Show A GREAT now that it is a recognized fact the world over that the mining industry is a legitimate pursuit that is as safe and far more remunerative than any other business when conducted on business rules and principles it is a pleasure to review revia v the history the advances and successes which have marked the career of many of the mining camps of this western country and especially so of the several districts which have made utah famous as a wonderful producer of the precious metas metals of imperishable wealth from time to time THE REVIEW has made mention of some of leading mining camps but so far no special reference deference ie has been made to the section which for y years earshal ears has been the pride of every utah citizen the mines of which for a quarter of a century have eclipsed the record of any other mining camp in the production of mineral m i n e r a wealth and which today gives promise of further enriching the world by the addition of many millions to swell the volume of trade and commerce when other portions of utah have been dormant and practically unproductive park city in summit county could always be relied upon in the way of mineral pro and the splendid mines of this picturesque tur esque camp have made records as wealth producers which have made them known in financial and mining circles from one end of the world to the other and while this extensive production has been somewhat curtailed during the past few years although never discontinued recent disclosures in the mines of this section the increased activity witnessed in their operation and development and the flocking of investors and men of means to the district would indicate that in the very near future park city will be able to once again attain its former glory as one of the greatest wealth producers of this intermountain region according to the records and all obtainable data the ontario mine of park city as a sil ver producer has paid more in dividends than any other mine in the west and it leads many of the greatest gold producers in this respect the copper mines of montana and michigan being the only producers on record tha enriched their stockholders to a greater extent than has great ontario the history of the ontario is most interesting and it waa was to the continued success of this mine that park city owed its origin and substantial growth there may ha have v e been other prospects of merit in summit county prior to the accidental discovery of the ontario but from all accounts they were not of sufficient importance to warrant the supposition that a great mining camp would spring up in this locality still considerable prospecting had been done in that section and the surface indications were most favorable and to this fact was due the finding on the ontario mine the discovery being accredited to a mining man named herman dudden dudden was working a prospect on the other side of ontario mountain from park city and one day while going from his prospect following the trail leading to this mining camp he incidentally struck at a small boulder which cropped near his path this cropping was no larger than a mans hat but deddens Dud dens pick clipped a piece off of it the peculiar appearance of the rock being such that the miner stopped to examine it and to his surprise he found that it was 5 high grade silver bearing ore from this small beginning has since grown the ontario mine now cited in mining history as one of the greatest dividend payers of this continent the discovery of the ontario was made on july 19 18 72 and the find caused the wildest excitement throughout the west and so favorable were the indications for the opening up of a wonderful silver producer that it was not long before the property changed hands the purchaser being hon B R 0 chambers of this city his associates in the deal being haggin tevis and hearst the new owners spending at least in the development of this prospective bonanza before the property formed the basis for fop the organization of W Z W VI k ax ONTARIO HOISTING WORKS a stock company which was done in ja january uary 1874 18 sa a reorganization of the company being effected in 1876 during the following year a 40 stamp mill was erected by the company and it was during the same year that the association declared and paid its first dividend of 50 cents a share or and since then and up to within the last few years the company was was regular in aits nits its distribution of wealth the total amount disbursed among company shareholders to date footing up to the significant and princely sum of while the total output of the mine is estimated at something som something ethino over thirty millions and yet it is claimed that this wonderfully rich producer is good for many millions more recent disclosures in the workings of the property going far towards proving this assumption the ontario with its two great hoisting works its two reduction works boarding houses and other essential buildings is one of the most completely equipped mines in the west and it probably has more miles of underground der ground workings than any other mine the state can boast of and it is one of the deepest mines also while the three mile drain tunnel which was completed but a few years ago easily handles the great volume of water that has been an item of expense to the man CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT A CREAT ninino caulp CONTINUED FROM PAGE FIVE argement in years gone by to free the mine from which a mammoth cornish pump the largest possibly in the united states was installed by thi the company when it became apparent that heroic measures would have to be adopted in order to continue operations because of the heavy flow of water underground every citizen of utah has reason to feel proud of the splendid record made so far by the ontario and the success of this enterprise certai certainly fily reflects great credit upon hon R C chambers who has had direct charge of the mine ever since its purchase from dudden its extensive and intelligent development carried out by hon j J daly under whose skilful management the mine was opened up and stupendous ore bodies uncovered the ore extracted largely paying expenses although no more of the pay rock was taken out than was necessary in pushing exploration work so that the mine today virtually is in a virgin state with enough mineral wealth in sight to guarantee regular dividends for years to come recently however arrangements arrage ments were perfected whereby the corporation was extended so as to cover this mao in its entirety mr daly being retained as president of the association and as the mine is equipped with an up to date hoist an ana 0 a large concentrator the outlook for the enterprise is all that could be desired for many years the ontario and the daly 71 5 3 ta 1 R N M ak SILVER KING HOISTING WORKS PARK CITY UTAH and operation being a gratifying demonstration of the ability experience and integrity of its management next to the ontario in the early history of park city the daly mine stood second for years as a prolific producer of the precious metals the daly was engineered by the same talent which transformed the ontario from a prospect into a producer of many millions and there is no reason to doubt but that this ground is ia capable of producing many more thousands even millions as already it is accredited with the distribution of in dividends the property is is equipped with a fine hoist and reduction works and there is an encouraging showing of good goad ore in its ita underground workings on the same belt with the ontario and the daly is the holdings of the daly west in whose treasure vaults millions in the precious metals are blocked out ready for extraction this ground carries with it a most interesting history from the fact that disagreement among the owners led to an incorporation on an undivided haff half of the property and it was during this period of its existence that extensive developments inaugurated were and successfully enjoyed the proud distinction of being the only regular wealth producers and dividend payers that the camp of park city could boast of and it looked for a long time as if their splendid records in this respect could never be equalled equal led or eclipsed many other camps have had the same experience but mines are where you find them and with them as with park city new producers of startling promise have suddenly come to the front and have sprung into promise and popularity larit Y with park city it was the silver king that entered the ring and became a formidable rival of the ontario and the daly it is hardly more than six or seven years ago that ore in paying quantities was found in the silver king but today it is undoubtedly one of the greatest silver and lead producing mines to be found in the world and while it has been developed extensively and intelligently under the able management of hon thomas kearns and hon david keith no one knows as yet the extent or limit of its mammoth bodies of high grade and milling ore an index of the value of this mine being intimated by the steady advance in the quotations on the stock of the company which recently in creased its regular monthly dividends from to dividend payments to date covering a period of but a few brief years amounting to the silver king mine is able to boast of the possession of good hoisting works and a new mill embodying the concentration process of reduction now embellishes bel lishes the companas comp anys property in addition to the properties already mentioned the anchor and the crescent have made excellent records as producers and it is believed that in time these will enter the ranks of the paying mines of the camp while there are many other promising properties on the immense ore zone of the district which give promise of good things in the future among the number being the woodside the mayflower the creole the comstock the alliance and the lucky bill not omitting the massachusetts which of late has stirred the camp from center to circumference on account of the splendid disclosures made within its workings the massachusetts has laid idle for many years the company lacking the necessary means for its extensive development although its loch location tion would indicate that the boundary lines of the group enclosed some of the richest ore bodies to be found in the district at least this was the opinion of lion hon J H conrad the successful montana mining operator who six or eight months hgo ago secured this valuable ground by purchase and associated with that veteran miner will curtis and others has since been pushing active work in its development the heavy snows of winter for a time with successful operation and the rush of orders with machinery houses retarded the erection of the proposed new hoisting works but at the same 7 HON R 0 CHAMBERS OF THE ONTARIO time extensions were made in the old workings the result being that a week or so ago a splendid body of high grade ore was encountered in a drift on the level about 1000 feet from the working shaft and from last accounts the whole face of the crosscut cross cut was in a solid breast of mineral assaying 50 per cent lead ounces silver and in gold to the ton while there are stratas in the ledge which go even eveni much nuch higher than this and it is now believed in park bark city circles that the massachusetts is the making of as big a mine as the silver king 41 the ontario or the daly dal Y west there are other properties of merit in and around park city one of which the valeo in blue ridge district has all the earmarks of coming to the front at no distant day as a prolific producer of high grade copper ore and a dividend payer as well with existing conditions and judging from the active interest being taken in mining affairs at the present time there is every reason to look for a repetition in the future of park cites greatness of the past |