| Show T I I MINIM MATTERS I The Extensive Developments of the New Emma Glowing Reports from the I Crescent I Mining News From All Parts of the Territory THE NEW EMMA The history of the Emma mine in Little Lit-tle Cottonwood district is almost coex istant with the history of mining in Utah This mine has been operated by three different companies has been sold at marshals sale bringing 400000 and has added between five and six million dollars to the mineral wealth of the vorld The ore bodies near the surface were worked out by the Emma and the American Ameri-can Emma mining companies after which it passed into the hands of the New Emma company which has been developing devel-oping the property on a most extensive plan A resume of what has been done under the management of the new company com-pany will be of interest to all who are interested in mining matters The old workings were abandoned at the outset and a tunnel was started lower down the hill At the mouth of this tunnel tun-nel works have been erected on a plan admirably suited to that locality as they are excavated into the side of the hill and i so constructed that snow slides cannot carry them away These works contain four 50horse power boilers The tunnel has been run into the hill a distance of 1760 feet encountering the vein at 1300 feet At the end of this tunnel a large chamber was excavated and the main shaft started This chamber contains a 40horse power hoisting engine The steam for operating this engine and the pumps below it is conducted from the boilers at the mouth of the tunnel The main shaft is 5 x 13 feet in the clear and is divided into two compartments compart-ments the smaller compartment 4 x 5 feet being used for hoisting and the other for the pumping apparatus At a depth of 135 feet from the top of the main shaft the first pumping station was established A chamber 20x35 feet was excavated which contains a large Worthington pump with a capacity of 500 gallons per minute and a small Knowles pump From this station a crosscut was I run 160 feet to the vein and 750 feet of level work done Some very fine ore running as high as 1000 ounces per ton was encountered en-countered in this level At the bottom of the shaft 245 feet from the top a second pump station was established es-tablished which is provided with apparatus appara-tus similar to that of the first station The Worthingtia pumps have been run at only half their capacity as that is sufficient suffici-ent to keep the water out of the mine at present At the bottom of the shaft a second crosscut forty feet in length has been run to the vein and a level established which is now 100 feet in length Work was being prosecuted on this level when the recent snow slide came and necessitated necessi-tated a temporary suspension of operations opera-tions Altogether about 3000 feet of development work has been done by the I new company The only damage done by the snow slide of last winter was the II carrying away of the four smoke stacks Just as soon as the tramwa y is opened new stacks will he taken up and until I then the mine will remain idle It is expected ex-pected the tramway will be opened about the middle of May and within ten days thereafter the development work will be resumed Considerable stoping will be done during the coming season and everything indicates the inauguration of another productive era for this great mine THE CRESCENT The latest reports received from the Crescent mine are most flattering The lower tunnel is still being pushed into the hill and rich ore is steadily encountered encoun-tered No stoping has yet been done but 40000 tons of ore are stored at the mine awaiting the opening of the tramway tram-way The daily shipments now are from seventyfive to one hundred tons which is taken part of the distance on I sleds and then transferred to wagons As soon as the present equinoctial storm is I over the tramway will be cleared of snow the mill started up and the immense im-mense resources of the mine will then be demonstrated There is no question but the season of 85 will witness an immense output for the Crescent and the long looked for dividends ought to be forthcoming forth-coming immediately No Crescent stock can now be purchased for less than 1 and it is considered as sound an investment invest-ment as the local stock board affords at that figure QUEEN OF THE HILLS No news has been received from the mine since the dispatch of yesterday afternoon There is no question but order has been restored and the mine and mill again in full operation Shipmentsof ore will soon be resumed but it will all go to Omaha the smelter of that city having contracted for the output of 1885 THE VALLEJO The damage done to this property the snowslide of last winter was not nearly so great as was reported A large force of men is now being worked at the mine It is not likely the cable tramway will be replaced Superintendent Reed will be in the city in a few days when a detailed account of the condition of the mine will be given NEWFOUNDLAND DISTRICT Every additional report received indicates indi-cates that this district is bound to come into prominence during the coming season sea-son The Newfoundland district lies west of the Great Salt Lake and has been comparatively unknown until quite recently re-cently A number of Salt Lake parties are said to have struck it rich and contemplate contem-plate extensive development work during the coming season Mr John Cook returned re-turned last night and brought several fine samples of copper ores which are being tested today TIIC ORE MARKET But little has been done in the ore market during the past week Owing to I the bad condition of the roads but little ore has been offered and as a consequence conse-quence prices were good The Hanauer smelter is running two stacks and treating treat-ing sixty tons of ore per day Another stack will be put in operation about six weeks The Horn Silver smelter is still running |
