Show A NEW TOWN FOR PARK CITY DISTRICT the union pacific railroad co has announced since the first of the month that it will extend its park city branch road from camp around to the portal p ortal of the three mile ontario drainage and operating tunnel this is being done to serve park utah and other mines on the east side of the district jt is estimated that this extension will cost the railroad company something like such an expenditure pend iture on less than six miles of road would never have been authorized unless that railroads investigations convinced it that present and prospective business justified the outlay no forecasts of what the building of this piece of road will eventually mean to the future of peerless silver lead district have yet appeared in print possibly it is is a little premature to make such a prediction but the mining review takes the chance of declaring that it means the build nig of another town a town which in the next lew few years is likely to become a sister if not a rival of the steady going prosperous inviting town of park city within three years the already famous park utah sil ver producing bonanza has advanced to a position entitling it to be rated as the peer of the greatest mines of the district 6 when any metal mine is developed to a point where no nothing thinly but transportation facilities keeps it from sending 6 to market marke tons of more of high grade ore a week though 6 it does shave close to that limit it is time to recognize its ability and that is the position of park utah today and when it Is known that for every ton of high grade grad shipping ore pro deuced approximately ten tons 0 of f first class milling ore Is added to the mines measurable reserves some idea of w that means to the future of the so called feast east side oath of park city district can easily be imagined you can just w set it down that it means the building of a milling plant of huge capacity in ill the near future or just as soon as the inlall m argement ager rient of the mine has fully determined what methods of treatment will be best suited to the ores developed but the railroad building and the new town building bui 1 well call it lambourne if you like is not going g 6 11 to be supported by the park utah bonanza alone there are se V eral other mines and prospects neighboring on the ibe par r utah which may be counted upon to contribute to the n ill eral production of that as the section of the district just daly daly west daly judge the silver king and ithell ot proved up the region west of the old ontario the allen alien property with its commodious milling plant has fire it ally been brought to a stage of commercial production has taken years ofilia of hard rd sailing through storms of adv adversity ea to finally reach the objective point in the matter of dev s merit ment and equipment but the critical period it is said saia 1135 been passed and the glenallen glenellen Gle nallen will soon be squared away for a successful voyage in the open sea of mining accomplishment no less than a half dozen other propositions in the prospective and devolpi nent stage are hammering away some of these have uncovered ore and others are tunneling to crosscut cross cut ledge formations and all are sanguine of ultimately uti convert eing their properties into producers of merit financing has been a serious problem in this sec section i tion of the district for many years but the di closures in the park utah and the more recent ore development in the easten portion of the ontario have had a tendency to loosen the purse strings of the investor to an extent that the struggling con companies i are finding it easier to raise funds for development along legitimate lines this condition also will have its effect in building a new town around the portal of the ontario tunnel and from there down to the provo river three miles away |