Show I 4iNG THE MINING CAMPS 4 Gold Discoveries Made by A G Campbell in Nevada J IRON COUNTYS WEALTH t A Region That Is Rich in Iron Coal and the Precious Metals A A STRIKE IN THE SUMMIT j r Twelve Feet of Ore and No Foot wall Yet Park City Xotes Interesting Review of the History of the Old Hawkeye MliiON of Granite Oregon Strike In the Cuniherlnnd Suit Liilce I Syndicate Working1 Ulch Placer JlIfiTBTlnsH AVntcr Power front Mountain Streams Worth Tilitic R orfamljre < tt End of the Lead t w ville Strike Shoving for the Golden Gol-den tluceii The lUg Four Cower ln e Mention was made yesterday in these columns that Hon Allen G Campbell had returned from his southern visit and 1 was stated that during his absence ab-sence he had made promising gold dis 5 coveri in a new district After leaving Milford Mr Campbell went as fa south as the State Line j district and after a short stay there i went over t his ranch in Lincoln county coun-ty Nevada from which place he started start-ed on a prospecting expedition into the j mountains twelve miles east j For a number O yeais Mr Campbell in going from his ranch to Milford has picked up float along the roadside which when assayed never carried i gold values of less than 250 to the j 1 ton and often as high a 20 and he has often asked the ranchmen of Eagle valley if there was any gold in the j mountains the answer invariably being j be-ing in the negative On this prospect trip however Mr M CampbtU found what he considers a the mal Lg of a good gold camp and although he had but little time in wh c to prospect the surface indic j tions were 5 favorable that he made fifteen locations which were filed for record with the recorder of Eagle min J ing district ig dirIct i A The ledges in this practically unexplored unex-plored region according to Mr Campbell Camp-bell are very wide and the cropping j strong the vein apparently being a i true fissure In a porphyretlc formation j and while the entire ledge is not rich in mineral there a streaks and bundles in the vein in which there is free gold and which horns well This new camy is about eight or ten Iniles south and a short distance west j from the State Line district which 1 > laC it just over the line in Nevada and a the ledges discovered tend to I the north and south there is every r son to believe that they are a continuation I continua-tion of the gold ore zones on which the State Line discoveries are located and Mr Campbell after visiting State Line believed that this was the case before 0 starting out on his prospecting trip into the heretofore unexplored region where be made the locations above men toned and he states that the ledges t in the new camp are much larger than those of the State Line district and he is so well pleased over the showing that > be will at once send some men down to j j i l his new discoveries and demonstrate j I I by development the value of his find and he is sanguine of good results as the ore is or > ipojsea of spar and quartz i that has a bOod live appearance Mr Campbell was very favorably im pressed with the State Line district and is of the opinion that it will develop de-velop into a rich and productive camp So far as know there is only one other man interested in the new camp found by Mr Campbell and this is a iospector named Troutman who secured se-cured good locations there Mr Trout man left the new district some time before be-fore Mr Campbell took his departure I and has been in the city several days j Since the discovery of State Line dis i trict a rich gold find has been made ten miles north of that camp and from I this in connection with the discovery reported by Mr Campbell it would I seem a If the gold zone of that region I could be traced for a distance of twenty twen-ty mien n mie-n r Power from Mountain Streams I Among miners and others in the west J there is a growing tendency t utilize J 3 motive power small streams which j have hitherto been considered inadeQuate i > inade-quate as sources of power We are be l ginning to realize that head counts as wc11 a volume and that a little stream with several hundred feat head may be I as valuable a source of power as a l more imposing fall of much lower head ThC another consideration that j should be taken hiito account is the fact i that the little stream needs no expensive expen-sive dam or headworks to confine it j but can be tapped and guided at comparatively com-paratively small expense and instead o being allowed t fail freely it can J be led in a pipe which carefully nurses it l and thus con be conveyed quite I a distance down the mountain accumulating cumulating power a it descends until I It shoots out with great force in the I water wheel or quietly exerts its wute exert it pressure I pres-sure In the chambers of a direct air I compressor But a short time since the writer visited a plant that was being installed I SOOO feet up In the mountains Rather than Incur the expense of transporting j wrought iron pipes to such a distance I a small pair of bending rolls were purchased I J pur-chased and these with a portable i J lorg constituted the entire equip i ment nd three men me were employed turning out length after length o riv cted pipe right on the spot where I was to be used The pipeline was being put in about 500 feet up the canyon to bring down some 200horse power to where it was to be used to propel a wheel The operation seemed somewhat jrimiUve at first sight but it was effective t fective and the expense certainly was n minimum There are hundreds of streams throughout the west that can be similarly operated with but a slight first cost which to a very great degree the would materially aid in building up World mining industry Western Mining Vorld North Tlntie Reorganized I The Eureka Democrat says At a meeting of the miners of North Tintic I Mining district state of Utah held pursuant pur-suant to the call of the recorder L T Jacobs at his office August 29 1S93 the following business was transacted Meeting was called to order by Recorder Re-corder Jacobs Hugo Deprizen was chosen cnairman and L l Armstrong secretary The chairman read the call and addressed ad-dressed the meeting outlining its object ob-ject and suggested that owing t the recent ruling of the register and receiver re-ceiver of the United States land office regarding Fort Cnttenden reservation that North Tintic Mining district be reorganized and reconstructed then presented the following RESOLUTIONS Whereas the ruling of the register and receiver of the U S land office in Salt Lake city in regard to the Ft Crittenden reservation is supposed to annul all claims located thereon prior to April 9 1895 and Whereas Part of the claims located I in North Tintic Mining district conflict with said reservation and Whereas Those claims have been located and worked in good faith by their respective owners up to date the boundaries of same not being sufficiently suffic-iently and definitely described be it Resolved That the district known as the North Tintic Mining district as organized on May 4 1S91 be and is hereby reconstructed and reorganized with the same boundaries Resolved That all locations now on record in the books of the old and original orig-inal North Tintic Mining district are hereby made and declared valid and I legal provided their owners have complied I com-plied with all the requirements of the laws pertaining to them Resolved That the bylaws of the I old North Tintic Mining district are i herewith adopted and declared the bylaws I by-laws of the new district as reorganized I i today for its government and guidance I Resolved That it is left to the option I of all claim holders to relocate their 1 i claims if they so elect and that Sec 10 of the bylaws is herewith suspended I j until January 1 1897 for that purpose and be it further I Resolved That L T Jacobs the recorder of the North Tintic Mining district be and is hereby reelected I and retained as recorder of the North Tintic is elected Mining district until his successor I Resolutions carried There being no I further business before the meeting on journed motion of Patrick Shea the meeting ad journedHUGO HUGO DEPRIZEN Chairman L M ARMSTRONG Secretary IIIOX COUNTYS WEAITH A Region Rich in Iron Goal and the Precious MctaJs In Whitneys History of Utah there is an interesting account of the early settlement set-tlement of Iron county in the southwestern south-western portion of the state from which it would appear that it was then the intention in-tention of making this locality the Pittsburg of Utah and this may yet be accomplished for there is no other spot in this great intermountain country coun-try where nature has been so prodigal in her deposits of coal and iron Nearly forty years ago blast furnaces were established at Cedar City in Iron county and for a time the manufacture of pig iron was the leading industry of I the county The coal for the furnaces was obtained obtain-ed from the inexhaustible beds of coal in Coal Creek canyon a few miles east of Cedar and the iron ore was hauled I from the vallew about twelve miles west while lime rock for flux was found almost within the city limits of the town I The manufacture of iron was not altogether a success however a the product was too hard being almost like i steel still before the advent of the Utah Central railroad into Salt Lake I Iron county pig iron was in demand and the metal was used in this city for various purposes and today there are I many old grates in this city that were manufactured from iron brought from I Iron county Later on large and expensive reduc tion works were established at Iron City a mile or so down the canyon from Iron mountain and a foundry and ironworks I iron-works were among its embellishments but for some reason either because the j iron ore was too rich to handle or because I be-cause of the building of a railroad into i i this city the works were not a success i suc-cess however and today this plant j with its deserted town in which there were several fine buildings including I a brick church and schoolhouse stands as a monument to the enterprise and lack of foresight of its builders But even if the manufacture o iron in Iron county was a partial failure forty years ago this does not detract in the least o the fact that this county has a wonderful future before it in its I wealth of iron its wealth of coal and I the wealth of its mineral deposits and when the time is ripe for their utilization I utiliza-tion it is safe to say that this region I will become one of the most important I sections of the state financially commercially com-mercially and otherwise for with the establishment there of big iron smelters i I iron works and manufactories there i will come employment for labor a demand I de-mand for the products of the range 1 field and garden and i will be demonstrated I I demon-strated that with the working of the coal and iron deposits of the county there will come greater and more permanent per-manent wealth than ever attends the development of gold and Llver mines There are but few even in Utah who have the least conception of the extent ex-tent of the cal beds of Iron county I who have the least idea of the magnitude magni-tude of the mountains of iron ore so I conveniently near but the day will come however when the people of this state will point with pride to these wonderful resources and will view with satisfaction the establishment of great iron works in this locality for it is only a question of time before the anticipations antic-ipations and hopes of the citizens of Iron county will be realized in this respect re-spect and when these works are in full blast when iron and steel rails are manufactured there for the western trade when stoves and ranges and machinery ma-chinery of every description are turned out in any quantity desired then the people of Utah will realize the fact that the south is no longer the tail end of the state Southern Utah has one great need and this is direct railroad communication communica-tion and facilities Any number of paper railroads have been built into that region but a great deal of smoke always indicates the existence ILence of some fire and i is to be hoped that the latest lat-est effort in the line of railroad building build-ing will lead to something tangible and that Thomas Taylors scheme to build i from Cedar City to Los Angeles will soon bear fruit I STRIKE ix THE CUJlnEIUAXD Good Ore Uncovered on the Hnndred Foot Level The managers of the Cumberland mine at Park City are jubilant on account count of recent exceedingly rich developments devel-opments in the property Work has been prosecuted very vigorously for some months and o the 100foot level good ore was struck and the indications indica-tions were splendid Sinking from the 100foot level they have gone through a solid vein of ore of fourteen feet and sold ven or fourtee fet a i f > have not yet struck the foo wall The ore assays 75 ounces silver 3 in gold and 50 per cent lead The good news was telegraphed from the Park lost night to the secretary of the company Anderson and he says with the showing made they expect t commence shipping ore by October 1 PARK RECORD NOTES Interesting Review of thc History oC the Old Hajvkeye The fact that the old Hawkeye property pro-perty has been leased and bonded has revived many stories among old timers I concerning its parly history and there I I is a firm belief on the part of a large number that i is destined to be one of Park Citys richest and heaviest producers pro-ducers It i said that the shot which opened the flood gates and drowned the miners out also uncovered a rich vein of ore a large specimen of which i is asserted was brought to the sur I I I face by one of the men chased out The water came in in such volume that I nothing could be done with i without costly pumping machinery and even then it was doubtful whether the flow could be handled by pumping and a the company was hard pressed for i funds the property was abandoned and has been idle ever since The shaft filled with water the machinery was taken away and the mine buildings went to rack and ruin When the Ontario On-tario drain tunnel was run it tapped the water course in the Hawkeye and the mine is now dry hence can be easily worked The process of cleaning out the shaft and putting the mine in shape will be watched with great interest in-terest by a large number of people all of whom are certain that good ore will be found as soon as the point is reached where the water was encountered en-countered and the new company has the best wishes of the entire camp for rich results result I CAMP CROSSCUTS Owing to the tightness of money the Putnam mine was closed down on Sep tember 1 to await the verdict of the American people regarding the future of silver The only fear is that many other prospects will have to do likewise wiseWeber Weber Kearns have curtailed the i I force employed at their jiggs and are now working only one shift instead of three The reduction of force was rendered ren-dered necessary because of a scarcity of dirt the three shifts having used up the big dump upon which operations were begun this spring Wednesday last the pinion wheel in the gearing of the Woodside hoisting engine was stripped and a a result the mine had t close down until a new one could be made An order was sent into the Eagle foundry in Salt Lake but as i will require several days to i i make a pattern and cast a new wheel the mine will not resume until sometime some-time next wpplr un John Diem and Rasband brothers will resume operations on their American Fork property next week Heber Ras band being in charge of the work I is a gold proposition and shows values of from 5 to 2650 in the yellow metal with a few ounces in silver The ore is an iron pyretes and the smelting charges are quite high being averaged at S32 oar ton hence the ore at nresent value will not pay but the boys hope to see the quality of rock improve with depth as some ore of that character is now being shipped that goes as high as 92 per ton a dividendpaying figure We hope the boys will find a like value with depth j Work has been suspended at the Bog I Bo-g property and the water now has possession of the shaft All the rumors about pumps being broken and boilers strained are without foundation the simple truth being that owing to the low price of silver and lead and the general disturbance in the mining industry in-dustry it is impossible to sell stock or raise money to carry on a prospecting enterprise and rather than jeopardize the interests of the company or levy another assessment it was decided to I close down the property No damage is apprehended from water in the shaft a it does not rise above a certain point and a brief siege of pumping will enable work to resume at any time On the last page of this impression will be found an article descriptive of I the principle involved in the Peck concentrator I j j con-centrator The article is quite complete I com-plete and well worth reading The lat jest j I i est news concerning Park Citys plant to use the Peck system is to the I effect that every man has been laid off and the building nailed up tight in which condition it is boldly given out it will remain until after the election The writer believes however that the place being ready for the machinery the arrival of which is a mere matter i 1 of conjecture has been closed until such time as it can be delivered and I I that when it does arrive it will be at I once placed in position and a test made of its efficiency We do not believe the I order for the machinery has been countermanded coun-termanded but feel that as all preliminary pre-liminary wor has been done nothing remained but to close the plant down until the machinery arrived which will be a soon as the mills having the contract con-tract it can complete the order and ship The IndependentTesora Mining com I pany of Park City whose property is I located at Diamond in Tintic mining district held a meeting Tuesday evening I even-ing at Dr G D Gregors office Besides Be-sides hearing and acting upon the managers annual report a new board I of directors were chosen as follows G D Gregor K A Kjos A Leichter John Nimmo and Victor Holmquist The old officers will all be reelected with the exception of the general manager and foreman which office will go to a new man On Wednesday morning Messrs Leichter and Kjos of the company accompanied by C E Ford and Oscar Lawrence left for the mine by team intending to drive down via Provo They will be absent several days The mine is now free from water and looking extra well and the company expects t begin shipping ore in the near future j ORE SHIPMENTS I Following are the ore shipments from the McIntosh Sampler for the present week Silver King 923290 Creek jiggings 111440 Jlggmg 1140 Vallejo 7700 Total 1042430 MIXES AT GRtAXlTE OREGON A Big Salt Lake Syndicate Working PIncer Diggings The town of Granite nestled in a little cove at the base of Cabel and Greenhorn mountains says the Baker I City Democrat is without doubt the centre of one of the richest and inexhaustible inex-haustible gold fields in America Placer Pla-cer mining from 1862 to the present time has been the chief industry but during this time quartz development I ha been going on and with grand results re-sults Here is situated the well known La Bellevue mine with its 8000 feet of i development work the Red Boy a steady producer the Surprise and Ornament Or-nament mines with a three foot vein of grey copper ore that will go 500 tote to-te ton the Ibex with ore so rich in gold that the four owners James Fain Ed Mahan Andy Dewer and Joseph Mikel can safely estimate their wealth at 50000 each from the ore now sacked and ready for shipment to the reduc I i ton works to say nothing of a three foot vein of ore in the face of the tun nel that will go 200 to the ton and many other properties too numerous to mention that show such evidences of wealth as to guarantee increased pro perity and at a rapid rate from this time on At this point is the basis of oper tions of the Salt Lake syndicate composed I com-posed of Apostle Heber J Grant and other heads of the great Mormon I church The Interests of the syndicate are under the management of Mr B I F Grant a very capable man and a great outlay of money is being made J I 1 The syndicate own about twenty miles 7 dl I of placer ground on the north fork of the John Day river and with the building I build-ing of large ditches and reservoirs and i I J the operation of the mines there is an 1 activity that bespeaks confidence and I I activiy tat bepeaks confdence ad good times The syndicate employs about 100 men and will continue to do so until winter set in A few days ago Apostle Grant and others of the syndicate syndi-cate visited Granite and the mines and were so well pleased with their investment invest-ment that they agreed upon enlarged operations at once SOTUKE IX THE SUMMIT rvFclve Feet ofRich Ore and No Foot Wall Yet IDAHO CITY Sept 5A few days j ago the owners of the Summit mine reached the vein i the shaft at the depth of 110 feet They have gone twelve feet into it without finding the footwaH and Mr Ragland one of the owners says that it is his opinion that i the mine is a monster in size and that I the former owners never had any idea a to the immense body of ore that awaits extraction The rock is rich I will mill at least 75 per ton in free gold Drifting will go on a soon as the vein is crossed and most likely the shaft wil be put down to the depth of 100 feet more without delay This mine is situated at the head of Wolf creek where many discoveries that promise much were made about two years ago A short distance east of the Summit is the Lagraciosa which is working right along The tunnel is running west following the vein and some good ore has been developed and the owners expect to soon reach the ore chute that throws the rich float South of the Lagraciosa is the New York to develop which a tunnel is now being run In sixty feet more it will cut the i vein which i will follow into the I mountain I nhe company holding a working bond on the Sub Rosa is still drifting on the I vein Mr Shed the superintendent says that he hopes to cut the ore chute by October 1 Vilnius Notes anti PersoiinlH Ore hauling has been commenced i from the Velejo the new mine owned by Urban Dahlgren and others to Park City and the ore in the mine is improving im-proving with depth Unless all signs fail the Veejo will coon develop into a i paying investment to the owners Wa sa > tch Wave The HeraldDemocrat of Leaidville of the 5th stains that the Leadvitte strike has been raised by a advance in the I scale of wages and that the Bohni j Mining company has resumed work I again The scale as now fixed will be agn day fee skilled miners and 250 I fo trammers and top men Mjor A V Bohn manager of the Bonn Mining company is interested in mining enterprises enter-prises in Cedar valley in Camp Floyd mining district A correspondent from Ashley to the I Wasatcfli Wave says S D Colton Co owners of the Big Four a claim joining i I the Dyer are working a force of twenty odd men The deposit seems t be a I blanket formation and they are chlo I riding the surface The company i claims R is paying them very well although al-though they have to haul their ore J about 140 miles to the railroad Of course all tiiis will be obviated in the near future when Vernal gets to be the easterou terminus of Ithe Provo and Reservation I Res-ervation extenion of the R G W George T Bean EL W Ramlose and I others of the prospecting force came j home a week ago today They brought I some good rocks witch them The best we have seen was decomposed quartz I containing free gold from the Handicap They have found sever leads oIL this sort of nock and being quite encouraged with the outlook let a contract for a thirtyfivefoot tunnel Hy Hansen and Barney Middlemus have begun work on the Golden Queen where they have a fourfoot ledge of gold beg rock Richfield Censor Talking of miners and prospectS a mining engineer who claims to have studied the difference j between prospector pros-pector and a miner dnes the as follows A prospector watches every piece O float and studies its i sources knowing that it never came up hill and he sees things which no one else would ever notice t tell which way tttie straws are pointed The minuteness of j I his direction is marvelous On the other hand the miner sees nothing Oln the sure nor in the formation of the I I country and could not even select a nice rich cropping if he should stumble upon i but when he gets inside cif 3 tunnel he can tae out the best ore in the shortest time His instinct serves him well but he sees nothing until he gets underground A good prospector is seldom a good miner1 and vice versa The two are opposite and distinct in their lines of 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