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Show DEVELOPMENT AT PACIFIC CONSOL OPENS OREBODIES; SHIPPING RETURNS FAVORABLE Making its twelfth shipment and within ninety days marketing $10, 000 worth of high grade silver-lead ores, Pacific Consolidated Mining Company has served notice that mining activity is steadily gaining momentum at the head of American Fork canyon. Relegated to the status sta-tus of one of Utah's part time shipping ship-ping camps due to the heavy snowfall snow-fall during winter months, operators opera-tors carried on development work during the snowed in period preparing prepar-ing for the coming of spring and the opening of truck roads. In addition ad-dition to the above shipments another an-other lot has recently been released to the smelter at Murray which will net $40 per ton according to Mr. N. J. Nielsen, the company's manager. Return Profit Expressing dissappointment at the trend in metal prices, Mr. Nielsen, nevertheless plans the continuation of operations at the property. "The ore is sufficiently high grade," he states, "to return a substantial profit pro-fit even at these prices. The important im-portant thing being that we are de- veloping the mine and opening up new sources of mineral production. The downward extension of the Pacific Pa-cific vein is being proven every day as work of extracting the ore and development is prosecuted. A large body of ore has been recently opened below the 300 foot level. That this vein continues downward is evidenced evidenc-ed by looking over the recent development devel-opment on the 400 level. At & point where the vein runs as high as 164 ounces of silver to the ton with substantial lead values." Opens Fissure In driving a cross-cut westward through the hanging wall of the Pacific Pa-cific vein some 20 feet, what appears ap-pears to another vein of ore paralleling paral-leling the Pacific was opened. It has been worked for a distance of 70 feet on its lateral source and 75 feet downward below the 300 level, Mr. Nielsen states. The Pacific property, since its grass-root discovery downward to a depth of 300 feet has produced an estimated million dollars in silver, lead, gold and copper ores. Water became a problem at that depth and no appreciable amount of work was done below this level until the last few years. The present company has installed modern pumps that are said to handle the water sufficiently suffi-ciently to allow lower operations. To Go Deeper The company's engineer, Mr. Bur-ritt, Bur-ritt, whose opinion is substantiated by Mr. Geo. Coxe, geologist, is of the opinion that if the property be developed de-veloped at depth persistent production produc-tion may be expected with substantial substant-ial tonnage yet to be extracted. Plans call for the lowering of the shaft another 200 feet on the vein, with lateral development being prosecuted at 100 foot intervals. Bog Resumes Other properties in the canyon are resuming activity as road conditions con-ditions improve, raising the possibility possi-bility that the area may see increasing increas-ing production throughout the year. The Bog Mining Company, a mile northward from the Pacific, resumed resum-ed operations last week under the direction of M. A. Bourne of Provo. It is also reported that at the American Amer-ican Smelting property in Mary Ellen El-len Gulch, Willard Cleghorn and associates as-sociates are shipping and it is said the Silver Dipper Mine plans the resumption of work. Mr. Bourne stated recently that operations would be doubled at the Bog property during the season with I one crew being employed at the Lower Bog adit and the ether at the upper Bog, where a new bunkhouse, compressor plant and blacksmith shop were erected last summer. Last year 565 feet of development was done and a streak of good ore was followed for 120 feet. Part of a shipment is now on the dump Mr. Bourne stated. Under the direction of John Bestemeyer, mine superintendent, superin-tendent, veteran Tintic mining man and son of the John Bestlemeyer, who first staked out the claims now forming part of the Tintic Standard property, the company plans to drift in its upper Bog tunnel to strike the Miller Hill fissure. At the same time the lower Bog tunnel, now in 1,085 feet will be driven 400 feet to undercut, under-cut, at a depth of 400 feet, the ore developed in the upper tunnel. The mineral area encompassing these and other nearby properties is but a short distance from many of the famous early day Alta properties prop-erties that produced so. lavishly. The bulk of production from all these mines came principally from shallow shal-low workings as was the case in many western mines. It remains to be seen whether or not this early day production can be duplicated at depth in large amounts. However, present production from the Pacific and ore showings in the Bog and others seem to indicate that as deeper work is prosecuted the outlook out-look becomes more encouraging for the opening of profitable ore bodies. From the "Mineral Survey" |