| Show I SOME ACTIVE woRK IN THE COTTONWOODS Marked Revisal in the Famous Old Camps Mining men wen informed as to the conditions at Alta and the Cottonwood C1J1ons have every reason to believe that dUring the next year the mines in Salt Lakes nearest camps will show wonderful activity More development work was done during last year and a greater tonnage of are was sent down to the coal smelters for treatment than any year since the close or the palmy days In Alta There has been a gen eralrevival and many mining men expect ex-pect to see the once prosperous camp return to the conditions when the Emma and Flagstaff mines were pro ducing their mIllions 1t has been a difficult matter to get any exact figures but the estimated output ot the mines In Big and Little Cottonwood Is placed close to 3000 tons or an Increase or100 per cent over 1893 Among the prIncIpal producerS of Little Lit-tle Cottonwood during the year were the Oregon Montezuma Albion City Racks and Grizzly Of the two distrIcts Little Cottonwood Cotton-wood has probably shown greater eI jencCiS of the return at prcsperlty BRYAN GROUP The Bryan group whIch was worked by DaIs 8 Tlpto In ISIS was < tIn t-In the early part of the summer to A H S Bird an English capitalist who bas oclated with him Clarence K McCornlck or thIs Some very extensive development work has been done there during the past fete months and some extensive operations are planned for 1900 Iessrs Bird and Mc CornIck have also acquired some adjoining ad-joining claims which makes the group ot considerable magnitude A tine showing of lead silver gold and copper cop-per ere has been disclosed The mine has made several good shipments The City Rocks has ben to the acttYJ list and William Green has a small r force of men employed there The Silver King has been operate during the past year under the direction direc-tion of Clgsson S Kinney and asgo elates of Salt Lake H C Wallace operated the Grizzly with considerable vigor durIng the year The mine has one of the boot showings In the camp At the Albion mines some extensive Improvements were mad New pumping pump-Ing machinery necessitating an outlay of about 5000 wea installed In the early part ot the year The mine can be expected ex-pected to make a gratifyIng showing during the next twelve months MONTEZUMA The Montezuma mIne 19 owned by Detroit Mich parties and has been operated during the last year under the direction ot Superintendent John Bettes The property has made a large number of shipments showing a good profit above the expenses of production pro-duction Ore going as high as 130 ounces silver 60 per cent lead and i In gold has been shipped to the smelters smelt-ers The Oregon group formerly owned by Tames Iahon was Incorporated last sprihg The mine has been active all the year and has made a splendid shipping shIp-ping recorj The Peruvian group showed good results re-sults from the development work done there The company was reorganized during the year and new life Infused Into the directory The Rustler a property owned by Judge T T Anderson was worked under un-der a bonn and lease The AlaJx mine operated by Salt Lake parties was the scene of considerable con-siderable activity A new shaft is being be-Ing sunk In which some very high grade gold are has ben dIsClosed NEW STATE Exporatory work was taken up In the New State mine during the tall Adrift A-drift was started from the main tunnel tun-nel and about two wEeks ago the ire chute whIch has been followed some sixty feet disclosed some rock In a six Inch streak giving assay values of over 3000 to the ton The Free Coinage owned tA Salt Lake parties has made good progress BIG COTTONWOOD Big Cottonwood shows great evidence of coming prosperity and a great deal of development work was In progress during the year A large force of men was employed at the axfield On over toward the Brighton resort considerable development work was done In a search for copper In nearlY every case claimowners have met with success sUICtC is believe by some that several regular shippers ot copper qre m the heretofore unexploresd part of1he district dis-trict will assert themselves next year Plans are being made to open up I many of the old producers of the camp |
