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Show BISCUAM CASYOS. Kb nintinud Works. No. -2. Ascending Carr's Fork we lound the mountain sides well bored with tunm-lo and prospect boles, and quite a num ber of vary valuablo mines are located in tbta cinjon. Ditches arc also constructed con-structed on each aide fur conducting the water down the mountain fur hydraulic purposes, in washing gold from an ola creek bed which baa been struck in several places with paying results. re-sults. TIXE KATUEN, located on the west side of Carr's Fork, about a mile and a half below the summit, 7,uO feet above the level of tho sea, is considered one of the most valuiblc mines in the district. It id owned and worked by an Koglisb com party. The ore, of which a considerable con-siderable quantity was on tho dump, is sacked and hauled to Sandy station on the U. S. K. li., wbero the smelting works of the company arc located, and wo bclicvo aro successfully running. Tho surface ore yields about $90 in silver sil-ver to the ton, and 70 per cent, in lead, with a small percentage in copper. THE CROESUS, situated on the brow of tho mountain at the very head of this fork, over eight thousand feet above sea love!, wadis-covcred wadis-covcred by the Turnbull brothers a little lit-tle over a year ago, and ia now owned by Smith, Cook & Co.. of Pittsburg, and Messrs. Patrick and Watson of this city. Tho claim extends a thousand feet each way from the shaft. The prospecting shaft has reached a ! depth of one hundred and thirty feet, j Fifty-tivo feet from tho surface occurs I a change in tho hanging wall, it chang-i chang-i ing from lime stone to trap, which constitutes con-stitutes tho underlying formation of this district. The ledge had increased to a width of 12 feot at this change of wall rock, and presents really in that section of the mine an imposing appearance. ap-pearance. The ore constitute tho rich trades of corbonatos in their several varieties of appearance, as they aro affected af-fected by the base metal in composition. The level, including shaft and air shift, extouds about IGo feet, and mostly through mineral. The surface water had found its way to the bottom of the prospecting shaft some 80 feet, now below this level. To reach the mine at this point a tunnel had been run bo-low bo-low the prospecting shaft, which will strike the vein 150 feet from the surface. sur-face. Ore has already been reached in this tunnel, which is now worked with three shifts. The ore at the bottom of this shaft was exactly like the huge deposit found in the tunnel of the Utah company, whioh assays about sixty per cent, lead and $o0 to $40 in silver, associated also with quite a percentage per-centage of zino. This mine is in the good neighborhood of the Last Chance and other mines which it was impossible impossi-ble to visit. Crossing the divide into Main Bingham Bing-ham soon brought us to the works of the UTAlI SILVER MINING CO. The property owned by this company com-pany is very extensive, both in mines, and machinery for working their ores. Their mining claims embrace the Dartmouth, Dart-mouth, Belshazzar, Portland, Sturgis and Red Warrior. The general character char-acter of the ore above the water line is carbooato of lead with silver, which averages $24 per ton in silver and sixty per cent, in lead; below the water line the oro is argentiferous galena, yielding yield-ing about $22 per ton in silver and fifty-six per cent, in lead. It is calculated calcu-lated that the lead will pay all the expenses ex-penses of working, thus leaving the silver as profit. A great amount of work has been done on the several claims in running tunnels, drifts, in clines, tVc A shait eight and a haliteet by thirteen is now being sunk on the Red Warrior. This shaft is in three compartments, two for hoisting ore and the other for hoisting water, and is already down 112 feet. In thirty-five feet moro they expect to strike the vein. Directly over this shaft a powerful pow-erful and complete set of hoisting works is being erected, with capacity for lifting from a depth of S00 feet. This machinery is driven by a link motion reversible engine, of 120 horse power, so constructed that it can be reversed instantaneously. The hotst-e, hotst-e, machinery is of the most substan-t.al substan-t.al character, the weight of the reels alone being seven and a half tons. It was expected that it would be finished in ten days when work on the shaft, which was hindered by it being filled with water, would be resumed. In connection with the works are two REVERBATORY FURNACES, where the ores are roasted, preparatory preparato-ry to smelting, for tho purpose of de-sulpherizing de-sulpherizing them, which these furnaces fur-naces perform at the rate of nine tons each twenty-four hours. When the new shaft is completed, the oro will be pulverized in one of Blake's rock crushers, fixed on the platform near the hoisting works, and then conveyed by shutes immediately into the rever-batory rever-batory furnaces, and so on to the smel- THE SMELTER contains one large octagon furnace of the capacity of thirty tons of ore per day, and one hexagon furnace of the capacity of fifteen tons, with blowing fan to each, propelled by a twenty horse-power engine, and all other appendages ap-pendages necessary to such an establishment. estab-lishment. The bullion from these works averages nearly fifty ounces of silver and $80 in lead per ton, making the total value $130 per ton. What bullion has not been sold here has been shipped to London via San Francisco and tho Isthmus. The furnaces have been stopped for several days for want of charcoal, which is procured from Truckce and Weber, but much delay and difliculty are experienced in obtaining ob-taining transportation over the Pacific railroads. A complete set of concentrating machinery ma-chinery is now en route from England for these works, which is expected to arrive in a few days. The company employ, when in full working order, from seventy-five to a hundred men. The works are in charge of J. R. Murphy, Mur-phy, Ksq., as superintendent, a gentleman gen-tleman whose skill and 'experience in such business are well known in this region, Phillip A, Eagle, E.-q., is the company's resident secretary at the works, in which position he has given entire satisfaction to persons doing business with him. Everything in and around tbeso works is constructed in the most permanent and substantial manner, and we sincerely hope the company's efforts may be rewarded with success. Southwest of these works is tho celebrated cele-brated WEsr JORDAN and Galena lodes, which though not worked at present aro considered very valuable mines. Further down the canyon arc the Buckeye, Spanish Mine, Silver Hill, and several other valuable locations, which we found it impossible to visit. THE TOWN OF BINGHAM is a quiet, well-regulated camp, whero a large and flourishing business is carried car-ried on. There are several stores with heavy stocks of merchandise, but Messrs. Mes-srs. Ke be 1 and Uoddard, two enterprising enter-prising young mon, seem to take the lead in the mercantile line. The Dixon house is a good hotel, where tho comforts com-forts and many of the luxuries can be obtained by the weary traveler. Tho hauling up of supplies, such as charcoal char-coal and fluxing material to tho smelters, smelt-ers, lumber to the mines, building materials, ma-terials, merchandise and other supplies to the camp, and the hauling down of ore and bullion, turoi.-h employment to a groat many men and teams. Wc pased two days most pleasantly in the canyon, and met many pontle-- pontle-- men whose aciuaiiuanoo wo hope to 1 renew at no distant da Wo ae-? ae-? koowledco our indob;ednes3 to Mr. I M&son M. Hid lor ho.ntanueg nd k" courtesies, to whom with our iellow " i guests wo are under obligation lor a 1 aiow, enjoyable, visit to Bingham. |