| Show PARK CITY this old mining camp still stands at the front in its magnificent progress in mining matters while much of the life and bustle of it ft few years ago has departed there is still progress and a steady go ahead ahad in business affairs and yet the charges changes made by adverse legislation which debased sliver silver has taken from her citizens many hundreds of 0 thousands of dollars which should have come to them and ana been instrumental in ili many ways of helping not only individuals but the entire citizenship in the progress r ass w which mining was giving to them of tm the mines which were closed down near nearly Y two years ago still remain idle and will so remain until relief co comes in es tor for silver and yet there was wai much of 0 a revival in ili mining matters in the district during the year just closed some rome of this will be mentioned in this annual roundup as garbe gathered redy by our representative in a visit isalt to the distri district cL there has been no particular change in ili the population since our report one year ago when it was estimated at a little over the sanle good moral condition con dillon with its benevolent religious and social societies are still oneie and the cause of education and all interests for good are still urged onward and upward one important improvement for the past year was chatot that putting in a better belter system of waterworks water works some ten or twelve years ago a system of wooden piping was put in for the mains and time and pressure had rendered this line BO nearly useless that it ft had to be taken out arid and in its place an entirely rew new line of twelve ten eight six and tour four inch aich calamine pipe was put in ili last fall call the company gave to the city fifteen new hyI hydrants rants with art an average pressure or of seventy live pounds to t the inch for fire ard sluicing pur josez water is taken laken ran prem the tha alliance and anchor tunnels which empty clear purn pure water in ample amount close together and in a most convenient place to he be drawn in into to the water mains of the th city system this gives to park city a most excellent water service the company owning the plant organized originally with a capital of and although they have spent largely more than that amount it still remains as incorporated the late improvements cost water rents average about 1 per month for f mall houses bouses for families and as a I 1 whole rates ate aie reasonable an fn for r so good a system the company ii k known as tire the park city water company with it C chambers president II if newell I 1 vice president ua W V rice nice treasurer and bart wherritt secretary the park city light heat power company doubled their capacity and now run 2000 lights under the palson low voltage system the company or with a capital of ill three ree years ago arid and put in ili a plant at a cost of the doubling of the plant the past year cost an additional additon velch was simply earnings of the company arid and the plant Is now rated to have cost showing good management and large patronage the officers are arc henry newell president W V rive nive vice president barney rl RI ley treasurer and walter scott secretary park city has long been favored with a good city government ment a fact pretty well shown in the fal lowing excellent report of finances of the city RECEIPTS ba a ct jancay 1 1894 K 4 lie licenses e K us OO 00 pol police lc J justice i t i 1 diw 00 city t taxes 2 1 t 1133 1438 poll tax 2037 total disbursements streets alleys ant bridges S 6 51 city officers 1 to expenses asis W 65 city cemetery 1 i 7 77 7 indigent 50 fire anti and water at 15 1 so balance cah on hand jan i 1 iw 10 total no ind of tiny any kind hind ko no bonds ever issued it is not many cities of this size that can call show so EO much in tho the treasury no indebtedness anil and I 1 no I 1 0 bonds issued there Is the same life on oil the streets with till the dozens ot of teams hauling supplies to the mines that there was a year ago farrell co the kimball estate ezra thompson and judge ivors ivers and keith each have as many teams foams si irving the several mining companies they haul for or the ore production of the district li strict in 1891 1894 as reported shows tons concentrates crude ores 1 0 this Is an excess of 2175 tons over the shipments hIp ments of 1833 the amount of pro ore and c shipped and tho the ores crushed lit in the ontario and daly mills make the product of commercial and milling ores for the year ag aggregate gregat 0 about sixty five thousand tons this without counting the crude ore required to malse malce the tons of concentrates cen where a reduction of two to three in onedas one was required our reports of the properties showing activity wll will acquaint the reader of the present condition of this great mining district the ontario there was waa no cessation in the operations or of the ontario mine and mill dur frig nir the year As in the previous year and for the same reasons low prices no dividends were paid the work for the year makes the showing bullion ore sales total net tons tonn ore are aw silver line fine oz ZA 00 kaaid 19 1819 gold fin anc oz 1100 93 aj icca ical pounds 1 1 1 1 1 H 1 amt aint am t TOM for r t 1 01 ol 3 7 r note part of Novem november bor and december oft off of tons of orein the total output in the silver product we find that the amount saved in was ounces in excess of that of 1843 while the amount of silver product from ore sales fell short 1 7 29 2 2 ounces find and th gotai total sliver silver product for ou sices exceeded that ot of 1893 1610 7 8 n ounces t in there was a healthy increase in the gold cold product to the extent of ago ounce showing the ores res to have increased very materially in amount of gold it carries through mining less lead ores the product of lead was waa putdown cut down pounds compared with that of the sales of products of the mine and aad mill in 1894 fell short of that of to the extent of due clue to less lead production chiefly no I 1 4 0 changes or improvements prove ments were arnada about the mill and the leaching plant which ha had 4 its house built and machinery gathered to be put in place nearly two years ago remains uncompleted arid and the company is undecided as to when it will boap lie put in 0 operation p c ra 11 0 n the e tribune u n e h has several times published the history of the ontario in ili payment of dividends but since it was forced to stop this class of disbursements to stockholders over two years ago because of depreciation in silver chiefly it is well to place the matter again before our readers as a reminder of what adverse legislation has done not only tor for the west rest and the men operating aerating mines but to show how eastern stoLk stockholders holders of mining companies are losing the company began paying dividends june 21 1877 and quit november in which time the following sums were paid ONTARIO DIVIDEND XO NO I 1 TO HOT 7 no 1 to IS irs 18 no 33 to 39 29 1879 1979 no 10 to sl 51 ISM 10 no 52 to tc 63 rf 9 blomo AO st no 61 to 70 6 8 15 c Q no 76 to 6 ST N W no SS 93 to it W 2250 aist no a 31 91 to 10 0 O oco ls no to va 11 am no to p 1000 iua no INC to 19 WOW 1 estt W no 1 10 to ago IW no IS to ira i mo isa no to 1111 11 11 no to III f bolow 1832 no ae to 7 AW I 1 total the total tonnage of the output of the mine mille since february 1 7 to date eighteen years is tons the everit event of the company tor for the year was the completion of the groat great iraln tunnel described elsewhere of course development was pushed ahead in the mine ine as s usual u a 1 a and n d n new e w bo bodies d le of 0 ore the me ou were cut a and n d t there h e re i is s en enough u g ls in tile mine to keep miners busy r tor or many years to come without opening any more than Is now exposed the big drain tunnel it requires bravery indomitable energy perseverance and capital to carry on many enterprises and especially is ills his the case where the forces of nature are great contending elements it would talce take more than a book to recite all the energy and bravery which has been displayed in the successful operations of one single company at park city but some of the special nets acts can be partly portrayed in ili a short newspaper article bess than twenty years ago a go work began in developing what Is now known as one of the greatest and tho the best equipped silver mine amne in the world the ontario almost almos t from its very inception the ontario company was wag confronted by the difficult problem of how to get rid of the water troubling them in ili goinz golac down on the lode this problem lern had to lie be solved foot by foot almost because of new obstacles coming up tip all the time the best of men were v arc required while hardly a known system of raising water to the surface but what was tried and all the time as depth was gained there was an all increase in cost of ridding the cuttings of water wali when hen the pumps became overtaxed in ili shafts one and two over a loen bozen oara cars ago the first drain lunt tunnel let about one mile long wa waa 3 cut to tap at taesoo foot fool level at shaft number three that afforded relief tor for all the ontario down to that level wit without the cost of pumping while it still drains the daly down to its SOC aoi foot the daly west to still greater depth and is exerting beneficial results on oil other properties in n that locality for a dozen years s a great pumping engine has operated massive double twenty inch pumps to raise water from frondi I 1 the several levels down to the 1200 foot to the foot anere to pass out through the drain tunnel besides this quite a number of giedt gi it team pumps have been kept in po arid and always rea ready dy to be started at a moments notice should they bo be required through stoppage or accident to the great cornish pump or on the event of the miners millers tapping a new body of water causing the hooding flooding of the mil mine then their te other pumps were operated operate to raise water from the hie 1500 foot level down clown shafts one and two up to the ill e 11 1200 10 0 in ill number three there to be hoisted lio isted by the big i pump the cost of furnishing fuel for steam the employment of a small army of men to operate I 1 these hose pumps and for various reasons made the company decide to run a long oil drain tunnel to toil tap the mine at such low depth as to to tetu solve the water question pretty e effectually e tor for many years to come surveys were carefully made over the rough and rugged country there arid and finally a location was made which permitted work of 0 driving the tunnel to begin on july 23 25 this point is in an easterly direction from the mine arid and located in a gulch flowing towards provo rai river er the first feet was waa driven by hand through ground much broken arid and this retarded progress so much that it took till december when machinery v was as put to work the tunnel Is 15 aioo feet long to a point at the bottom of oe number two shaft hundred feet feel below the surface tile the first mile of the tunnel is through porphyry and from that point to the toot foot mark it is in limestone with occasional bunches of porphyry while the balance Is hornblende all and granite in driving this tunnel many very difficult obstacles had bad to be overcome in november issa a cavern cave in cause caused I a delay of three months month to remedy this two side drifts cacti ISO foet feet long had to bo be made to set got mastery ot of the tor while repairing the ground caved in in ili november ISSO a fire swept away the machinery and works at the mouth of the tunnel causing a loss of sixty days daya time and over thirty thousand dollars dollari in november 1891 a blast at the face of the tunnel let lei loose loop such a flood as to drive every even loose thing out of the tunnel arid and cover the tram track thirteen inches deep with water and requiring this tramway to be raised eighteen inches while it made a delay of seventy alo ono days in progress of the tunnel on ilay 4 another large body ot of water was topped tapped causing another delay of clity anve alve days making these four delays aggregate usg days then there were other and num numerous crous delays such as cutting into crushed tock where it would run or slide into the cutting as fast as tile the debris was removed and often so fast as to fill 1111 up the tunnel at the heading for many feet such flows had to tie be gone through by piling ahead a process so ao slow that at one time it tool took six weeks to get in one set of timbers or a space of live feet two weeks more was waa then ebent to got get ready for another set of timbers when it was discovered that the shoe or steel point on one ot of the piles was broken and it had to lie be taken out this renewed the water flow so as to require two weeks more to get ready tor for placing the timbers in ili positions making ten weeks for ten feet progress ahead ahil while in many places the progress was over ten feet per dy day at another place far bad back of the hoeling hoe ling a small stream began issuing from one side with mir ciuch ch force thi athla soon opened i a large creal from which 1 I 1 a nf t water issued and 17 1 fl drift afrin in putting in a bulkhead of three inch plank against which ahr flow ot of water was so great as to cut them in two in TL a few hours all such water however soon run out fully exhausting the chambers chamber s from whence it came the country has gradually dried out all a long alone the line of nf the tunnel which at first was very wet there were many incidents ot of bravery v it not genuine heroism durant the tha driving ot of this tunnel only a few of the great dangers which menaced mel laced the workmen have been mentioned this Is one of the longest tunnels I 1 not the longest ever driven without having intermediate shafts for working 0 or r su supplying P p ay 1 n g a air ar men len never worked li in a t tunnel u n n 1 va with at h b otter air than this had the plant at the mouth of the tunnel was supplied with air compressors and a it large root blower the latter so arranged as to be used either cither as a blast or suction auction A six inch pipe conveyed compressed air to the front for operating the drills while a atwon ty inch pipe connected with the blower would suck out all the gases fro from in powder explosions lit in a few mi minutes nutell and it only required ft a few minutes operation of the blower at any time to give the entire tunnel a fresh supply ay ot of air it was waa not at the front fron where men feared danger although while i working the drills there streams of 0 water were being forced against them from tho front sides bottom and top of the cut from wherever a small opening in g pe permitted r m it t e 1 l th the e water v a t e r to b be e forced out u t u under ld e r great g r e at p pressure es s u r e being 3 in g c clothed and hooded in rubber these men did not care for the dangers they were facing but the fear would come up at times that the timbers behind might to ti crushed and they be imprisoned far from bench of their friends outside there was one incident w where lore the watchful ey eye e and car of the iho foreman detected the crushing of timbers causing him to draw the men from the front to ease up these timbers by draxy drawing out with steel bars some ot of the swelling rock that did not suf suffice anee for in a few hours these timbers inches were broken in the middle and doubled up while for feet the tunnel lei was so closed up that there was not room tor for a person to crawl through gli this Is whore where the two side drifts were made to again open the tunnel and make secure with new timbers during all the time of cc construction rist ruction the men worked eight hour shifts and not an all hour passed but what work went bravely onward |
