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Show oe Ae MDa Se qtso* 14 a > § reer 8 overshadThe fame of the Ontario has to a greater or less degree ing the owed other big mines of the district, which, while not approach to the treasure much added have payers, dividend as pride camp’s energy talent, mining the all that proving besides world the -ealth of that great and progressiveness was far from being monopolized by the by controlled and is owned which Daly, the Even producer. The eee Set ee hoisting IGS magnificent plant. its thorough a a and - ei CE was ore of a pound before invested was ture, have City sands of dollars and of riches and to the fame Mayflower, Alliance, Woodside, ~ and supplies. labor for ordered - 4 and its . who the have made surface it what of the it is, ore are bodies unanimous have been in de- scratched. will start such a wave of prosperity as the camp’s best in- It will provide a profitable citizens do not begin to realize. for the vast tonnage of low-grade ores that abounds in all parts been -_.e and for new will put years, life giving thus energy and properties into employment to hundreds of that idle stimulating every form and branch industry of Park in both City The Mines of Tintic. The history of Tintic as a wealth-producing district dates from the discovery and location of the Sunbeam mine in the Silver City end of The great Mammoth mine was discovered a short the district in 1869. JupiSilver King, Daly-West, Morgan, Creole, Lucky Bill, Glencoe and ter, all of which have built good hoisting works and constructed concentrating mills, and have paid out in the aggregate hundreds of thou- time afterwards and numerous locations in the south end of the district and in the neighborhood of the present town of Mammoth followed E. P. Ferry, camp’s most The three first-named properties were opened by Hon. who was, until stricken down with disease, one of the also On top of this, if the Government will give us free and and Salt Lake. unlimited coinage of silver, this camp will go forward with such leaps Park City and bounds that the most conservative will be astonished. is a great camp today, but its future will make it greater. E. H. BUCHANAN. * added Anchor, Crescent, the are Park % has men, increasing the camp’s payroll, making business of all kinds better, pure. remarkably * that have big properties other The its bullion men only district, of the from there to the surface, following the big shaft closely all the way The Daly’s total output is estimated at $14,250,000, and as its reup. production mill is equipped with the Russell leaching process and its n duct refined by the Dewey-Walter method, its percentage of extractio and the that erection, formed market by its to fifteen feet of a body of ore much richer than any produced The ore was found sister mine, both of which are on the same ledge. and was stoped first on the 800 level by a short cross-cut to the east, high, of ore, and Not only do the ores go deep, but they increase in richness as depth is attained. Again, new veins are being discovered, while the Peck concentrating plant, with a capacity of 400 tons per day, now in course of two ing the fact that the shaft for several hundred feet was within from is very for claring notwithstand- uncovered, grade Park City’s past, rich and prosperous as it has been, was only the trimming of its lights and preparing for the brilliant glow of its fu- nal The history of the Daly partakes to a great extent of the sensatio $200like g somethin for Ontario, the of opening the g features attendin 000 a high It adjoins the Daly and the Daly-West, value is unquestioned. reduction economical and is producing made a dividend payer. same of $2,850,000 company, was developed and established a dividend record was in the hands of different men, J. J. Daly, after whom the property t, being named, and who now is the controlling factor of the Daly-Wes its two the man who opened up its ore bodies and equipped it with works Morgan an elegant hoisting engine, the foundation for which is now being prepared, and as soon as it is in place a big shaft will be started by means of which its ore bodies will be cut at great depth and the property coed EUREKA, Boise cee ea a UVrANa 8 aes * > oS ey _ 2) ou. MUREKA, TINTIO.MINING DISTRIOT,. UTAH. s a ore, has paid two dividends, and . during the latter part of the same year, and in February, 1870, the first & ‘locations, now the property of the Eureka-Hill and Bullion-Beck » see of ‘tons of Crescent has produced’ thousands The energetic operators. will though. idle now, this season The- Woodside has produced a half dozen for- it again in operation. ‘Champion on the were made Mining companies, Eureka side of the dis- December 13, 1869, with i Tintic Mining district1 was ‘organized triet.. ‘TL ‘ is again being worked under the. on of quietness tunes, and after a seas office was at that time and has recorder’s The recorder. B-Moore --§. to monument another is Anchor management of Thomas Kearns. ~The C. H. Blanchard, the present efli-even since remained at Silver City. the indomitable energy and perseyerance: of its owners, who have 5 ex= was elected in 1879, and has been annually re-elected pended a dozen fortunes in opening the mine and equipping it with the it will be a. proud day for Park City. most improved machinery, and undoubtedly when it steps into the ring asa dividend payer, which will David permit Keith, Closely the to the akin Anchor:in matter the ER AE eee ET 6 3e = manager, : ~“ adverse cir- of overcoming cumstances before attoining its reward,.is the Alliance,: which, though it has produced much rich ore, has no fame as a dividend payer. at ‘= sk * , Pes The Mayflower and Silver King are twin. mines, and both have piled up wealth for the men who had the nerve to stay.with them. The lat- ter is the fruit of the developments made in the former, and to date, though only in operation a little over four years, has a dividend record of this Kearns is superintendent and manager Thomas of $637,500. property, and it is considered to be the richest silver mine in the world. * *e -% The Daly-West is another mine that promises immense results in the near future, and is. today declared by men who are competent judges to be the begun for up two and it five years years, proven lished beyond EEE a RES SE ing provided arrive every SS of the Ontario equal on ago by while its ore be of such to cavil. with day. The and Mr. Silver Daly, reserves have Development been work was a producer it has now been explored and opened been estab- like all the other big properties, is be- magnitude mine, King. and an up-to-date hoist, that its future has and the machinery — bring as fail, and he will of:no such word use out on top... the Anchor of its present is expected to “J and*pluck be in the near future, for the ability “ecient recorder, ever since... me . * * & No better illustration of the high values of Tintic’s ores can be given _than that they were during the early ’"70’s taken out with the most -erude and incomplete tools and machinery, were hauled by wagon over eighty wiles to Salt Lake City, and were yet sold at a handsome profit to.the miner. The Union Pacific railroad was compieted into Tintic in 1882, and the Rio Grande Western railway in the winter of 1891-2, and since the latter date’ the growth of the district has beea enormous and The history of the ore production o Mintic Mining district rapid. shows a gradual and steady increase from 1870 to the present year, with a slight falling off during the general depression of 1893 and ‘1834. In the year 1895 the record shows Tintic to be the banner district of the of silver, leading Park City by about 300,600 State is the production ounces, and in the production of gold stands second in the State. Tak- ing into consideration the enormous values of its lead and copper, we believe it no exaggeration to say that Tintic leads as the greatest mining district in Utah, and stands in the front rank of the great mineral producing districts of the world. The adaptation of the cheap milling processes to Tintic ore has been the greatest event in the history of the district, and more than any other feature has positively guaranteed the permanency of its greatThe district has now three great combination mills, the Eureka ness. Hill, Mammoth and Sioux, which are weekly contributing their quota to the wealth of Utah in the shape of gold and silver bullion and con- |