Salt Lake Mining Review | 1902-09-30 | Page 1 | The Wolverine, of Park City

1 milli lei the Wolver wolverine irYe of park city cilyo S OF all the great bonanza mining camps of the west it would be difficult to find a greater than park city which today is one odthe greatest wealth producers of the american continent and there is no district in this almost boundless intermountain region that Js s paying more in i dividends than is this utah camp the mines I 1 of which in the ex tent of their gigantic ore bodies the high grade character of their product and f the extent and regularity of their dividend bend disbursements sare are almost without aitho ut parallel in the history af of the mining indue try of the west when hen we talk of 0 f millions we point with pride to the magnificent mines of park city and when we allude to almost limitless deposits of mineral wealth we y have in our minds eye this great and productive camp ilk f V which b ich since the disy 4 covery of the precious 1 metals within its n has produced over and has disbursed nearly twenty seven mil lions in dividends one of the important f features ea tures of this section being that the industry ethere there is still in its infancy with every reason 0 t o believe that in the near future duplications of the great ontario the marvelous silver kinf the wonderful daly west the sensational quincy or a daly or crescent will be found inthe in the hills bills and canyons of this bonanza district and from the gratifying activity now so noticeable in this section almost any day startling discoveries may be chronicled in this locality which will give to the mining world other great producers and dividend payers it was not so very long ago that the ontario was looked upon as being the one great 15 mine of park city and at that time it was believed that it would be worse than useless to look for other bonanzas in that section with the finding of the daly it was believed that the limit of the mineral zone of that locality had been reached and the exploitation of the daly west C tf ap 1 I A 4 A Z 44 A f 1 7 F 41 partial view q f the immense cropping V of the Wow erine was looked upon by the majority as a wo woeful eaul waste of time and money and when the silver king aida a veritable mountain of high grade ore dropped p ed into line as one of the greatest aret dest dividend payers in the world to be followed by the Quincy which distributed in velvet money within the brief per peri od of ten months wonder gave way to wild enthusiasm old moss mossbacks backs became became conver converted ted old timers experienced an awakening and outs out side i d e capital began to hustle for choice loca eions on extensions of prominent ent and producing mines and today more energetic work is being done and more is under way there th than an ever bea be fore in the history of the camp it i is easy to talk of millions in but it is S more difficult to comprehend in reality ithe true r meaning deap ing of these figures or to grasp in thought the number of dollars and cents embraced in the expression a million much less over twenty six millions and this is wb what at the mines of park city have disbursed in dividends during the past years the mines contributing to this princely fortune being the following crescent daly r daly daiy west ontario quincy silver king tolaf total during the past two or three years a score or more of big and strong companies have begun extensive operations in comparatively virgin ground in park city haunts one of the largest of these bein being cr the daly J judge adge backed by hon john J daly to whom the camp Inal latiOn 0 the boiler and air owes s so 0 much and who has been prominently identified with wi h the big mines of the park almost since their first discovery the holdings of the daly judge taking in the anchor above the daay west and quincy and extending southward into the bonanza flat country the merit and value of which has long been held in high esteem by mr daly and his immediate associates other companies have begun extensive operations near the head oT otT haynes canyon around the silver kinland king and in the near neighbor neighborhood chood of the ontario to tod the he east and west while a heavy combination dom of michigan people is preparing to do extensive and systematic work in the region bordering on bonanza flat and on the great mineral zone reaching from park city to the grand old camp of alta which also in the past has produced its millions and which today is looked upon as being one of the most promising districts in the state this combination is known as the wolverine mining COMPY company taking its title from the great michigan mine of this name the wolverine Wol verino group which was visited by a representative ie of the mining review a few days ago is composed corn posed of eleven claims embracing about acres and is located about 1 three and a half miles from park city the commercial center of this great mining region the wolverine is in snake creek mining district wasatch county two of the claims were patented in 1872 three have been surveyed for patent and two were located during the year 1901 it would be almost impossible for a mining man to see the domains of the wolverine without being most favorably impressed with its surface showings and indications in all of the vast mineral belt surrounding park city it is doubtful if any locality presents a more extensive outcrop than that in evidence on Wolver vine ground around indeed these surface indications of the existence of mineral are extensive in the extreme the ledges being so well defined and the droppings crop pings pinas of such magnitude as to challenge the attention of the experienced mining man and the metallurgist the ledges in some places standing from twelve to fourteen feet above the surface a slight idea of the magnitude of these droppings crop pings beng being given by the halftone half tone illustration which accompanies this article joining the the wolverine on the west is the southern tier atiq r mine which in the past from mere surface workings shipped something like in ore from one chute on the east is the boulder group while a near neighbor on the north is the daly daily judge group whose extensive holdings hoi dings embrace the old anchor mine the new workings of the daly dal y judge being hardly more than feet as the crow flies from the point where the wolverine is engaged in tunnelling tun nelling for the ore body which surface showings indicate will be uncovered uncovered in the near future in the ride from park city to bonanza plat r J lat and over to the wolverine one cannot but note the quartzite formation format on in wh which 1 ch the bamm mammoth 0 afi ore oodles bodies of the ontario the y th 9 paly west and api the be quincy were found the ore in these properties making in the contact between the generally gener gene raily and the lime the latter be being quart quarta te lug the batal ha and the former the of these deposits at the wolverine the format great almost identical and the quartzite 18 in one I 1 I 1 bality can hardly b be e distinguished from 0 that th t in the other on the wolverine the surface furfar indications are extensive the led ledge ae where 11 crops to the surface being all of feet in width wid th mining experts having expressed the belief that this is the same contact which ha given to the mining world the great guide daly west and silver king mines the wolverine contact is completely complete fractured with a network net work of veins intersect ing each other and these are filled with flu fine crystallized quartz interspersed with calcite and gypsum and yielding in many places at the grassroots grass roots a carbonate ore carrein car silver lead and gold being characteristic of 0 the silver lead ores of the district near the top odthe of the hill on the wolverine contact a short tunnel has been driven for the purpose of showing the dip of the vote veit and to determine approximately the leda of the proposed working crosscut cross cu cut tunnels tunnel which it was proposed to develop the prokp ty in these surface workings a nice nice sami 0 of f ore was encountered showing values d ounces silver a trace of lead and aa a traced mold gold to the ton since then the main lo 10 loi workings have been started d and exe headway has been made in running for foral contact although the work has all been by hand operations in the future bow hofei to be facilitated by machine drills and pressed air this tunnel up to a few uy ago acro had attained a length of feet H feet from its mouth a quartz fissure feet in width was cut carrying values in gold and sliver silver with a trace in I 1 and this fissure is being followed with belief that it will soon lead toa good boi pay ore meanwhile active wor work is theli of the day in the extension of 0 f the tun WOO from its face feet in a turn has bw made and it is now being run for the condack contact which it is believed will be encounter within feet more and at a vertical deo depan of feet thus giving extensive stoan areas to the surface the indications bem beill that the objective point will be reached wio the next sixty days and it if the droppings crop pings on the surface count for anything allY if there is any virtue in the heavy mini erl zed stains anthe on the surface rocks theore the ore bodill bodi should be as large and as rich as are tobe to found in any of the mines which have a for park city both name and fame thrown ll 11 bedl the united states and in foreign coundrie coun co trie at present all is activity at the camp haste is being made in extensive work during this coming g fal the mana management is working three anh the mine while no no effort has been spare late in equipping the property w with 1 th n bir ery in the way of engine cona W drills the boiler and compressor ar go stalled feet below the tunnels aron iron pipe conveying the compre 33 he e drills in the mine the boiler furnished y the salt lake hardware company is of aliby horse power and was put into corn com cission assion the first of last week and the five rill air compres compressor sort supplied by the rand rill company is Is working in a satisfactory lanner anner water for all purposes will soon be secured r the camp in great abundance by means of f 3 foot pipeline now in the course of obstruction the spring from which this aply wa will be e obtained is about feet above ie e camp this will secure a pressure suf chent to afford a first class fire system and ill keep the boiler filled to normal without ie e use or requirement of pumps at the resent time two log cabins comprise the in use at the wolverine it will at at be long however before more commodo is s and comfortable accommodations will be irnis r shed hed the employees of the company as the mammoth outcrop with which it is marked and although no man can look further than a pick point into the ground the impression gained by a visit to this property is that with more development and exploration it should develop into a producer equal to some of the noted dividend payers of the camp the wolverine company is capitalized at shares of a par value of 1 each it is a close corp corporation gration with ample funds in its treasury for the extensive development and equipment of its property its officers are well known michigan people of good standing in mining and financial circles who believe that to open up a big mine money must be freely but intelligently expended Th the stock estock of the company is quoted at 3 a share but if the expected ore body is uncovered at the contact in the long tunnel the history of park city mines and stocks will be repeated and we all know from past experience what thi T P L 7 X 1 I 1 2 x 49 A jo R k j WAAL velv hovie q th e I 1 ot afar far from the mine the company is now alding 11 a boarding house feet on the round floor and two storys in height aich ich should be ample for all immediate de mands ands in this line I 1 the wolverine is ad admirably m irakly situated for pono ono mical mining the slope of the hill is out ut thirty five degrees so that by tunnel e ore bodies believed to exist can be tapped a considerable depth the tunnel furnishing thoroughfare for the handling of waste 4 the conveyance of ore to the mill to be ailt ailt below or to the dump for transportation althe the railroad in case it is of marketable first beino being treated at reduction timber for fuel is abundant on the und sound and good water is plentiful from l rk cit city y the mine is quite accessible for a unta inous country and mining conditions very favorable As a matter of fact the every ter was much impressed with the lerini T of this enterprise with the fine surface 10 swings on ohp group and with means to stockholders in mines in this bonanza camp