i l Decline t ani Ilene wed of Frisco t t tt j t f tt r t t tw tr w r a i ir sa g fi r l yet t y k Jt i i ia a sE sEr Y 1 E a aa t r f a a i s st t e b t Rr 5 r y w r a s 3 w r x r a t tr r k a at t z sy St Str r i yi si v i r a x 1 a a 1 M 1 1 1 i J i t 3 a t ta tt i a i t t i l HORN SILVER Pi 3 gT AT WATERWORKS a 3 4 L LL L L LL L LL LL LL g E a thriving H lve e co coO com comm O m y of ID more Ire than crofts with two tiro smelting e eta ea eata i ta i m In operation to J the l of one ode of the most r mineral of the I the little town o I Fri O U 18 hardly sere e than a 1 r Its sn s eltera t are l f u m of ifs Ita n gone con I iha old Horn Hom Sliver r m mt I lot t ct 1 nI it its toots former greatness Ode oa aa main till line Ot of th the I Line at Milford and after a trinus IOU limb of If 1 lil feet teet In a da f w mites miles tile the train stops 1 1 th the shadow of tho giant lion range almost at a Its I mity i iI terP I r Is nothing t in the appearance of a west western n ning town toan even tn at Its zenith smith sad d sue II I cannot resist a feeling fleUr of sadness r j ix he F of the decay r as Ibe stile map which hen In its picture picturesque que valley va Del Delo ts o it seems l hard bard to account for the ther r tine of th n toM a ben oM Ur tilts r t puss po bi It ee True T t h rr re cm but thESe did not rate rale to m p pretest eDt the toR town n from De be I omicA a and point pota o II the Dock back in tt tn Puna no railroad bird bad badI n I that time fuse penetrated PI the L little wat u bf be und and the supply for domestic domes I i Ii tic has bas always bees obtained from lilford The present price Is s 1 Jr 1 r hotel a tile bile In early flays days It was tar iu m e To Tn operate the the sat r mountains stripped of et I IT sooty and lin tilt standing te to tit th huge hace I or o charcoal were fed the The prod pro c t of t ass chiefly lead and andr ler r with frith more or lee Ira gold IOkI otter after tte t e of the Are ore from tile the cI dis distant tant rue ne wipe ift lle been to be drawn upon pon th these d ch the tle ores came camer calm r from the Horn Sliver Silver CarbOn air t Rattler and Cave the j nearly thirty miles away by fire ap d with t ot of the distance Fm ml st t entirety up hilt bill the ti I n by br was a costly cootie matter Tle hleb grade lead lad ores or I of the he treat mine bow however ever only had to hJ bP hauled tso and a halt half miles mile cat a hill sad and of these e there wa tray near I combined with the iron roo u natIOnal from the Cave C a ve tov to i v sae smelter running the I twin n supplied b the Horn Sliver SUver OJ Fr Fria thrived amusingly and the rn fn I long straggling street of the town total a aa roc a with rows of rodent t liberally ante teed It With II and gambling p la Ui and t so a fair t g or of mercantile Q o T Tong r lines of t bid 1 idra n 1 1 rot orl sad lid tiled ht sal I out oat nr king kine t th streets with th ill Ih warping of sad of J t I The First I II it I as in 7 that J the first claim wu was Ji t d io in the F taco district and called I 1 the Sam Hawker Hawkes and James Ryan ban were the but very t ry little work was done by them in de developing U tl r property It was short b otter fter this that th Horn Sliver mine vita located by the tb same parties The Thet Ant t ore tak taken n out nut was a as a silver hI ride aide which yielded away up in th the thou sort a 1 gave to the mine its name nam After about f t the vein pinched and at this point the mine was sell BOld toa to a composed compo ed of cl A AG AC G C Dennis Ra Ryan AU Bryant BYam Pullen and one oth other r t tw Ta a porn of Th These se gen set et to Rork and ad were re by finding of rich ore lire but bat a sUCh slight distance below here herc the orI I al owners ad stopped w rk e ch er sf cf tile the to nd these they tl It Impo to reduce by 0 the methods Pd at the little experimental smelter that tha t had been eructed ted by Ha and I an t about this time there appeared on thE e JilT air J D Williams familiarly fete re and preciously on the Pa eUle t Mat as Uncle John T Wl Wi r R sa s an experienced believing he could n e the problem found nb D IA co for tor ancl of these th se sulphide ores at very ad tales 1 poD e built a smelter at Mil aill ford tord with a ca N sett Of y ions rda r I as a n day da y loft Min as a partner Kr ar Joh I Latey s a of preliminary coating In opra n pits pita It was found to b I be an easy euy matter to J tines ace the ore I After ali for which hleb they had bad crt C tl to ell them pare thereby compelling ft a Williams and Lat Latey y to shut dews their lao er ter It wu wee In igi that Meara and Hamp n who had been operating smelters near Stockton for anum a somber ber I Of years secured a contract from the thern ji orn rn Sliver Silver company to reduce tDa its It ores They erected a toe toa a BleUer lter at the outset Dui but for or sec se eral era months month found great in procuring hie Iron Au They 1 etin on some of the ore atom the Cae Cace mine which was s so 80 ad to their need and by bJ that property their troubles were dissipated They erected a second smeller a tur naoe nace and font fine kilns immediately Im Immediately mediately tt at the plant Tire Cave Can mine of Itself proved to be a great eat producer tad and aa were kept across across the Talley Then MI ar William Rea s se e to the erection of ofa ofa a new at Frisco for the Horn Hom Sliver This also aho proved a to rUn until the ad vest veat of the in 1881 Sale of Horn Rora At that that time the Horn Sliver Silver proper U lief the hands of ea who shortly afterwards a new et r ar Salt Sait Lake qty anti begin belr ores orea t tb that t tIt It was only a few moat ha after the Horn Sliver Silver mine was die reT that Anthony Blackburn a Ad i amin John Oh sop located the e prop since nce known as the th Carbonate a Short dis distance distance tance north of Frisco and some some time ard Rattler was located and added tit t the property It passed into the hands of otA A G l John M Di Burke and their associates In n these mines minea w Je purchased by b W R S and en mirt Hamp Hampton ton the Carbonate for and the Rattler for fOI the latter of equal value alue to the other r Aft fraro erR ard th they with themselves them wIves selves some Boton le and i F ed d the t h o S Aid A Mining i Win g company among n whom hom was teas on one Bi Bilow low a leather merchant This Thill under the control of the Bigelow Pf pen pie erected a great dry concentrating plant at the mine which proved a thorough success I Something Eke Ike 40 00 was In this plant It was the policy of oC Godbe nd Hampton to t employ the b best t skill of the period and they Y made h money prior to the coming of the laH railroad d In lR 1893 There aft after r thE torten conn r re shipped north 1 and tb the d There was wall also another smelter at aton atour our on tI time in operation near Frisco the location befog at th Cactus rains raine just over the range from the town although nearly fourteen rapes by the wagon road The Cactus mine and smelter to a 8 F French nh company and It also erect d an 80 concentrating mill proved an u ed for Ute the ore and Man anon anaI they tury Shut down that property O Decline FrIsco began to decline R hen con connection by roll rail WS was established with the outside world The occupation of the teamsters was Wall practically pra gone as soon as trains began to run and it was found cheaper to hip the high grade ores sad to the smelters at Salt Lake than to continue to reduce them at Frisco which in involved involved the use of e l at a high or the coke by rail With the a Dt df f the smelters and loss 1088 of by the fr era there was R aa a end nd to os prosperity I The Horn Silver has continued to produce Iy during all th these years it Is true and n has lise been Deen a steady payer the property still promising weft Weil at fhe he presen pre en R The Carbonate Carb and Rattler mines however only In importance and which had alln paid Pa id rP regular g ular divi dividends lends for a number of years left fell under bad and that was Wall obliged suspend s nd operations For this there wa no excuse ex except except supervision and the mines can probably he be made to yield AS well today ss as at t say lUll time Ume In their history have bave stood Idle for tor forthe the peat past sev yea years and have gradually with water The Immense Im Immense mense c concentrating milt n ll has fallen Into decay and at present is worthless except tor old iron At fie tbt the old smelter atilt I stands a play tor the birds and squirrels Its sI pile overgrown by byI we and tie rapidly falling I to decay I There are plenty plenty of signs It at present however that Frisco m Is about t to ear X a speedy rejuvenation There I has been reen a recent Infusion ot of ft I I blood Into the situation and more Is IsI i I likely to tollow at an earl early date The Thel l prime mover in the late was wasA wasA A B Lewis who had not been l Ton to tn the count county before he perceived eDO enormous possibilities or of the immediately contiguous to lirI b and at once proceeded to Interest caPital therein One Chic of the results was the fer of the th Imp nal Mining dining company has acquired claims lying just no of I Ithe the Horn Silver and covering aH of orthe the desirable prospect on troth both tides of I the range at that point I work cork hu has been going on In several I s during the past few months and andI anda I a tunnel has been drIven feet teet to tap I Ithe I the vein eln at a depth of feet reea A About out feet remains to be excavated and it is quits certain that th company win will ultimately have a great m e j jAt At the old Carbonate Jt 11 P Gilbert I at had of a a wealthy t I whICh Is also properties In I californie Is fe engaged In sinking a new Dew I Ii i shaft and there t iq little I doubt t that at he will up up ih j i months bond under which 1 hela work working 1 ing at the expiration of the lIm i It t 1 about abort as sure SUle as any anything thine In fn th nature ofa of a mining eau hi big that this thin property will wUl soon II D be placed in the he list of large JArp prod pf j I ethin Is wn f t ate s to the otts ns the c m o th h re Bard to a eo plant but tf If one is decided uPOn It b rea o c to io SUIO suppose e that a n w mo modern ern on the th lines of the rom at ai the Kay Day mine at Tintic would lie be found heat beat adapted there being no water avaU able for tor wet co per chance hance water shall be found In Ing below the old level Royal Mining j J Another of the operations rated h b y Dir Lewis Is the or of the Royal dining com ing options on the Cactus aed aad adjoining claims claim i ed In Interesting Samuel in I property with the result that tha I when the bonds matured on the prop properties ertle Dir Newhouse s stepped in and absorbed thorn them all as individual oPera operation tion tlonA tionA A large larse force of men Is at w wont p pat patting t ting the Cactus mine Into hape to lae be become come a heavy producer A Anew new i is being sunk which Mr Newhouse pro O eS shan not stop short of 1 feet dt has already re reached ched a depth of nearly and crosscutting has haa com Ir the and lens the ore bodies continue of the same me magnitude at all the lower levels level as as they have been developed down to the third down to which worth of pro ore Is In sight the total value of 0 the mine when It shall have reached a depth of feet be amo t fabulous A section of tits the large larbe concentrating 1 mill s being altered for the purpose of tes the ores which are being de p d and careful experimenting ex Pe ne k 18 ti bedane done during the coming year un direction of Mr air DI E Callow to definitely determine just the class clasa of machinery adequate supply of water Is to be ped from the recently acquired spring fourteen miles west westI R I Juba a ew w hundred feet reet doR down n the gulch h from the Cactus Is located the group comprising claims t the whole forming a complete enclosure tou the Cactus Here a large Jarre larget t of money Is being spent In developing de the property by the Franklin Syndicate which controls It with George Geor e L Hutchings as superintend mt Numerous other prospects are being en hold bold of by various parties In fn the dl district among may be mentioned men the Francisco of twelve claims b Golden Reef eight etc Variety of Product like jibe San Francisco Franeisco r range ng together with the surrounding territory is un q one of the most highly mineralized districts In the state Nur Is the ore to anyone any one particular ku d for even In one mine the Horn Born StIver has been found several different aorta of lead and silver compounds In sod and fully as many ether with numerous ether metal In varying quantities At file time of Its heyday Frisco wu was not looking king far tor ores orN of copper Indeed the smelters imposed a penalty on ores containing any considerable quantity of that it t metal Silver and gold were that bat was wanted and although the presence pr nce of the red metal in Immense t was well known no effort was made to extract It At the extreme southern end of the n Francisco range Is a huge bilge moun composed principally of lime and lighter In color than the range general On the eastern side of this lies Ues th the Horn Silver mine nearly a amile mile aik southeast of Frisco o The wagon Ragon road from town teases this property and after rounding the base of the range turns to file tle northward through Ute file but waterless Wah Wah valley Branch roads lead to the various mines and the main road con continues north to Sevier lake thirty miles of mineral minerai deposits may be ben I seen n for foe miles along the range ranse there being iron blowouts every little ways a s w lIe copper stains in the rock rocks are common Practically the theW W Iole range has boon been staked off the claims In many cases extending far fardown down dawn into nto the cotter The character of the rock differs quite putts as much as in the San as does doe the mineral minerai therein At Atthe Atthe the Horn Sliver It is limestone that or on top being largely disintegrated rated Just Jost JustI I north at the Imperial we find mostly granite above which lies quartzite with the ore protruding Further to the north is 1 another lime formation much smaller than the one mentioned but equally good indications Mines Higher Up Beyond this Is a tar far higher any other In the range and composed for the most part of quartzite strongly j i colored with Iron Far up the western side of this th are located the Cactus and I Blackbird shafts sunk at atI these mines miDell bo ever are for Cor the most malt I part through a lime and porphyry for formation formation mation aU all of It more or less mineralised mineral mineralized I It Is ie not at all probable that Frisco will ever possess another smelter The Tho absence of any considerable water up ply would operate as a serious offset to the marry mav other advantages accruing from such ouch a location and fuel would 1 also have to be hauled a loAg distance charcoal being out of the que even evento evento to handle the ores or of the Ule Is a much more available site especially since Ute the copper depos deposIts deposits Its adjacent thereto come Into such prominence Frisco wilt will of course continue to ship large larse and constantly Increasing quantities of ore GP and with the establishment o ot reduction works at Milford a probability of the near future a market will be opened up rOt for a vast amount of ore which iR if not or oP sufficiently high grads grade to stand shipment ship shipment ment to Salt Lake Frisco may never again attain to Its former size sire but as a distributing center for tor the adjacent mining district and the terminus of the railroad It fe 18 bound to grow row as the mines grow becomIng eventually the seat of a large me nUIe trade far more stable