| Show t MINING IN UTAH COUNTY JI Atiye4espmeit Work I AiiIerican Fork Canyon and I I Other Districts otwltsadhlg the fact that Utah is generally referred to a a agricultural agricul-tural county there a fund within her confines the whole or important par of eleen prominent mIning districts dis-tricts including a of Eldordo and SataQuin districts In the south alt of Lhl Peepstone American Fork Silver Lake and IDlne In the north Provo district wblci lies Just east of the city whoseame It bears almost all if Norh Tntc dbtrct as well as import tant producing setons of the famous Tintc and Camp Floyd districts In the great Tntlc district within the confines of Utah county are such mme < the Humbui Sioux Utah North emit Spv all of which have been Important Im-portant factor In the production of wealth for Utah and her people Both theEldordo and Sataquln dls trcts contain prpees whIch have i been indnstrfousiy worked during the auu llan owner are now angng for a United States patent thUs insuring the permanency of the development Both are 1DarUvely new districts and It will taKe further development to bring them to the front a producer Ot the districts In the northern end of the county American Fork leads In development Lehi Alpine and Silver Lake a however coming to the front and will male a god showing there net season tee of the county the foJowlngromIwn Of the orzed mining districts of the county the following have demanded demand-ed and received their records from the cQmmIsoners North TInUc EldD Silver mado Lehi Lake American Fork Alpine and Provo mining district Is necessarily disorganized under the state law because be-cause It Is within less than ten attica of the county seat Considerable work Is In progress in this district however and valuable copper and gold veins have been discovered Il the mIning line the coal posbl ties should not b overlooked Several promising veins have bee discovered and the State Canyon company Is now prosecuting development with a good sho o success The Iron deposits In East Tntc are famous the deposits of clay promise to make Utah county a foremost figure In brick and pottery manufacture the marble In Hobble creek and American Fork and the onyx of the wet shore of Utah lake owned by Lehl cannot be excelled The mineral production of Utah county will soon place i In the front ranks of the state and we will desere the tItle Qf a mineral as well as a agricultural county countACA FOR This mining district has had a great past and It i believed that It has a greater future athou h between periods tier has been a long interval of quietude From about 180 to 180 the Miller mine at the head of Amer can Fork canyon was one of the most famous properties in Utah 1 was operated ated by a Nen York corporation had a smelter at Forest City and a railroad down the canyon t Amercn ork The production of the mine was great but mismanagement kIe the corn pay the smelter Is dlat fhe railroad Is torn up and the great Miller and lies Idle mine is again a prospect ad les watng agn some future enterprise But while the old baa gone we renew re-new properties coming to the front Nen and vigorous developmentis ta tag 1 place in American For canyon which indications sow will soon b < come seton one o Uts prominent producIng A few of the properties which have ben In course of development dung the pat year are briefly mentioned FIr we have te Sunday highest up the canyon ant one of the brightest or all Owned by H F Full ride or Eureka and being worked under un-der lease by W S Pearce the SundaY has during the pat year shipped con sderle ore some running a high a > 50 to the ton Silver Dipper rhls is owned and worked by IT S Pierce and has shipped one carload of good pay ore during the sean The Live Yankee under lease to Johra Chadwick is run ninsr a tunnel nrthweat tnwrtri th hli vein sand s constantly working two shifts The Kalamazoo is patented ground owned by Phil Margetttt J Peters T R Cutler and the W 11 Brown estate and Is being worked under lease by Isaac Wadley No extraction of ore has been attempted attempt-ed but diligent prespecting has been done along the vein In the past many tons of good orehave gone to themar ket Wild Dutchman patented and owned by eastern parties is being worked under lease by George Summervilleand H J Kmuse and has this year shipped four carloads of good values The Whirlwind joins the WIld Dutchman and has bad considerable development this year by Memcer Co who have been running a tunnel northeast to catch the main vein The Silver King owned by Johia and Charles D Armstrong Arm-strong has been worked all season by a force of three or four men The in dine is down thirtyfive feet Th property has just been bonded by B H and H D Boisy for 810000 the bond running to Jan 1 1101 The fill ver King is generally spoken of as the stilt prospect of American Fork can von Ittammoth Nos 1 and 2 are new properties but have a tenfoot vein of copper ore on the surface showing 5 per ccot Vigorous development develop-ment in the spring lists already been arranged for In the Peter Vannaughten ore was just struck this fall with a threefoot vein of PaY mineral and the best running up to500 per ton As soon an weather permits work will be resumed The Ontario is now ahippng regularly and working two shifts It is owned by James Chip man John Chadwick and Edw Winn The Treasure same crnners as Ontario las a 400foot tunnel and has taken out and shipped rich ore this yenr erne being silver chloride of 400 to 500 ounces values The Blue Bock Three mesa are noss stnklnr tinder contract Ott a vein fitteen feet wide Values at thirtyseven feet depth are reported as high as 125 per cent p per |
