequately equipped with a two drill sullivan compressor a 40 horsepower general electric motor a denver gardner drill sharpener a power saw and a ventilating tan fan park galena shipping at the park galena or the old glencoe the company Is following in the dl on the foot level a shoot of I 1 high grade ore ranging from one to four feet in thickness one hundred and I 1 twenty tons of ore assaying 16 per cent lead 16 ounces of silver to the ton 5 per cent copper gold and 6 to 7 per cent zinc Is being shipped each week this ore a galena and is as clean and high grade a product as one would want to see or on the tunnel level this vein was I 1 at scoped ope d for feet along its strike and anci I 1 clear up to the grass roots on the level the ore has been continuous tor for a distance of about feet drifts are being run on this level under the direction of superintendent L P pearce to 0 pen open up the thirty foot and the pearl fissures the pearl fissure in the adjoining star of utah is a strong well defined vein from which some good ore was shipped drifting Is also to tc be undertaken der taken to cut the glencoe fissure now being sloped above the near the limestone quartzite contact in in an I 1 adjoining claim operations at the three properties impress idress one as being conducted with the highest possible efficiency objectives ar are e being approached steadily and without waste of time and money equipment and living quarters are of the best yet not of an extravagant type overhead expense is being kept at a minimum and the supervision Is aggressive gres sive intelligent and energetic th the 1 continuance of these thebie projects assures the development of a vast virgin field of rich possibilities in the park city district |