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Show 20 THE ARGUS holders, now $25,000, can easily be doubled and the $50,000 rate steadily a eee maintained. The Marion incorporated per cent, while the cost of mining and treatment is under $3 a ton. In 1895 nearly 20,000 tons were milled. Substantial dividends are regularly paid, but being a close corporation, the shares held mainly by three persons, figures are not made known. ig itp iv = oe FS SS * * ble Brickyard group is the by Capt. J. R. DeLamar, choice famous and southeast of the valua- territory of the Golden for his successful Gate, ownea development of bo- nanzas in Idaho and Nevada camps bearing his name. It is a tract of 140 acres, the richness of which has been systematically tested during the past year. The property was purchasea by Capt. DeLamar in the spring of 1895. Some 12,000 feet of development work show immense ore reserves that will require years to exhaust. There are several shafts connected by inclines, with numerous levels and cross-cuts, exposing paying mineral as thick as in the Mercur, if not more so, and of a much higher average grade. The first ore bodies opened were base for the most part, though in the past few months extensive deposits of oxidized ore have been brought to light. co : Nearly a brand four new miles town to the of the * south same the boundaries of Utah, than the building of the Salt Lake & railroad across the Oquirrh mountains. This was practically an achievement of a year ending July, 1895, a period of general business depression, and its construction afforded unmistakable evidence of tue worth and permanence of the mines. It is a monument to the farseeing sagacity of J. G. Jacobs, the vice-president and general manager. At Fairfield the elevation is 5000 feet, from which point the track winds and twists, often doubling on itself, as it climbs steep grades and rounds sharp curves, ascending 2000 feet to the summit, a distance of eight miles. Mercur town is three miles from the summit, or eleven miles from Fairfield, elevation 6400 feet, and the track is no less steep, or straighter than on the other slope of the range. It is a standard gauge roadbed, the grades in places exceeding six per centum, or over 320 feet to the mile. The locomotives are of the Shea pattern and readily handle four cars of ore. Mine owners and business men can leave Salt Lake City in the morning, have over five hours at Mercur and return the same day. *k Located at the northeast of the Mercur SSE in 1894, is another bonaza property which is making a splendid record. Joseph Smith, who first proved the gold values in the Mercur vein, was the chief organizer and promoter of the Marion property, starting systematic development for gold here in 1892, after severing his connection with the Mercur company. The Marion embraces eighty acres adjoining the town of Mercur on the north. Underground there are in the neighborhood of three miles of development workings. Since the mill was first started, in June, 1893, the first in the district after the Mercur, it has been idie but three days, due to a slight break-down last January. At the outstart the capacity was from 50 to 60 tons a day, and it has never been enlarged. The ore yields about $7 a ton, the extraction being 80 .. SR SR Gold Mining company, Possibly nothing has served to make Mercut mote widely knowf, heyond Mercur * of Mercur name, is the which Sunshine has budded mine forth and since Salt Lake City—lIts Past, Present and Future. The subject assigned me—the past, present and future of Salt Lake City—is certainly broad enough to meet the demands of any writer. At this Carnival time, when the city is in gala attire, when the past and present of this State are to be illustrated by beautiful pageantry, and when all of the people are full of hope for its future, it is certainly timely to speak in print of the circumstances which make Salt Lake’s past most interesting, its present most auspicious, and fill its future with bright promise. Of the city’s eventful history, volumes ‘have been and might still be written. The years of nearly half a century have come and gone _ since the courageous Utah pioneers laid its foundation stones in the desert. The. intelligence they displayed in the selection of its location, in dividing it into broad streets and generous-sized lots and blocks, in diverting to Sa (ee MORMON TEMPLE, SALT LAKE CITY. has come to stay, and In the Sunshine the its use the mountain torrents, in planting throughout its area the trees which now beautify its avenues and shade its homes, and in main working incline is over 600 feet on the dip of the vein, which is 33 degrees. Numerous levels have been driven on the vein, all exposed faces are in ore and the visitor is impressed with the magnitude doing the thousand and one other things which were needed to insure its growth into the home, commercial and business center of this gleat region, mark its founders as far-seeing men of affairs. The people do well to hold in grateful recollection the sturdy men and women to whose energy and toil is due, more than to anything else, the January last. The real estate men say the town indications point that they have guessed right. of the special rich-appearing reserves blocked moment from the location of the out. This development property, so far removed is of from the original discoveries of the gold-bearing formation about Lewiston canyon. By all odds the finest, best equipped and most scientifically managed mill in the entire region is the sixty-ton plant of the Sunshine company. Here the economy in handling and treating ore is brought very near to perfection, the total cost, including mining, being under $2 a ton. Almost In Sunshine invariably ore there silver and is not a trace & Aside from the dozens of properties gold of silver ed occur together in nature. to be found. * leading mines mentioned, the district contains in all stages of development, and the majority of the owners are pushing toward the productive stage with all possible haste. Before the present season closes many heavy shippers will be added to the list, and th total of the world’s wealth increasd proportionately. In addition to the mills spoken of, the Geyser, next to the Marion, and the Sacramento, northwest of the Mercur, each has a fifty-ton cyaniding plant. The Sacramento mill is the latest addition, having begun ore-treating in March, 1896. Both Geyser and Sacramento mines have choice ground with large ore bodies, though space will not allow the details in regard to them to be entered into. The actual ore tonnage now being daily mined and treated in the camp can thus be tabulated: Value | Loss Gold |Tons. | Per Ton.|Per Ton.|Extraction. Mines. DROPOUT kes ee hk bh PTE TOE Sige bk cena ss NOGr esis. se igi cs SERA rn A Sacramento Total ...... GaUy Sold ee 200 $14.00 | $2.10 | $2,380.00 Gk om caine woe der es 55 50 9.00 10.00 1.80 2.00 396.00 400.00 ere ee ai. 60 9.00 1.35 459.00 50 10.00 eg e e ae SG Gir ae DPORUCt co's « ccee va hs Cet 2.00 hike eee 400.00 - $4,035.00 Fresence Every here ates of this proud city. * * * stage of the city’s development for forty years was witnessed oy its most interesting structure—the Salt Lake Temple. The life of the two—the city and the Temple—began upon the same day, and as the one slowly unfolded, the walls of the other slowly ascended. Every layer of stone in the great structure, if it could speak, would tell of some material step in the city’s progress. The Temple saw the arrival of the first of the great wagon trains from beyond the plains; it saw the coming of the first pony express; it saw the completion into Salt Lake of the first line of telegraph, and listened to the click of the instrument that transmitted the first message sent to civilization; it heard the whistle of the first Union Pacific locomotive in Utah, and witnessed the completion of the Rio Grande Western; it heard the sound of the first blast which heralded the opening of Utah’s great mining resources; it saw the wave of humanity which, during recent years, has been sweeping over the Rockies and spreading this city farther and farther from its center; and all the while, from that distant day when Brigham Young drove the first stake on its site and said: “Here will we build the Temple of the Lord;” until that other day—forty years later—when, in the presence of a vast multitude, it was surmounted with its golden angel and dedicated to the worship of God; it saw anger, hatred and prejudice gradually give way to unity, neighborly love and peace, prosperity and happiness grown steadily, sometimes pace has now and then been cial conditions, but what it times taken on under the prosperity. justice, of until now the entire it looks forth upon the people. The city has rapidly, throughout its entire history. Its lessened by crop failures or adverse finanhas lost from these causes, it has at other stimulus of mining activity and national Se tiae, “Oo Sage |