Show FAITH IS SHOWN IN UTAH MINES Industry Is Out From Und Under r Expert Knockers and Odium of Mismanagement GOLD MOUNTAIN METHODS HOW BIG PROPERTIES THERE SURMOUNT DIFFICULTIES BY J F GIBBS Utah July In the middle sixties a short sharp sharD and c cy cyclonic boom struck the sac eec ton of Nevada Hundreds of Utah men rushed Into the distrct district and an an almost universal exodus seemed Imminent imminent The Mormon ormon leaders surely rel wise wis I in those early days when they advIsed the themen themen men of Utah to stay at home attend to their farms and build Utah i The writer wel well remembers a jocular expresion expression made by the late President nt George A Smith In the old tabernacle Salt Lae Lake City that In vIew of the craze then on and as bearing on the geater greater porton portion of the boom literature that has poured out of Nevada during the past seven years ears Is most appropriate President President dent Smith In talking of the craze said Boys dont go down to to search for gold In order to get at atthe atthe the gold down there have to dig down through twelve feet of sold solid sl sit vor With no thought of disparagement of the magnificent of Tono Tonopah Tonopah pah and only ones of Xe Ne Nevadas vadas boom camps that have thus far far made good I It would seem that the theol ol advice adice of the Mormon leaders is just as timely in 1907 as it was in the middle sixties NO sane man wl will deny that the Nevada Neada boom put the iown own hard on pl the other states whose mineral assets were at least equally en entitled titled to consideration Confidence in Utah Mines Yet notwithstanding the handicap jUL jue referred to Utah has forged to the front with rith Irresistible strides and Is now so firmly In the public conf confidence dence that no outside booms or inside adverse forces wil will again even check her advancement advancement In view of the era of greater prosper prosperity prosperity ity upon which Utah is entering there should be an Increased broadening of the fIeld of view of Utah mining men Many of them have been c claiming that aU all of bonanzas are bunched around Zion and that outsIde of that extremely select of rich districts there Is nothing of special and permanent value Remote camp camps like those of the Fisco Frisco country countr for instance have suf ered from the carping of back capping promoters otherwise known as in the hotels hotel and other places In Zion Dug out too tar far from the smelters etc etc are the prin cipal stock phrases of the ore rs who pose Dose as experts and ns as p authorities on mining In But the Frisco country ha has passed beyond the reach of Zions carp At one time even TintIc was the victim or of expert ad adverse adverse verse criticism Dug out was th tha assertion Yet Tintic is bigger th than n ever eer before In her reman a able le creer career By man many the foregoing may not be re gardei as legitimate mining correspond correspondence ence but lut those thoughts suggested suggested while on conditions along the Mt I belt wI will form a fit fitting Un ting preface to a few items on Gold mountain and the country that during many years has ben been a shin in ing mark for who were never wi within lun l mies miles of Mt I BaI Baldy The Items concerning nJ Gold mountain are fur from personal made loade a few ew days sInce Badly Handled Bonanza Numerous bonanzas have hae failed to tomal tomake mal make good because of Inefficient man manag ag lent extravagance and bad equip equipment ment meet I It is u a fact wel well known to those familiar wih with the history of the Annie Laurie mine at Kimberly that It has ben been the IcUm of all three of the hand handi handicaps 1 cars caps ju enumerated That p positive as scribe may not be acceptable In slie quarters but as a mater matter of justice to the Gol Gold mountain district the unvarnished unvarnished truth Is necessary Annie Laure Laurie once more on is ismine its mine was simply butchered thus entail hg enormous and unnecessary expense In is its rejuvenation which Is not yet complete In addition the mi mill was wretchedly pl nned and poorly buIt built Is Ita system of unlike an an ancient cleat flowing been enormously expensive in Is Its consumption of power and loss of time by clogging And An the close massing of Its machinery and maze of belt belts ha has made of the mi mill a veritable to the employee I It is only by a system of careful nursing that the antiquated rattle trap can be kept In even partial commission I It Is up against such odds that Manager James Jame Long Is now laboring With yih tr tire tireless less en energy erg he Is working to pu put the fa famous IUS Annie Laurie once more on Is its feU fett and heres hoping and praying that the genial manager wi will succeed In the present condition of the Annie Laurie I It Is impossible to keep the an an antiquated mi mill running ful full time and nd un until t til recently deep snows and un passable roads have made It Impossible to draw on the Mammoth and Surprise groups for additional supplies ot of ore Oer Over the FIsh creek divIde some two mies miles northwesterly from Kimberly are situated the mine and mi mill of the Sevier Consolidated The mi mill Is modern airy clean and sanitary The ore 1 is handled handle entirely b by gravity and such is the per of arrangement that three men menon menon on the night shift take care f the en tre lant The battery consists of teen stamps that pulverize an average of about 10 tons of ore during each hour hours From the I I stamps the pulp flows over a group roup of i plates that collect the Coarser atoms of gold and cyaniding completes the process of extraction The plant and mahine machIne drIs drills are driven by the power plant situate situated some twelve mies miles north m Clear cieck canyon and about but 40 fe feet t nearer sea level than the mi mill At pres present ent eni steam power Is used in generating use th the subtle current current but water power Dower jS s contemplated and which wl will effect a savin saving of everal thousand dollars nor Der n month William E Malson Maison of Ogden Ident of the company compan Is now In charge of the mine and mit mill 11 Mr Maison Is singularly modest In hi bib frank admission admission sion that hie he Is a neophyte In the busi business business ness and Is compelled to o rely on the Intelligence skI skill and loyalty of his aids in the mine and mi mill and which his democratic kindly tr treatment of all Instantly comp ls al I It Is a somewhat t stran strange fatuity that the jest novice in mining becomes In his own an Infallible ex expert expert pert the Instant he shoulders a pros prospectors prospectors pIck and begIns the fascinating search for the precious metals I If a aman aman man bl be a born egotist the fatuity ac accompanies accompanies companies him through h the school of mines and out Into the feld field Instead of sitting humbly at the nature quoting from Bacon and permitting her herto herto to teach him he at once begins beins dictating Ins ing to nature and thus becomes a veil veri veritable table hoodoo to the man or company compan that employs him Hence the failUres to make nature has per performed fored formed her ful full share o of the preparatory pr work To that special brand of expert experts 11 Mr Malson charges the major part vart of ofte te the difficulties that heretofore have be 1 s t his company and compelled him to tot t personal supervision I It required no prospector to find the Sevier vein In fact at one point the prospector would have needed a ladder to scale the great wal wall of gold bearing quartz Below the the north fae face of the hI hill Is covered to a depth of many feet wih with large boulders of ore a aggregating a thousands ds of tons that some ome day wi will surrender the fortune they surel surely contain On the surface the great gnat vel vein Is twelve to fifteen feet wile wide and every pound of i it Is good milling grade with pockets and ribbons of ore gade that runs Into the hundreds of dollars per ton Roughly the vein has a southeast northwest strike and a din diD of 45 5 to 50 degrees es to the southeast Thae Those directions tons are however only general for the strike and dip is suddenly changed and andare andare are somewhat confusing At one point In the lower workings the vein makes an almost right angle turn and ofen often changes its ts dip to nearly vertical or flat flattens flattens tens as The case may be At one poll on is Its strike the vein separates and con converging converging verging encloses an enormous horse of undigested country rock But through all of Is its eccentricities between and dip the lines of demarcation between the ore and country rock are sharplY by wals walls more or less regular and always persistent persistent Developments have disclosed S a back vein or of almost almot equa equal strength and fully as good value I as the front vein And there II is hardly a doubt that the two veins wl will unite at depth The vein In the lowest stores nearly feet down dOn from the is fully as wide as at the surface and Mr Malson Is for the statement that the tho values arc better tha than at the grass roots Fm the lowest I secured specimens that are fairly louse lousey wih with gold The ore aready alread blocked out In the varIous levels is am ample ampie pie for several years of continuous grinding without further development Ore at Depth The heretofore ab rth efort efforts of the I company to find the vein In the lo lowest es tunnel have been a source of vexation However only feet of unexplored ground intervenes between tile the deepest tunnel and the Imm Immediately above where the vein shows up In ful full strength and value and which dispels eer every doubt as to is its descent to the depths In fact Jerry Cou lan the mine superintendent has as opened up some good values In the lowest tunnel and believes the problem to be as good as solved While the unusual local fissuring and faulting or of the Sevier hl bill wih with is Its at attendant attendant complex vein system has f fur lr Innumerable obstacles to the own owners owners ers I it yields Ields Incontrovertible evidence ot of the permanency of the ore bodies There Is little I If any evidence of disturbance of the veins since the filling was corn com and I it ought not therefore to tobe tobe be a difficult mater matter to follow the ore shoots In their descent to the depths o To Seymour W Tulloch belongs un tin stinted credit for the admirable energy and ability he hI has displayed In financing the and In successful successfully fur sur surmounting mounting obstacles that to men with less and DerS would have been insuperable |