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Show i2 : City is today, with her palatial residences, beautiful. business blocks, paved streets and scores of miles of electrical street car lines, is due very largely to the presence of a large number of great mining camps within the environments of our new State; and these camps, far from being exhausted, are daily sending into Salt Lake valley a constant stream of precious metals, and year by year, as the search for ore continues, new camps and districts are being found and added to the list of Utah’s inexhaustible bonanza producers. 3 z . zi | Utah, in her category of mineral deposits, embraces almost every known metal with the exception of tin, and it is even claimed that this commodity can be included in the list. The metals that are most abun- and production lead. These Lake county, that it would camps be most are Park and Eureka, City, difficult to decide in Summit Tintic, in Juab county; which had Bingham, county, and from thé in Salt these three districts a constant stream of mineral wealth is ever flowing, and it is from them that the sinews of war are supplied that keep .n regular pulsation the arteries of Salt Lake’s trade and commerce . * Park City has long ae boasted < of her bonanza mines and her great dividends payers, which are headed by the Ontario, with over thirteen and a half millions in dividends to its credit; besides the Daly mine, with $285,000 paid in dividends; the Anchor, with $1,500,00 0; the Silver King, with $600,000, besides a score of other properties that have made many thousands for their owners and stockholders. Park City, its mountains of silver ores, is as yet fairly untouched by the pick miner, and what its future wi'! be is almost beyond computat of the ion or comprehension. Ed b “ Bingham, so appropriately syled the “Old Reliable” is phenomenally rich in its deposits of gold, silver and lead ores, and today it is estimate d that in this camp there are over Bingham is essentially what is designated that galena, is predominate there. And carry in the gold. a good percentage white metal, There are of silver, which a some of the is invariably number of strictly 200 producing properties. as a “wet” camp, signifying yet these lead ores always ore bodies mining more high or less with associated gold propositions in Bingham , and the canyon, from its mouth to its feeders, is one vast gravel bed, full of placer gold, from which small fortunes have been taken in the past, and from which almost fabulous wealth wil] be taken in the future. Among the noted producers of Bingham are the Old Jordan and Galena, the Niagara, the Yosemite Nos. 1 and 2, the Stewart, the Benton and Nast, the Phoenix, the Winnamuck, the Old Telegraph, the Lead mine, the Dalton & Lark, the Richmond, the Telegrap h, the Butterfield, the Tiewaukee, the Montezuma, the Pedro, York, Leonard, Harrison, Orphan Boy, Northern Light, Last Chance and South Galena, all of which, besides many others, are constant and heavy shippers; and as to the ore bodies of the camp, it has well been said that they are like an ink bottle, with the big end cas Eureka, above Tintic, named, high-grade is a last, but wonder ore, for Tintic down. ts 4 least, among not in mining circles, the and is strictly a high-grade three its big great camp, camps chutes of ever be will viewed with admiration by mining men, for it is not believed that for a generation to come the great mineral zones of this district will be exhausted, for, at the present time, the extensive work so far carried on in this district, instead of diminishing the mineral supply, seem but as gopher holes in a mountain of ore. Eureka camps, but UPPER BINGHAM OANYOR. dant, so far as demonstrated, are. gold, silver, lead, copper and iron, and it is in the production of these that the miners of the State are de- voting the major part of their labors ES and. energies. BS The pioneer camps of Utah are many, the most prominent among them being Alta, Big Cottonwood, Bingham, Frisco; American Fork canyon, the home Floyd, Silver several other later years of Eureka, region, of the Great Miller mine; Stockton, Ophir, Camp City, Diamond, Silver Reef, Marysvale, Dry canyon and localities of more or less note; to which were added in the marvelously rich camp of Park City, the famous camp Mercur, the “Johannesburg of America;”’ the Deep Creek with its numerous great mining districts, and La Plata, a new claimant for public favor; to say nothing of the recently discovered Liné district, in western Iron county; the Newton district, in the eastern part of Beaver county; the new discoveries in the Skull and Rush Valley regions; the promising camp of Detroit, and a score or more of new’ but unadvertised localities throughout the State. w . : 5 eS oe sve ee * is probably the youngest in the sisterhood of these three yet it has made a record in its yield of wealth that has placed it on a level with the other two, and today its tonnage is double what it was a year ago, and every day, almost, a new producer is added to the list. The Bullion-Beck has paid over two million in dividends; the Centennial-Eureka, $1,750,000; the Eureka-Hill, $1,500,000; the Gemini and Keystone,. over $600,000; the Mammoth, $1,000,000; and there are a score or more of other mines in the district, many of them in the vicinity of Silver City and Diamond, that have paid their millions in the past, and which will yet contribute of their mineral stores to the imperishable wealth of the world. The mines of Tintic are rich in silver and often carry a large percentage in gold, besides which, in certain localities, lead ores are abundant. The mines of the camp are dry and pleasant to work in, in which respect hey are preferable to the mines of Park City or Bingham. & So far as is known, Utah * - has but one ’ strictly gold camp, and this is Mercur, the ‘“‘J ohannesburg of America,” and what is most wonderful of this camp and of Camp Floyd district, is the fact that the ore body exists in blanket formation, being of practical ly unknown depth and | * ‘In the early days of Beaver county, one of the best mineralized portions of Utah, was the scene of a great deal of activity in the mining line, and it may well be said that in this county there are more rich mineral districts than are to be found in ‘any other portion cf the State. It was in this county, in Lincoln district, that the Old Lincoln mine furnished lead from which the pioneer settlers cast their bullets and slugs to be used in their warfare then virtually held possession of the a score of old producers that have are still unexhausted, although now in the district, however, is at Frisco, with the hostile Indian tribes that land. In Beaver county there are given up their millions, and that practically idle. The main camp where the great Horn Silver mine gives precedence and distinction to the district as being, at this time, the greatest producer in’the southern portion of the State. me ee ER BAO lg " * * Stockton at one time presented a splendid field for mining enter- prises, and is a great camp today; while Ophir, with its wonderful Monarch and Northern Light mines, on Lion Hill, was and is today a field that responds most generously to the efforts of the miner and es 3 Ea The greatest interest, ‘* by Pod far, however, thirty and twenty years ago, was centered in the mines of Big Cottonwood canyons, in Salt Lake county. In Big Cottonwood abandoned mines and prospeet holes attest the activity that was then maintained in mining in that loeality, and at Burnt Flat the foundations of house and cabins are all that is now left of a once prosperous mining camp, while the great Reed& Goodspeed mine, at one time the richest producer in -he district, stands, today as a monument to the untiring energy and erter- prise of the men who engaged in mining in this locality. IPO T 2 * s - At Alta, at the head of Little Cottonwood, are to be found the oncefamous Emma and Flagstaff mines, which at one time had a national reputation, and, we might tion or sale of the- Emma add, an international by a United States Minister a foreign country. brought about complications quite serious.. .. . { ro “ei go Lo Patt. ere * ¥ one, for the manipula- to capitalists that at one of time were . At the present time Utah can boast of three great camps, a reproduction of which would be difficult to find in any State in the West, and so evenly matched are these in regard to their mineral wealth OLD TELEGRAPH MINE, BINGHAM . extending over a vast area of country. This body of mineral carries gold values of from $5 to $100 to the ton, the general average being from $12 to $35. In days gone by this vast deposit of mineral wealth would have been practically valueless; but at the the cheapened processes of reduction, this ore can not exceeding $3 a ton, which cost, deducted from leaves a most handsome balance in the treasury. infancy as yet; but still enough work has been that this will be a bonanza camp for a great many The Mercur mine, though still a youngster, present day, with be treated at a cost the value of the ore, Camp Floyd is in its done to demonstrate years to come. has paid in the neighborhood of $500,000 in dividends, and is paying $25,000 monthly in velvet money to its patrons. The Geyser, the Marion, the Sacramento and the Sunshine, all close corporations, are operatin g their mines and OG IPO CIEE ey gE prospector. |