| Show ARK CITY PICKINGS The Ore and Bullion Shipments of the Week A STRIKE IN TH STEAMBOAT The Silver KincThe Lucky BIllThe Russell Process A Small Strike in the Creole A hnowslide The Alliance vein has not been tapped yet etWalter Walter Bryant the civil engineer was in the Park this week The lessees of the Creole No 1 made a small strike this week The Woodside vein will soon be cut by the drift from the shaft The Ontario employees received their monthly payments Tuesday Dan Bader and F C Thompson spent part of the week in Salt Lake Building Inspector A M Grant of Salt Lake was in the Park this week Deputy Marshals A Dyer and James Doyle were in the Park this week Bary Rice representative of Goldsmith Co came up from Zion Sunday Tho output ot the Ontario this week was 26 bars of bullion valued at 20G8S The Crescent concentrator shipped this week 191000 pounds of concentrates Tho Union concentrator has been closed this week for repairs It wilt resume work Monday Miss Lillie Kearnes telephone operatoro returned Wednesday from a visit to Gun nison Utah George Burton vicepresident of the Lucky Bill mine is in town looking after the improvements at that property Among the Salt Lakers who wero in the Park this week were C P Brooks Robert iorlinski W G Van Horne and I N Parker Bob Davis an oldtimer in the Park who has been away for a couple of j ears returned Monday and will probably decide to remain Rev Father Galligan returned this week from a tour to Ireland The pupils of St Marys school gave him a reception Monday Mon-day evening Hon E P Ferry started for Tacoma Washington Saturday last He went byway by-way of Butte to look after his mining interests terests there The Crescent is sending down sixty cars of ore a day to tho concentrator The tramway trains have been increased to twelve cars this week Tho Anchor made a 220 ton shipment this week Tho advance in the price of stock keeps pace with the increase in tho size of shipments Anchor is all right A snowslide occurred at the head of Thayns cal on last week which carried a Mr Peterson about O feet down the hill He received only a few bruises Mrs Anna Robbins wife of Alvin Robbins Rob-bins died in Snyderville Thursday of typhoid fever There are other serious I cases of the disease at that place Mrs J W Savage was examined again I this week as to her sanity and declared insane in-sane She was taken to the asylum at Provo Thursday by Sheriff Weber At the meeting of the Salt Lake Medical L society Monday evening last Dr G D Gregor of the Park real a paper on Fevers in the InterMountain Region Royse Lansings company in Toms Vacation will appear at the opera house Wednesday evening next Salvinis musi cat combination follows on Thursday evening even-ing ingA A party by the name of Ether was lined 50 l the police court Friday for battery on John Graham One drunk and two cases of fighting completed the business of the court for the week Indications at Eosebub group point to a rich strike very soon Smith Ehengei the ownerhas been working for long time in the tunnel to tap the vein He has found two veins and will soon tap the third Mackintoshs sampler shipped this week the following lots of ore Ontario 283300 pounds Anchor 441445 pounds Mayflower May-flower firstclass 83100 pounds Mayflower May-flower concentrates 20000 pounds Total 833545 pounds The assessment work for this year on the Oldham Plumed Knight and O don has been completed J H Rogers and J Oldham are the owners They have two good claims which on tho surface average about six ounces A small cave occurred at the Daly Monday Mon-day A Kelmstor was working in sof t ground and had orders from Foreman Judge to timber it properly He neglected to d 0 this and as a result is now under surgica care in St Marys hospital Salt Lake Hi 0 was cut and bruised pretty badly by tbj 0 falling rock Arrangements are being made by the Montreal company to place the property in shape for active work this winter Supplies Sup-plies timber bagging etc are being put in and shortly tho force of men will D increased in-creased The excutive committee of the board of directors will bo out in a few day to examine the property C A Springer is in charge Mention was made a couple of weeks ago of the improvements contemplated at the Lucky Bill mine Development work for 1 number of years has been done through I tunnel but the directors have decided upon a change and have started a shaft It will be a double compartment shaft 4x8 feet in the clear and 300 feet in depth I is expected that it will be completed before spring A strike was made this week in the Steamboat tunnel on Silver creek An account ac-count of the property Was given in our last weeks letter and it was stated that it was expected one of the veins would soon be cut I was tapped Monday and showed up two feet of medium grade ore The owners of the property are very much encouraged en-couraged and if they secure good assays will commence shipments at once The Silver King was started up last Sunday Sun-day I will be worked under lease by the lesses of the Mayflower No 7 Two shift were put to work to start with which will bo increased as soon as the improvements contemplated are completed An engine house 30x30 feet will be orectedand hoisting hoist-ing machinery used in place of the whim which is doing the work now The Silver King lies on the course of tho vein which has yielded such wealth in the Woo side Mayflower and Northland The lesses who understand the ground are confident that the mine will turn out as well as the Mayflower Itois to bo hoped that it will It will be of great benefit to the town A number of tests were made in the Park this summer of Leadville and Aspen ores by the Russell lixivation process The results were satisfactory and a company has been organized in Leadvill to work the ores of that region by tho process I will operate in Leadville and in Aspen and in both places mills will be erected The officers and the stockholders of the company are C H Graham R T Green W S Morse E R Holden and R Cline Great interest is taken in this process by Parkites on account of its baring bar-ing been invented hero by E H Russell tho first experiments being made at the Ontario mill From the annual report of Charles A Short deputy county superintendent of schools to the territorial commissioner the following interesting figures are taken The total number of children between six and eighteen years of age in the county is 2090 of which 1061 are Mormon and 1033 nonMormons the former being be-ing twentythree in the majority Out of the total number 1244 attended the district schools 380 tho private schools and 472 were not in school at all Park City has the largest school population 715 and Coalville follows with 425 Grass Creek has tho smallest only 19 The seventeen sev-enteen districts of the county are as follows fol-lows in the order of their numbers Hen nefer Coalville Hoytsville Wanship Rockport Peoa South Kamas Upton Sny derville North Kamas Woodland Park City Oak Creek Ontario Cafion Castle Rock Echo and Grass Creek Twenty three teachers were employed in the ounty last year and were jaid in salaries j 7000 Park City and Ontsritreafloifpaid ver half the amount to their four teachers 13800 The total value of s tlool prop rty is 20000 of which Park City owns 18000 or nearly threefourths CAS |
