Show THE TIN TICS r Something From tho Mammoth and Other Mines bead Mining Camps SILVER CITY JTTAB Co UTAH May 28th 1883 Editors Herald Silver City is at present about the dullest place on the habitable earth the inhabitants of the place generally speaking express their sympathy with the inertia of the camp by doing if I may be allowed the expression nothing excepting playing studhorse poker limited whittling lounging and drinking bad whisky in the most inert manner man-ner imaginable This applies to Silver City Dragon Hollow Mammoth Mam-moth Gulch and the Mammoth Smelting works now nicknamed Butlers Scoop The closing down of the Mammoth works was of course unavoidable but the iron mining interests of Dragon Hollow were affected by a different cause vizI for years this section of the Territory has supplied the smelting works with iron used as a flux in the reduction of silver ores and the iron company in conjunction with the Utah Forw arding Company a latteral offshoot of the same vein have held a tight grip on the smelting I smelt-ing mens necks compelling the purchasers of their ores to take what they offered for sale in the way of fluxing be it good bad or indifferent at whatever price they choose to ask At the same time by controlling the forwarding business they kept small holders of iron mining propertyout the market mar-ket by simply refusing to furnish cars in which transport the ore to market When the Utah and Western Wes-tern was completed to Tintic people peo-ple very naturally expected a reduction re-duction in freight rates they were however disappointed freight was held up as high as in the days of the slowmoving ox and mule team The Union Pacific Company never have adopted the plan of creating traffic and bidding for the peoples patronage Mark the result When the Denver and Rio Grande was completed to your city they began supplying the smelters with fluxing mined in Colorado Think of it Tintic iron ruled entirely out of the market Utah with her mountains of iron ore purchasing iron from Colorado imported by a traffic creating corporation a distance of over 500 miles cheaper than the home production a better article can be transported 100 miles Madame Ma-dame Rumor has filled the air hereabouts here-abouts with reports that the big guns of the Union Pacific are coming com-ing out to look over the ground with a view to covering this section of country with a network of railroad and knock the bottom out of the desert and other futile undertakings to prevent the plucky little Denver and Rio Grande from making an outlet to the westward GEOLOGICAL FORMATION The formation in which the principal prin-cipal mines of this district are found consists of a single limestone peak surrounded on all sides by a prophyritic granite formation in which the said peak sits like a solitary plum in a pudding pud-ding In this socalled bastard granite formation on the southwest side of the limestone formation occurs oc-curs pockets or chimney veins of exceedingly ex-ceedingly rich mineral These pockets pock-ets or chimneys of ore vary in extent ex-tent and depth Some have been found three and four feet in width but the majority do not exceed as many inches and none have stood the test of developement below 300 feet in depth All eventually terminate ter-minate in a body of pyrites of iron containing a small per cent of silver There is however an exception to the rule in the case of the mining min-ing properties on Gold Hill southeast south-east of Silver City about two miles The mines on this hill consisting of the Tesora Julian Lane and Treasure show veins from five to twelve feet in width which have been prospected to a depth of from 300 to 400 feet without showing any rl n f i fl n 1 richness These valuable properties proper-ties are lying idle owing I am informed in-formed to the inability of the owners to purchase pumping apparatus ap-paratus with which to free the mines of the water which now prevents the extraction of ore Along the base of the limestone up heaval on the west and southwest of the peak and in or very near the contact with the abutting granite formation is situated the grest mines of the districtMammoth Mammoth Mam-moth Copperopolis Dragon Carriso Sunbeam and Northern Spy All these mining properties ranging from A 1 to fair and middling are in my estimation on one and the same vein This vein sweeping around the base of the limestone I peak forms an almost exact semicircle semi-circle In my judgment the mines located on this vein will continue to improve as depth is attained and as there is no indications of water in any of them they can be worked to great depth EUREKA CITY Situated in Eureka Gulch on the north side of the limestone peak is supported entirely by two mines the Eureka and Crown Point There is no other mine on the north side or even indications of mineral outside out-side of the two named which are on the same vein the Crown Point being an extension of the Eureka The town has a population of about 200 soulsminers merchants woodcutters wood-cutters and dealers in beverages mostly spirituous THE MAMMOTH COPPEROPOLIS This mine has a queer bit of 11 history attached to it Discovered at an early date in the era of mining in Utah with a splendid showing on the surface in the way of outcrop which was not injured by the slight amount of development more properly prop-erly designated as surface scratching scratch-ing it was sold to an English company Without goin to any unnecessary expense of proving their vein by development they cast about for a good mill site They found one eight miles south of the mine The location was an excellent one with a single excep tionthere was no water for the mill but there was a small spring three miles distant up a canyon Heedless of all natural obstacles I they set to work and erected a fine mill and then tried the experiment of bringing the water to their mill through tin pipes The entire enterprise en-terprise was a lamentable failure The property was sold the mill and the broken bent disjointed tin pipes remain today a monument to the fatuitous ignorance of a lot of English mining and milling experts Report now says that Munro Butler Johnston was oneof the fleeced stockholders in the Mammoth Cop peropolis Company and that he has had his revenge He came here penniless at least he brought no money with him he has skipped the country with a bag full of the filthy lucre He has been acting on the old maxim Seek for your purse in the plaee where you lost it THE MAMMOTH MINE What can I say about it r It stands as it did a month ago dry lifeless silent and yet is one of the best mineral bodies in the Territory Rumors regarding the resumption of operations on this fine property ill the air Goodhart has come on says one man The men will be paid off and work resumed next week says another and all this is mere rumor nothing certain or definite One of the owners is reported re-ported to be quietly circulating a report that the mine has been misrepresented mis-represented fact very much overestimated and that Goodhart has been intentionally deceived as to its actual value by Johnston Possibly Goodhart will blow in some more cash Should he do this he should do it with the intention of acquiring full title to the mine and then working it profitably DIAMOND CITY The n b nf th t n 1nn 1Ut mores ioou 1IJJ1 own ave been lying idle there being a lack of paying ere in them for several years consequently the town is dead and only revived temporarily last winter for the purpose of extracting ex-tracting a few tons of iron pyrites from its otherwise worthless mines When MunroButlerJohnston flitted flit-ted the people of this quiet little burg relapsed into their normal lethargic slumbersPLUS PLUS ULTRA |