Show EXODUSTOHE MINES Four Hundred People Visited the Great Camps TINTIC TOOK THE CROWD t SILVER CITY MINES THE GREAT ATTRACTION 4 Mining Operators Inspect the Famous Producers and New Properties That Are Being Opened Up Visit to the Mammoth and Other Mines Mercurs Growth + The Oregon Short Line excursion to Mercur and Tintic yesterday was a big success Over 400 people took advantage ad-vantage of the opportunity to see the great camps in the south Mercur was not so much of an attraction a the Tintic district About ninety people went to the gold camp in Camp Floyd district while over 300 distributed themselves between Eureka Mammoth and Silver City The latter place was the destination of a large majority of the passengers Silver City is a very active camp at present The hills are full of prospectors pros-pectors and more mines are being worked now than ever before Here are located the Swansea South Swansea Swan-sea Star Consolidated Martha Washington Wash-ington and other wellknown properties proper-ties At Mammoth Is the great Mammoth Mam-moth mine the Grand Central and Ajax while at Eureka is the Centen nialEureka BullionBeck and other big producers The train arrived in Tintic a trifle late Some of the excursionists went Irl I for pleasure others made it a matter of business The snow has entrY disappeared so the visitors put in their time in looking over the great mineral district and those who had never been in the camp before gained an idea of the enormity of its wealthproducing resources I Among the excursionists were a number of prominent mining men I W H Hubbard and W J Lawrence spent the day at the Star Consolidated and the Boss Tweed group which they j i say are looking 1 fine I Albert S Day the successful manager i man-ager of the La Relne took a party of I friends up to that promising mine I which is said to be one of the best propositions in the Tintie district for the amount of work that has been done I E WarreH and Chancy Rutlidge were attracted to the Molly Bawn from which the have hopes of taking out millions They also have other interests in-terests In Tintic and will be absent from the city several days I A T Moon one of the leading spirits in the Utah Mine and Stock Exchange put in his time at the May Day and the Yankee Consolidated in which properties he is a large holder of I stock I Judge H E Booth one of the Dexter Dex-ter directors explored the Star Consolidated Con-solidated He believes this mine to be one of the coming properties of the Tintlc district He was so pleased with what he saw that he loaded his pockets with samples James Cunningham president of the great BullionBeck mine spent the time he had in looking at the new bodies of ore recent struck in the workings and in making an inspection of the eompanjs big mill which has turned out thousands of dollars in dividends divi-dends B A McMillan is very deeply interested ested in the Rabbits Foot near Silver City He owns considerable stock in the company and vms in the mine to inspect the new strike of ore reported several days ago The new vein of ore is about six inches in width and is very finelooking stuff N R Watterman has his eye on the Boston S Tintic group and is inquiring inquir-ing into the possibilities which be there I I I I i J F Corker secretary of the Mammoth I Mam-moth spent the day at that eompanjs I j i I big 600stamp mill He accompanied apart a-part of visitors including a Herald representative through the building along with the efficient superintendent Mr M ORourkc The mill is one of the most complete in the intermountain west I has a capacity of 180 tons a i I dajJames I James Earls superintendent of the j Mammoth mine who has had charge I I I of the underground workings of the property for years escorted the part down to the lSOO level where brief explorations ex-plorations were made through the drifts I drifs The mine is in a most excellent condition con-dition and contains simply immense bodies of ore I Meicur Excursionists I Among the familiar figures on the train to Mercur were those of Charles Reid R W Nicol Grant H Smith and a few others but the greater portion of the people appeared to be of a class who had relatives and friends in the camp with whom they wished to visit for a day I Mercur is building up rapidly par i tlcularlj the residence portion of the town which bears evidence of much activity at the lumber yards Men and teams were noticeable at several points clearing ground and grading out for new buildings Business enterprises of nearly every description are represented repre-sented in the town and all seem to be prospering The ride over the Salt Lake Mer cur railroad from Fairfield to the big goldproducing camp a distance of I oldprouclng twelve miles is a delightfully surprising I surpris-ing one The roadbed is so full of horseho bends sharp curves switchbacks switch-backs and heavy grades that a laCkS gdes person traveling over it for the first time is continually losing his bearings Travelers Trav-elers familiar with the method employed em-ployed in constructing the railroad over Marshall Pass would find in the little road to Mercur from Fairfield with Its track narrowgauge broadgauge trck wguge coaches on broadgauge trucks with quaint sidegeared Shay engine something to talk and think about for a week The railroad officials particularly 1 Dan Spencer deserve great credit for the manner in which the excursionists were made comfortable Mr Spencer personal conducted the train to Sil |