| Show A GREAT MINING DISTRICT about 30 miles cast ot of salt lake cit city Y tho the counties ot of suit sail lako lake utah wa batchand sat chand summit corner at the apex of 0 claytons claytona Clay tons peak in the heart ol of tho the bosl best mining held flold ot of utah the field la Is from 50 to square miles in area has an absolute altitude of fiona aiom to feet mid and on the whole Is 13 extremely rugged nursed it is hero ro tile tho wasatch range Is highest and most massive tho ibo tion llon Is quart quartzite zito and lime and much of it has been gongee and v morn orn away by erosive agencies from its culmination the water flows bows in all directions american fork tile the cot cottonwoods Cotton ton woods and mill all creek westward and small unnamed streams south north and east cast into nto the provo and weber rl ors tho the western edge of it Is accessible via the streams named from salt lake valley tho the eastern part Is reached by rat rail via the weber and also albo directly over the range via parleys canyon and pat Pai leys loys park A rail and tramway run ran to alta alia from Ding elnaham liam i alta Is the mining ton tome ot of tho the cottonwoods Colton Cotton woods A good w wagon agon road runs up lip american fork to tile tho miller mine probably feet high and big cottonwood has also a wagon road tho the palmy days of 0 the Cotton cottonwoods woods and american fork passed away a decade since with tho the cb exhaustion austion ot of the surface bonanzas of such fuch famous nines mines as a tho the umma emma flagstaff joab lawrence miller drinco offles ot of wales ales reeda lioce denson banson etc work has never ceased altogether ho however mever although it has ceased on hun bull dredd ot of prospects and on scores ot of mines this sa is duo due to the samo inc incidents that everywhere embarrass mining lack of 0 means being the principal it takes a mine to make 0 mine spaniards ds say and it Is true some of our greatest mines would bo be as dead and unknown as any of tho iho 1500 patented mines ol 01 utah had bad they nol at au an early stage passed into tho the tho the hands of 0 men of amplo ample means mon men able to put in fix a good deal of money cotoio they took any out there ought to bo be producing mines on tho the cottonwoods Cotton woods and american fork I 1 and some day there will bo be some accidental strike will recall attention to this mining ground so acce isible from the valley men will again flock in there work will bo be resumed ori oil properties los partially developed by inen lull full of pluck and with means and also on tile tho merest prospect holes and more money willi will in the tha future como come down those these streams jai in a year than Is taken at present from all the mines ol 01 utah fitly fifty named in the district that need nothing nol liing hut but work exploitation to become profitable producers and there tharo pro four times fifty more probably equally morl to ilous toi lons which were never worked enough to bo be known tharo are arc about a dozen doten which are worked it in a small way I 1 anil and send out a little oro ore every season on tho the eastern side bide of the cold it a ditch company early became engaged in mining milling and so thorn there has beer been no aba abandonment adoli dicu I 1 0 a although this companas comp anys was for jears i cars tho the only productive propel ty JA summit county the ontario mine ml no was mas discovered bythe by tho morce accident the currina tur rina of i a loose cobelo steams of 0 oro ore in tho the bushel on oil the side aldr ot of ontario auleb A narrow little trench a tow few trot feet long was round found to bo be till full of rich ore and tile tho bill 11 was wd sold to hearst chambers for tho the ontario silar 11 or mining L company on litany haq wa organized and a great deal of 0 money expended in mill enill and mining plant and development before any ore of 0 consequence wait taken out to date tho the mill and mine plant havo have cost nearly tho the product has been about e the dividends paid A drain tunnel 1 mile long takes tile water from roin tho the eth level A s ou drain tunnel three mile long I 1 ne now 1 g being excavated eMa viled or driven v will ill intersect shift no 2 nt at the level who loin ba been opened on the strike 1500 feet to tile the loth level and thero ther oare are reserves above tills this level sufficient to employ tile in mill 11 for or five tears before these ire are exhausted the long tunnel will bo be completed and there will bo be 1500 bet foot in fit length by BOO feet in depth of 0 dry gi oil rd to work out tile tho tit mine inc has paid regular dividends dividend with only it a few in months interruption exactly 13 years i it II has ss as wo we tire are fissured assured four more years woi wet ic yet above tho the tenth level it will have been 17 years exhausting tho the mine to tho tenth level at tho the same rate ralo thoro there aro are S years work between the tenth lentil and the seventeenth lovela levels and if tho clio formation continue and the voin re rc ming sufficient fertility it may ile bo worked by pumps pump to tile tho fifth level 17 years more or sit u a all 43 years dividends of 0 it year have bavo been so long paid that they are looked for as confidently aa a th tho 0 payment of interest on oil government end bond forty years of life lor for such a mine mean the wresting front from the of cit and the payment of in dividends yet one year the ore ran rail down to ia 7 por per ton lori slid and ono ot of the mine was offered for and after afler examination declined and yot again notwithstanding the fact that clio first ore taken from the little trench spoken ot of sold in salt lake lor for a ton tile the chincha chin cea aro are ten to one ona that it tho the owners had not had unlimited means this unequaled mine which was naturally a water geyser would havo have been abandoned tile tho samo same as tho the davenport or tho the wellington or the Mel lenry or tho the hawkeye Hawk Ilaw keye cye or the lowell are and as tho the crescent the woodside Wood sido tho the wasatch and a hundred other utah mines at ono time or another have havo been licen the daly is a continuation of 0 the ontario westward and it 11 took tour four years of outlay to work this mine up to the dividend pacing stage blind tunnels were run into the banks ot of the gulches and a shaft put down feet and levels and cross drills drifts run pumps sot set and com Pre preE sors and hoisting plant put on and a mill built and long after that thai when dividends had bad begun a considerable in ili terest to in it was offered lor for sale at ai me rato rate ot of for or them the liole its total dividends are now ten times limes and its lifo life bids fair to extend side by side eldo with that ot of its fostor foster father the ontario there are arc tit mines ines still west ol of tire tho daly and cast of 0 the ontario and along alongside sido of both doubtless as good as they are arc it is a district lull fall ot of prospect holes ot of tunnels and stilts and shafts stopped just jim short ot of fruition there was tho the woodside abandoned lor for eight years then taken up and proved a bonanza and that has bas revived a whole group of mines in tho the vicinity an and d in other oilier localities and thoroughly broken up clio superstition that there was but one mine or ore vella vein in tho the district tho the anchor tho the alliance the Cres crescent cert the apex and at least a score ore ot of groups within three miles of park city need nothing bet judicious working to mako make great grear mines of them |
