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Show 4 i SS +3 spvapandnantin9: p RCE FIVE aie, VOL. 1—No. iL. which averages 90 ounces silver, ten per cent lead and $150 gold. A sample of ore from Pell’s mine in Piute county is on exhibition in For many years oreat quantities have been exported from this territory, and it looks as if we A rich Ore Strike in the Bing- the Chamber of Commerce. It is [claimed to assay 4374.99 gold and ham Camp. 97.70 ozs. silver. The Daly mine has just sent in oyer 500 ths. of fine Ga‘THE EMPIRE IS SPRINGING INTO LIFE. lena and carbonate ore, making a fine Rae -jreach OUR RICH AND FERTILE SOIL. twelve million pounds; ce The Great | ore assaying $1000 per ton. This CO. W. Bennett and other leading min- preciation of their merits and proIn this strike is on the incline 380 feet be- ing operators. It is a long while mote their exportation. tow the surface, The ore is sulphur-. since work ceased, and then the mine labor I feel a constant pleasure in ie, po Se aia aged kf ot e o | was comparatively unexplored. Now the comparison* which our products ets and native silver. This inclineis. above all, fine flavor. owhich taps the ledge at a depth of 750 feet on the incline. Where that nel cut the vein the ore is of the a same character as the rich streak above, but is smaller been cut into yet, to any distance. _ Stoping is not being done at present, - But will commence soon. | Mr. Causey is making good progress in driving a tunnel to tap the Great Basin, Stockton, at a deep point, He has the tunnel in about 400 feet, and has an upraise to the surface to give air. Excellent progress is being made. ii Mr. Pascoe made a two’ week’s run of his smelter at Stockton, then shut bear towards those of other regions. ern part of the Territory, figs, pomeThe conviction has forced itself upon granites, grapes and nearly all the developments. ee me that there is scarcely any agri- fruits that grow in a semi-tropical - George Morrison is having devel- eultural product of the temperate climate thrive to perfection, but too opment work done on his Domingo | zone which will not grow: to perfec- far from the railroads to be market_| onsets fg toe i TnRS swe is near the Daly dum tion here, The vecicd-contour of our ed. cil xia ‘Everything goes well at the Massa- territory is such that at some places, chusetts (the old Empire) and the if not at others, each of all the differCoal Statisttics. working force numbers nearly 30 ent varieties will thrive which go to THE following statistics have been men. The ore showing continues to support an agricultural community. compiled for the United States geoliglook. very encouraging, so Foreman The soil seems to be rich in the phos- ical survey and are of general interest: Curtis says. There is considerable phates that fertilize vegetation, while The total production of all kinds of activity along Pioneer ridge. The the system of irrigation practiced coal in 1886, exclusive of that cousumed: character of recent developments in here renders the farmer less subject ‘at the mines, known as colliery conthe tunnels of the Dolberg group to the caprice of weather than else- sumption. was 107,682,209 short tons, above the Morgan lake give promise where. Asa result the product per valued at $147,112,755 at tho mines, of something big before many days. acre of some crops is simply aston- This may be divided into Pennsylvania Andrew Lundin is getting ready to ishing, while qualities rank just as anthracite, 36,696,475 short or 32,764.710 long ,tons, valifed at $71,558,126; ‘drive the Ossian tunnel, the Park high. It would seem as if the cultiLY eh. tick ¥e down afew days for ore, and having City Mining Company’s property, be- vation of a given thing in Utah promade arrangements to get this of the tween the Sampson and Kmpire. The duces at once a high type suitable Calumet and Silver King, ‘with some length of the tunnel is 440 feet, and and in demand forever after in other other mines, started up ‘again last it is expected that the main ledge districts for seed purposes; as, for instance, plant lucerne seed from Thursday and appears to be making will soon be cut. reat i da a success of it. He has begun shipCalifornia on Utah soil, and the pro. Patronize Home Industry. ping bullion and hopes to keep the duct is a better seed which CaliforFor every dollar invested in Utah in nia is desirous of procuring for plantworks going. the manufacture of home products, two’ ing herself. With posiiive proof of Out at Bingham the South Galena will be returned. u Con. Company have just completed Home patronage is a two-edged these facts, itis difficult to repress jsome degree of enthusiasm in treating the sinking of the shaft toa level 100 sword and cuts both ways. First—lIt benefits the manufacturer on these subjects, while they inspire feet lower, making the depth reached 240 feet. Cross-cutting has com- who directly finds a market for his confidence in the future of our exfis : : ports. menced atthe bottom and they should goods. SECONDLY—It benefits the consumtap a good body of ore in twenty-five er, who gets as good, if not a better, Fair Utah wheat ranks in the Hast feet from the shaft. On the level 100 article for his money, saves freight, the with the best No. 2 Red, which is the feet above they had an immense body wear and tear of traffic, and the com- highest grade that appears in most of the Kastern markets: Our choicest of ore which ran first-class 50 per mission of the middle men. Another point, and an important qualities are a unique product-with gent lead, 30 ounces silver and $50 in gold. The fact that on that level one, is that the money which is other- scarcely an equal in America, Last they sank some distance and found wise expended in buying foreign pro- year 200,000 bushels were exported, the ore srowing richer, is taken as a ducts, is kept at home to enhance yal- our wheat going west, as well as to 3 good indication that at the bottom ues and encourage enterprises. Colorado and Kansas City. Utah wheat Omaha, Kansas City and Denver the ore will be as good if not better has a brighter, larger kernel than that have learned this lesson, and are being than above. They havea large lot benefited by it. of the Hast, and though no handsom- _of second-class on the dump, and mauch of the dump being good concentrating ore, it is being worked over at the rate of thirty tons per day —day shift only—reducing to seven sons concentrates running about 50 per cent lena, 30 ounces silver and $12 in gold. Lead having gone up so much, Manager Van Duesen went out yesterday to put on another shift of men and the mill will be run day and night from this on, and bullion should take a Phe Lucky Boy mine at shipping fifty tons of ore in the latter city, I understand, the poople, many of them, have refused to buy other than home-made goods, and the effect has been to stock the shelves er than that of California, it is firmer and its nutriment more concentrated, As high as sixty bushels per acre have been raised here, but the aver- of the merchants with Colorado products, which find a ready sale. We all other coals, including ge ae hg bituminous, brown coal, lignite. and small lots of anthracite produce Arkansas and Colorado, 70,984,734 short tons $71,554,629. cludiug valued at The total production, in- colliery consumption, was: Pennsylvania anthacite, 34,853,077 long or 89,035,446 short tens; all other in Nature’s have tried in vain to match our product but the attempt seems futile, THE New Bridge O. & C. of the U. -P. Across the Missouri River. John W. Young’s railroad has reached Sugar House Ward, four miles south of the city, and pushed southward. Where ing, is kept a secret as far as but it is moving so rapidly is being it is gopossible, that its ‘i ed. and the company appears to have ‘ample means to push ahead with the road. | The Rio Grande Western knocks off all the special rates and arrange- » ment s with shippers, other tha ded forint Deo st sat a 1 those 2a bee. December 10th, is the day set for 2 driving the last spike to connect the California & Oregon, and the Oregon & California roads. This will place San Francisco and Portland in direct _ communication. The Southern Pacific owns the C. & O., and controls rail the O. & C., and it is probable that one of the names will be drafted in the near future, and all be operated as one. It isexpected thatthe road will be pushed north to Puget Sound to tap the immense coal mines up there, owned by the Southern Pacific Company. . Mr. J. V, Parker, of the Union, Pacific. received a telegram from headquarters at Omaha. Referring coal, 73,707,957 short tons: making the other complaints about the awkward running of the trains on Wood River and on the Utah & Northren, the word is that the U. P. will soon get out a new time table for its entire value, $154,600,176. The total produc- system, and will endeavor to meet tion of all kinds of coal shows a net these cases. gain of 1,785.881 short tons compared The way the Union Pacific Railroad with 1885, but. a loss in spot value of Company treats the people of this $4,419 ,420,—/ Journal Commerce. valley is little short of an outrage. eee i de Passengers traveling between MontImmense Work Shops. pelier and Salt Lake are compelled total absolute production of all coals in the United States 112,748,403 short valued as follows; Anthracite $75,119,120; bituminous, $78,481,056: total ‘ The largest machine-shops and construction west of the Missouri river are the railroad works in Sacramento, which now give employment to 2,000 skilled workmen and laborers, and when tha various extensions are completed, which will be inside of a year, to lay over at McCammon for twelve to. eighteen hours each way, as no connections are made with Oregon Short Line, or the Utah. & Northren trains. Under travel by team and beat the railroad passengers several this force will be increased to 3,000 hours to Salt Lake.—Southern Idaho ——|[ Independent. ; men. ————-| ——__—— The great new bridge of the Union 3 The Largest Dam in the World is to Pacific across the Missouri river at be built across the upper end of the San Omaha, has been compleated, and the Mateo canyon, about four miles west big bronze head of a buffalo which age yield is not one half of that. A The dam careful estimate shows thatthe wheat of the village of San Mateo. should at once make an energetic effort crop ef 1887 must have been in the will cousist of a solid wall of concrete to place before the millions of the neighborhood of three and a quarter from hillside to hiltside. It will be East, who are totally or partially igmillion bushels, That of 1886 was 700 feet long, 170 feet high, 175 feet norant of the vast possibilities of the thick at the base and 20 feet thick at rather less. his ka Rocky Mountain region to foster ‘and the top. The reservoir, which will be The Utah potato has a reputation encourage respectable immigration, to formed by this dam, will have a capainduce labor, brain and wealth to leave for excellence all over America and city of 32,000,000 gallons, and some Other climes time in the future will be connected the over-crowded thoroughfares of the even in Great Britain. unless lead tumble. - | Bingham is East and seek a home per month, Garden Spot— Utah. OF fruit crop of Utah last year, was company keeps up the present speed A large force of good for quality, but far below the of advancement. average for quantity. In the south- graders and track layers are employ- OS and has not SPIKE. final destination will be heralded by The general the toot of the locomotive, if the being continued down to a point 200 a small force of men, under the forefeet below to connect with the tunnel manship of John Green, is pushing _ idly Pushed Southward. LAST Ophir, Stockton and Park City to the age | 2 The Rock Railroad is being Rap- The qualities, year they were ten, “this year, are fully up to our best THE standard, and 1 the yield steadily in- é - RAILROAD NOTES. last a, a creasing. display. Pg | A High Reputation for Excellence in The same causes which give excel-| ‘The Fairview, a group of two front.---General: Notes. Vegetables and Cereals. claims just northwest of the old Em-! ‘lence to the grains and vegetables of ‘pire, is suddenly springing into) The singular high qualities of our Utah also stamp her orchard products Out at Ophir, on Lion Hill,, the prominence. _ The property is sure to agricultural produets having already with a high caste. Fresh fruits are Brim Brothers have made a: good strike of ore lately,and their property. be one of the camp's future -produc- forced themselves upon the notice of exported in considerable quantities, ers. It is owned by a company com- the country, I feel called upon to and wherever sent, take the highest is looking much improved. posed mainly of R. C. ‘Chambers, treat them in such detail that they place and command the readiest sale. _ B. B. Van Deusen, manager of the Bankers McCornick and Jones of will be more fully understood, hop- In general terms, the superior charGem mine at Ophir, reports .a fourSalt Lake, Col. O. J. Hollister, Judge ing thereby to create a fuller ap-| acteristics are firmness, beauty, and _ teen-inch vein in the mine, carrying pane ea ener ener nee ss continue to do so for all time to come. The export for this year will probably From the Governor’s Report on the Products of Utah. shall looks down from its portal will oversee a vast traffic over the river. The bridge is adapted for foot passengers and teams, as well as railway trains... The fine bridge of the Atchison, Top-— eka & Santa Fe company Missouri river at Sibley way, the caissons being with the San Francisco watershed by a and the work upon the superstructure going on tunnel five miles long. across the is well under all completed aproach and Rapidly. . 1 |