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Show en AS orS ‘'nilis day and night, and the Golden Gate, although yet without a mill, has over $10,000,000 of ore blocked out in its miles of underground workings, and there are numerous other properties in the camp that show fine bodies of ore, or that will soon cut into the magnificent mineral zones of that district. The future of Mercur is a bright one, and in the extent of its mineral wealth can only be rivaled by the great Deep Creek region, which, with railroad facilities, would, within a few years, almost double the population of Salt Lake City and make of it the greatest commercial center in this intermountain region. * It would great hardly deposits Castle of do coal, to close iron and Gate, on the Rio ity is found, and *k this article without to found copper Grande in great * Western abundance; road, coal beds have been road, coal at Coalville, there are also large fields of the black Sanpete be while this to on the At in Iron Union 4: At qual- Pacific, Sterling, on the county the de- posits of coal of a superior quality are practically inexhaustible, mountains of magnetic and hematite ore exist in a nearly pure * the State. of a superior diamonds. opened; referring in while state. * In Washington county there are mammoth deposits of copper ore, and copper is to be found in many other localities within the State; and, in reviewing the resources of our commonwealth, it would not be right to pass without mention the sulphur county; the discovery of crude oil on Green river, posits covery along of the natural banks of the gas in Salt Green Lake and the county, deposits in Millard the great placer de- Colorado the rivers, existence the of dis- salt in Sanpete county, and also its manufacture by evaporation from the waters of the Great Salt Lake; the deposits of asphaltum, gilsonite, elaterate and mineral wax in the Uintah country, and also the magni- 13 The history of the mines from which the wealth was taken that created and built up Park City, and which has done so much toward developing the latent resources of the entire State, would fill a large volume, and a history that for every could page picture centuries lay could be made the gradual hidden intensely unfolding in the rocky interesting. of the bosom of Such rich veins of ore these hills; tell spent in the once found. of the lives that were sacrificed find the hidden treasure and and of the wealth to extract it after effort to It could describe the many difficulties and how they were subdued; reducing ores were gradually encountered through the forces of nature how the crudest methods of mining and supplanted by improved and modern ap- pliances, until Park City has attained a reputation for the excellent equipment of mine and mill that encircles the globe; an equipment that is a living joy to the mechanical mind telligence, ability and progressiveness camp’s many great properties. * of * and a monument the men in to the in- of the charge at The Ontario mine, of course, is Park City’s chiefest pride, as it is indeed of the entire State, and its record of a dividend roll to date of $13,265,000, without a single assessment ever having been levied on its stock, is a showing that few mines in the world can duplicate. As stated above, the Ontario mine was discovered in 1872, and after being worked for a few months in coverers, it passed into the a fitful and unskilled manner hands of Messrs. Hearst and by its disHaggin of California, State Senator R. C. Chambers being the man who brought the value of the property to their attention and the person who negotiated its purchase. A company was at once organized, being incorporated for $15,000,000—150,000 shares, at a par value of $100 per share. The stock was soon all taken and the work of systematic development enc te q i Fa 3 hae Cabs : BVA MAAM Nd Rate ase PARK OITY, SUMMIT COUNTY, UTAH. ficent quarries of building ous portions of the State. stone, onyx, marble agate onyx in vari- Utah is wonderfully, marvelously rich in her mineral resources, in her store of commercial commodities, and as yet the half has never been told concerning them, and probably never will, for their immensity is beyond the comprehension of the average man. WILL C. HIGGINS. The The camp, Famous foundation for was 1892, laid in Park in Park City, which City Utah’s year the [lines. largest and richest world-famed Ontario mining mine was discovered. From a few prospectors’ cabins, scattered here and there through the dense underbrush and heavy growth of pine trees that grew along what is now called Silver creek and dotted the mountains, Park City has advanced step by step until today she occupies the proud position of being the largest, best-constructed, best governed and most prosperous mining town in the State, and with but few superiors in the West. Park City has a population of 5500; is incorporated and boasts a most successful city government, with a treasury surplus of $10,000. It has efficient police and fire departments, good water- works, electric lights and electric power; its streets are well graded and well kept, and are flanked with good sidewalks. It has many modern stores and a fair opera-house, with a new and handsome struct- ure for that purpose under consideration. Its public school and church facilities are first-class, while two newspapers—the Park Record and the Utah Patriot—look after the camp’s journalistic Communication with the outside world is had by means necessities of the telegraph and telephone and by the Union Pacific and Utah Centra] rail- on, begun. from * s * and roads, and the camp is in every respect an energetic and prosperous community, with a payroll approximating $150,000 per month. The the mine did beginning, not for prove in the a song first of joy year of lost completely, and for weeks and weeks ciates and the men working in the mine, and its a source opening of profit the vein was Mr. Chambers and his assowith one exception, gave up all hope of over finding it. Messrs. Hearst and Haggin lost faith entirely, and finally ordered the property abandoned and prepared to charge up the amount spent on the venture to profit and loss. There was one man, however, who never lost confidence ultimate value of the mine, and when the order begged Mr. Chambers for a little more time. Kerwin, now superintendent of the Gould & City, Nevada. weeks good hard Mr. Kerwin followed work and made the Ontario mine. ore and harder study, * From that day steady progress. improved mining to date the Fhe mine his * history own found that That Curry man was Patrick mine at Virginia judgment, the lost and vein, in a few developed a of the has been equipped machinery for a moment in the came to close down money property has been with the finest and could buy, both for one of most mining and reduction purposes. Miles of drifts and cross-cuts have been run, and the property opened to an extent that Mr. Chambers and his foreman know every peculiarity of the vein and the way the ores make therein, hence the opening of what-is commonly called new ore bodies, is merely the result of following a plain mathematical proposition, solved before a single hole is drilled. The only question that has ever agitated the management concerning the life of the mine, has been re- garding the depth to which the vein was loaded, and that feature has been largely set at rest by means of explorations on the 1500 level, rendered possible by the big three-mile drain tunnel driven through the mountain under great difficulties and at enormous expense. The Ontario is a wonder, and its total product is conservatively estimated in round numbers at $65,000,000, |