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A GRKAT COPPER PROPERTY 293 ALTA DISTRICT 103 A NINETEENTH CENTURY WONDER .' .1 217 A VALUABLE PUBLICATION 12 BEAVER COUNTY .284 BECK'S HOT SPRINGS 843 BIG COTTON WOOD DISTRICT 333 The Wautunka ......'.. 333 BINGHAM COPPER BELT ... 220 BINGHAM PLACER MINES ... 221 AbeLlnooln .J 231 Jupiter ...I.,. 236-244 All's Well : 231 Julia Dean 236-246 Agnes and Dana .... 231 Last Chance Group 236 246 Antelope 281 Lena . .*... 237 Amazon 231 Leona . .... 237 Alfarata ...281 Lone Tree 237 Arropean Group 233 Mayflower.. 237 Badger 233 Miner's Dreain 242 Butterfleld Mining Co 233 May Queen ... 242 Burning Moscow 233 Minnie 242 Bingham Tunnel Co. 222 Montezuma 242-247 Bingham Copper Co 227 Nast-Benton Group 242-247 Chicago 233 Niagara 'Group 238 Clyde Il'lllj.. 233 Northern Light 238-247 Clyde No, 2 283 Old Jordan and Galena 238-247 Clyde No. 3 :. 233 Opulent 238-237 Cuba 233 Old Telegraph 238-237 Conger 233 Faruell 239 Cleveland 245 Petro 239 Cramp and Yellow Metal 245 Phoenix Group 239 Croff 246 Pride of the Valley 239 Crown Point 247 Royal 239 Dalton and Lark 233 Ruby Native 239 6 INDEX TO CONTENTS. BINGHAM PLACER MINES, (Continued) : Dalton and Lark 224 Silver Star 239 Emma Copper 235 The 1889 240 Evergreen 235 Scottish Chief 240 Eda 246 Thrush 240 Flambeau 235 Turngren Group 240 Frisco Mining and Milling Co. 243 Unlimited Group 240 Grant Group 235 Venus 240 Green Grove 235 Wasatch 240 Greely Group 235 Winnemuck Group 2il Greek Group 186 York 241 Harrison 236 Yosemite 241 Julia S 236.244 B. B. Quinn 248 BOX ELDER COUNTY 108 CACHE AND RICH COUNTIES 103 CHARACTER OF VEINS IN WEST MOUNTAIN DISTRICT 220 COAL AND COKE 59 COLORS OF PRECIOUS METAL ORES 54 COLONEL PAT DONAN 280 CONTENTS 5-10 C. L. DIGNOWITY 248 DAVIS COUNTY 256 DEEP CREEK DISTRICT 196 Aurum District 203 Muncy District 205 Clifton District 201 Minor Districts 207 Cherry Creek District 207 Pierpoint District 205 Dugway District 202 Schellbourne District 204 Detroit District 203 Sprucemont District 206 Dolly Varden District 206 Utah and Galena 198 Glencoe District 204 Vulcan and Cactus 200 Kinsley District 206 White Cloud District... 204 EARLY SMELTERS AND FLUXES 346 HARDSCRABBLE 342 INTRODUCTORY 11 IRON 59 LIXIVIATION TREATMENT 125 209 MANUFACTURING MINERALS 86 MAP OF CAMP FLOYD 122-3 MARYSVALE DISTRICT 334 The Crystal 335 MEANING OF 16 TO 1 96 INDEX TO CONTENTS. MEANING OF FREE AND UNLIMITED COINAGE 215 MECHANICAL PREPARATION OF ORES 112 MERCUR CAMP 136 MERCUR GEOLOGICAL FORMATION 135 MERCUR MINERALS 134 MERCUR :Camp Floyd) DISTRICT 131 Annie Mining and Milling Co. 150 Jones Bonanza 161 Anderson Gold Mining Co 156 Buddee Group 148 Bonanza No 2 Group 161 Brickyard Gold Mining Co 165 Camp Floyd Locations 187 Cannon Company 174 Cedar Fort District 178 Dexter Group 158 De Lamar's Properties Eagle (North End) Ifi2 East Golden Gate Mining Co,.. .166 Old Fred 161 Gold Point Claims at Sunshine 1>3 Pacific Group 181 Golden Seals Mining Co 156 Rover Mining Co 157 Glencoe Group 159 Gold Bug 161 Geyser 165 Golden Gate Extension 177 Gold Coin Group 178 Gold Belt Water Co. 182 Herschel Mining Co 140 Hillside Gold Mining Co 159 Salt Lake & Mercur R Hecla Gold Mining Co 160 Wonder Gold Mining Co. Juno-Mento 160 W. C, B. Allen MINING BY ELECTRICITY 89 MINING INCORPORATIONS OF UTAH 17 MINING LAWS, NATIONAL AND STATE 61 MINING PARLANCE 49 MR. JOHN BECK 191 MR. TIM J, DRISCOLL .'.....I... 330 MT, NEBO LAND AND IRRIGATION COMPANY 188 NEW FIRE CLAY AND COAL DISCOVERIES 253 NEWTONCDI8TRICT 287 OPHIR, STOCKTON, DRY CANYON 841 PEEPSTONErDISTRICT 177 Little Pittsburg 161 Laura K. and Sue N 181 Malvern Gold Mining Co. 144 Midland Group 158 Mollie Gibson ...162 Marion 163 Mercur 163 Mercur Mammoth 176 Mrrcur Gold Dust Min. Co. .180 Overland Goll Mining Co. 151 Reindr ... 160 Red Cloud 162 Sunshine Gold Mine AM. Co. 139 Silver Lode M. AM. Co. . Songbird Sacramento Searchlight Gold M. Co. 158 162 . 165 .176 .184 .146 ..181 8 INDEX TO CONTEMTS. PIONEER AND RECENT MINING CAMPS 102 PREAMBLE 97 PRECIOUS MATERIALS IN UTAH 57 PRODUCTION OF PRECIOUS MKTALS FOR 1895 60 PROSPECTOR'S ASSAYS 44 RLJH-CACHE MINES 104 RIO GRANDE WESTERN RAILWAY 93 ROBERTS' HOUSE 248 SALT INDUSTRY 109 SAN FRANCISCO DISTRICT 288 SANPETE COUNTY 259 SILVER COINAGE AND WEALTH OF THE WORLD 251 SMELTERS AND SAMPLERS 127 STATE LINE DISTRICT 342 STATISTICS OF UTAB 55 SUMMIT COUNTY 260 Anchor 262 Keith and Kearns 262 Alliance .....262 Comstock 267 Crescent 262 Creole 265 Daly 271 Daly-West 262 Glenco '.:. 264 Jupiter 264 SUNDOWN & LA PLATA MINES 106 SUNSHINE CAMP 137 SUNSHINE GOLD MINING AND MILLING CO 139 THE SANITARIUM 338 TINTIC MINING DISTRICT 295 Lucky Bill 269 Morgan 264 Ontario Mine and Mill .271-276 Park City 260 Silver King 262 Valeo 265 Woodside 262 At Diamond 307 Ajax 321 Bullion -Beck and Champion. ..309 Hotel Mammoth Black Dragon 324 Centennial Eureka 314 Dagmar M. & M. Co. 328 Eureka Hill and Gemini 318 Grand Central 317 Godiva 324 TOOELE COUNTY 339 Blue Mountain District 340 Homestake 307 Humbug 324 ..327 In Silver City 306 Mammoth 320 North Tintic 309 North Tintic Consolidated 326 Star Consolidated 325 Utah and Sioux 312 INDEX RO CONTENTS. UINTAH COUNTY 337 UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY 185 UTAH LIFE INSURANCE CO 211 UTAH MINERAL SPRINGS 344 VALUABLE HINTS TO PROSPECTORS AND MINERS 42 WASHINGTON COUNTY 257 WEST MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT 218 ADVERTISEMENTS Bird & Lowe Land and Min- ing Attorneys 138 Brown, Terry A Woodruff Co. Haberdashers & Laun- dry 155 Cunnington Company Hard ware, Groceries and Min- ers Supplies ;...... 62 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway 72 Co-Operative Wagon & Ma- chine Company 130 Dr. C. W. Higgins Microsco- pic and Analytic Physi- cian ?55 Denver & Rio Grande Railroad 323 E.L. Sheets Mining Broker ..270 F. M. Bishop Assayer 72 Frazer & Chalmers Mining & Metallurgical Machinery .... 213 Felix J. Stark Broker 16 Geo. M. Scott & Co Hardware and mine Supplies 62 Godbe Pitts Drug Co 315 Geo. Q. Cannon & Sons Co 3 H.J. Dininny, Lawyer 62-341 Inter-Mountain Mining Review 4 John McVicker Assayer 114 J, W, Currie Assayer 121 London Guarantee and Accident Co. Limited Insurance page 2 London Guarantee and Ac- cident Co. .....".. .:!:;. 52 O. R. Young Civil Engi- neer *:.. .1 817 R. H. Officer A Co Assay ers 72 RoessierA Hasslacher Chem- ical Co. Cyanide 330 Rio Grande Western Rail- way Company 1 Salt lAike Herald Ill Salt Lake Tribune 214 The Silver Hotel * ..333 The Keeley Institute 195 The Roberts House Bing- ham 256 TheUtahnian 283 Union Roller Mills Flour 4 Utah & Montana Machin- ery Co 12 Utah Liquor Company 18+ Union Pacific Railway 216 W. S. Young-Official Sten. 345 W. A, Hodges Assayer 116 Wm. C. Hall Lawyer 208 W. E. Hubbard Mines and Real Estate ... 282 10 INDEX^TCTCONTENTS. PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS, Bullion-Beck Mill 310 Mr. John Beck . 193 Camp Floyd 122-123 281 '225 Mr, Chas. Van Als.tine 196 Mr, W. Scott Crismon 199 Mr. Orlando W. Hardy 228 Mr. C. L. Dignowlty ...249 Mr. Alexander Moffatt 278 Mr. S. R. Marks 328 Colonel "Pat" Donan Dalton & Lark Properties .. Dr. C. W. Higgins Daly No 2 East Golden Gate Property Eureka City 254 273 168 297 Mr. Tim Driscoll 329 F. A.Wadleigh 93 Geol. Formation of Mercur 135-136 Golden Gate Shaft Houses 171 Hon. R. 0. Chambers 119 Hon. J. J, Daly 120 Hon. Theodore Brubeck 142 Hon. W, S, McCornick 179 Hon. Thomas Kearns 263 Hon. David Keith 2fifi Mr, John A. Kiroy 331 Overland and Red Cloud Landscape 149 Old Telegraph Mine 234 Ontario Hoisting Works 275 Park City 261 Street Scene in Mercur 131 Silver King Hoisting Works 268 Hon. P. T Farnsworth Hon. Richard Mackintosh Hon. Charles C. Goodwin ... Marion Mine and Mill Mr. H. A. Cohen 291 316 319 .. 133 173 Sunshine Mine Landscape. .H3 Sunshine Mine and Mill 138 The Town of Mercur 175 The Wall Concentrator at Ophir 15 Mr. D. E. Burley Mr. E. G. Rognon. 185 189 Upper Bingham Canyon ...232 Wonder Hoist and Works. 147 Introductory. FOR the first time in the history of mining in Utah an effort is here made to compile and present to those interested, at home and abroad, a compre- hensive insight to the actual condition of mining affairs in this state. A vast amount of history is left unwritten, and only those points and details touched upon that are worthy, in every sense, of particular note. If it be but the one feature of the work it can be truthfully said that it is honest, without the least intentional varnish or misrepresen- tation. Naturally there will be omissions; these must inevitably follow in the inauguration of a work like this, which has nothing of the kind pre- ceding it to lean upon as a basis for correction and elaboration, but all reasonable efforts have been made to be just and accurate. 12 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. ft l/aluable publication periodical Eptitl^d "Industries" to be Issued 117 Salt "Industries," is the title of a new publication soon to be issued in Salt Lake. It will discuss all the most important industries in the States west of the Missouri River, but especially those of Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona and Colorado. Finance, real estate, banks and banking, mining, irrigation, agriculture, horticulture, smelt- ing and milling, railroading, manufacturing, stock- raising, merchandizing and the trades and all the chief industries of this vast region will be carefully looked after, and brief but complete data given as to actual conditions. To the business man in any line of trade or speculation this journal will be quite indispensible. The new publication will be issued by an incorpo- rated company. There will be no less than fifteen assistant editors, and over one hundred correspon- dents on the staff of writers. A complete stock table embracing the listed mining companies in the United States, and show- ing the total transactions, will be a feature. It will contain a regular epitome of the total business done in the mercantile and manufacturing and commercial lines. The total tonnage and values of the ores treated by the smelters, samplers and mills will be given in MINES, MINERS, AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 13 each issue, as also the total output of the mines, and the destination of ores and bullion. A review of irrigation and land promotion propo- sitions throughout the West promises to be one of the particular considerations of the new journal. The- sugar, salt and mineral water industries will receive full attention. The live stock business in its every phase, from grazing to the butchers block, will be covered complete!} 7 . The coal, coke, gas and iron industries will be cited in detail. All there is to, in and of railroading, including the freight and passenger traffic, and the many incidents and personals will be detailed. In brief, everything worthy of note transpiring under the heads mentioned will be collated and pub- lished, making "Industries" an invaluable journal for every business man in the Trans-Missouri region, and it will be the first and only publication of its kind, so long needed in the West. Arrangements are now perfecting to issue the first number on or about November 1, 1896. Owing to the great area to be covered, all parts of which is equally interested, an edition of at least 50,000 copies will be necessary for its formal introduction. It will necessarily be the most widely circulated publication west of Chicago and St. Louis, and its value as an advertising medium will be at once ap- parent. A corps of agents is now covering each state gathering data and engaging correspondents who will submit their copy to the various state editors, 14 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. who in turn send in "copy" for final disposition at the home office in Salt Lake. Editors, business men and all others interested in the up-building of the country west of the Big Muddy, will find it advantageous to communicate with the home office. A correspondent is wanted in every county, and every city of over 3,000 in- habitants in the states mentioned, to whom full and satisfactory remuneration will be given for all ac- ceptable matter furnished. The subscription price of "Industries" will be $2 a year, invariably in advance. It will be a 20-page journal, printed on fine calendared paper with elaborate cover. It will contain fine half-tone or photo-graveur illustrations of every important sub- ject treated upon, where such will add to or make it more complete and explicit. No expense, brains or arterial blood will be spared to make "Industries" one of the very finest and most valuable publica- tions in America, and certainly the only one of its kind extant. Address all communications to "INDUSTRIES," Salt Lake City, Utah. H. M. Gushing and others have struck a rich vein of ore on Antelope Island, and are satisfied they have one of the richest strikes ever made in Utah. A smelter run made on the 10th of September, 1896, showed the ore to be very rich, but the values were not given out for publication. This means the opening and development of a new district, and Antelope Island will be^'much in evi- dence in mining circles before many months. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF^UTAH. 15 16 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. Mines and Mining Stocks, Bonbs, :3L- ptions, <* Contracts and Securities. No. 2 Atlas Block, Salt Lake City. H. M. Gushing and others have struck a rich vein of ore on Antelope Island, and are satisfied they have one of the richest strikes ever made in Utah. A smelter run made on the 10th of September, 1896, showed the ore to be very rich, but the values were not given out for publication. This means the opening and development of a new district, and Antelope Island will be much in evi- dence in mining circles before many months. MINES, MINERS ^ND MINERALS OF UTAH. 17 ! 2 o o o to o o ~ 10 ^ CM' o n o o o wj o o \o o J O 00 o E o i_ o Q/ S o ^ 2 - 5 S o S o < ' CO OC ( i x ao i 1 j* -r S -r v ^ S ^" *^K W * M iJ^*" 1 .*) .0. >>^>>J a A 5 a > ft a ^ 5Sl52fi5afii>s ts Q ji^.3 ^ J3 as ^^ I ,S 5 r o " S i 1 8 1 1 2 o p g o ft ^ L ** 5 * ^ S P : S 1 ^ = i Q *s ' jd 5 d S , ^ tt x ing Co, Salt Lake City 5 . fc 6 M a 'a . O O " V "5 3 CQ 3 3 3 3 3 3 O O >> ~ Q 3 S 3 3 3 3 o Ogden M. Co. Salt Lake City CO* 6 * O P VD o American Fork Park City Salt Lake City ng Co, 3 3 232 o" O w d 89 CH a p S o P, M .- P ~r nglo Idaho M laddinG, & 8, mericus S. M. i 5 ' "3 M bo P P. merican Antii lliance M. Co. lexander Iterus G. & 8, Ita M. & imell IpineM. Co, merican Eagl merican Mini merican Fork Mining Co. nchor M. Co. 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Co, enrietta M. & M. Co. umboldt M. & M/Co. orse Shoe M. & M. Co. iko M. & M. Co, ercules M. Co, arland M. Co. ecla G. M. Co, ot Stuff M. Co. ardscrabble G. M. & M erschel G. M. Co. orse Shoe Cyanide G. ; M. Co. illsideG.M. Co. enrictta G, M. Co. orse Shoe G. & S. M. C erkimer M, & M. Co. a a a a a a a a aa aa a aa a a a a a a a a a a MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH, 31 fi,OO,-lOC-lOC:Oo g i *? = * 2 * o ~ - J? fc 5V ! "~" si ~ * 2 OS 0) M- E OF COM o $ a o oo c fi C X! . 98 o * o c -o ' 6 s SS r % * * o a g . o r- a CO ed w 8*1 s * & 3 ssa| 2^3^ 33 d^J Q ^ i_: ^ piter M,Co. = |-i^ = ss^is ills!' 8 2 C * * J3 ^ S * t> 3 a? "* C? S&o o ^ ^s s- r ^ 30030 ^ ^ 1-5 h^ >t . 0) W J4-tf 32 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. ~ a > M C : Illi&Iil M O/Ha Q cc l ^^2 00-s gj sgSsirfJftfSjSrfS'g ! C - I * 3 3 , i S "3 ^ ' H K O S 3 2 ,0 M M O 2g - ~ c 44 & CO ''3 O * aT . . . - . - . ff - -o o 5" ' S 5 jj EL. 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Co. of Uta ulton M, Co. nte del Key M. Co. untain Chief M. Co. rth Golden Gate M. & Co. rth Mercur M. & M. Co. Q a * 5 *.** *2*>. 1? a= * &** a s ^ S3 O o .S o * ." o aS o JS O o o o o o S S S % 8 S S3 % X S5 X S? 36 MIMES, MINERS AND MINERAL? OF UTAH. W -- j ' ^r;S ;:v| 2TH2S' H rH8'" H '-'^ 1 SoSSssSSSS-SSg; K_ -^OfcK Ci cXJ^^^t-t-c^-M^d^-w O rtD < "s' ?e(:3 aJ' :!S o^3^o iS: !i a c . O .a q "S . O o o >> !S. tJ fl *"" o> L iu : cc O o o o 5 Sqj ' ^ j o O O ' o ; > O 5 fc o -o * * OOJ \ W , 1 & ' O O ;2^ 5 O = ! Illl d h 5 S t3 w J5 55 2 V 3 J o M ii 2^ ..j !.,*, PRINCIPAL PLA< OF BUSINESS, O CO Provo 5 s M , "3 5 CO San Francisco Salt Lake City New York City Marysvale. Uta Beaver Salt Lake City ^ 7 O 3 s 3 " 3 5- 5" < -'.-"- S s * co O co O 5 S -9 r' X . ^ g NAME OF COMPANY. eorasfca G, M. Co. ew State M. Co. ew Guinea M. & M. Cc orth Mountain M. Co. Id Channel Placer M. ntario S. M. Co. rnament G. & 8. M. Co hio Con, G. & S. M. Co, zokerite M, Co, ccidental M. & M. Co. 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O O O O O O ift o I '8 - MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. w . ...... ...... ... ..... t& tJ rH^O'-HCsJoi-HO rH O iH O 10 O i-5lOtO fc ^ w8?S;SSa SSg^s25 *t 2 * 1 55 S8 s o o 1 3 o ^ s ^ S" -^ S ~ S S ^ S # 5 ^ ^" ^ ^ S ^" a 2 5^ >H *>4i^^''Q,dcH ^t^o'ScJ^ '^^Jfl 5 5 ^ *** s -S NCIPAL .PLACE LOCAT1 )F BUSINESS. Ml S 3 a 2 a 03 t Lake City k City t Lake City -k City si c H a o 3 len tLake City ber, Was. Co. tLake City t Lake City s s s " I 03 3 = GO 04 co PH SI SI 5 cri OD s - 2 s = o 8 . * Q 8 NAME OF COMPANY, Venezuela G. M. Co. Vulcan M. Co. Washington M, Co, Wayne M. Co, Winnamuck M. & M. Co. West End M, Co. Watson M. Co. Woodside M. Co, West Mountain Mining Ld. Willard Silver Bell M. Ci Well Annie M.& M. Co. Wasatch M, Co. Waldeck G. M, Co. WestCaoleM, &M. Co. West Mountain Placer Co. Wonder G. M. Co. West Sunshine M. Co. West Mercur G. M, & velop Milling Co. Yosemite M. & M. Co. Yellow Jacket M. Co. Yuba M. & Red Co. Yosemite No. 2. M. Co. Yellow Jacket G. M. & M MINKS, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. M 2 a 2" * lltL 81 v .~ 3 p S * W ,fl '5 it x fl 5 * H 5 ft OD - ^ N ^ < - 's / ^ x-. 5 ^ o O " O " 3 3 PRINCIPAI OF BUSI Salt Lake 5 COMPAN Salt Lake u> Salt Lake Lehi "3 - 00 e Morgan C >.Salt Lake 3 2 a 3 (0 8 2 A 3 s | 5 it . 8 ft ft 09 a o > O * ^ 00 ^ . 00 = o O C o eral I^apds of tr^ l/r>ited States. (Chap. 6 of Title xxxii. of U, S: Revised Statutes A. C , May 10. 1882.) Section 2318. Public lands valuable for miner- als are reserved from sale under Homestead, Pre emption or Timber Culture acts or otherwise than as mineral lands under express provisions of U. S. laws. Section 2319. All valuable mineral deposits therein are open to exploration and purchase, and the lands containing same to occupation and purchase by American citizens or those having duly declared their intention to become such, under reg- ulations prescribed by law and according to local customs and rules of miners applicable thereto and not inconsistent with U. S. laws. Section 2346. Such mineral lands are ex- cepted from certain land grants already made by Congress unless expressly included in the grant. Sections 2341-2. Lands set apart as mineral, 64 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. but settled upon and found to be agricultural, may be set apart as agricultural and taken up as home- steads. Section 2344. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to impair in any way the rights or interests acquired under laws existing prior to May 10, 1872. SCHOOL LANDS. Act of Congress March 3, 1875 Sections 16 and 36, in each township, if such sections were not known to contain minerals when surveyed, or whe'n Utah becme a state (date 1896) passed to the state as school lands, and are not open to ex- ploration and purchase as mineral lands of the United States. TIMBER ON MINERAL LANDS. Act of Congress June 3, 1878 Timber may be cut from the public mineral lands of the United States by citizens of the United States, or bona fide residents of the State of Utah (other than rail- road corporations, for building, agricultural, mining or other domestic purposses, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe for the protection of the timber and under growth and for other purposes. The Register and Receiver of the local land office are to report un- authorized cutting. WATER ON MINERAL LANDS. Section 2339. Vested water rights for mining * purposes shall be protected and rights MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 65 for ditches and canals for such purposes are con- firmed; but person constructing ditches or canal is liable for damages done to any settler on the public domain. Section 2340. Patents are subject to vested water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection therewith. COAL LANDS. Section 2347. Every person 21 years of age being a citizen of the United States, or having duly declared his intention to become such, and every association of persons so qualified, may upon appli- cation to local Register enter by legal subdivisions any qauntity of vacant U. S. coal lands not other- wise appropriated not exceeding 160 acres to each such individual, or 320 acres to each such associa- tion, upon payment to local Receiver of not less than $10 per acre for lands situated more than 15 miles from any completed railroad, and not less than $20 per acre for lands less than 15 miles from such road. Section 2348. Preference is given to occupants, so qualified, who have opened and improved mine. Associations of not less than four persons, so quali- fied, having expended $5000 in work and improve- ments, mav enter 640 acres, including such im- provements. Section 2349. Claim under preceding section must be filed with Register within 60 days after date of possession and commencement of improve- ment, or within 60 days after township plat is re- ceived at district land office. 66 MINES, MINERS AND. MINERALS OF UTAH. Section 2350. Only one entry may be made by any one person or association; and no entry by an association whereof one or more members has made entry. Final proof and payment must be made within one year from time prescibed for filing claim under section 2348 otherwise lands are open to entry by any other qualified applicant. Section 2351. In case of conflicting claims priority of possession and improvement, followed by proper filing and continued good faith, de- termines preference. Improvements made before March 3, 1873, are to be awarded as nearly as may be on division to parties having made same. The Commissioner of General Land office shall make regulations for car- rying into effect Sections 2347-2351. Section 2352. Rights which attached prior to March 3, 1873, are not to be impaired by preceding five sections, nor sale authorized of lands valuable for mines of gold, silver or copper. 11. lpd G *3 124 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAK = it depends on the ore to be treated as to which is the best method, but at this particular age of the world as to mining, it is the cheapest method for the treatment of low-grade gold ores that the miner and mill man are after. In the Knox pan the pulp is made of the con- sistency to adhere lo a stick, then heated with steam after three hours grinding and next five pounds of mercury are added together with a cup- ful of equal parts saltpetre and sal ammoniac. The slime is then worked for another three hours when water with a little caustic lime is added and then the pulp is discharged, first through an upper and then through a lower hole. One of the greatest difficulties in amalgamating gold, especially that contained in pyrites, is the "sickening" or flouring of the mercury, which loses its bright, metallic surfaces, thus failing to take up other metals. Sodium amalgam is the best remedy for this. Tt has been shown that cyanide of potassium loses gold. In the separation of gold from the amalgam, it is first pressed in wetted canvas or buckskin in order to remove excessive mercury. Lumps of solid amalgam are then introduced into an iron vessel lined with a paste of fire-clay and wood ashes, and provided with an iron tube that dips below the surface of water, and the distillation is then effected by heating. The bullion left in the retorts is then melted in black-lead crucibles, with the addition of small quantities of suitable fluxes. The extraction of gold from auriferous min- erals by fusion, except as an incident in their treatment for other metals, is rarely practiced. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 125 Gold in galena or other lead ores is invariably recovered in the refining or treatment of the lead and silver obtained. There are two many processes for refining gold to be covered in a work of so narrow a scope as this, but all are easy of access to those interested. As for the kinds and styles of furnaces used in the treatment and smelting of ores, they are as numerous and diversified as the refining and mill processes, and the detail of one or all may be easily learned by those concerned. LIXIVIATION TREATMENT. The process of extracting and saving the gold in the ores of the Mercur district is by the lixivia- tion process. The gold is very fine and in a divided state, which is dissolved in a weak solution of cyanide of potassium just as sugar is dissolved by water, the proportion being about two pounds of potassic cyanide to forty-eight gallons of water, and it takes from twenty-four hours to three days to dissolve the gold in a vat or tank, filled with ore and treated in this way. This cyaniding is the great factor in the industrial development of the district. AJter the gold is in the c\anide solution it is preci- pitated by passing the liquor over zinc shavings, about one-half pound of zinc being used for each ounce of gold gathered by it. WORKING CHEAP ORES. The hundreds of mines in Utah that have vast bodies of low grade ores are solving the problem of successfully working them by one or several of the 126 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. new, cheap processes that have been introduced from time to time. Experimental science has made some wonderful strides in recent years, and now it is no secret of how to extract the values with profit from ore worth less than three dollars per ton. Space forbids a detailed mention of all the various processes and methods used successfully in this direction; but a few of the most important are given so that the miner may know that his low grade ore may be handled with profit. The Clark process of drying, stamping, salting, roasting and leaching was among the first of the chlormation-lixiviation processes. It has of late been simplified and made so that ore can be treated for about $2 per ton. The Gervase-Brown chemical-electric process of smelting by electricity expects to practically solve the problem at a cost of about $1.75 per ton, and saving about 97 per cent of the values. The Hypo-Sulphide process has been proven successful at the Homansville mill, and the Russell process has for years been satisfactory at the Marsac mill at Park City. UTAH & MONTANA MACHINERY COMPANY Engines, Boilers, Steam Pumps, Air Compressors, Ingersoll Sergeant Hock Drills, Wire Rope, Powder, Caps, Fuse, Etc. Standard Passenger Elevators. Estimates made for Concentrators and Stamp Mills and Smelter Plants, Electric Light and Power Plants. 259 S. MAIN STREET. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 127 Utal? 5fllns. THE PECK CONCENTRATOR. The Peck Concentrator is at this writing (September 1st) in course of construction at Park City, and will be in operation by December. This plant is being constructed primarily for the treat- ment of the vast tailing dumps of the Ontario and Marsac Mills, and incidentally to do the custom work for the lower-grade mines of the district. The Peck Concentrator will prove of inestimable value to Summit County mine owners, and many proper- ties now idle will spring into active existance as a result of its construction, thus stimulating all business enterprises in the district. CO-OPERATIVE WAGON & MACHINE CO,, LEADING IMPLEMENT DEALERS-UTAH and IDAHO. 'Originators of Train load Shipments to Utah, -f Exclusive Agents Bain Ore Hauling Wagons. Gen'l Office, Salt Lake City. GEO. T. ODELL, Gen'l Mgr. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. District. 131 "The Johannesburg of America" lies in the Camp Floyd Mining District, and Mercur is the business center of an extensive mining area, which as yet has no established boundaries. . It lies thirty >TKI I:T M I;M; IN MI:I:< i i;. miles from Salt Lake, on an air line, just over the Oquirrh range, in Tooele County. Camp Floyd is full of history, legend and story, and was first founded by Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston, in 132 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 1858, when, with 3,500 men he closed the "Utah War" at Fairfield. In 1870 mining was started for the first time, and since April of that year there have been more kinds of mining and more excitements attendant upon the same than perhaps ever occurred in any mining camp. The first chim recorded was a placer location, showing that gold was the metal first discovered. In the same year, however, dis- coveries of silver ore were made in the Sparrow Hawk and Last Chance lodes, and these caused the first boom in Camp Floyd. Mills were built and claims were sold at fabulous prices, many of which did not make anywhere near equal returns. The Carrie Steele strike was the richest, made in 1871. In 1872, the town of Lewiston, present site of Mercur, sprang up mushroom-like, and in a very short time had quite as many buildings as the Mer- cur of the present. By 1880 there was but one house left in the canyon, the camp having been deserted as worthless, and fire and wind finished the desolation and abandonment after an output of about one million dollars in silver. In the spring, of 1881 Arie Pinedo, a German, located the Mercur lode claim (which is the German pronunciation of mercury) and proceeded imme- diately to patent it. Pinedo thought he had found a wealth of the subtle fluid, but it never paid to develop, so he abandoned it. It was not until 1890 that Pinedo and the public were made acquainted with the actual worth of the Mercur mine. In 1883 gold was again discovered by assay that would not show color in a pan, and this secret MINES, MINERS ANt> MlNfcRALS OF UTAH. 133 of the ores was one of the most important that has ever been solved in mining, and as a consequence desultory mining was carried on until 1885. From that time until 1889 but little if anything is known MARION MINK AND MILL. cf the camp. In March, 1889, Joseph Smith, prin- cipal owner of the Marion Gold Mining Company built a mill and experimented with the silver ore of the Sparrow Hawk, and failed to get out pay ore on account of too much antimony. Being a practi- cal assayer, he made fire tests for the yellow metal, and found he had from $30 to $90 in gold, and this was the true beginning of one of the richest mines in the world. More about this company will be found under another head. 134 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. Until the year 1893 the peculiar fields of Mer- cur had caused much thought and great experiment as to how to treat the ores for their full value, but this is happily passed by the introduction of the cyanide treatment.. From this triumphant winning of the precious metal dates the setting in of a tide of emigration to the now known gold fields lying in fabulous wealth over the abandoned and considered to-be-worthless silver camp, and this last of all the strange metamorphoses marks the era of greatest progress. In 1893 other cyanide mills were started and helped to prove the value of the ores and great worth of the camp. In 1894 the most active prospecting was com- menced, and the old silver prospectors paid no atten- tion to the hundreds of skeptics who followed in their wake to exert sinister influences and give the camp a black eye. They were full of hope and pluck, and the result of their labors is pleasing history. MERCUR MINERALS. The ores of Mercur are oxidized and arsenical, or base, and each of the two are uniquely different in character of treatment. There is but little iron and an excess of silica, which makes a most desir- able cyaniding ore. Cinnabar is so far not suffi- ciently in evidence to be worthy of serious attention. Sulphur is found, but of no commercial conse- quence. Oxidized ores are produced from all the paying properties, and the only drawback to the per- fect operation of the cyanide process is the presence of arsenic, which impairs the solution and fails to MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 135 dissolve the gold, and therefore but little of this arsenical rock is mined with the ore, or if so, it is thrown out before it reaches the mill. The base ore is a dark, greenish-black, showing seams of arsenical sulphides, and where thickly seamed carries but little gold. Otherwise this drawback to the treat- ment will be overcome by the roasting process be- fore c)aniding. The veins are from ten to forty feet thick, and will easily average twenty feet, and produce fully a ton of ore to the foot of surface area. There are frequent exceptionally large ore bodies on the veins that widen out to unexplored dimensions, known up to the present to be fully 100 feet in area and no sign of walls. GEOLOGICAL FORMATION. The geological formation at Mercur is analogous with other great producing camps that have had NORTH AM) SOUTH .SECTION, ACROSS LKWISTON CANON. Z-Mercur town. Y-I)ikes. X-Gold. bearing zone. W-Silver bearing zone. longevity in their prosperity. The ore is a carboni- ferous limestone associated with eruptive rocks, a combination surely suggestive of continued prosperity. Mercur town is situated on the vertical axis of the eruptive mass from whence the strata inclines in all 136 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. directions. Two ore-bearing zones outcrop in Lewis- ton Canyon from one hundred to two hundred feet apart, the upper being gold-bearing, and the lower silver. The upper metalliferous horizon contains X XX X SECTION OF A PORTION. OF MERCUR ORE BODY. Y Ore, with chert nodules. Z Shaly and soapy material. V-Crystalline limestone floor. W Drab limestone roof. X-Heavy spar veins. jhe auriferous ore in an impregnation of limestone and shale, as a rule, along lines of bedding. How- ever, it is already known that the gold is not confined to one horizon, as it has been demonstrated in two the Mercur and Sunshine. MERCUR CAMP. Mercur will never be a metropolis, but it bids fair and honestly to be one of the greatest mining towns in the country. It wears no ephemeral airs; it MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 137 started out conservatively and has already estab- lished a permanency. As far as it has gone, it has not weakened its foundation, and every movement is of a substantial character, as conspicuously shown by its people and their buildings. The elevation is 6,400 feet, with good climate and water. At this writing the statement can be conservatively made that within two years the development of the mines and their consequent mills, together with allied industries and other vocations, will increase the population of 2,000 of the district at present to 10,000 at the end of that time. There is no ques- tion now about the high grade of the ore or of its great extent and lasting quality. The future of Mercur is in no way problematical. NUMBER OF LOCATIONS IN CAMP FLOYD. Up to January 1, 1896, there had been recorded in the Camp Floyd district 3,750 mining claims. Hundreds of these have lapsed from time to time since the first discoveries, not having had represen- tation work done, while many locations are but plasters on top of old, patented claims. A fair estimate of the number of legitimate claims located in the district would be between 2,000 and 2,500. Not more than this number would stand good in test cases. SUNSHINE CAMP. The town of Sunshine is a very prosperous camp about the center of the Camp Floyd district, founded upon the success of the Sunshine mines 138 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. and mill and contiguous valuable claims that are all fast becoming great producing mines. It is in a SUNSHINE MINE AM) MILL. better location than Mercur, not so high, and bids fair to become quite equally as large and prosperous. WILLIAM H. BIRD. P. O. BOX 623. JAMES LOWE. BIRD & LOWE, LAND AND MINING ATTORNEYS Office: Rooms 16, 17 and 18 Scott-Auerbach Bldg, Main Street, SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 139 It has been only within three years that active prospecting was begun in Sunshine camp, and not until the Butts Brothers drove in on an outcrop and opened upon a breast of ore heavily impregnated with cinnabar, that active develpoment began. It was then that Judge William A. Sherman, Charles H. Jacobs and Frank Officer took hold of the Butts boys' Sunshine claim and commenced operations in earnest. SUNSHINE GOLD MINE AND MILLING COMPANY. The property of this company is the pivotal point of all claims in the Sunshine portion of the Camp Floyd Mining District. To date it has the only mill outside of Mercur camp, though it is understood that the Overland Company has about concluded contracts for the erection of a mill to work the ores from the latter company's property. This mine's workings and extraordinary develop- ments are what have given encouragement and confidence to all other claims in its vicinity, the result being the exposure of ore bodies in the Overland, Red Cloud, Old Fred and other proper- ties. It is believed that for the work done, the Sunshine has exposed larger bodies of ore than any other property in the district. Besides a superior hoist, the Sunshine has a mill with a crushing capacity of 300 tons daily and a vat or leaching capacity of 60 tons daily. This latter is to be increased so that the leaching output may be made 150 tons daily. The extent of the ore bodies in this remarkable gold property will be better under- stood when the statement is made that all the ore so 140 MINES, MINERS, AND MINERALS OF UTAH. far produced and leached has been extracted in the course of development work and exploration that at no time has it been necessary to attack the ore bodies to supply the mill. In fact, the mill capa- city could be largely increased and still be supplied by the driving of the inclines and levels alone with- out touching the ore bodies, save for the extension of the levels. In fact, practically all the workings are in ore, the present workings being for the sole purpose of ascertaining the boundaries of the ore body, which, up to the present time, have not been reached. The property is developed by an incline 600 feet deep and by three levels beginning at a depth of 300 feet. These levels with slight upraises and winzes have developed the ore bodies in various directions to an extent of about 6,000 feet, not including the incline. The Sunshine is a close corporation, nine-tenths of the stock still remaining in the possession of the original owners and no proposition for purchase (numbers having been made) will be considered. The officers are: J. E. Schwartz, of Philadelphia, President of the Pennsylvania Smelting Co., is pre- sident; W. A. Sherman, vice-president; F. H. Offi- cer, secretary and treasurer; and C. H. Jacobs, manager. THE HERSCHEL MINING COMPANY. This corporation owns about 140 acres ofv the most desirably situated lands in the Camp Floyd Mining District. Their ground abuts the great Mercur and the Sacramento, and since ore is found on both sides of them at uniform points, there is no MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 141 doubt whatever in the minds of all persons familiar with the district that the Herschel is one of the big though undeveloped properties in the district. The mine is being developed by a tunnel at such a depth as to leave the ore bodies above; yet afford- ing ample dumping ground. Near the mouth of the tunnel the mill will be located so as to admit of the most economical leaching, as well as ex- traction and handling of the ores. The tunnel is in about 625 feet, but it is not expected that the ore bodies will be reached before it has penetrated the earth about 1,000 feet. This estimate is formed by a survey of the ore veins on both sides of the Herschel as developed in the Mercur, Sacramento and other grounds. The company is capitalized for $5,000,000, divided into 1,000,000 shares of the par value of $5 each, of which 200,000 shares are set aside to be disposed of for development. In spite of the fact that no ore had been found and practi- cally little work done, the price of the stock, which was originally ten cents per share, went up to twenty-five cents per share, and has been held at that price or higher ever since. This fact affords the best evidence of the confidence of those interested in the value of the Herschel a confidence based on a knowledge of the geological conditions obtaining in the district. Theodore Bruback is President of the Com- pany; J. D. Keifer, Vice-President; W. S. McCor- nick, Treasurer, and S. T. Pearson, Secretary. Mr. Joseph Smith of "the Marion is directing the work of development. 142 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. HON. THEODORE BRUBACK, MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 143 144 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. THE MALVERN GOLD MINING COMPANY. The Malvern group of claims, ten in number, gives to the company a surface area of some 200 acres. It lies immediately south of and adjoining the Sunshine, and the ground is largely owned and controlled by those most heavily interested in the Mercur and Sunshine mines. There seerns to be no reasonable doubt as to the existence of the great Sunshine vein under the Malvern ground, since the workings of the former mine are in the direction of the Malvern ground, and it is in this same direction that the recent noted strike in the Sunshine was made. The dip of the strike made on the six hundred foot level of the Sunshine (and it is conceded to be the most valuable and import- ant ever made in this property), is into the Mal- vern ground at the point where the claims of the Sunshine and the Malvern adjoin each other. As a matter of fact the work in the Sunshine is really developing the great value of the Malvern claim fully as effectually and perhaps more xapidly than the Malvern owners could do the work themselves. The Malvern has, however, a shaft already sunk some 220 feet, while drifts and levels have been run from the shaft to different points of the compas. Besides this, such other work as was necessary to comply with the law has all been performed, and by the time this book is in the hands of the public a strong force of men will be again employed with improved machinery to continue the shaft until the ore* bodies now known, by reason of the Sunshine MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 145 workings, to exist in the Malvern ground, shall have been reached. Pay ore has long been had in the Malvern, but the assurance of larger bodies and at greater depth, and the knowledge that with depth always comes greater values, has decided the company to keep on sinking until connection is effected with the bodies discovered in the Sunshine workings at a depth of over 600 feet. As in the case of the Overland, the ground has been experted, and there is no difference of opinion as to the pres- ence of the ore bodies in the Malvern ground that exist through this district generally. Mr. John Dern, President of the now famous Mercur mine, is President of the Malvern; Mr. W. A. Sherman, President of the Overland and Vice- President of the Sunshiue Company is the Vice- President of the Malvern; Geo. W. E. Dorsey is Treasurer, and Chalres H. Jacobs, Manager of the Sunshine, is the Malvern's Secretary. These gen- tlemen, and E. H. Airis, Secretary of the Mercur mine, Mr. J. E. Dooley, Cashier of Wells, Fargo & Go's Bank in Salt Lake, and Mr. Frank H. Officer, Secretary of the Sunshine mine, and mana- ger of the Pennsylania Lead Co's smelters here, make up the directory of the Malvern. The company has a capital stock of $1,500,000, divided into 600,000 shares of a par value of $2.50 each. The Malvern is owned and controlled by the men who have made the great properties of Mercur and Sunshine, etc. Utah lithographic rock first found in May, 1873. 146 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. THE WONDER GOLD MINING COMPANY. The Wonder Gold Mining Company has some five claims and fractions embracing about seventy surface acres, almost entirely surrounded by the great properties of Captain De Lamar at Mercur. The ground of the famous Golden Gate mine, said already to expose from 5,000,000 to $8,000,000 in ore, abuts the claims of the Wonder Company for a distance of some 3,000 feet, and it is known that the ore bodies in the Golden Gate have been developed to a point within 350 feet of the Wonder claims. Since the veins of the Marion, Geyser, Mer- cui and Golden Gate have been developed almost continuously for a mile and a half up to the point near the Wonder ground, it would be absurd to assume that it does not run into the Wonder group, particularly as the workings at the point indicated as nearest the Wonder are in the characteristic gold ore of this remarkable district. Beyond any ques- tion the dip of the vein is into the property of the Wonder Company. The vein is expected to be encountered at a depth of 400 to 420 feet. A shaft has already been sunk on the property to a depth of 350 feet, and as two feet a day is made, confident expectation is that the* shaft will tap the ore body during September. The company has a fine plant, by means of which the shaft could be sunk to a depth of 1,000 feet if necessary. Already the shaft is below the water line, so that a station pump handles all the water in the shaft. The work has been continued without interruption since February last, and will be continued until the ore is reached. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 147 The property has been examined by no less an expert than Mr. George H. Robinson, who confirms the judgment of those investing in Wonder stock that the great ore chutes of the Mercur, Golden THE WONDER HOIST AND WORKS. 148 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. Gate, and other mines will be found under the surface of the ground owned 'by the Wonder. The Wonder Gold Mining Company is exceptionally favored in its officers. Hon. George Q. Cannon, one of the three Presidents of the Mormon Church, and one of the most notable men of affairs in the west, is president of the company; Angus M. Can- non, heavily interested in the Mercur district, is vice-president; John W. Donnellan, until lately President of the Salt Lake Mining Exchange, and still Cashier of the Commercial National Bank, is treasurer; Lewis M. Cannon is secretary, while Mr. P. J. Quealy, late Manager of the Rock Springs Coal Company, of Rock Springs, Wyoming, is superintendent and manager. These with John M. Cannon, attorney, and George M. Cannon, Cashier Zion's Savings Bank, and President of, the first State Senate of Utah, constitutes the directory. The company is capitalized for $5,000,000, the par value of the shares being $5 each. The stock is non-assessable while the company is possessed of patents for every foot of the ground claimed by the corporation. The assertion is reasonably safe that the Wonder is destined to be one of the great producers of a great gold producing district. THE BUDDEE- GROUP. Messrs. C. H. Scheu and C. L. Dignowity own the Buddee group of four claims, lying northwest of the Marion, upon which extensive development has been made, with very promising results. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 149 r 150 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. ANNIE MINING AND MILLING COMPANY. The Annie Mining and Milling Company, a Prove corporation, is the owner of very valuable property in the Camp Floyd District, on the same hill (but on the south side) as the Mercur mine. The Annie's developments are on the same eleva- tion as those of the Mercur, and the owners are satisfied that they have the Mercur vein, and only need development to obtain the same values. The ground is in the very heart of the Mercur District and embraces nine and a fraction claims, comprising about 200 acres, five claims of which are owned by the company, the balance under a very favorable bond. The ground lies near the Overland, in which large bodies of ore have been found; it is near the Anderson group and not far from the Hill- side. Work on the Annie group consists of one tunnel in 165 feet into the hill, where the vein was intersected. Another tunnel was commenced on the same elevation but northeast. This was pushed in some 240 feet. A single compartment well timbered shaft has been sunk about 200 feet northeast of the first tunnel. From the bottom of this shaft a level was run west about 700 feet, 65 feet of which was in the same vein as that exposed by the first tunnel. An upraise of 25 feet and a winze of 10 feet at this point showed the vein to be 18 feet in thickness, varying in values, but assaying sufficiently to work when the company has completed its preliminary prospecting. From the bottom of the shaft the vein was developed 20^ feet to the north and 20 feet to the south, while ore was also exposed in the long MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 151 level to the west. The Annie is driving toward the Mercur workings, in which property rich veins have been developed 1,400 feet to the south and in the direction of the Annie group. All developments are in precisely the same formation as prevail in all the paying properties of that district, and, as in the others, there is no lack of assurance that the wished-for higher values will come with greater depth. The company is well equipped with machinery for the work in hand and contemplated. It has a building over its shaft and tunnels, and has office and eating houses. It is capitalized for but $250,000, divided into 250,000 shares of a par value of $1 per share. A. D. Gash is president; Dr. A. McCurtin, vice-president; H. F. Thomas, secretary; H. S. Martin, treasurer; and Mr. J. M. Davis, manager. The directors are A. D. Gash, Dr. A. McCurtin, S. A. King, S. A. Swasey and C. H. Wood. Despite the extensive developments and small capital of the company for this district, the Annie still has 47,000 shares of treasury stock reserved and which will only be disposed of to continue development work in the company's ground. THE OVERLAND GOLD MINING COMPANY. That part of the Camp Floyd District known as Sunshine (so named because of the Sunshine mine there) will soon have another mill at work on the gold ores of the district. It is the Overland, in which large bodies of ore have been opened up; and by the time the mine is so far developed as to supply the necessary ores for the mill having a 152 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. capacity of 100 tons a day, the mill will be ready for operation. The Overland group, and it is one of the largest in the camp, lies directly north of and adjoins the Sunshine mine, which has been yielding ore for many months now and which recently uncovered in its lowest workings the finest ore body so far exposed in this noted property. The Overland has been developed by a shaft now over 175 feet in depth. A level was run from the shaft at a depth of 125 feet, and when in 40 feet to the west it caught the vein. From this point a winz was sunk a depth of 15 feet, all the while in pay ore of the character obtaining in all the area in that section. Another level was run from the shaft at a depth of 155 feet. This extended north 60 feet, following the strike of the vein, while an incline shaft is being run from the bottom of the shaft, following and on the dip of the vein. About 800 feet north of the shaft referred to another has been sunk to a depth of 110 feet. The ore will average, where exposed, 20 feet in thickness, and will assay from $4 to $22 to the ton. But it is all good pay ore, and the Overland may be counted among the big properties of the Sunshine part of the Camp Floyd District. The Overland group consists of 15 claims,~giv ing to the company a surface area of about 200 acres. It has a very imposing list of officers and directors: W. A. Sherman, of Salt .Lake, and Vice- President of the Sunshine Company, is President; W. H. Bancroft, Superintendent of the mountain division of the Union Pacific, is Vice-President; J. M. Stoutt, President of the Utah National Bank, is MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 153 Treasurer; G. W. E. Dorsey, ex-Congressman from Nebraska, is Secretary. These gentlemen, together with E. Dickinson, General Manager of the Union Pacific system, C. A. Armstrong, owner of the Bachelor mine at Ouray, Col., and W. W. Stod- dard, Manager Daily Reporter Co., of Salt Lake, make the directorate. The company has a capital stock of $2,000,000, divided in 400,000 shares of the par value of $5 each. GOLD POINT CLAIMS AT SUNSHINE. The claims of the Gold Point Mining Company in Mercur or Camp Floyd Mining District are most happily situated, since ore is found in nearly all the properties west of and adjoining them. The great Sunshine mine, in which the most important strike of its history has recently been made, the Over- land, the Red Cloud (in which a 26 foot vein of pay ore has just been uncovered at the point nearest the Gold Point), are all in ore and would seem to point with certainty to the existence r of like large bodies in the Gold Point group. The recent discoveries referred to have verified the report of Mr. O. A. Palmer, made to the company on the 17th day of April last, in which he says: "I am thoroughly of the opinion that the general mineralized zone of the Camp Floyd District under- lies all this property, dipping easterly from the Sunshine mine towards the Gold Point property." He says further that an examination of the great Sunshine workings then, as now, being pushed toward the Gold Point ground, showed the vein or ore body to be but 1,800 feet from the latter 154 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH property at that date about April 1st of this year since which time the important strikes referred to have been made. In concluding the report, Mr. Palmer says of the Gold Point: "I predict even better values in the ore found under your property than in the famous Sunshine mine, on account of the greater depth at which it is found." Than Mr. Palmer there is no more painstaking, experienced or reliable expert in the West, and his thirty-three years spent in Utah, Idaho and Montana make him an authority without an equal in this field. The Gold Point has six claims, or about 120 acres of ground all surveyed and in process of being patented. The officers and directors of the com- pany are among the most reputable of Utah's citi- zens, being James Chipman (State Treasurer), president; W. H. Grant (a wealthy stock and mine investor), vice-president; J. M. Stoutt (President Utah National Bank), treasurer; A. B. Jones (Cashier Utah National Bank), secretary, who, with Hon. Thomas R. Cutler, President of the Lehi Bank and General Manager of the Utah Sugar Company, constitute the directory. The company is capitalized for $1,000,000, divided into shares of the par value of $1 each, non-assessable. Of this 100,000 shares have been set aside for sale as a working fund, the stock to be sold at 15 cents per share or more, at the option of the directory, for the exclusive purpose of developing the property. With such an official roster there is no need to state that everything con- nected with the company will be conducted on the most equitable, painstaking and energetic plan. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 155 Few opportunities for such an investment in the hands of such trustworthy men are to be had. The company already has a shaft about one hundred feet in depth, and expects to have to sink between four hundred and five hundred feet further before reaching the desired ore values, but work will continue until the pay ore is reached, the com- pany being absolutely certain that they are above the same vein as has been developed in the Mercur, the Sunshine and others. GOLDEN SEALS MINING COMPANY. The Golden ^Seals Mining Company own five claims, embracing about forty acres of ground. The Seals lie northwest of the Hecla and east of the Brickyard, adjoining both. It has a shaft 375 feet deep, iOOO feet west of the Hecla shaft. While some 300 feet higher than the Hecla ground, it is expected to strike the ore at any shot, because in this vicinity it has been shown to follow the surface BROWN, TERRY & WOODRUFF GO. Ibatters ant) Jwntebers, PROPRIETORS TROY STEAM LAUNDRY Telephone 192. J> J> ? ? 142 Main Street. 156 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAHc of the ground. The shaft is a double compartment one. A \vhim is used, all appliances for develop- ment being first-class. G. R. Bothwell is president; F. R. Hall of Mercur, vice-president; and F. J. Leonard, secretary. ANDERSON GOLD MINING COMPANY. The Anderson Gold Mining Company is practi- cally a Nebraska company. Its general offices are at Columbus, Neb., though it has a branch office in Salt Lake, CoJ. Geo. W. E. Dorsey being the direc- tor of its destinies in Utah. The company owns very valuable ground in the Mercur gold belt and near the great Mercur mine. Mr. A. Anderson, after whom the company is named, and who is President of the First National Bank of Columbus, Neb., is also President of the Anderson; Hon Geo. W. E. Dorsey is Vice-President; O. T. Roen, Cashier of the First National Bank, Columbus, Neb., is Treasurer; Mr. E. H. Chambers, a real estate dealer of Columbus, Neb., is Secretary. The directors are: A. M. Post, Chief Justice Supreme Court of Nebraska; A. Anderson, John J. Sullivan, Judge District Court, Columbus, Neb. ; W. A. McAllister, ex-State Senator, Columbus, Neb. ; Geo. W. E. Dorsey, O. T. Roen, and E. H. Chambers. The Anderson has a shaft down 140 feet, which is still being sunk. It is not expected that the ore vein will be encountered until a depth of something like 350 feet has been obtained. The ground is most favorably located, being on the south 'side of what is known as the Mercur Hill the^hill in which the great ore bodies of the Mercur mine have MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 157 been exposed. On the same side of this hill, and near the Anderson, is the Hillside, in which Mr. R. C. Chambers of the Ontario is heavily interested. Immediately south of the Anderson group and adjoining it is the Annie, in which veins of ore have been encountered and which is being steadily developed, and of which its owners think more than ever before. The company owns six claims in a group, which are surrounded by properties in which very high grade gold ore has been discovered. The general report of Prof. O. A. Palmer regarding this district is confirmed as to the Ander- son group by the specific report of expert A. Burch, of Mr. W. A. Sherman, of the Sunshine and Over- land groups, in both of which are ore, and by Mr. J. M. Davis, of the Annie Gold Mining Company, which is also in ore. The Anderson group is capitalized for $1,000,- 000, divided into 1,000,000 shares of a par value of $1 each. THE ROVER COMPANY. The Rover Company has opened its ground by shafts, drifts and incline, and has found ore. Owing to a division of interests in certain claims owned by others than the Rover Company, work was suspended. But it is to be resumed soon. Since work ceased the Gold Dust has exposed values, and it is possible that the Gold Dust developments have as much to do with the resumption of work on the Rover claims as the adjustment of the interests 158 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. involved in certain of the claims of which the Rover Company was not the absolute owner. THE SILVER LODE MINING AND MILLING COMPANY. These properties are above the Marion and Geyser mines and west. John Dern is president, E. H. Airis vice-president, and F. J. Corker secre- tary. Only lately have these claims fallen into the possession of the company, consequently practically no work has been done on them. Work will, how- ever, soon begin earnestly, and it is expected soon to be added to the producing claims in the great camp. The capital stock is divided into 100,000 shares of a par value of $5 each. THE DEXTER GROUP. The Dexter group consists of five claims east of the Mercur mine, owned by Messrs, Jacobs, Officer, Andrew and Hines. Two development shafts are in progress of sinking one over one hun- dred and the other over fifty feet deep. The ore is characteristic of the district. Between the Dexter group and the Mercur mill Messrs. Officer, Jacobs and Peyton own a group that will help swell the output in time. Arrangments are perfected for extensive development. THE MIDLAND GROUP. The Midland group of twelve claims lying south of the Glencoe and Sunshine is demonstrating the value of the lower end of the district. The properly is under lease and bond to C. H. Scheu, Captain W. C. McFarland, and J. B. Thompson, MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH 159 who are pushing development work to the utmost. A shaft has been sunk and the veins drifted upon. At a depth of only forty feet a ten-foot ore body was passed through that assayed as high as $4-, but it will be much richer as depth is reached and the vein is unbroken and undisturbed. This group is admirably situated for ease of mining and shipping. THE HILLSIDE GOLD MINING COMPANY. The property is on the same hill as the Mercur mine, but over the crest. Its ground faces the Mercur and the Sacramento on the south, and it possesses about 120 acres. It has been developed by two tunnels an upper 100 feet long and a lower now in 150 feet, and to be extended some 50 feet further. A winz is sunk 50 feet from the end of the upper tunnel, which penetrated the vein for a depth of 30 feet, the values running from $5 to $8. The property will be worked through the lower tunnel. A mill will be erected by the Hillside, as soon as the propertj' is opened sufficiently to admit of the extraction of enough ore to supply it with. The company is capitalized for $5,000,000, there being 500,000 shares of a par value of $10 each. Richard Mclntosh is president and treasurer; Capt. W. C. McFarland, vice-president; C. L. Robertson, secretary. These gentlemen, with C. H. Schue, J. B. Thompson, R. C. Chambers and Chas B. Read are the company's directors. THE GLENCOE. The Glencoe group consists of seven good claims owned by E. J. Raddatz and others. The property lies on the Mercur lode and is being 160 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. extensively developed in a systematic manner by a liberal outlay of expense. The best grade of ore shows a value of $7 per ton, and in time the output will be enormous. JUNO-MENTO. The Juno-Mento group of eight claims lie west of the Glencoe, between the Mercur and Sunshine. A two hundred-foot tunnel will be used to develop the vein, which carries ore running from $3 to $5 per ton. THE REINDEER. South of the Glencoe is the Reindeer group of three full and two fractional claims, which is under lease to Raddatz, Wilkinson and Johnson. Two shafts are sunk which have cut the Glencoe vein, and systematic development is now in progress. HECLA GOLD MINING COMPANY. This company owns five claims, comprising some 67 acres. The ground adjoins the Brickyard, which is now in ore, and is but 350 feet from the Golden Gate. It has a first-class hoist and boiler, with pumps to handle the water. They have sunk a double compartment shaft down a depth of 425 feet, and expect at any hour to strike the ore, all indications pointing to its being in the immediate vicinity. F. J. Leonard is president; F. R. Hall, of Mercur, vice-president; and G. R. Both well, secre- tary. The company is capitalized for $5,000,000, divided into 250,000 shares of the par value of $20 each. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 161 THE GOLD BUG. The Gold Bug group of four claims in Clay Canyon is owned by A. J. Dutton, who is pushing work on the property with good results. A shaft is down 150 feet, and the ore assays up to $5 per ton on an average. LITTLE PITTSBURG. The Little Pittsburg is an old property, and has output considerable silver ore. The company now owns four claims lying in the north end of the district, and is mainly owned by Messrs. Airis and Hubbard. A shaft and tunnel each over a hundred feet are used to develop the ore bodies, which carry values from $3 to $7. THE OLD FRED. The Old Fred group of live claims west on the strike of the Sunshine, is a splendid property, which is being developed by a five hundred foot tunnel. Thus far the veins cut assay from $6 to $10, and the great value of this property is already assured. BONANZA NO. 2 GROUP. There are eight claims in the Bonanza No. 2 group, lying east of the Mercur and Golden Gate. There is about one thousand feet of development openings. The ore bodies are very large, and aver- age about $1 to the ton. THE JONES BONANZA. The Jones Bonanza group of five claims extends north from the Bonanza No. 2 group. There are 162 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. about three hundred feet of shafts and drifts, and has a good showing. THE SONGBIRD, W. S. Fugate and J. Skinner own the Songbird group of claims just north of the Golden Gate pro- perty. A shaft two hundred and fifty feet deep has exposed ore bodies that have been drifted upon. Other development is in progress, and the property is all that could be desired in this district. THE MOLLIE GIBSON. The Mollie Gibson group consists of five claims, that are being thoroughly developed with the most satisfactory results. The shaft is being sunk to reach the lower mineral body. THE EAGLE (NORTH END). Near Lion Hill is the Eagle group of four full and two fractional claims which are showing up fine with development. Its future is full of great promise, already assured of success by the ore bodies thus far encountered. RED CLOUD. Just north of the Sunshine is the Red Cloud, with a shaft three hundred feet deep. At 260 feet the vein is very large and carries satisfactory assays. The Red Cloud has developments at other points and its owners, Messrs. S. B. Milner, T. A. Wick- ersham and others, have contracted for further work. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 163 THE MARION. The Marion Mining Company have eighty acres of rich ground lying just north of Mercur City, on which they have a splendid 50-ton mill. The development consists of fully three miles of drifts through the vast ore bodies, which are of a uni- form grade, and average about $7 to the ton, and the mining and treatment costs less than $3 a ton. The Marion mill was next after the Mercur in the dis- trict, and is the only mill in the camp that has a water suupply of its own. In 1895 the mill handled 2(,000 tons of ore, and it is probable that in 1896 25,000 tons will be treated. The property pays substantial dividends, but as it is a close corpora- tion, no specific information is given out for publication. The companys officers are: Mr. Theodore Bruback, Pres't. ; Mr. Jos. Smith, Vice president; Mr. S. T. Pearson, Secretary and Treasurer. THE MERCUR. The most successful mine in the Camp Floyd district is the Mercur. The story of it has been told in prose and poetry so many times and oft that told again in the most fascinating manner on even so interesting a theme would be tiresome under the circumstances and conditions. Fifty thousand tons of ore were treated at the company's mill in 1895. Over #100,000 were spent last 'year in improve- ments and purchases of additional property, and notwithstanding this outlay $175,000 in dividends were paid. The property of the Mercur company 164 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. has been constantly increasing in value. Over one hundred men are employed in the mine, and about thirty at the mill. Development in the Mattie No. 4 and Lucky Star accessions of 1895 have been of such a character that the value of this company's property is quite beyond the estimate of reasonable judgment. No group of claims in the camp is better known than those owned by the Mercur the town and camp practically taking its name therefrom. It possesses about 160 acres of ground, including the Mattie group. The mine is worked by tunnels, which tap the vein whence incline shafts follow the ore. Of these there are three, one on the Mattie, one on the Ruby, the other on the Resolute claim. So far two veins have been opened in this property, the lower being 10 to 30 feet in thickness, the upper 5 to 10 feet in thickness. Ore that will pay for working was exposed in a cut much lower down, but no effort has so far been made to develop this. The company began paying dividends Sep- tember 1, 1893, and since which date it has paid out in dividends $475,000. About six thousand tons is produced monthly. The mill is located about four miles by wagon road and seven miles by rail from the mine, being put where it is because of a lack of water at the time. It has a full capa- city of 200 tons daily, which is the mine product. The Mercur is capitalized for $5,000,000 divided into 200,000 shares of a par value of $25 each. John Dern is president and general manager; J. Heimrich, vice-president; E. H. Airis, secretary; and George MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 165 H. Dern treasurer. These form the directory, with the addition of the name of W. S. Brown. THE GEYSER. The Geyser property consists of four claims adjoining the Marion, in the town of Mercur. The company's mill is one of the most modern leaching plants in the country, and can treat from 125 to 150 tons of ore daily. This property is considered to be one of the best in the Camp Floyd District. THE SACRAMENTO. The Sacramento group is a dividend paying pro- position of considerable dimension. The four claims lie southwest of the Mercur group and of the same character and extent of the Mercur. The com- pany's cyanide mill has a capacity of 200 tons daily. The ore is taken from a main tunnel in 300 feet, from which are many cross-cuts into the great veins of ore. Another tunnel is in 100 feet, and the mine has enough ore reserves now blocked out to keep the mill in operation for years to come. BRICKYARD GOLD MINING COMPANY. This company has nine claims, comprising about 140 acres of ground. The company is capi- talized for $1,000,000, divided into 500,000 shares of a par value of $2 each. Altogether about 1,500 feet of work has been done in shafts, inclines, tunnels and drifts. A shaft is down 460 feet and in ore, and from this point drifting is progressing in the vein to the northwest and southeast, that being the course of the vein through the district. The ore 166 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. runs from $4 to $15 per ton, the average being such as will pay well. The showing is such at present as to make it almost a certainty that a contract for a cyanide mill will be let by October 1st, 1896. The company's officers are: E. H. Airis, president; E. G. Rognon, vice-president; Geo. Dern, secretary: W. S. McCornick, treasurer; who, with Geo. H. Robi- son, H. A. Cohen, and E. A. Wall are directors. Col. Wall, so well and favorably known in the dis- trict, is managing the property. THE EAST GOLDEN GATE MINING COMPANY. The East Golden Gate group, embracing about 110 acres of surface ground, has been experted by some of the best informed mining men in the west. Without exception they have expressed the unquali- fied opinion that the East Golden Gate had the same bodies of ore that have so far been exposed in the Marion, Geyser, Sacramento, Golden Gate and Mercur mines, and by more recent develop- ments in the Brickyard, the Gold Dust, the Her- schel and the Hillside. Work was undertaken with the profoundest confidence by the directors of the company and has been pushed with the most per- sistent assiduity ever since. The best machinery was secured, and then, because the depth could not be made as fast as was desired, a contract was entered into with the owner of an eight-inch churn drill capable of sinking between twenty and thirty feet per day to push through to the ore bodies. It is easy to keep -track of the formation and learn the values passed through, as the dirt from the drill is cleaned out every two feet and is assayed, MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 167 so that the management is in no danger of missing a good thing when it comes along. Moreover, the wisdom of pursuing this plan of prospecting will be better understood when it is borne in mind that the veins in Mercur lie almost horizontally, are more like blanket veins, so that the only way the East Golden Gate can escape getting the ores by the churn drill will be because there is no ore under the ground owned by this company a condi- tion that no one acquainted with the district believes can exist. The contract has been let to sink 1,000 feet below present workings, though there will be no difficulty of sinking 2,500 feet in this formation. As it is, all the machinery of the company is in place ready to be started 'and woik on the double compartment shaft resumed on almost a moment's notice once the great ore body is encountered. The shaft is now down a distance of some 350 feet. There is also another favorable feature in con- nection with the work of the East Golden Gate. The depth at which the ore will be found will make the assays more than satisfactory for the reason that with greater depth there are always higher values in the Mercur district. Then it- will also determine the value of a vast territory in the imme- diate vicinity of this property, and will extend the possible field of operations much farther to the east. There is no aspect of the work now being prosecuted at the expense of this company that does not indicate prudence on the part of the management as well as a laudable public spirit. A cut is printed of the works of the East Golden MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 169 Gate at the time the shaft a double compartment one was being sunk. Still another advantage in connection with the drilling in the East Golden Gate ground should be borne in mind. It is that the veins can all be explored by the means at present being pursued. It is believed there are several veins underlying each other in the Mercur district. So far very little depth, comparatively, has been attained, the lowest workings to date being in the Golden Gate. So that the East Golden Gate is in a position to discover what is under the developments in the lowest workings of the Golden Gate and in which the richest grades of ore are now to be found a fact that repeats itself in all the workings in the district. The East Golden Gate is but 1,500 feet from the underground workings of the Golden Gate, in which, as elsewhere stated, there is already exposed between #5,000,000 and $8,000,000 in gold ore. The workings in the latter mine are toward the East Golden Gate, and are oi such a character as to justify the assertions of the experts who have examined the district and the properties therein that the veins now making of Mercur the greatest gold camp in the world are not to give out before the ground of the East Golden Gate has been reached, but that the continuance of work is as cer- tain to reward those interested in the mines with success as the sun is to shine on the morrow. CAPTAIN DE LA MAR'S PROPERTIES. The possessions of Captain De Lamar in the Camp Floyd district are the envy of many and the 170 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. admiration of all in any way acquainted with their character. The most notable is the Golden Gate, a group of claims in the heart of the producing mines, embracing some two hundred acres. In the Mercur camp he owns altogether some seven hun- dred acres, there being beside the Golden Gate, the Tough Nut, Merritt, Hard Times and other groups that are his personal property, while he is also interested in the Rover, the Brickyard and others. Work is now progressing in the Brickyard, and considerable has been done on the Rover. Apart from the work necessary to have the claims patented, nothing has so far been done to develop anj r of Captain De Lamar's personal properties, save the Golden Gate. On this four shafts have been sunk the north shaft, 170 feet deep; south shaft, 45 feet; Magpie shaft, 50 feet; and main shaft, 480. Ore was first exposed in the south shaft, from which drifts were run in many direc- tions, and today there are not less that 11,000 feet of underground developments in the Golden Gate mine, by far the greater part in pay ore. Mr. H. A. Cohen, who directs all the varied interests of Captain De Lamar in the west, including those in Nevada, holds the values of the Camp Floyd dis- trict to be found in a stratification and not in a vein, as generally supposed, there being in this stratification places where the values are slight and other portions in which the values are very high; but whatever values exist are found 'in one stratification, which has been shown to be over 200 feet in depth in places by the Golden Gate workings. The ore in this property runs from $3 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 171 to $100 to the ton, the average being $15, and as the developments in the slight area worked in com- parison to the De Lamar possessions in Mercur have exposed not less than 400,000 tons of ore that will yield an average of $15 to the ton, a computation as to the wealth in sight on this GOLDEN GATE SHAFT HOUSES. property may easily be made. Save for experi- mental purposes, no mill has yet been erected to treat the Golden Gate ores. Captain De Lamar is not in need of money, and as the percentage of saving is materially exhanced by the working of a 172 MINES, MINERS, AND MINERALS OF UTAH. larger tonnage, the mine has been developed so as to ascertain what sized mill the ore bodies would warrant. The process of working the Golden Gate ores, which carry a marked percentage of arsenic, has been solved. The experimental mill has run for over three months successfully, the extraction in the base ores being from 83 per cent to 94 per cent, with a cyanide loss of about 1^ pounds per ton. Plans are now out for a mill of 400 ton capacity daily, and the time for its erection will be determined by Captain De Lamar upon his approval of the plans. Captain De Lamar also owns one-half the Gold Belt Water Co., which is referred to else- where. At De Lamar, Nevada, the Captain has another great property, on which a cyanide mill is running, and which handles 6,500 tons per month. His possessions there embrace about twenty claims. In one of these, which differs from the stratification in the Golden Gate in that it is vertical while the latter is horizontal, a vein is exposed that is 180 feet in width in places. The ore will average $30 to the ton, while the loss of values is conceded to be the least known to any cyanide mill in the world. The mine is developed to a depth of 1000 feet, and sinking is to be continued at once from this point. Altogether 22,000 feet of underground workings exist in the De Lamar Nevada property, while the vein and values both hold out in the lowest workings the former 180 feet in width, the latter $30 to the ton. This MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 173 MR. H. A. COHEN, MANAGER OF THE DE LAMAR.PROPERTIES. 174 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. property is also under the management of Mr. H. A. Cohen, whose offices are in the Dooley Block, Salt Lake City. THE CANNON OPERATIONS. The Cannon Company are doing an immense amount of work in developing the several proper- ties in which they are interested, under the careful and systematic guidance of the chief promoter Hon. Angus M. Cannon who has done perhaps more than any other individual to push the Camp Floyd dis- trict to the foremost place of mining in Utah. The Cannon group adjoins and is just east of the Mercur, and contains eighty-three and one-fourth acres. With a modern hoisting plant a shaft is being sunk, which is now down over 420 feet, hav- ing cut three ledges of good ore. The Buckeye group of 180 acres lies between the Geyser and Marion. The first ledge is sixteen feet through, the second fourteen, and the third sixteen feet. Into these, drifts are being run, and the ore bodies blocked out for rapid and systematic extraction. One drift is sixty, one two hundred, and one four hundred feet. The Nora group of five claims consists of eighty acres lying west of the Eagle. A shaft one hundred feet deep is through considerable ore. The Gold- bug on the north and the Buckeye near the Geyser are also good prospects, with large bodies of ore averaging as high as $8 per ton. The Retriever, near the Nora and the Climax, near the summit on the road to Ophir, are being systematically devel- oped for output. The Hecla group is bonded to 176 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. other parties, and is described under another head. There is an one hundred-foot shaft on the Little Ruth group of fifty-five acres. In three claims on the Summit Flat the company has plenty of $6 ore. The ground is all of great value, and nearly all patented. The company is incorporated for 10,000 shares at $5 each. The officers of the Cannon Com- pany are: Angus M. Cannon, president, manager and director; George M. Cannon, vice president and director; Lewis M. Cannon, secretary and treasurer and director; John M. Cannon, attorney and director; and F. J. Cannon, director. It is the intention of the company to continue to drift east- ward until all the veins in the property are cut by the drifts. MERCUR-MAMMOTH. The Mercur Mammoth Mining Company, capi- talized for 550,000, shares being of a par value of $1 each, owns six claims favorably situated near paying properties in Mercur camp. Little work has been done on the group, but the property is looked upon as very promising and very desirable ground. SEARCHLIGHT GOLD MINING COMPANY. The Searchlight Gold Mining Company have three full and two fractional claims adjoining the Sunshine. A shaft is now down 175 feet through blue lime as hard as adamant all the way, and the sinking will not cease until the three hundred level is reached. Frank Morehouse has the contract of sinking, and an idea of how hard the ground is may be had when it is known that one shift cannot drive MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 177 three holes. This company also has a large group of claims still south of the Searchlight. R. C. Chambers is president of the company; John Dern, vice-president; John J. Daly, treasurer; Simon Bamberger, secretary and general manager. John Beck and C. W. Miles are, with those mentioned above, the directors of the company. There is no question about the company having plenty of ore when they once reach it. GOLDEN GATE EXTENSION. The Golden Gate Extension Gold Mining Com- pany has about seventy acres of ground in the heart of the producing porperties in Mercur camp. Its ground joins that of the Golden Gate. It has already sunk a shaft over one hundred feet, and has contracted to have it sunk four hundred feet further, at which point the ore bodies will be reached. The company is capitalized for* $2,000,- 000, having 400,000 shares worth $5 each r at par. J. R. Walker, Jr., is president; C. H. Griffin, sec- retary. These two gentlemen, with George H. Robinson, Geo. Kislingsbury, and C. A. Walker are the directtors. THE PEEPSTONE DISTRICT. The Peesptone district lies east of Sunshine and Mercur. It is of the same general formation, and considerable work has been done. Across the valley below Sunshine, and on down to Pelican Point, on the shore of Utah Lake, the ground has been staked off, work done and values obtained. Far over in Skull Valley it is claimed that the same 178 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. showing of gold ores is made, veins two hundred feet wide having been exposed. While many of the discoveries and hopes of claim owners are rather the result of enthusiasm than good judgment, there is yet no rational limit to be placed upon the Camp Floyd gold belt area. AROUND CEDAR FORT. South-east of the Mercur mill is the Cedar Fort district, in which are the Mercur King, Gold King, Free Gold, Honolulu, Don Maguire and other groups of claims that are all being developed. Ore running as high as $11 has been obtained there in quantities. GOLD COIN GROUP. The Gold Coin group of mines is owned by Mr. B. T. Lloyd, one of Salt Lake's Councilmen. Mr. Lloyd is in the mining and stock brokerage business, dealing, however, mainly in Mercur pro- perties. He has done $5,000 development work on the Gold Coin group, in tunnels and shafts, drifts and winzes. As the property is abutted by the Brickyard, the Seals and the Hecla, Mr. Lloyd is recognized as having in this 175 acres a very val- uable possession. The Gold Coin ground is bonded for $35,000. Mr. Lloyd is also principal owner of the Syn- dicate Mining and Milling Company, which owns a group of six claims at the mouth of Lewiston Can- yon, about two miles southwest of Mercur, where the showing is admirable. He is also interested in eight claims at Twelve Mile Pass, as well as in MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 179 HON. w. s. MCCORMCK, 180 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. other groups in the same district and in Davis County. Mr. Lloyd can be relied on in all he says. He may be mistaken, but he will not know- ingly deceive. His office is 206 McCornick Block, Salt Lake City. MKRCUR GOLD DUST MINING COMPANY. The above company owns a group of fourteen claims, in all about two hundred acres, practically surrounded by the Rover, Marion and Geyser groups. The Brickyard lies west of it. Develop- ments in the Gold Dust group have been so satis- factory that many of the undeveloped properties are already tying to it as a reason for faith in their own prospects. It has been developed by three shafts, respectively, forty, eighty, and cne hundred feet deep. Two tunnels have also been run in on the group, one 250 feet the other 350 feet. These tunnels, following the vein, are in ore, as are also the shafts; and as the workings have developed ore along the vein at points 2,000 feet apart, it will readily be seen that the Gold Dust is a mine among mines at Mercur. The ore has also been exposed by works along the outcrop of the vein. Values ranging from $3 to $15 have been obtained. The ground is to be thoroughly developed and pros- pected before plans for a mill will be gotten out, so as to determine the capacity requried. The company is capitalized tor 300,000 shares of a par value of $5 each $1,500,000. W. S. McCornick is president; Josiah Barnett, secretary and treasurer. Judge John A. Sheet, W. S. McCornick, J. E. Bamberger and W. V. Rice constitute the diretctory. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 181 About September 1st the deepest shaft went into a body of ore at a depth of about one hundred and twenty feet, which showed higher values than any previously had. This only adds to the testi- mony of every property exposing ore in the district that higher values come with greater depth. There is no longer any question about the value of Gold Dust stock. OTHER PROPERTIES. The Laura K and Sue N. are making a good showing with tunnel development. The success of these properties is already assured. The Pacific group of five claims is an assured proposition of as great merit as anything in the district. The Electric Light group of four claims lying west of the Sunshine is being operated by McFar- land, Thompson and Scheu. The shaft will be sunk to the four hundred before the ore is stoped. The Hard Times and Panic are both showing up otherwise. W. C. B. Allen's group of five claims near the Sunshine is deemed a great property, with immense prospects assured. The list of properties in the Camp Floyd dis- trict that are being developed are: Abe Lincoln, Annie, Annie Laurie, Anderson, Bear, Belcher, Bonanza, Brickyard, Brooklyn, Brown, Buddee, Cannon, Confederate, Comstock, Dexter, Douglas, Eagles, East Golden Gate, Electric, Elko, Elmwood, Friday, Gentile Belle, Geyser, Gold Beach, Gold Bu, Gold Coin, Gold Dust, Gold Flat, Golden Gate, 182 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. Gladstone, Glenco, Great Eastern, Guelph, Hard Times, Hazel, Hecla, Herschel, Hillside, Hornet, Horse Shoe, Juno, Keystone, Keystone No. 2, Key- stone No. 3, Keystone No. 4, Lillian, Little Pitts- burg, Major, Malvern, Marion, Mercur, Mercur Bny, Merrett, Mollie Gibson, Mormon Girl, Moun- tain Gem, Nora, Old Fred, Old Guard, Overland, Raven, Reindeer, Rover, Tough Knot, Trinidad, Sacramento, Seal, Search Light, Silver Lode, Sir Victor, Song Bird, South Geyser, Sullivan, Sur- prise, Sunshine, Victor Wahoe Boy, Wonder, etc. GOLD BELT WATER COMPANY. To the Gold Belt Water Company, more than to any other cause, perhaps, is due the present pros- perous and permanent condition of the Mercur Gold Belt district. After the ores were known to carry values to justify their working, the problem was ^s to how water could be gotten. The Mercur mine shipped its ores four miles, and, as a maUer of fact was forced to help build a railroad and to buy a ranch in order that they could be treated at a satis- factory profit. Then if the ores contained sufficient value to justify their shipment a very heavy expense and loss was involved and there could be no town built at Mercur of a permanent character because of the absence of water. The problem was solved by Mr. Theodore Bruback and some associates by securing the waters of Ophir Creek. They carried the water a distance of 7,000 feet through an 18-inch pipe to a pump. The fall was sufficient to give force enough to operate the pump and lift the very waters which furnished the power MINFS, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 183 to a pendicular height of 1,500 feet, traversing in that distance, however, over 12.000 feet to a point above the highest workings in the Mercur District. Thence by gravity the water is distributed along subdivided mains aggregating not less than ten miles in extent, reaching every mine in the district now being operated down to Sunshine and below, supplying the towns of Mercur and Sunshine also. Since that time both towns have continued to grow, mills have been erected and contracts are out today for other mills to be erected and a period of per- manent development has been inaugurated which promises to make Camp Floyd the greatest gold mining camp on the face of the earth. The putting in of this plant involved an outlay of something like $75,000, and this money was invested at a time when the State and Salt Lake City were full of "doubting Thomases," who con- tinually questioned the soundness of the investment and disputed the permanence of the district; but the conclusions of Mr. Bruback and his associates have been justified by succeeding evenis, and while very little is thought of this undertaking in connec- tion with the development of Mercur gold fields there has been no factor of more importance in making the district what it is than the nerve and energy of Mr. Bruback as manifested in the Gold Belt Water enterprise. One thousand men found employment in and from the mines of the Cottonwoods during the sum- mer of 1870. 184 MINES, MINERS ANH MINERALS OF UTAH. 5alt Cal^e apd /I\ereur Railroad. The Salt Lake and Mercur Railroad is a little over elven and one-half miles long, extending from Fairfield to Mercur. Its opening and business career commenced with freight hauling on January 21, 1895, and the passenger service was inaugurated June 6, 1895. The road starts from Fairfield at an elevation of 5,000 feet, crosses the Oquirrh Divide at an elevation of 7,000 feet and drops to Mercur at an altitude of 6,000 feet. The road is standard gauge, and does a thriving business under the management of its projector, J. G. Jacobs. Its building is recognized as a marked engineering feat. UTAH LIQUOR COflPANY, TELEPHONE NO. 473. Wholesalers, Importers and Jobbers of m SOLE AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED VAL BLATZ BEER. '167 S. Main Street, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 185 -K^ "> V With thundering speed and mighty force t \ Came the panting, throbbing, iron horse; Then desert bloomed, and mountains old Sent foith rich streams of precious gold; Cities sprang up on every hand; D. E. BURLKT, QBHL. AGXHt Pro8perity came with the "Overland." U. P. PA88. DKP'T. There has been no greater factor in the develop- ment of the manifold mineral resources of this region than the Union Pacific Railroad. Utah's famous districts have only to compare their present advanced condition of development and production with the undeveloped and comparatively unknown sections that are isolated from the outside world by the absence of rail communication, in order to gain adequate comprehension of the part played by the Union Pacific in the shaping of their destinies. This company has at all times kept pace with the tremendous industrial growth and rapid develop- ment of western resources, extending its branches and feeders into every mining district and encourag- ing and making possible the building up of com- munities and the development of rich mines. The 186 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH total mileage of the great system is 4,442, while in the mining regions of Utah and Idaho it has 1,421 miles of track, tapping every mineral region and affording an outlet for the ores of thousands of mines. The period of active mining operations in Utah dates from the advent of the Union Pacific, and it may truthfully be said that the first locomo- tive whistle in Utah heralded the birth of the min- ing industry in this State. So great has been its faith in this region that it has in many instances kept in advance of the country's growth, extending its lines into undeveloped districts which have subsequently became great producers. Mercur, Utah's world famous gold camp, with its Mercur, Golden Gate, Sunshine, Geyser, Marion, Sacramento and other rich gold mines and five cyanide mills in operation, is reached only over the Union Pacific. Eureka, Mammoth and Silver City, the camps of the great Tintic district, the greatest producer of gold and silver In Utah, are reached by direct Union Pacific line from this city, and for years the Union Pacific gave to the ores of this district their only outlet to market. Park City, made famous by its Ontario, Daly, Daly West, Silver King, Anchor and other great producing mines, was given its first railroad by the Union Pacific, a branch extending from Echo, on the main line. All the ores shipped out of this camp reach the smelters over the Union Pacific. The southern extension of the Utah line was built chiefly to aid in the development of the mines of that section, and at Frisco, the terminus, is MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 187 located the wonderful Horn Silver mine, while the other mining districts at Beaver and Millard coun- ties are all reached by this line and by no other. The new State Line district, in the western part of Iron County, which is just now the scene of rich discoveries and promises to become an impor- tant camp, can only be reached via the Union Pacific to Frisco. Pioche, De Lamar, and other important camps in eastern Nevada are directly reached via the Union Pacific to Milford. The Tooele branch of the Union Pacific extends to Ophir and other districts west of Salt Lake City. A quick and satisfactory train service is given to ali of these Utah camps, prompt connections are made and the train accommodations are first-class. Parties from the east desiring to visit the Utah mining districts will find it greatly to their advan- tage to purchase their tickets via the Union Pacific. All of the important mining districts of Idaho are reached via the Union Pacific. It is the only line to the Boise gold belt, the Owyhee country, Payette and Florence district, Boise Basin, Elmore and Wood River mines, Lemhi and Custer counties and the Snake River placers. For the business man, as well as the tourist, the Union Pacific is far in advance of all competi- tors. It is the only line now running through solid vestibule trains to Chicago without change at the Missouri River. Through Pullman Palace Sleepers, latest improved tourist sleepers, free reclining chair cars, elegant day coaches, and the only line operat- ing Pullman dining cars out of Salt Lake. 188 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH.- The mountain division is operated from Salt Lake City headquarters, and is in the hands of a staff of as capable and obliging officials as it has ever been any road's good fortune to secure. Mr. D. E. Burley is the general agent of the passenger department, Mr. S. W. Eccles is at the head of the freight traffic department, and Mr. W. H. Bancroft is general superintendent of the operating de- partment. (T\t. jvf^bo land and Irrigation Company. Mining and Irrigation are now and always will be the temporal salvation of Utah. Among the most conspicuous enterprises of the state in the redemption of its barren lands is that of the Mount Nebo Land and Irrigation Company, of Salt Lake, prominently identified with which are Messrs. Gill S. Peyton and E. G. Rognon, who, together with L. H. Curtis, J. W. Culley, M. A. Lathrop and H. W. Brown are the officers of the corporation. It has finished a complete system which will irrigate 25,000 acres of the finest lands in the famous Utah Lake Valley, known as the Garden County of Utah. All this land has been brought under cultivation by the diversion and storage of waters, under the in- telligent guidance of nervy men, from channels where it previously accomplished no public good. By turning it on the lands that lie near the great min- ing camp of Eureka and the wonderful mining district of Tintic, they have given an opportunity for the making of farms and market gardens and MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 189 E. G. ROGNON, LAWYER, MINE OWNER AND PROMOTER. 190 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. orchards in the immediate vicinity of a market that is today and always will be one of the best in the state. It makes little difference how the water to be utilized on these formerly barren lands has been rescued, though it has been accomplished with no little cost and a great deal of engineering in- genuity; but it is of vital importance that the work has been so accomplished as to guarantee as faithful a supply as need be. Investigation will show that this has been done and the expenditure of money has been liberal to secure the assurance of perman- ence in the flow. Not only has the company secured an original water right, but it has constructed what seems to be an indestructible reservoir from a half to three-quarters of a mile in width and about five and a half miles in length, with an average depth of twelve feet. This reservoir is already stocked with the most desirable food fish. It is no?v capa- ble of holding 838,000,000 cubic feet of water, and at any time can be made to store 1,300,000,000 cubic feet. Two lines of railway .run practically through the tract, and it is not surprising that a great many eastern parties, and particularly parties from drouth ridden and cyclone whipped districts, are already purchasing lands in the new and well. favored district opened up by the Mt. Nebo Land and Irrigation Company. No better lands are to be found ill the United States, and since irrigation gives the safest assurance of returns for the labor of the husbandman and that is always the incen- tive to persistent toil it is a safe conclusion that the company having offered such an opportunity will not long have the lands left on its hands, MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 191 especially when the favorable terms offered on farms and orchards from ten acres up are generally known. Mr. E. G. Rognon is the secretary and treasurer of the company, Mr. Gill S. Peyton president. Their offices are in the Atlas Block, Salt Lake City, where personal calls or written inquiries will receive the fullest and promptest attention. fl\r. Jotyr; BeeK. Mr. John Beck, owner of many mines, and dis- coverer of the remarkable Bullion-Beck mine, is one of the most notable and enterprising men in the State of Utah. Today a millionaire, he has known fully what poverty is. But no condition has been equal to change a being blessed with an unbounded hope and a confidence in his destiny that cannot be shaken. He is president and princi- pal owner of the mine that bears his name in fact, he controls the property which is more fully described elsewhere. He is vice-president of the Northern Spy Company, owning a group of claims near Silver City, and which produce gold, silver lead and copper. He owns about nine-tenths of this mine, which is now being worked under lease. He is president of the Buckeye Mining Company, located a little south of Silver City. This property is now shipping ore which yields gold, silver and lead. It is one of the promising properties of the district. The Governor, located above Silver City, is his personal property, now being worked under 192 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. lease to Mr. E. Kirby, Superintendent of the Bul- lion-Beck mill. It produces gold, silver, lead and copper. He owns the Black Cloud Iron mine, situated north of Eureka. He owns four-fifths of the Crown Point mine, which adjoins the Bullion- Beck. Its product is gold, silver and lead, and is at present being worked. He also owns the North End, being an extension of the Crown Point. He is vice-president of the Trapper Mining Company, which owns claims near Ketchum, in Idaho, that yield gold, silver and lead. He owns a one-third interest in the Prairie Basin claims near Salmon City, in Lemhi County, Idaho. These are placer as well as ledge claims, and yield gold with a heavy percentage of tin. He also possesses large magnesia deposits in Idaho, near Soda Springs, the product being 95 per cent pure and boundless in quantity. In the Newton mining district, Beaver County, this state, in what is also called the Sheep Rock district, he has some heavy interests that give most favorable promise of future growth and yield. In Uintah County he owns nine-tenths of the claims of the Utah Asphalt and Varnish Com- pany," and of the Ashley Coal Oil and Gilsonite Company. The former owns fifty-five asphalt claims and the latter six. In these claims coal, crude pretroleum, as well as pure bitumen in soluble form are found. The bitumen boils up from springs in a country that is full of loose sand, and the blowing winds drive the sand into the springs, the result being an asphalt product in the exact proportions needed for paving purposes, viz., 16 per cent bitumen and 80 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 193 MR, JOHN_BECK. 194 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. per cent, sand, the balance being moisture. The future prospects of these two companies cannot be really estimated, so great they are. He is president of the Green Onyx Company, whose fine quarries are near Lehi, and owns onyx quarries personally. He is also the owner of extensive beds of fire clay and kaolin near Lehi, Utah County, this state. Assay tests show that these clays contain 38 per cent alluminum, while no superior fire clay for manufacture of fire brick is known. He is one of the originators in the movement for the manufacture of sugar from beets in Utah, and aided in having the factory located in Utah County. He is still a heavy owner in the Utah Sugar Factory, and one of its directors. He owns a big orchard in the same county, and now has over forty acres in grapes alone. He owns the Saratoga Springs, near Lehi, which give a flow of pure, unmineralized warm water, which he has utilized to afford public bath- ing. He is also the owner of the famous Beck's Hot Springs, in the north end of Salt Lake City, and which are reached by three lines of steam railways. And this is not all that he is interested in, but such a list affords some idea of the charac- ter and enterprise of Mr. John Beck. Oil was first discovered in Utah in the Bear Lake Valley in 1870, in Spanish Fork Cannon in 1878, and flowing oil wells were opened in Emery County in 1883. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 195 THE KEELEY INSTITUTE. 166 W. Second North St. Lock Box 480. FOR THE CURE Of OPIUM and TOBACCO HABITS, DRUNKENNESS AND, v *^ NEURASTHENIA The Keeley Treatment Has Done More to Help Humanity, in its Brief Time than any other Reform Movement has Accomplished in Centuries The Keeley Treatment is adopted oy the U.S. Government for use in the National and State Homes for disabled Volunteer Soldiers and Sailors, as also the Regular Army, and the Legislatures of Colorado, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, North Dakota Oklohama Territory and Wisconsin have recognized it by the enactment of inebriate laws for the sending of worthy indigent patients to Keeley Institutes at public expense. PRESIDENT ANGUS M. CANNON says of the Keeley Treatment : "I thought it impossible for one man to do what Dr. Keeley has done scientifically in counteracting the terrible evils of intemper- ance. His treatment strengthens men physically, mentally and mor- ally. Under these circumstances they are given another opportunity to become men amongst men. Is there a man who loves his fellow beings that can fail to say: I view Dr. Keeley as engaged in a most commendable work? 1 trust his good work may continue," INQUIRIES STRICTLY CONFIDE NTIAL. 196 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. Deep Q-eel( District. CHAS. C. VAN ALSTINE. (ILL railroad facilities are afforded for transportation the Deep Creek district must of necessity remain in an apathetic state. This part of Western Utah and Eastern Nevada is filled with great zones of gold, silver, copper, lead, nickel, iron and other precious metals. At the present time some of the mines are transporting ore by wagon an hundred miles over mountains and desert to the railroad, but a majority of the claim owners simply do their assessment work to hold their properties until a railroad is built into the territory. Of late several important gold discoveries have been made, not to mention the opening of less valuable mineral veins which could output several train-loads of ore each day and employ thousands of men were the condi- tions favorable for transportation. The records of the Clifton Mining district show about 2500 locations, of which every one had mineral at the surface. There are some thirteen contiguous districts which quite equal the Clifton. Next to a railroad, a smelter and custom mill are badly needed, all of which must come in time as the most natural sequence of the conditions of the country. Water, fuel and fluxing ores are MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 197 in abundance, and with a down-grade pull from all the mines there is a most pofitable opening for some enterprising smelter man or firm. This ore belt is the most extensive in Utah, and its most perfect development depends chiefly upon a smelter. The expense of hauling bullion from the smelter to the railroad, and coal and coke from the railroad to the smelter, is not an unreasonable proposition, all things considered. Years ago Prof. Hadyen, in his geological and mineralogical reports to the government, declared that this particualr area of Utah would eventually become the greatest gold-producing region in the United States, and perhaps in the world. The country rock consists of granite, white and blue limestone, porphyry, slate, quartzite, all shades of marble, onyx, fire rock of the very best grade; some sandstone and numerous other kinds forming the districts of Fish Sprigs, Willow Springs, Furber, Clifton, Glencoe, White Horse, Eagle, Munsey, Johnson, Spring Creek, Kinsley, Snake Valley, and many other points not yet formed into mining districts. All over the country there are continuous changes in the formation. Here a dyke, there a ledge, and yonder a vein, and then a general intermixture in the float found, which was occasion for perplexing and confounding the prospector in the early days, but now the great mineral belt is quite thoroughly located. The trend of the contacts, dykes and veins is generally northeast and southwest, and as a rule are true fissure with positive walls, and many of them carry talc casings, indicating permanency in depth. 198 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. The Fish Springs District is the smallest in area in this region, and has proven wonderfully rich in silver-lead ores, and for five years has been a continuous shipper. The principal and most developed mines are the Utah group and the Galena, whose wealth, as well as that ot some less developed mines, is beyond human calculation. THE UTAH AND GALENA. The Utah Mine and Galena Mine, in the Fish Springs District, are two of the most phenomenal silver and lead propositions in the world. To Charles C. Van Alstine is due the credit of the discoveries, made after the district had been tramped over by hundreds of prospectors who claimed there was no pay mineral in that region nearer than the Deep Creek country. However, Mr. Van Alstine was an old Colorado pioneer in the prospecting and mining business, and had made many valuable discoveries in his time, and when he picked up some Bird's-eye porphyry float he knew there was mineral in that vicinity. It was in 1890, while traveling along the old stage line between Utah and Nevada, that he made the dis- coveries of the Utah and Galena mines, the out- cropping ledge being fully a half mile from the place where he first picked up the float. The ledge is of great extent, and on it are located also the Miner's Dream, Ogden, Dora and Mayflower. The vein is a true fissure, which averages about five feet of clean galena ore that is easily smelted, and returns about $140 to the ton. The shaft on the Utah is down 500 feet, and the one on the Galena MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 199 400 feet, through mineral all the way, and the mines are perfectly dry, employing even in these times some forty men the year round. The value * of this property can be better appreciated when it is known that the ore is shipped by wagon seventy-five miles to Deseret, W. SCOTT CRISMON.OF THE UTAH AND GALENA MINES. and thence one hundred and twenty five miles by rail to the smelter, and after cost of production, traasportation and smelter charges leaves a hand- some profit. This ore is conceded to be the finest silver and lead product in the state, Up^to date 200 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. the Utah and Galena Companies, which are composed of Messrs. C. C. Van Alstine, George and W. Scott Crismon, Elizabeth T. Crismon, E. M. Weiler and others, has produced $483,676 worth of ore since the discover}^ of the mines, and when a railroad is built into the district the output will be increased tenfold. The vein is clearly defined for 4,500 feet along the properties of this company, and at any point the same character of ore is discoverable as at the points where work has been done. The developments in this region dispose of the fear of so many that the Deep Creek country offered nothing but surface minerals. As a matter of fact the ore shows no lessening of value at the depth of 500 feet. Did it stop there the Utah and Galena mines would prove an everlasting fortune, to all interested, since the ground above the 500 foot level contains all the wealth a reasonable body of men could desire. But the ore goes deeper, and therefore the work on these mines has done more than all else to beget confidence in the permanence, depth and richness of Deep Creek properties generally. VULCAN AND CACTUS GROUPS. Messrs. Geo. C. Whitmore, C. S.Tingey, andMr. Jensen and others have a bond on a group of claims known as the Vulcan, at Fish Springs, from which some very rich ore has been taken. For a time the ore was lost, but having confidence in the property, they still prosecuted the work and were rewarded in August, '96, by the reappearance of the ore in larger quantities and higher in grade than before. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 201 The Vulcan is near the Utah and the Galena mines. There is little doubt of its permanence. A company is incorporated to work the Cactus group adjoining the Utah and Galena mines. The incorporators include Mr. Chas. Crismon, under whose management the Utah and Galena mines have been so thoroughly and capably developed, as well as Mr. T. R. Cutler, Manager of the Utah Sugar Company, and other Lehi gentlemen. Mr. Crismon has resigned from the superintendency of the Utah and Galena mines to take charge of the development of the Cactus Company's claims, in full faith that they will soon rival any properties in that section. THE CLIFTON DISTRICT. The Clifton district is the oldest in that region, and dates its first locations back to the White Pine excitement in Nevada. It is a fabulously rich treasure-cask, twelve miles square, and contains about every precious metal known. The Cane Springs Consolidated Mining Company has the most important mines as far as development has gone. The vein matter carries free gold, and starting with a three-foot vein at the surface it has widened to fifty feet at a depth of four hundred feet, and the future of this property is simply glorious. Dutch Mountain and Gold Hill are vast granaries of fabulous wealth in gold, silver, copper and galena, whose tonnage is beyond the scope of human computation, as thus far shown by the development. Three miles South of Gold Hill is the Troy 202 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. group, assays from which run from $600 to $10,000. Ruby silver and black sulphuret, samples have assayed from 300 to 3,500 ounces in silver. Extensive development this year is in progress on the Troy, Reserve and Gulch lodes, and the property is assuming bonanza proportions. East, west and south of the Troy group lie the Paramount, Etta, Tidal Wave, Severance and Peculiar Nos. 1 and 2, which are looking fine in free gold, galena and sulphurets. The Sagamore, Seneca and Yonkers lodes are owned by J. H. Wolcott, and Wolcott and Kinney are operating the Nominee and Doctor lodes. The Widow is rich, and charming Charles Sandquist and Herman Bress. Northeast of Clifton the Wilson Brothers are mining very rich earth, and southeast of them is the famous Coleman and Henry group. Spring Creek district, which lies at the head of Deep Creek valley, is keeping pace with the great sisterhood, and the Cane Springs Company at Clifton completes a golden chain of fourteen dis- tricts that will show bountiful prosperity within a short time. DUGWAY DISTRICT. Forty miles west of Johnston's Pass, in Skull Valley, is the Dugway district, in the north end of the Dugway range. There are many claims, but the principal mine is the Silver King. The ore carries 30 per cent lead and 10 ounces in silver. The Yellow Jacket and Harrison have large quanti- ties of low grade lead ore, with an oxide of iron MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 203 gangue and 10 ounces in silver. The Buck Horn produced $20,000 and pinched out, but the vein will be found lower down. The Cannon mine has produced considerable lead ore. DETROIT DISTRICT. The Detroit District is in the south end of the Dugway range. The ores are gold, copper, lead and iron. The Howard mines are old producers of copper, but the smelter has been shut down on account of cost of hauling fuel. The Ibex is a gold property that is being extensively worked. There is plenty of iron and copper ores shown in ten claims in the camp. A very fine strike is recently reported in the Ibex. AURUM DISTRICT. On the east slope of the Schell Creek moun- tains, on the west side of Spring Valley is located what is erroneously called the Aurum District, one of the oldest in the state, the first locations dating back in the sixties. The ore is silicious silver in limestone, and averages about twenty-five ounces. The principal mines are the Sadie L, North Sadie L, Buckhorn, Blue Bell, Copper Glance, Silver Bell, Davis, Copperopolis, and Silver Glance. The output has been about $150,000. Just north and over the ridge is the Centerville district, which has like ore and has produced considerable. Rail- road facilities are needed to properly develop this region. The Lucky Deposit mine is the best property in the district. It has five hundred feet of shafts and tunnels, and one thousand tons of ore is 204 MINES, MINERS, AND MINERALS OF UTAH. exposed. The Ruby Hall group is three miles away, with veins ranging from four to fifty feet of quartz in silicious limestone that carry an average of fifty ounces in silver. The shaft on the Grizzly is down 500 feet. WHITE CLOUD DISTRICT. On the north end of Mount Moriah, ten miles east of Muncy, is the White Cloud district. The ores are gold and lead in immense quantities and free milling. The veins are from three to twent}' feet thick. With railroad facilities, soon to be afforded, a big output will result. GLENCOE DISTRICT. North of White Cloud is the Glencoe district, in a spur of the Deep Creek Mountains, sometimes called the Glencoe Mountains. The ores are mostly silicious in granite, the veins ranging from three to thirteen feet wide, and some of them have been developed to one hundred feet in depth. The Mother Lode lies four miles east, with several other claims. The ore throughout the district will aver- age about forty ounces in silver to the ton. THE SCHELLBOURNE DISTRICT. In the same range as Aurum is the Schell- bourne camp, at the old overland stage station. The ore found is all silicious, carrying silver and a little gold in dolomite. The El Capitan is the principal mine, with a shaft 100 feet and several tunnels. About $100,000 has been spent in development. The other mines are the Woodstock, Union, Golden MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 205 Garter, Burke, Martin and Lcvell. There is a 10- stamp mill in the camp, but a railroad is needed to haul fuel in and the ores out. MUNCY DISTRICT. Ten miles south of Aurum in the Spring Valley is the Muncy region of copper, lead, silver and iron ores. The Cameron, Keystone and Kansas claims are the principal ones, with about 10.00 tons of copper and silver ore on the dumps. The Grand Deposit and other contiguous claims are quite equally good, but all need railroad facilities for operation. The mineral zon.e here is quite as extensive as that at Bingham, and of a higher grade of ore. Muncy is the natural center of the region, with plenty of water, salt and timber for all pur- poses of mining and milling. PIERPONT DISTRICT. Eight miles south of Muncy, at the edge of the valley and the mouth of the Pierpont Creek, is the Pierpont district, and the principal mine and mill bear that name. The vein is form twenty to thirty feet wide, of low silver ore which has produced hundreds of thousands of dollars, but is now idle on account of being unprofitable without railroad facilities. The Osceola district is 40 miles south of Aurum, at the lower end of Spring Valley, on Mount Wheeler. It is a placer gold camp that is in successful operation, but ledges have been found that will attract great attention. West of the head^oFSpring Valley are the old 206 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. camps of Taylor, Ely and Ward. Ely is an old producer of gold. Duck Creek lies directly west of Muncy, in a branch of Steptoe Valley, and the country is rich in lead and a low grade of silver ore. KINSLEY DISTRICT. There are about fifty good claims in the Kinsley district, which is west of Devine's in Deep Creek, on the west side of Antelope Valley. The minerali- zation is about as it is at Furber iron, lead, silver and copper. The Star mine is the most largely developed. It has a shaft 200 feet deep, and has taken about 300 tons of ore from the workings, which are now on the dumps. DOLLY VARDEN DISTRICT. Copper ores predominate in the Dolly Varden district, fifteen miles north of Kinsley. The Jack of fluxing ores has long since shut down the local smelter. The country is pockety, and the ores are in chimneys. For three miles square the district is stacked with claims, with ore on most of the dumps, but that old story of "a railroad needed" makes it a tenantless area. SPRUCEMONT DISTRICT. Ten miles northwest of Dolly Varden and only a few miles from Kinsley is the Sprucemont dis- trict, which is already a rival of Muncy and Gold Hill. Considerable work has been done on the numerous claims in the district. The Spence, Lotham and Juniper are the principal producing MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 207 mines. The ore is silver, lead and copper. In the town of Sprucemont is a thirty-ton smelter, but forty miles of a wagon haul to rail has put a quietus on the camp. CHERRY CREEK DISTRICT. West of Schellbourne, on the west side of Steptoe Valley, lies the Cherry Creek district, which is the best developed of any west of Salt Lake City. The camp is a light of other days, for once it had a population of several thousand people and four mills in operation. The Star mine has 10,000 feet of development workings, with an 800 foot shaft to the water level, above which it has produced almost $2,000,000. It has ten thousand tons of low grade ore on the dumps. It is ninety miles from a railroad, and hence, now, quiet. The Pacific, Exchange and Teacup mines have been great producers, ami onlv need a railroad to con- tinue prosperous. Eight miles north of Cherry Creek is an extensive mineral zone that needs only the encouragement of railroad transportation to become alive with great activity. MINOR DISTRICTS. The Grantsville Mining district lies six miles from the town in the heart of the range. The chief mine is the Third Term, a low grade lead-silver proposition that has been worked quite extensively and will resume when the white metal again obtains proper recognition. The Lakeside district lies northwest of Grants- ville in the low range skirting the lake. The ore 208 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. averages from 40 to 60 per cent lead, and carries some silver. With railroad facilities the camp would be prosperous. Johnston's Pass district lies on the west side of the Oquirrh range, just beyond Skull Valley. The ores thus far discovered resemble those at Mercur. The district is new, with but little development Death Canyon district is an old one and has produced considerable ore. It lies ten miles south of Johnston's Pass, in the West Tintic range. The ore averages from 40 to 60 per cent lead, and from 10 to 60 ounces in silver. The district would be a heavy producer with railroad facilities. Twenty miles west of Death Canyon is the Omega district, in which is the Rockwell mine, which has a four-foot vein of galena, carrying 40 per cent lead and a few ounces in silver. This is the only shipping mine in the district. The Wild Horse district lies five miles further west, and is undeveloped. The Granite Mountain district lies just north of Dugway. The development shows the ore to be high in lead and low in silver. WM. C. HALL, Mining, Corporation, and Real Estate Law, McCornick Building, - - Salt Lake City. Utah. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 209 S^e g AND IWETAliIiURGICAIi MACHINERY fline and Hill Supplies, Stamp Hills, Corliss Engines, Concentrat Mills, Boilers, Crushing Rolls, Comet Crushers, Hoists, Frue Vanners, Huntington Hills, Riedler Pumps, Riedler Compressors, Woods' Dry Placer Hiner, Smelting Plants, OTTO Blanton Cams, Browne Sizers, HERCULES GASOLINE HOISTING ENGINES. CATALOGUES ON APPLICATION. J. W. YOUNG, Western Mgr, Cor. State & 3d S. St. Salt Lake City. 214 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. ait 2Lake tribune 1 Wif GIVES ALL THE The Best EDITORIAL, LOCAL and ^ j* TELEGRAPH NEWS. Semi- Weekly, $2*00 per year, Sunday, , . 2,00 u Daily, , , LOOperm^th, MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 215 of pree ai}d Ur;limit:ty. While there are no developed mines in Davis County, the range bounding it on the east is being periodically prospected with a promise of results destined to be ultimately substantial. Gold, silver and lead assays gold and silver especially have been obtained from claims east of Farmington and Bountiful, and near the line dividing Davis from Morgan County, ores of the same character as those shown by assay to exist in the Hardscrabble section of the Jast named county gold, silver, nickel, cobalt, etc. have been found. Work in a desul- tory way has been done. No developments giving reliable data on which to base opinon have yet been made. The Roberts House, Bingham. OPENED JUI-V 1. 1SQ6. First Glass flGGommodation, * <* Everything New and Modern. In the Heart of the Great Camp. MINES, MINERS, AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 257 U/astyipgtoi} Qoupty. Washington County, Utah, the extreme southern developed territory of the State, now lies dormant awaiting the advent of a railroad to get her vast ore deposits to market. Almost every product known to minerology has been found. The county records show that quite five hundred locations have been recorded. There are millions in the ores lying in the white sandstone of the Silver Reef in the Har- risburg district, and such noted valuable mines as the Old Buckeye, Last Chance, Thompson, Barbee, and Walker, Tecumseh, California and others equally as good, are mostly idle on account of no transporta- tion facilities. The Bull Valley district contains vast bodies of low-grade ore gold, silver, lead, iron and cop- per and would be one of the very largest mining districts in the west had it railroad facilities. Tutsegavit district lies eighteen miles from St. George, and is largely prospected. Two of the best properties, The Apex and Morning Star, of a group of twelve operated by the Dixie Mining and Smelt- ing Company, has 200,000 tons of ore in sight that will easily average $10 net according to an expert report. A mile west of the Dixie group, on the same chain, is the Mammoth, the Mountain Chief, and Black Warrior, all rich in silver and carbonate of lead. The Grant Gulch Company have ceased opera- tions in the Bentley district, forty-five miles from 258 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. St. George. It is an immense copper proposition, but the haul by wagon is too great for successful and profitable working. The outcropping, which has proven a 300 ton test of 90 per cent, copper, is 100 feet by 639 in area. A shaft 100 feet deep showed copper all the way that ran 45 per cent, and carried 25 ounces in silver. There is plenty of this kind and grade of ore all through this district that would pay to haul fifty miles to market, but not several hundred as is now necessary. Within from ten to twenty miles from St. George there are some of the largest gypsum deposits known, extending for miles and as wide as fifty feet, solid and clear, and can be used for alabaster. Twenty miles from St. George is an iron ledge twenty feet thick that is miles upon miles in extent. Near by are antimony ledges of immense quantity and of excellent quality. When it is understood that Milford, the .nearest railroad station to St. George, is 115 miles distant, the enormous freight charges on ore by wagon haul will be readily understood. However, the Dixie Company have shipped almost 2,000,000 pounds of copper bullion, matte and ore via Mil- ford, which was treated with coke from Crested Butte, Colorado, and made a profit. As now in progress it is but reasonable to presume that a railroad will be built through this district within a year. Graphite was first discovered in Utah in 1879. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 259 All the ranges in this county are known to contain minerals; indeed, they have been coal pro- ducers for many years, for some time before the mining for other mineral resources obtained a prac- tical footing in Utah. But it has gradually become a realization that the county is not confined to this article, nor yet to grain growing or stock raising (in either of which it is quite prolific) for its wealth. Prospecting in a desultory way has been going on for a long time, and many locations have been made. Although the record of shipments is not voluminous, it is still a fact that there are good properties there, especially in the West Moun- tains, where considerable work has been done in places. In these is situated the only incorporated mine in the county, with the possible exception of some few coal mines. This is the Alexander, lying directly west of Ephraim and about seven miles therefrom. On this a shaft has been sunk eighty feet and a tunnel driven in one hundred and ten feet, this being now about thirty feet from the ore body. The country formation abounds in boulders and stringers, some of which have assayed remark- ably high, one sample showing 913 ounces silver and a trace of gold. It is principally silver and lead, however. Gold and other rich float can be found almost anywhere, and with intelligent and capitalized prospecting could in many cases be traced to its native bed. 260 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. Summit QDUpty parl( (jty (TVpity? District Park City is one of the largest and one of the richest mining districts in the State of Utah. The city of Park City has 6,500 population, and is in every way a modern small city, the commerce of which is kept even, energetic and prosperous by a pay roll amounting to about $175,000 per month. The Ontario mine, the largest in the district, was discovered in 1872, and after being unskillfully worked, was about to be abandoned when Patrick Kerwin and R. C. Chambers proceeded with systematic development and made its wondrous values known. It then passed into the hands of Hearst and Haggin, of California, and Senator Chambers of Utah. The most modern and im- proved mine and mill machinery is employed throughout, and there are miles upon miles of tunnels, and drifts, and cross-cuts, exploration shafts down 1,500 feet, and a huge drain tun- nel three miles long that cost a fortune to drive through the mountain. The history of this property has been one of phenomenal progress, owing to the thorough understanding the management has of the ore deposits, the veins and the systematic way of working them. The Daly, which is one of the group owned and operated by the Daly Company, is also a rich mine, and has paid nearly $3,000,000 in dividends. Its systematic development was begun under the careful guidance of John J. Daly, after whom it is named. The output has reached about $14,300,000, and the late process of treatment of MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 261 262 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. the ores makes the percentage of extraction much higher than before. THE DALY-WEST. The Daly-West is managed by Hon. John J. Daly of Salt Lake City, and is known to be one of the greatest mines in the big camp. It has just been equipped with a complete plant of the most modern machinery for its more successful operation, and the immediate future promises enormous returns. The most conservative experts claim for it an equal footing with the great Ontario, or the Silver King, the latter said to be of one the richest silver mines in the world. Mr. Daly began development work on it five years ago, and for the past two years it has been a paying producer. The ore bodies have been extensively exploited, opened up and proven to be of great magnitude and richness, and estab- lishing a longevity that wilL outlive the owner. MESSRS. KEITH AND KEARNS. The Anchor, Crescent and \\oodside are three famous properties operated by Hon. E. P. Ferry. The Crescent has been a great producer and has paid two handsome dividends. The Woodside has output at least six comfortable fortunes, and after a season's shut down, is now again successfully operated by Hon. Thomas Kearns. Hon. David Keith is operating the Anchor, and with the new improved machinery will make it one of the mon- archs of the camp, as -will also be the Alliance. The Silver King is said to be the very richest silver mine in the world. Notwithstanding the MINES, MINEPS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 263 HON, THOU AS YEARNS, OF THE SILVER KING, 264 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. governmental action on silver, it has the proud dis- tinction of having paid over $637,500 in dividends in a little over four years. Hon. Thomas Kearns is superintendent and manager of this great pot of the white metal, as also the Mayflower, a twin with the Silver King. OTHER GOOD MINES. The Lucky Bill, Glencoe, Jupiter, Alliance, Corn- stock, Morgan and Creole are all good mines with splendid records. New mining plants and mills have just been constructed for all of these at an expenditure of hundreds of thousnds of dollars, and they will materially add to labor list and output in the future. The Morgan is especially producing a high grade of ore, and when its great shaft is complete it will vie with the Daly and Daly-West as a divi- dend payer. IN FUTURO. With Park City, as with all the mining camps of Utah, the past is insignificant and inconsequen- tial compared with the future The ore bodies at best have been but barely scratched and gophered. It is known that the rich ore bodies reach unknown depths, the deepest mining failing to find the bot- tom, and the ore grows constantly richer as depth is attained. New ^ eins are being constantly dis covered, and new mills for the treatment of low grade ores are being built as fast as workmen can put the structures together, which means a tidal wave of prosperity in which hundreds and thou- sands now idle will join, stimulating all branches of MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 265 industry,and spreading unparalleled activity through- out the entire country. THE CREOLE. The Creole mine lies on Treasure Hill, west of Park City, and is one of the most promising properties in the district. At the present time the vast ore bodies are being developed to start regular and extensive shipment by the time winter sets in. A shaft is down 170 feet, and 1,500 feet of drifts have been run. The company was incorporated in January, 1895, for $150,000, shares $10 and $50,000 treasury stock. David Condon is president, E. W. Berry vice-president, and the balance of the direc- tory consists of B. F. Condon, Elizabeth Condon, A. L. Thomas, and John Condon. THE VALEO. The Valeo Company has made one of the best strikes of the year in its property in Dutch Can- yon, in the Blue Ledge district. The company was incorporated in August for $200,000, one dollar per share, with $50,000 treasury stock. John E. Johnson president, George Urban vice-president, John W. Geiger treasurer, and J. M. Lockhart secretary. The other directors are John Oleson, A. L. Dahlgreen, S. B. Howell, and John Paradise. The body of ore in the Valeo is large and very rich, and the property will be a valuable one. No stock is for sale at any price. MINES, MINERS ANt> MINERALS OF UTAH. HON. DAVID KEITH OF THE SILVER KING AND ANCHOR MINES. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 267 THE COMSTOCK. The Comstock Mining Company is one of the very staunchest portions of the Park City district vertebrae. To the staying qualities of Mr. Morris Dusseldorf is due the ultimate success that seems speedily to await the shareholders in this company. The 'four full claims comprising the Comstock ground lie contiguous to the Silver King, Apex, Crescent and Alliance, and cover an area of 400x3,000 feet. There is a 200 foot shaft and 4,000 feet of tunnels and drifts. Ten men are now em- ployed in running a tunnel 1,343 feet to get com- pletely under the ore body, which has been worked quite extensively on the dip, and at a depth of only 180 feet the vein is 40 feet between the walls, and the vast body of ore shows returns of from 35 to 60 per cent lead, and from 20 to 60 ounces in silver. The richest part of this vein carries $10. in gold, and the balance averages about $1 in gold. The present tunnel development will strike the vein at a depth of about 600 feet from the surface, and with the upraise for output will give an area of stoping ground of fully 500 feet across the entire vein. The ore thus far taken out of the chute, which is 300 feet in extent, has been of uniform grade as given above, and thus far there has been no cross-cutting and sinking only reached 50 feet, when too much water stopped the work. As the work is now being pushed, the mine is nicely drained by the present tunnel, and another drain can be made into the Alliance tunnel, which will strike the Comstock at a depth of 2,000 feet. This 268 MINES, MINERS, AND MINERALS OF MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 269 : drain tunnel is now under the Crescent, with only 1,400 feet to go to be under the Comstock, which will drain the Comstock mine to a depth of 2,000 feet. A fair estimate of the value of this property can be given in the assertion that it is bound to be one of the greatest producers in the Park City Dis- trict. The surface improvements consist of tunnel houses, boarding houses, stables, etc. A hoisting plant or any heavy machinery will never be needed, as the ore will all come to the surface by gravity. The main working tunnel will be completed within 30 days, by the three shifts of men now at work. A. Hanauer, Jr., is president of the Comstock Company; M. Bamberger, vice-president; J. M. Cohen, secretary; M. Dusseldorf, general manager; and M. S. Hanauer, C. B. Marklaod, and William Kahn, along with the others, are directors. THE LUCKY BILL. The Lucky Bill group of four claims, consist- ing of the Safeguard, Lucky Bill, Home Station and Clft, lie partly in Uintah and partly in Snake Creek districts. The main shaft, 1,000 feet deep, is sunk on the Home Station claim. The ledge is fifteen feet wide, which contains a vein two and a half feet of an even grade of good ore. There are at present some 300 feet of drifts, and the present workings are on what seems indisputably an extension of the rich Daly-West vein. At one point this vein is opened up 90 feet from the tunnel, and at another point the vein is opened over the present workings. At 300 feet another drift is being run toward the Ontario ore body, and another drift is to the south 270 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. to tap still another great ore zone. All this ground is drained by the great Ontario tunnel, which makes all the workings of the most advantageous character. Within four months this company will be one of the big shippers of the camp. Jos-ph Hatch is president; J. H. Moyle, vice- president; G. A. Gibbs, secretary and treasurer. These gentlemen, with R. T. Kimball, R. B. Burns, E. L. Sheets and W. J. Burton constitute the board of directors. \2 West 2nd South Street* ^ /HTNTNS BROKER, If* General Stocks IReferences: & < & Commercial National Bank Deseret National Bank McCornick & Co* Bankers Walker Bros* Bankers {Jelepbone Bo. 107. * & <* < MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 271 fl?el "pat" Dopap. Colonel "Pat" Donan, editor of the Utahnian, and one of the most widely read contributors to journalism of modern times, was born in Mississippi. His father was a Presbyterian minister, and founded the first church of that denomination in New Orleans. He enlisted in the Confederate service as a private, In January, 1868, he established the St. Joseph (Mo.) Vindicator, a vehement champion of the Southern people, which establishment was several times mobbed and eventually squelched by state troops in ihe following August. He next was editor of the Metropolitan Record, of New York, and in 1869 estab- lished the Lexington (Mo.) Caucasian, which became the most notorious and vehement of all Southern publications. It was just as bitter as it was brilliant, and most widely read. He was the originator of the "Possum Policy," which enfranchised 80,000 Confed- erates in Missouri. He originated the "Greeley Move- ment, " which secured the Greeley and Brown nomina- tion at Cincinnati in 1872. In 1876 he conducted five newspapers in North Carolina and Virginia. He wrote the famous letter to President Hayes on the "South- ern Policy," which was adopted but never lived up to bv the people of the South, much to the disgust of Colonel Donan. In 1877-8 he conducted a paper MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 281 COLONEL 'PAT" DONAN OF THE UTAHNIAN. 282 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. in Arkansas, and in 1879 he renounced the South and came North to Dakota, where he lived for two or three years. He had rambled over most of the globe before coming to Utah. His best contributions to literature have world-wide repute, and he is a fam- ous orator. He is a much-traveled man, and few men can claim as wide personal acquaintance as he. The Utahnian is just on its twelfth number, and yet it circulates in every state in the Union, and is ex- tensively circulated abroad. Jlines, Stoeks and <* a Salt Lake City Heal Estate, CHOICE FRUIT AND FARM LANDS. Correspondence solicited for fcetailefc information regar&ing prices, etc, of Cits, 3F arm an& /IDining properties an& tbe manp opportunites for profitable investments in IHtab, * & & W. E. HUBBARD, Immigration Agent U. P. R. R. 1 W. 2nd South Street, -> M *, salt Iiake City MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 283 Have You Read & g THE UTAH MAN? If not, SUBSCRIBE FOR IT. An Up-to-date Weekly, edited by Col. P. Donan, the champion of indi- vidual Americanism and one of the nation's most accomplished, fluent and enthusing journalists. Utah's unlimited Wealth of Mines, Fertile Lands and Matchless Climate, and the scenic and beautiful features of the Inter-mountain West, Illustrated, are entertainingly and attractively produced. WRITE FOR ADVERTISING RATES. Subscription Plates L Three Months $0.50 Six Months - 1.00 One Year - 2.00 41 W. SECOND SOUTH STREET, & & & Salt Lake City, Utah. 284 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. Beaver In the southern part of a spur of mountains which begins north of Cove Creek, in Millard County, at the main Wasatch range, and runs west of south and adjacent to the town of Minersville, in Beaver County, is the once and again-to-be pros- perous district of Lincoln. Discoveries of a mineral character were made here as early as 1859, and for many years the settlers kept themselves supplied with lead taken from the earth where was more recently located the Rollins mine, now and for several years past the celebrated Lincoln mine. As the country at that time and for a good while after was literally overrun with savage men and wild beasts, the importance of such a resource may easily be understood. But the lead was tolerably hard from the first, and by degrees became harder, for reasons which are well enough known now but may not have even been thought of by the settlers, though if it had been otherwise, it would probably have made no practical difference, since the people in these remote places and in such times had no scientific apparatus or chemicals with which to make analyses, and no means of mating separation of the ores' constituent elements. Of course this condition could not last long, and the methods and appliances of improved mining began to drift in the early sixties. The first regular location made in Lincoln dis- trict, together with its own formation, occurred in 1862, about which time the change of name spoken of took place, the Rollins being recorded as the MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 285 f Lincoln. The first property to be spread upon the records of the district was a location made by E. W. Thompson, of Beaver City, and this was fol- lowed by many others, until now there are a hun- dred or more. From 1868 to 1873 a goodly town had sprung up in the ravine adjacent to the Lincoln mine, there being at one time over 100 houses and fully 500 people in the camp. Business was lively, ore was being shipped at a remarkable rate consider- ing the lack of available transportation, and all things seemed to denote permanent prosperity. All at once a vein of water was encountered in the Lincoln, and the resources of the company had to be turned to the task of subduing it. The most powerful and expensive machinery was procured and operated for some time, but to no practical purpose, and eventually the work was abandoned. This was a discouraging blow to the other operators in the district, and to make the rain a regular downpour Congress quietly and stealthily deprived silver of its regal function as the unit of value, and one after another the mines shut down. Fur some years only assessment work, with an occasional desultory prospect job was done, but lately things have taken a more favorable turn. The Lincoln, like nearly all the great mines of the country at one time or another, became involved in a perplexing network of legal complications, but has recently approached if not achieved extrication by being sold by order of the District Court, the purchaser being Hon. P. T. Farnsworth, who will put the property to the fore again. He also owns the Pioneer Mine, adjoining the Lincoln on the 286 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. % east, on which he has placed some costly machinery, and when he gives the keynote the others will surely join in the chorus as of yore. W. L. Croff, one of the most experienced min- ing men in the State, has a tunnel in on the Rattler several hundred feet, and is still driving it through a very hard formation. It is a splendid property, specimens of ore showing free gold (everything in the district shows more or less gold) being taken out continually. He is also working in a desultory way on the Lane Brothers and Golden Gate, the latter a recent discovery, and altogether is setting an example worth} of emulation. The great Cave Mine, situated in a more northerly part of the district, has not suspended work for any considerable length of time in late years, and promises ere long to spring a surprise upon the country that will be altogether agreeable. Hon. Presley Denny has recently resumed work on the December, of which he is the principal owner. This mine is located on an immense vein, further south, on which are the Creole and War Eagle. Its position is nearly vertical, and has true granite walls. A double incline has been worked on the December, following the trend of a crooked chimney, from which ore running from 30 to 3000 ounces of silver has been taken in great abundance. There are also two shafts, which have been prolific producers; and a tunnel, in which work has lately been resumed, is in about 250 feet, cutting the north wall of the formation. The best of a group of samples assayed a few years ago by W. J. McVicker gave the truly grand result of 59 per cent. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 287 lead, 2041.66 ounces of silver and 1.020 ozs. gold, the lowest being 12 per cent lead, 13.12 ounces silver, and .291 ounces gold. The December, with the work which is now promised, is likely to come to the fore front of producers without much delay; and what is true of it is true in a great measure of the other two named. Other properties in the district, with more or less development, are the Minnie, Dunnerburg, Yip Yap, Home Ticket, Coral Reef, Richmond, Lucky Boy, Lane Brothers, Golden Gate, and Hoodoo, besides which there are many prospects, and all without exception show abundance of ore all carry- ing more or less gold, lead, and sometimes copper. THE NEWTON DISTRICT. The Newton is a new district in Beaver County. It is located some twelve miles northeast of Beaver City, and is therefore about thirty miles from railroad connection. In this district is situated the noted Rob Roy group, embracing ten claims, the property of Hon. P. T. Farnsworth, manager of the Horn Silver in Beaver and the Austin mines, Nevada. In the same district is the Sheep Rock, already attracting attention, and other groups. The Rob Roy has a contact vein between trachite and conglomerate; averages 6 feet in width; assays show gold running from $3 to $10 to the ton; but the average makes it a low grade, and the dis- tance from railroads will render a mill indispensible to the successful handling of its ores. By what system the ores can best be treated has yet to be demonstrated. Mr. Farnsworth has a shaft over 288 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 200 feet deep, with drifts at the bottom running 120 feet in different directions from the shaft, as well as levels above the 200 foot level all showing the same character of ore. Similar claims are in the district, some east and further up the canyon. The Sheep Rock and other groups are about a mile and a half east of these properties, and while the forma- tion is different, assays show about the same results in gold. The district is a gold one. SAN FRANCISCO DISTRICT. In San Franciso Mining District the only pro- perty operated is the great Horn Silver, referred to in detail elsewhere. It is in this district also that the Rattler and Carbonate mines are situated, whose output has been very great. They were and prob- bly still are the property of Mr. B. Hampton and H. W. Lawrence. The ore was taken out in great quantities and was very rich, but gave out, as little development work was done. It is believed the mines will yet prove prolific yielders of rich ores Dnce they are re-opened and developed. South of Minersville and in other parts of the county are many locations, but no work of moment is at this date being prosecuted. I. A. Benton, E. B. Zorlu, C. H. Link and J. C. Taylor on the American Mining Company. The property is at the head of Big Cottonwood Canyon, on Scott Hill. A tunnel in 80 feet has disclosed extensive and rich ore bodies. MINES, MINERS, AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 289 The Engineering * Mining Journal of New York. 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Each volume is complete in itself. The information contained in one is supplemented but not repeated in the other. Send for complete catalogue of im- portant scientih'c publications. THE SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO., Publishers, 253 Bpoadmay, New York. 290 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. Silver. The history of the Horn Silver mine presents a fair illustration of the aid rendered by mining developments in building up the country in which mines are located. When this great mine became recognized as a permanent producer it fell into the hands of Jay Cooke, of Pennsylvania, and others, and the result was that the Utah Southern Railroad, at that time running no farther south than Juab a little over 100 miles from Salt Lake was extended to Frisco, in Beaver County, a distance of about 136 miles further. Had it not been for this mine, not only would this line not have been extended, but it could hardly have run but for the tonnage from this great property. It has had a very extraordinary career almost meteoric to begin with; then it seemed to pass under a partial eclipse: then carne a period when it loomed up again, and then a fire destroyed most of the perish- able part of the works, and finally the low price of silver and lead have combined to make its opera- tion far less profitable than it would have been under more favorable circumstances ;yet it has yielded $5,137,500 in dividends, and is today recognized as more valuable than ever before. It has a concentrating mill with a 200 ton capacity daily. The crude ore runs about 12 per cent lead and 8 oz. silver to the ton not a moun- tain of silver or lead, but so vast that it has, until recently, enabled its fortunate owners to realize a substantial dividend each quarter. In 1889 Hon. P. T. Farnsworth became the MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 291 HON. P. T. FARNSWORTH OF THE HORN SILVER MINE IN UTAH AND THE AUSTIN MINE IN NEVADA. 292 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. manager of the property, and the increase in the output from that time on until the fire swept away all that could be burned will give some idea of the capacity of the mine under energetic management. In 1889 the value of the product was $280,465.42; in 1890, $341,306.06; 1891, $362,737.68; 1892, $377,025.88; 1893, $491,429.89; 1894, $136,604.53; 1895, $181,278.92. During the last named year the effects of the fire the year preceding were still apparent in the decreased production compared with former years. Then, as the product is measured in dollars and cents, it will be apparent that the fall in the price of silver and lead has had much to do with the showing, though the tonnage might be even greater. The Horn Silver has passed through many vicissitudes, but it is now the property of a com- pany and under a management capable of making the best out of it. Mr. A. C. Washington, of New York (who is also associated with Mr. Farnsworth in the great group of mines at Austin, Nevada, which are being developed under Mr. Farnsworth' s direction), is President of the Horn Silver. The company is capitalized for $10,000,000, divided into 400,000 shares of a par value of $25 each. It has miles upon miles of underground workings, and is accounted one of the greatest mines of the state. The length of time it has been yielding indicates its permanence, and there is no sign of diminution in the ore bodies, which have already yelded such immense treasures. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 293 property. BT C. L. DIGNOWITT. During a late visit to San Francisco mining district, and after a brief inspection of the famous Horn Silver mine and the concentration of its ores, I took in the great Copper gulch, some three and a half miles west of Frisco. To my great astonish- ment I was confronted with one of the most remark- ble copper propositions upon the American continent. To put it mildly, there is a solid bed of copper, in its various forms and conditions, one quarter of a mile wide by one and a half miles long, which is visible to the eye, and it is natural to suppose that much greater values are stored in the earthly vaults below. From careful selections of ores from the many vein shoots, I received the following results: 1st, vein 75 feet wide, average sample went copper 7 per cent; iron 7 per cent; gold #4, and silver $5.25 per ton; "sulphide of copper." 2nd, average (width of vein 68 feet), copper, 30 per cent; iron 22 per cent; gold $21; silver 38 ounces; "sulphide of copper." 3rd, (vein 45 feet wide), copper 28 per cent; iron, 20 per cent; gold $8; silver, 84 ounces. This was a grey copper conglomerate predominating, with a strong mixture of sulphides, especially with the iron. 4th, (vein at*least 85 feet wide, and above the other ledges some 125 feet), copper 6^ per cent; iron, 7 per cent; gold, $3; silver, 16 ounces. The major portion of these ores could be con- centrated down to one- third, and shipped* to Salt Lake City or Denver, and k would yield to their 294 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. owners handsome profits. There is abundance of good spring water, and plenty of cedar and spruce- pine timber near by. The climate is dry and equi- able all the year, and I cannot understand why this has not become a great productive camp long since. In truth it has been sadly neglected; still it has its time to rise and meet others that have be- come famous producers. I understand that a strong French company, with ample financial backing, have secured some claims in copper gulch, and have let a contract for a 200-ton capacity mill per day concentrator, which is costing them complete $60,000. If true, it's a good start for another "Anaconda," in which the Rothschild invested four to five million dollars for a block of stock, and which sum did not even give control. This shows the value of copper property. With the new elec- trical inventions, and the completion of the great Salt Lake Copper Plant, now under construction and perfection, Gopper Gulch, as well as the Montreal Copper group, at Rocky, ten miles east of Frisco, will become famous for their valuable outputs. These copper properties are owned by Salt Lakers. Some of these days and not far in the future, there will spring into new life and activity many valuable mining camps in the vicinity of Frisco that will re-establish its golden record. New strikes and finds in Utah have caused desertion of this section; still my observations of the various mines and mineralization of that section lead me to believe that it will become a renowned and famous mining camp. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 295 Sitytk District. Tintic is one of the earliest mining districts in Utah. It covers an area about eight miles in length by two miles in width, and is separated by distinctive formations into what may be called the south and north halves. The south half is a porphery area, the veins ranging from two to ten feet in thickness, and are very rich in silver and lead. The veins run north and south. They were worked to a depth of 150 to 300 feet when pyritic iron, carrying only small values in the precious metals, were encountered. The general supposition being that the veins had failed, work was suspended. In 1893 Mr. Hatfield, now Mayor of Eureka, re- located the old Swansea, which in the past had yielded $1,000,000, and began sinking a shaft. He worked in a small way till the fall of 1895, when the shalt penetrated the iron zone and disclosed a very rich lode of silver and lead ore. Since the extensive developments within the limits of this rich lode have demonstrated that the valuable ores underlaid the iron cap, nearly all the old properties have been acquired by new companies, which are now sinking on the old shafts to greater depths or are making new workings from the surface. No less than fifteen of these old claims are now under process of vigorous development. Among them may be mentioned the Swansea, South Swansea, Four Aces, Yankee Girl, Sunbeam, Undine, Shoe- bridge bonanza, Homestake, Buckeye, Treasure Box, and others. All these are located in the porphery area to the south, and in the vicinity of Silver City. 296 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. In the north half of the district the minerals occur in wide belts of limestone, ranging in width from 150 to 600 or more feet. The ore bodies occur in the form of great lenticular masses of quartz, carrying gold, silver, lead and copper as the valuable minerals, while in places the ores are rich in iron and manganese. Copper ores occur, particularly in the Eureka Hill, in the north end of the district, and in the Mammoth, Ajax, Caresa, Red Rose, Boss Tweed and North Star properties in the south end of the north half of the district. In the northern portion of the district, around the town of Eureka, the principal values are in gold and silver, the silver occurring in the form of a car- bonate near the surface and in galena at greater depth; the exception to this condition being found in the Eagle mine, which has produced principally gold, and in the Centennial-Eureka mine, where gold occurs in considerable quantities, representing, it is believed, fully one half of the value of their output. The gold bearing rock, as a rule, occurs in the bedding planes of the lime, forming cross country veins within the mineralized zone, having a strike and dip coincident with the bed of the country. The formation is pseudomorphic after the lime. Usually the class of ore mentioned in this district carries by assay from one to several hundred ounces of gold, while ore shipments show the gold to range from 2^ to 30 ounces to the ton. This class of ore usually carries from 1 to 2 ounces of silver to each ounce of gold. The silver usually occurs in veins forming in more or less MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 297 298 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. regular north and south lines, with a general dip to the west, cutting the formation of the country at an acute angle both in strike and dip. The ore occurs in distinctive chutes, usually connected one with another by pipes or ore chan- nels running almost any direction from the horizon- tal to the vertical. From such an ore pipe or chute the large ore output from the Bullion-Beck mine has been derived during the past two years. Among the deepest workings in the district are those in the Mammoth mine, in which they have un- covered, in the past year, two distinctive ore channels. One of these is about thirty feet in thickness, carrying low grade siver-lead ore yielding from 10 to 20 ounces of silver, with a trace of gold. The other ore channel is some fifty feet in thickness, carrying gold quartz almost destitute of silver or lead, vary- ing in values from 1 to 30 ounces in gold to the ton, one shipment of 100 tons netting to the com- pany the sum of $24,000. Even the deepest workings in Tintic in fact, all the workings are absolutely free from water. It is anticipated that it will be at least 600 feet below the present deepest workings and those in the Mammoth are now 1,500 feet below the surface before permanent water level is reached. Mines in this district have been continuously worked during the past twenty-seven years, and have added to the world's supply of the precious metals, together with the lead and copper and iron contained in the ores, many millions of dollars. The workings in the various mines are exten- sive, and while the total aggregate of development is MIKES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 299 not obtainable, it is believed by the well-informed mining men of the district, that the total under- ground workings in the mines of the district would not fall short of sixty miles. A peculiar feature of the district, and one conclusively demonstrated by the deepest workings, is that the gold values increase with depth. It is the only instance ever known of where silver, lead and copper veins have lost the basis and silver values with depth and increased their gold values, the gold occurring in deposits of quartz associated with barita, usually known as heavy spar. While the general average of the values is maintained with depth, the gold extracted, as compared with the gross output, is constantly increasing. Prior to 1893 all the ores extracted in the dis- trict were shipped to the smelters for treatment. All ores not possessing sufficient values to warrant their transportation were accumulated on the waste dumps. As there was in the district no water available for milling purposes it was impossible to make any use of these ores. However, during the year 1893 the Mammoth Mining Company con- structed a pipe line from Cherry Creek, a distance of twenty miles, and erected a magnificent pumping plant, with a capacity of 600 gallons per minute. The cost of this enterprise was in the neighborhood of $130,000. During the same year the construc- tion of quartz mills was inaugurated, and at the present time there are operating in the district the following mills: Eureka Hill, 100 stamps, daily capacity 250 tons; Mammoth, 60 stamps, daily capacity 180 tons; Farrell mill, 20 stamps, daily 300 MINES, MINERS, AND MINERALS OF UTAH. capacity 60 tons; while the Bullion-Beck has a roller mill and concentrator combined, with a daily capacity of 200 tons, giving in all a capacity for handling 690 tons per day. In addition to this there are shipped from the district an average of 105 cars of first-class ores per week, or about 2000 tons per month. The tonnage output of Tintic district for the year 1895 approximated 30 per cent, of the total tonnage of the state, representing, it is estimated, 35 per cent to 40 per cent, of the gross value of the output of metals for Utah. While very many of the companies are close corporations, and it is therefore impossible to obtain detailed figures, it is conservatively esti- mated that the net proceeds from the operations of the mines in Tintic for the vear 1895 was $2,300,000. The population of the district is steadily in- creasing, and it is safe to include Tintic today in the leading mining districts of the Rockies. The best evidence of the growing prosperity of the district will be found in the railway tonnage which, since 1893, has increased seven-fold. There are large areas of undeveloped territory embraced within the mineral-bearing zone which can be acquired by purchase at moderate figures, or interests in which may be had for development. It will not be strange if within the next two years large additions are made to the present monthly output of ore, as there are several development companies at work penetrating the hills in different directions by deep shafts, tunnels and cross-cuts. That the mines are permanent in character is not only evidenced by the years they have been worked, MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 301 but by the heavy investments being' made by those most familiar with the district. Mr. J. A. Cunningham, one of the principal owners of the Mammoth mine, has recently completed, at his own expense, a standard gauge railroad connecting the Mammoth mills with the mine some 500 feet higher up the .mountain side. It is about two and a half miles in length, and is said to have cost about $60,000. This littJe line also touches the Ajax mine, and will also handle the ores from the Sioux and Utah mines on the other side of the mountain when the tunnel now being driven in under the direction of Mr. Geo. H. Robinson is completed. This tunnel will be some 4000 feet in length, and will serve for the prospecting of a vast area of mineral bearing territory now inaccessible because of the steepness of the mountain. As this book goes to press there is every reasonable indication that the Tintic Mining Dis- trict is on the eve of an unparalleled era of pros- perity. The recent rich discoveries of vast ore bodies beneath the pyrites at Silver City makes this idea more than plausible. The strikes in the Swansea, South Swansea, Four Aces and numerous other properties at Silver City would seem to pre- clude all possible doubt as to the future of this paticular camp. Along about the first of July there was barely a half-dozen men in the camp, and the houses that had held the population off and on for twenty-seven years were vacated and mostly in ruins. Since that time, by sinking below the pyritic strata, strike has followed strike so thick and fast that now the place is filled to overflowing with anxious men seeking a claim-footing in the MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. district. Every precaution was taken by the few natives to keep the good news as hushed as possi- ble, and while the actual conditions are not generally known, the truth has been sufficiently spread to make Silver City one of the livliest camps in the state. Every sheltered space is occupied, and buildings are going up as fast as lumber can be procured, and workmen to build them. Many are sleeping in tents, and the hotels use tents for the overflow of guests. A new hotel known as the Silver Citv will be completed by September 1, and still another hotel will be com- pleted before snow flies. Several saloon buildings and numerous cabins and dwellings are in course of construction, and until these are finished many of the newcomers can only firid sleeping accommo- dations at Mammoth and Eureka. C. H. Blanchard, the present recorder of the district, has been continuously in office for seven- teen years, and has filled twenty-two books of record of claims filed in that time. S. B. Moore was the first recorder, and N. P. Lake was his deputy. Then A. G. Sutherland followed, and was succeeded by Mr. Blanchard. in July, 1879. He has claims all over the district, which have long been idle, but will now be opened up and fully developed. With the location of the Sunbeam lode dates the organization of the Tintic mining district, Decem- ber 13, 1869. The Black Dragon was the next loca- tion, Jan. 3, 1870 and then came the Mammoth Feb. 26, 1870, which was immediately followed by num- MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 303 erous others. In the Tintic range of mountains, and west of the Goshen Valley, is the district which is ten miles east and west and fifteen miles north and south, or to be more explicit, it extends four miles north of Eureka, seven and a half miles south of Silver City, three miles east of Homans- ville, and two miles west of Eureka, which consti- tute North and West Tintic mining districts. West Tintic lies beyond Tintic Valley, west of Tintic district, fifteen miles distant. This area comprises 350 square miles of the most advantageous mineral bearing country. The general formation admits of rapid development of mines, there being no under- ground waterways, and but little timbering is required. The ore values are generally high, and are cheaply mined, but the greatest wealth lies in the inexhaustible bodies of low grade ore which can now be treated at small expense. The average Tintic ore is of a higher grade than that produced by any district in Utah. Silver and gold, copper and lead are the chief products of ores that flux easily and are very desirable for smelting. The ore zones lie as fissures in the porphyry in the South half of the district, and in a series of veins in lime in the northern half, and the district is thus divided into two parallel ranges connected by cross spurs. Quartzite extends northward from Silver Citj', and eastward it comes up against lime. Between these is a belt of slate or shale, and here and there through the belt are quartzite dykes, thrown across into the main lime formation. From Mammoth Hollow north the ore zone lies in -blue and gray limestone, but southward the lime dips and is over- 304 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. capped by porphyry. There is country rock for several miles when the lime appears again, at times overlying the porphyry. Quartz comes to the sur- face occasionally through the porphyry. The sur- face water supply for domestic and steam purposes is ample, and the fact that the district is "dry" makes it all the more desirable for mining purposes and does away with that bug-bear of expense, the pump. The principal towns and camps in the district are Eureka, Silver City, Mammoth, Diamond City, and Homansville. In the town of Eureka are located such bonanza properties as the Bullion- Beck and Champion, Centennial-Eureka, Eureka Hill, . Caroline, Red Bird, Gemini, etc. Other important Tintic properties are the Albany group, Dipper and Eclipse group, Black Dragon, Brookline, Boss Tweed, Carisa, Ajax, Cleve- land Consolidated. Dana group, Dandy Jim, Damfi- care, Diamond, DePrizen group, Eureka Hill, Eagle, Fair View and Side View, Giant Tunnel and Min- ing Company group, Godiva, Golden Ray group, General Logan, Governor, Hungarian, Iron Duke, King James, Lake View, Labonta, Mattie Bell, Monterey, May Day, North Star, Northern Spy, Passadena, Phcenix, Richmond, Red Rose, Rust Dragon, Santaquin, Sioux, Silver Spar group, Silver Hill group, Silver Bow, Swansea, South Swansea, South Mammoth, Snowflake Success, Tetro, Trail and Black Jack, Tintic Iron Com- pany, Tintic Tunnel Company, Utah, Chief, Uncle Sam, Union Pacific, Victoria, Dogmar, etc. On Godiva or Eureka Mountain are the MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 305 Anaconda group, Marion Consolidated, Medea Consolidated, Plutus, Davis and Schmidts group, and other good claims. On Mammoth Mountain are the Eureka Consol- idated, Rebel, Golden Chain, Cleveland, Napoleon, and Openhonga. South of Dragon Hollow are located the Rat- tler and Roadside, Gladstone group, Lucky Wheeler, Sunbeam, Pride of the Hills, June Rose, Martha Washington, Silver Coin, Undine, Joe Daly, etc. On Gold Hill are Lady Aspinwall, Moore, Independent, Golden Treasure, Tesora, Jersey and Julia Lane, Bonanza, Joe Bowers group, Morning Glory, Gum Drop, Rising Sun, Belle of Butte, Susan, Galena and the Sea Lion group. On the north side of Eureka Gulch is the Tin- tic Cave mine and the Richmond group of six claims; the Equator group, Alamo group, Glad- stone group, Champion and famous Keystone or Gemini, Colorado Chief, Rising Sun, Retribution, Mamie Consolidated, Black Warrior, Missouri Lass, Tone and Hopper group, Manhattan, Seneca, Shamrock, Mohawk Queen, Colorado Belle, C. W. B. group, and D. and R. G. group. In North Tintic, or about three miles north of Eureka, the North Eureka Mining Company has four valuable claims; John Davis and John Strom also have groups of valuable claims near by; the Copper Gulch consists of five claims; Mammoth of the North, two claims; the Forest King is a good one, and three miles further north is the Iron Mountain group; also the Ajax and Essex; still 306 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. further north the Miller and Bennett group, and seven miles northwest from Eureka is the Bullion, and seven miles east is the Gold Blossom, and near the latter is the Denver and Ogden group of six claims. In the vicinity of Homansville is the Annie Consolidated, consisting of four claims; the Cal- liope group of six claims, and the Iowa group. The West Tintic district lies in the West Tin- tic Mountains, on the west side of Tintic Valley, sixteen miles from Eureka. The district has an area of about ten miles square. The most noted properties are the Scotia, Lucille, Silver Bell, Silver Star, Oh Be Joyful, Stonewall Jackson, and Brunswick, Eighty-Eight, Northwestern, New Brunswick, Hard Cash, Hail Stone, Ninety-Two, Red Bird, and Copper Star. There are scores of other claims that have more or less development, and will be mines when developed. IN SILVER CITY. The Silver Bow group of four claims is now leased by George Kappes and others, and they are keeping abreast of the boom with a good output of pay ore. A good flow of water was struck in the Tesora shaft at a depth of 152 feet, and the only pump in the camp is in operation. The Buckeye, south of Diamond, has also plenty of water and has a pump in operation. The Cleopatra is an extension of the Swansea, and lies right in the center of the town of Silver City. It is owned by Hon. C. E. Allen, C. J. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 307 Pence, A. L. Simondi, Paul Rodenhouse and J. A. Bard, of Salt Lake City. A shaft now down seventy feet will go to bed-rock, and then a cross- cut will be run to the Swansea vein. This is one of the most promising prospects in the district. The Stemwinder group of three claims near by is owned by Messrs. Bard, Simondi, Hudson, Col- burn, Rodenhouse and Monter, of Salt Lake City. One shaft is 125 feet, and another is 50 feet deep, and both are in ore. J. A. Bard is also a part owner in the Silver Moon, Pocahontas, and Dubie, of the Sunbeam group, along with Marcus E. Jones, Kenzie, Locke and Twamley, Conrad, Merrill and Pence, and Hammond and Dubie. Hon. Glen Miller, of Salt Lake, has a fortune in the Primrose, which has already produced over $100,000. AT DIAMOND. While Diamond is one of the oldest camps in the state, it has long been idle, but is reviving along with the balance of the district, and every- body who sinks deep enough is striking it in the uniform grade of ore that underlies the pyrites. THE HOMESTAKE Is a company possessing a very enviable and substantial list of stockholders. It is in the Dia- mond part of Tintic district on the south side of the old Treasure hill which in times past pro- duced several fortunes, and adjoins Mr. H. W. Lawrence's Morning Glory. The Homestake is an 308 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. old property, and has produced in the past, and in fact, produces today; but while the vein is well defined it is not yet in the ore as it promises soon to be. A shaft 210 feet is now on the property and the intention is to sink 100 feet further before drift- ing. The company is capitalized for $400,000 divided into 400,000 shares of a par value of $1 each. J. H. McGhan is president; Chas. Baldwin vice-president; J. T. Harris secretary and treasurer, with G.W. Heintz and with E. V. Bates the gentle- men named are the directors. The company owns four 600x1,500 and one 200x1,200 feet claims. Adjoining the Homestake is the Morning Glory, owned by Hon. Henry Lawrence of Salt Lake City. The shaft is now down two hundred feet and will sink to the five hundred with a new hoist which will soon be in place. At present a good grade of copper and chloride ore is being shipped from the one hundred foot level. This ore also carries a big percentage of iron, and some geld. A contract for sinking 100 feet further on the working incline of the Morning Glory on Treasure Hill, Diamond, has just been let. This incline was already in 180 feet, and very good ore has been shipped from the claim going 200 oz. in silver. The Buckeye group of five claims is owned principally by John Beck and J. W. Green, of Salt Lake City. They have a shaft down three hundred feet, and are still sinking. At the same time considerable high grade ore is being shipped. The water encountered has proven more of a blessing than hindrance to operation. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 309 The Showers group of five claims is owned by Walker Brothers of Salt Lake, and are being worked under lease. The Eva Mining Company is principally owned by Frank Woodward and others, of Spanish Fork. At present the work is on drifting from the fifty-foot level to catch the vein, which will be reached in about one hundred feet. NORTH TINTIC. In North Tintic, about three miles north of Eureka, and located on the same belt, the North Tintic Consolidated Mining Company owns a large and valuable group of claims, which show good values of both gold and silver. BULLION-BECK AND CHAMPION MINING COMPANY. The istory of the Bullion-Beck mine sounds more like fiction than fact to those familiar with it. About 1870 John Beck, to use his own expression, was rolled down the hill "on to the Bullion-Beck mine." Some interests had by him there he lost, and he began to wander about, pick in hand, look- ing for an opening. One day as he walked along, he ran across two men leaning against a very large boulder. He rested with them for a time. They moved off. Then, without serious thought, he located a claim there. This was the Bullion-Beck mine which to date has added between $8,000,000 and $10,000,000 to the world's wealth. The men he had talked to came back, tore down his location notices, and tried to force him off. But he held on. Finally he gave an interest in the 310 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 311 ocation to ^some men who had been working for him on the Eureka Hill. They began developing the claim and the others grew dissatisfied with the showing, holding it was merely a slide and not the cropping of a permanent vein. So Mr. Beck gave them $5 each $15 in all and $15 meant some money in those days to Mr. Beck. The boulder stood just about where the Bullion-Beck shaft is now. Then he began work. Every possible dis- couragement was offered him. He was poor. Would work on the claim until out of food, when he would start out and turn small trades until a little surplus had been accumulated when he would go back to his mine. Then a little ore would come in. This he would take out and haul to the smel- ters in a light wagon he owned, and from its sale would return to further develop the mine, which had become to him all that there was in life for subsistance. The contrast between the conditions today and then are so great that they can scarcely be realized. The mine has paid over $2,000,000 in dividends; it owns over 100 acres of surface mineral ground, on part of which the city of Eureka is located. The mine has onl) r been partially opened to a depth of 1,000 feet, the shaft being only 900 feet in depth ; not one-third the area owned by the company has been opened by its lateral workings, and as to depths, there is no rational limit to the work that yet may be done while the developments in other mines in the district prove that not only does the ore continue to 600 feet greater depth than the Bullion-Beck has really opened, but that it becomes 312 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. richer with depth. Its average value shows 12 per cent lead, 52 oz. silver, and $1 in gold, though it has yielded for a year $8 in gold to the ton. A combined mill and concentrator, with a capacity of 200 tons daily, is steadily run upon the low grade ores, which are practically limitless. In conjuntion with the Centennial-Eureka, the Bullion-Beck owns a water system at Homansville. It is numbered among the great mines of the west. Mr. Beck is one of the few men discovering great mines who live to enjoy the blessings of their discoveries. In 1887 the Bullion-Beck was defendant to a law suit, brought by a neighboring company, which cost the company over $300,000 and occupied thir- teen weeks in court every day, save Sundays. While the result is not always the same, it is a common saying among parties in interest that a mine is of little value which has not had its lawsuit, and mining litigation is always expensive. The company is capitalized for 100,000 shares of a par value of $10 each. John Beck is president and manager; Mr. W. J. Beattie is secretary. These two gentlemen, with Geo. Q. Cannon, H. B. Clawson, Simon Bamberger, W. S. McCornick and Clarence K. McCornick constitute the directory. THE UTAH AND SIOUX GROUPS. The Sioux and the Utah were located about 1880. They fell into the hands of Hon. T. R. Culter, Mr. S. S. Jones, and that indefatigable miner, Ed. Loose, and others. In prosecuting the work, Messrs. Jones and Cutler bought out many of the other owners, among them Mr. Knight, MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 313 owner of the new find, the Humbug. In 1893 Mr. Geo. H. Robinson, the mining expert, and Mr. Franklin Farrell, of Ansonia, Conn., bought into the Sioux, securing a control for a fixed sum, con- ditionally on the erection of a mill a condition complied with. Later they also obtained control of the Utah. The Sioux group is capitalized .for 100,000 shares, #10 each. F. Farrell, S. S. Jones, T. R. Cutler, Geo. H. Robinson, and F. H. Peyton are directors. Mr. Farrell, president; Mr. Jones vice-president; and Mr. Peyton, secretary and treasurer. The Utah is capitalized for 250,000 shares of a par value of $1 each. S. S. Jones is president; T. R. Cutler vice-president. These gentlemen, with Geo. H. Robinson, L. Holbrook, and F. H. Peyton constitute the directorate. John R. Twelves of Provo is secretary and treasurer. The Utah and Sioux mines, owned by distinct companies, but practically the property of the same persons, may be classed among the close corpora- tions, because the stockholders are so few that little of public interest attaches to them. However, Mr. G. H. Robinson, the noted mining engineer, and Mr. Franklin Farrell are the chief owners. The Farrell mill works the ores from this group of mines, while a tunnel to go into the mountain 4,000 feet and already in a distance of over 1,000 feet since last May, is under direction of Mr. Robinson and is supposed to be connected with the mining companies named. The Sioux and Utah are on the east side of the mountain from the Mammoth 314 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. and Ajax, and the tunnel is on the west side of the range, so that the ores from the mills, once the tunnel is completed, will all come to the west side on which are the mills and the railroads. Great development work is going on in the Sioux and Utah mines, and it is a safe statement that every dollar of profit made out of these is being put back in development work, so confident are the owners of the value of their properties. Moreover, these works are under the direction of Mr. Geo. H. Robinson, than whom no mining engineer inspires more confidence in what receives his personal supervision. But no data could be had, Mr. Robinson being averse to any publication affecting the private interests entrusted to his charge. THE CENTENNIAL EUREKA. The Centennial-Eureka, one of the famous mines of Tintic, has thirteen claims, and has the deepest shaft in the state 1,535 feet. To date it has paid $1,800,000 in dividends; these come regu- larly $30,000 per month, and the months are fre- quent when an extra dividend is declared. The company is capitalized for 300,000 shares of a par value of $50 each, and it is one of the few mines the stock of which commands more than par. It has one of the finest plants in the west, and it is equipped with a hoist to permit sinking to a depth of 3,100 feet. The product of the mine is silver and gold, said to average about half and half. Work began on the mine in 1884, twelve years ago, on September 12, and its record has been phenomenal. On that date Mr. J. D. Kendall took MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 315 charge and remained there from that date until he voluntarily resigned August 1st, 1896. Since that time Hon. C. E. Allen, Utah's present Con- gressman, has been manager of the Centennial Eureka. Captain J. T. Woodman is president of the company; J. K. Bamberger vice-president; W. W. Chisholm treasurer. These gentlemen, with W. C. Staines, and W. M. Bradley, constitute the directory. Captain Hank W. Smith is superin- tendent. As an evidence of the necessities of a big mine, it may be stated that at the machine shops of the Centennial-Eureka a 6-J- inch diameter tele- scope is being built for Mr. Chisholm. Every par- ticle of the mechanical work is being done in the shops outside the manufacture of the lens even to the brass castings, and which are the product of one of the company's employes. Established 1855. Incorporated 1885 GEO. T. BRICE, PRESIDENT Qodbe Pitts Drug Co. TKHbole0ale anfc IRetail SALT LAKE CITY, - UTAH. 316 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. HON. RICHARD. MACKINTOSH, MINK AND SAMPLER OWNER. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 317 THE GRAND CENTRAL. No more nervy mining operation has been un- dertaken in recent times than that of the Grand Central. The ground owned by this company ad- joins that of the wctnderful Centennial Eureka, and the confidence of its possessors is so unbounded that in the past fourteen months they have sunk over $90,000 and are still expending a proportion- ate amount each month, and not a dollar of the stock has been offered for sale. None but the orig- inal investors has ever been asked to contribute a cent. A double compartment working shaft, with a manway 7^x15 feet, has been sunk over 800 feet, and a drift 800 feet long has been run on the 200 foot level, and while not an ounce of ore has been taken out, the confidence of the company that they have a bonanza, which they will soon strike, is perfect. Every foot of development work to date has verified their judgment and confirms the assur- ance had by them before they began work that the Grand Central will be one of the greatest of Utah's great producers. Mr. Ed. Loose, an old time miner of great experience, is developing the ?vork. O. R. YOUNG, f = Cfvfl Irrigation, Construction, Railways, Mining, U.S. DEPUTY MINERAL SURVEYOR. 511-513 McCornick Bldg. , Salt Lake City. P. 0. Box 792. 318 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. EUREKA HILL AND GEMINI COMPANIES. These are close corporations, Hon. J. Q. Packard being president and R. J. Hilton secretary of both. Nothing could be ascertained as to their dividends, but both are undoubtedly very profitable properties. Both are at Eureka, and the Eureka Hill has recently finished a ~\ 00 stamp mill with a capacity of 250 tons daily, varying as to more or less accord- ing to the ore less if harder, more if softer. They produce gold, silver, lead and a little copper. The ores that are milled range from 12 to 25 oz. in sil- ver and 4 per cent lead, with about $2 in gold. Those ores that are shipped direct to the smelters range from 70 to 100 oz. in silver, 10 per cent to 15 per cent lead, and $8 to $10 in gold. The mines have been operated by Mr. Packard since 1872 or now twenty-four years, and are among the most conspicuous of the notable properties in the district. Undoubtedly they have been heavy dividend payers. In both groups a depth of 1,100 feet has been reached, and the characteristics of the ores, else- where mentioned as prevailing in the district, hold good in these mines. A water system, owned by the Eureka Hill Company, and located at Homans- ville, supplies the mines with necessary water. The Eureka Hill is capitalized at $1,000,000, the par value of shares being $100. The Gemini group is capitalized at $500,000, the stock having a par ^lue of $100 per share. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 319 HON. CHARLES CARROLL GOODWIN, SILVER CHAMPION OF THE WEST. 320 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. THE MAMMOTH. Work on the Mammoth began in 1871. It was then desirable as a copper property. Despite many untoward circumstances, it has maintained an almost steady development, and has to this date been the chief factor in that particular portion of the Tintic district known as Mammoth, in which it is located. Its shaft has gone to a depth of 1,500 feet, and it has a vast area of unexplored ground. Machinery is now being placed to sink 300 feet further, work on which will commence at once. The ore comes in immense deposits, averaging $9 in gold and about 8 oz. in silver to the ton. Run- ning through these bodies are streaks of extremely rich ore, and occasionally a high percentage of copper is obtained, though the copper has given way generally to a higher value in gold. A 60 stamp mill has recently been completed, and it is estimated that were no more ore broken, the 80,000 tons on the dump and broken would keep the mill going for a long time. But the ore is not lost. In exploring new areas in the limits of the Mammoth's great possessions, ore has been found to the north of the old workings, in what was long thought to be barren ground, while the now admitted characteristics of the north half of the district large ore bodies connected by pipes or channels, establish the assurance that there is practically no limit to the deposits contained in; the Mammoth's ground, not one-tenth of which has 3 et been explored laterally. Some of the shipments have shown that the ore would _ run as high as; 30 MINES, MINERS, AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 321 oz. to the ton or over $600 in gold. A pipe line costing $130,000 was put in by the company to supply water, while the 60 stamp mill cost $160,000. So far but 40 stamps have been at work, but in a short time work will begin on the lead ores that the mine produces, and the remaining 20 stamps will be utilized on this class of ore. The company owns 9 claims, giving it a sur- face area of some 80 acres. In all, the mines of the group have netted about $2,000,000, some $500,000 of which have been put into improvements. The Mammoth has always paid for its own improvements, never taxing the stock by assessment for any work. The put of the Mammoth product has carried about 84 per cent gold, 14 per cent silver, and 1 per cent base metal. The company is capitalized for $10,000,000. Wm. J. Mclntyre is president; Jas. A. Cunning- ham, vice-president; H. S. Young, treasurer. These gentlemen, with S. Mclntyre, W. W. Riter, J. T. Little, and P. T. Farnsworth constitute the directory. Mr. Fred Corker is secretary. THE AJAX. Under many names and possessed by contend- ing corporations, the Ajax, formerly the well-known Copperoppolis, seems to have taken a new and permanent lease of life. For years it had been a bone of legal contention, first controlled by one and then by another interest, each, when in posses- sion, taking out the ores and yet doing as little development work as possible. The upshot of it all was that the value of the mine was almost .322 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. destroyed, and as its interests seemed also to con- flict with those of the Champlain, the owners of the latter bought out the adverse claimants for some- thing like $50,000 and took hold of the property and began work. Up to this time not to exceed 200 feet had been gained in depth in all the works undertaken, and as the ore bodies gave out because no development work was done, it is not surprising that this mine, like so many other good but abused properties, should have been deemed well-nigh worthless. Since the property fell into the hands of the Ajax Company, of which Mr. Frank Knox, the well-known banker, is the president, over 300 feet in depth of working has been gained and the mine is today recognized as one of the most promis- ing in the state. The high range of ores, as result- ing from actual shipments, show 4 oz. of gold, 40 per cent copper, and 12 to 30 oz. silver. These are the maximum figures for car load shipments. The Ajax, of all the mines in the district, seems to show the greatest per centage of lead. Arrangements are making for a run on the low grade ores in the Farrell mill in the district, and it is more than likely that it will, within a year, have a new and modern mill of its own for the reduction of such ores as will not bear the cost of transportation. The company is capitalized for 300,000 shares of a par value of $10 each. Frank Knox is presi- dent and treasurer; S. Mclntyre, vice-president; Isaac Jennings, secretary; R. G. Smith, assistant- secretary. These gentlemen, with the exception of Mr. Smith, and with the addition of Mr. H. M. Ryan, W. H. King, Geo. A. Lowe, and W. G. Nebeker are the Ajax directors. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 323 DENVER & RIO RAILROAD OX, SCENIC LINE OF THE WORLD. TWO DAILY FAST TRAINS TO (Blenwoofc Springs, Hspen, Xea&x>tlle, Cripple Creefc, pueblo, Colorado Springs, /iDanitou, 2>enx>er, Hll points (T"^^**^ CHOICE OK F^OUR ROUTES. For Rates, Information and jt jfc jt Descriptive Pamphlets, Call at - 58 WEST SECOND SOUTH STREET. S. 1C. HOOPER, B. F. NEVINS, H. M. CUSHING, Gen. Pass. & Tkt. Agt Gen' I Agent. Tray. Pass. Agent. 324 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. THE HUMBUG. This, while not by any means a new property, has but recently shown ore, and it is one of a very high grade. It is owned by Mr. Jesse Knight and Sons, and will soon be accounted among the shippers of the district. A road is now being built to the property so that the ores can be taken away. After a great deal of seemingly hope- less work, Mr. Knight began to drive a tunnel in new ground, and then an ore body was exposed showing how much deception may be in a mining name the Humbug being anything but a humbug. Mr. Knight is by one-half the inhabitants of Tintic congratulated, by the other half envied. THE GODIVA. This is a property in which Mr. John Q. Packard, president of the Eureka Hill and Gemini companies, is interested. A new hoist is being erected, and thorough preparations are making for a more extensive extraction of the ores discovered, and wider developments than has hitherto charac- terized the workings of the Godiva. The BLACK DRAGON MINING COMPANY owns the Black and Rust Dragon claims at Silver City, the second locations made in the Tintic district, and the twelfth claims to be patented. Various circum- stances such as their passing through estates, the segregation of interests, legal complications and then the fall in the price of silver operated to stop work on the claims. In April last, however, they became the absolute property of the above-named MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 325 company, since which time the claims have been worked and are destined to continue being worked. An old shaft 125 feet deep is being straightened and retimbered and put in working order and being sunk upon. If there is such a geological occurrence as a true fissure vein in limestone denied, how- ever, by experts it is conceded that the Black Dragon has it. The ore is milling in character and is very rich in streaks running, as high as 343 oz. in silver and $58.80 in gold and 25 per cent in copper. It is officered thus: L. L. Terry, president; J. H. Brown, vice-president and treasurer; and E. D. Woodruff, secretary, all of Salt Lake. These, with E. D. Ellis, Allan Conkling and Fred N. Peat, all of Chicago, are the directors. The* corporation is a close one, all the stock being owned by the gen- tlemen named. The STAR CONSOLIDATED at Silver City em- braces a group of claims that have been successfully and profitably worked for three years. There are two tunnels on the property, the upper 260 feet in length, from which a winz has been sunk 110 feet. The lower tunnel was in a distance of 600 feet August 1st, from which also a winz had been sunk 275 feet. A working shaft has been commenced, which is to be sunk 1,000 feet. The chief product of the Star Consolidated is gold, though it yields also silver and some lead. The corporation is a new one. 326 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. The officers are H. W. Lawrence, President; Milan Packard, vice-president; W. J. Lawrence, treasurer; Geo. N. Lawrence, Secretary. Direc- tors, H. W. Lawrence M. Packard, Chilean Packard, Julia A. Kimball and W. J. Lawrence. W. J. Lawrence is superintendent. The company ownes five claimes and is capitalized for 15,000 shares of a par value of $10 each. THE NORTH TINTIC CONSOLIDATED MINING COMPANY. This company has one of the largest and most valuable areas of territory in its immediate section. The group of claims is about 8,100 feet long, by 1,800 feet wide. These claims were located by practical and experienced miners, and are situated about three miles north of Eureka, Utah, in the heart of the mineral zone, and are said to be upon the same belt as the Bullion-Beck, the Centennial- Eureka, Keystone and other rich mines, the outcrop being easily traceable from Eureka across the moun- tains. These claims are by experts and surveyors said to be at the junction of the Eureka and the great Mercur belts. The mines south and north of this company have yielded many millions, and, as shown elsewhere, their yield is rapidly increasing. The Tiernan mine, three miles north, has a body of ore of the same character as the Bullion-Beck, which would seem conclusively to demonstrate that, with proper development, the North Tintic Consol- idated will produce the same ore, the black quartz found in the company's shaft on the Buckhorn being identical with that in the Bullion-Beck. Some two and a half miles northwest is the Hot MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 327 Stuff mine, with a body ot shipping ore which is being extensively developed. Immediately adjoin- ing on the south is the Farragut group, with a body of ore fi2 feet wide. Adjoining on the east is the North Eureka, developing with fine showings of gold and silver. The Buckhorn shaft, which is about 70 feet deep, shows a well-defined vein of black quartz and mineralized talc, which give as- says of from $3 to $27 in gold and silver, some higher assays being reported. Mineral croppings abound throughout the prop- erties of .the North Tintic Consolidated, and the surface showings are regarded by many as even more promising than they were at Eureka. ' Wher- ever the veins have been penetrated in the different places over this property, the appearances improve rapidly, and the best mining men now concur in the opinion that it is but a question of reasonable depth when this company will develop a large and rich body of ore, which seems to be the only ne- cessity in many places in that district. The com- pany is selling a limited amount of treasury stock for development purposes. Information can be ob- tained from L. M. Armstrong, attorney-at-Law, Salt Lake City, or John F. Waters, attorney-at- law, Chicago, 111. THE HOTEL MAMMOTH. At Mammoth is one of the best hotels in the State. It is run by Mrs. Dix, who has one of the best tables, cleanest and cosiest little hotels to be found in the State. The rates are $2.50 per day, and those that have stopped there once will stop there again. 328 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. DAGMAR MINING AND MILLING CO. The mines of this company are situated in Tintic Mining district. The claims of this company are located about 3000 feet northwest of the great Bullion-Beck, and some 2000 feet from the Gemini or Keystone group, and between 5000 and 6000 feet from the Centennial Eu- reka, and Eureka Hill mines. They are in the same lime formation. For depth attained, the Dagmar has made a very su- perior showing, few mines in the district presenting better in- dications for the work done, ore being en- countered at a depth of fifteen feet. This increased with depth while it has also im- proved in character, s. R. MARKS an d there are many who believe it destined to be one of Eureka's big pro- perties. A small amount of treasury stock is offered for sale, the proceeds fro^i which are used to de- velop the property. The company is capitalized for $500,000 divided into 100,000 shares of a par value of $5 each. One fourth the total capitalization has MINES, Mf^ERS AVD MINERALS OF UTAH. 329 MR. TIM DRISCOLL, A VETERAN, UTAH MINER. 330 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. been set aside for sale to develop the property. S. R. Marks is president; Ed. T. Studness, vice- president, and E. Q. Knowlton is secretary and treasurer. The company's offices are 302 State Street. (I\r. Jim J. Driseoll. Tim J. Driseoll, whose picture is given else- where, has been mining since 1851 and has mined all over the west; on the American River, and Yuba River. In 1857 he was on the Pon D'Oreille river Oregon, near the Trail Creek district now booming. He fitted out the party that struck Alder Gulch. With Capt. Ankenney^he laid out the town of Lewiston and is now in Mercur, State Line and elsewhere in Utah. THE Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical Go- 73 Pine St., f4eju Yotfk. CYAINIDE PEROXIDE OF SODIUM, ^ And Other Chemicals fo Mining Purposes fkept in Stock b tbe ^^NELDEN-JUDSON DRUG CO., alt Lake City, Utah. _ TRADE MARK. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 331 JOHN A. KIRBT, SUPERINTENDENT BULLION -BECK MINING CO. 332 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. Big C^ottopu/ood fflipipc) District. This is one of the oldest districts in the state, and is located in Salt Lake County. Work on many claims has been prosecuted for years, yet there has been little if any excitement in recent times, save in the early spring of 1895, when it was believed great bodies of gold ore were to be opened up at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon. W. F. James is operating the Maxwell in Big Cottonwood, and the Goodspeed group of claims has also been worked for a long time. The ores from these contain silver and lead, and resemble Park City products. Most attention is now, however, devoted to looking for gold. In the New State, one of the first gold locations near the mouth of Little Cottonwood canyon some 600 feet of development work has been done, and a 10-inch vein carrying about four ounces of gold ore has been opened. The mine is already a shipping proposition, though the ore body is not as large as could be desired. A tunnel is now being driven into the New State, so as to tap the ore at a much lower depth. The Dipper Mining Company has several claims in which a 2-foot vein of 4oz. gold ore is exposed. This property is also shipping, and looks as though it were destined to be one of the great mines of the district. The Gold Dollar has a large body of low grade ore, which runs from $6 to $8 to the ton; but it is said to be very refractory. Other claims on which more or less work is being done are in the same locality. MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 333 THE WANTUNKA. The Cottonwoods, also, seem to be taking on a new lease of life. Beside the strikes of gold reported there has also been an important silver find. The Wantunka, found in '95 and owned by Felix J. Stark and Alex Mitchell embraces a group of five full claims from which some phenomenal assays have been had; 30 per cent lead, $14 in gold and 500 ounces in silver. A tunnel 60 feet into the claim, by which a depth of 70 feet was gained, exposes a ^ein of carbonate ores 3*4 feet in width, all of which assays well, portions of which yield as above stated. The ore is being sacked and big results are expected by the owners. The New Sensation mine is an old discovery with new work. On part of the claims is a 200 foot tunnel in the face of which is a 12 foot breast of low grade, lead and silver. From the other side of the ridge a lower tunnel has recently been driven in a distance of 500 feet to tap the above men- tioned vein at a still greater depth of 275 feet. They are now cross cutting to strike the vein. The property is controlled by S. S. Phippen, A. Brim, Henry W. Lawrence, W. T. Dinwoodey and others. THE SILVER HOTEL. -JOHN LEYSHON, Prop.- -mm- A New, First-Class Hotel just completed in Silver City, One-half Block from L, E. Riter 4 Co.'s General Merchandising Store, mm m EVERYTHING NEW, CLEAN AND ABSOLUTELY FIRST-CLASS. THE LEADING HOTEL OK SILVER 334 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. (Darysuale (T\ii}i[) District. The direct line of travel to the Marysvale min- ing district is via the Rio Grande Western Railway. From Salt Lake to Thistle Junction is 64 miles, and from there to Salina is 87 miles, a distance of 151 miles entire. Marysvale is fifty miles south of Salina. It has as yet but about 500 people in the town proper, though the near future will witness a rapid growth. It is situated in the valley and at the the base of old Mt. Baldy. High mountains tower above it on the west. It is but fifteen miles from there to the Sevier mine, and the probabilities are that with the advent of the road, it will be a shipping and distributing point for all the Gold Mountain mining district. It is in Piute County, and Junction City, seventeen miles south, is the county seat. Some gold was found in the Marysvale district thirty years ago, but it was not until the '80s that any- thing was done in the way of mining, and even then mining was carried on under such disadvan- tages that none save ore of high values could be profitably mined, as the nearest point of shipment on the roailroad was over one hundred miles dis- tant, and roads were not then of the best. There are at present in that district two hun- dred claims, upon which the assessment work has been done, and a number of producing mines that go far towards awakening real live interest in the mining world. Colonel Dodge and Traffic Manager Babeock are firm believers in adding to and building up the MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 335 local business of the "Utah road," and they have been long convinced that Marysvale is an objective point, which will in time afford ample returns for the money so expended. There has been built and is now in operation thirty four miles of the new line, and work is being steadily pushed forward at a rate that will soon permit direct rail communica- tion with Marysvale and the outside world. When that day comes all else will be easy, and the future of that district is assured. Marysvale and the Baldy country, together with contiguous districts, at this writing are in a most promising condition. The Dalton continues to be a noted mine, and the Sunrise, Sunset, Sundown and Morning Star, near it, are develop- ing finely. THE CRYSTAL. The property on which the greatest amount of work is at present being done belongs to the Crystal Gold and Silver Mining Co. Some twenty men are at work and three tunnels are being run on the claims. The Crystal is an old discovery on which work ceased about 12 years ago until lately. The three tunnels will tap the same ore body at different points. The north tunnel is already in on the vein which averages about 4 feet in width. The south tunnel will be pushed further, and the middle tunnel some 250 feet before the ore will be reached. The ore runs about 35 per cent, lead, 40 oz. in silver and $4 in gold to the ton. The Company owns about thirty full claims and is capitalized for 100,000 shares of a par value of $10 each. Geo. 336 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. M. Scott is president and treasurer; J. E. Gallagher, vice-president, and H. S. Rumfield, secretary. These with E. M. Burns and B. B. Van Dusen are the directors. Mr. Tom Ferguson is superintend- ing the work. While the mine could be made a steady shipper no ore is being sent out because of the low price of lead. The Webster, owned by a strong Salt Lake and California syndicate has a tunnel in 1500 feet and lately exposed five feet of high grade galena ore on its footwall. The quartz ledge at this point is some 60 feet thick. The Webster promises to be a great property. L. U. Colbath is managing the property. The Wedge, situated on Brigham Peak is a recent discovery that is showing up well in silver and gold. Samples show values to run from $12 to $250 in gold and from 25 10 75 oz. in silver. The Clyde is also being developed under direc- tion of Mr. Isaac Jennings, of Salt Lake City, and is making more than a satisfactory showing. The Dalton is a well-known property of which much has been and still is expected. It is now un- der lease to Mr. Dan. Ferguson and others, which fact shows that mining men have confidence in it. In the same district is the noted Sevier Mine which Mr. Chas. Lammersdorf controls and which he is developing persistently and with the profound- est confidence. New life has entered the whole of the Marys- vale mining interests by reason of the advent of the Rio Grande, soon to be within 4 miles of the town of Marysvale. It means the opening anew of an old established, yet non-productive district because the MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 337 distance from the railroad made the profitable oper- ation of the mines impossible. Now, however, cap- ital is going in, development work is in progress and the discoveries named are already giving assur- ance of a great future for that district. In this county, and more especially in that part of it covered by the Reservation, great bodies of minerals are known to exist. Specimens of gold ores carrying thousands of dollars to the ton, and found in large ledges are from time to time brought in. The Indians occupying the reservation call the ore "money-stone," showing that the great value of the ore is recognized by the Indians themselves. In this county great bodies of copper ore have been developed, while the coal and asphalt deposits the latter the greatest and purest in the world have long been known to exist. The altitude of the country, its rugged character, and its distance from railroads, has made it impossible for the general public to know much about it, but as the reserva- tion will be opened soon, and the general public being given information by the newspapers, it is only a matter of days or weeks until this district will be as widely known for its wealth as any other district in the Inter-mountain country. 338 MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. Sai}itariu/i\. The springs supplying the Sanitarium baths referred to has a daily flow of 500,000 gallons of water. It contains a swimming pool (for men only) 56 by 75 feet, and from 3 to 7 feet deep; a swim- ming pool, 56 by 65 feet, for both sexes, with bath- ing suits; 12 private pools, of ample proportions, 26 private bath-rooms with the best porcelain tubs, and a well-appointed room for steam baths. Surrounding the large pools are 200 commod- ious dressing-rooms, and adjacent to the pools are billiard parlors, ladies' parlors and retiring-rooms, reading and smoking-rooms. The efficacy of these waters has been demon- strated in cases of rheumatism, neuralgia, diabetes, Bright's disease, gravel, lead poisoning, catarrh, dysentery, gout, indigestion, nervous prostration and incipient lung troubles. These waters can be used internally, and are particularly beneficial in all diseases based on uric acid diathesis. For further information, and testimonials from people who have been restored to health by these waters, write to the Salt Lake Hot Springs Sani- tarium Company, 50 and 52 West Third South Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Dr. Henry O. Macry of Boston, writing of these springs says: "I like your place very much. * * * I have visited most^of the celebrated springs of Europe and America. Few equal and none surpass your own." MINES, MINERS AND MINERALS OF UTAH. 339 Joo