Show HISTORY OF THE CAMP worked tor for silver abandoned find and then built up on gold until tour four years ago the great camp in which so no much interest la Is now cen i was practically ily unheard or of th there ere it vi was its in the heart ot of the equit oquirrh rh range barely known lit at all except a as 4 0 a part of camp floyd mining district in which john johnsons ons army years ago had foraged for or fuel prospector after prospector had his way into the great vault of 0 sa gold but there was nas no method of 0 extracting tr so it was waa that the tha real va values liter were neglected until self science nee should come to their resme rescue DAYS OF MINING i prior to the deposits had been mined for silver liver the most moat prominent claims at that time being beloff the sparrow grecian rend bend liver circle carrle steel the frontier girl from whom its name we was derived now residing at elko nov nev the sliver silver cloud arld and elk honi while over the hill was the chloride point in SlI verado canyon or on the south slope of 0 lion hill the latter was waa owned by gen P C r connor the first commander of fort douglas now doad dad the chloride point was waa the first patented claim in the locality of cam camp P floyd the silver appeared in a very high grade ore and with no knot knowledge dge ot of the iho van vat quantity of 0 told gold that has been dla clowd since the pioneers dug for or silver THE FRONTIER DRAMAS CHAR impei natler parts parm in the th drama of if that hal early day were ere manya many w hoso hose names are with the story of frn fr n clr life among them was waa bill liter ilter characterized us its th destroy dc lne angel aneel bill had bad reconciled himself to the seclusion of a ranch that wan wa sold bold by him to moso iose manning tho the only thing it was waa capable of raising at that tha t time was a stream of water and in later yeam when the mr mining company wanted water with kith which to treat its ores ore 04 low flaw valuable abl janning who had d bitof the lh destroying angel told gold it to the present own r for other figu figureid reir in thi the old diggings were n R C chambers Ch ambera now superintendent of th seat the great ontario at park city ex senator ceora C hearst tom me mater w who he long since appeared from tho scene of action act lOTi jolan john G green who in id 1111 till mining on mon lion hill that rims above the new camp of rold gold jim Ren kennelly nelly who in the patriarchal period had charge of the night shift hl on the sparrow alak soe J oc smith who has charge of the steady volume of eold cold that tur pours from the th marlon marion mining I 1 company IrP anys property frank hines who ahin line ben been be n recently summoned to clr direct t the operating at the northern light alj clark whose hose name Is if identified v with fill almost every chapter in the tory story of camp floydt floyds and a number of others among as a marcus daly the montana millionaire Tion lio alre SPARROW HAWK DAYS the sparrow hawk wax was the bonanza orr of that day in w hat to Is now known a bler mercur cur according to entriken narle in the EOn etes diary it was wan located by the I 1 I 1 hoy but wax was pub sold id by them to it C chambers and him hl associates who lu in turn sold bold to E it snow tho the re of 0 an eng lah ph syndicate it wab as made the foun oun daller tor for the sparrow Ri arrow hwak i company anil and for the treatment of 0 its it output s a mill was wn erected in i canyon nyon tho the wrinkle of 0 the r fanire inge from which mercur ui ill eburg of 0 1 artrim was wa to rise all that remains of that structure turo today in the foundation on which it stood and the dump i I 1 on which its II 11 tailings worn wern deposited I 1 I 1 it jim idunn who aim as afterwards IL a par pail t I 1 naf t marcus daly daiy presided ov over er tho the tc IET A while ct capt wilder who Is now f noting one on ot of tile the railway projects 0 that t are arc pointing gt toward oward the bamps of 0 I 1 dap creek was ia i a the th manager nn anas at the is 1 alaf aln which was waa a part of 0 the th silver bedke woo waa maule to produce hundreds hunn reila of tons tonn of nf very bagh grade 5 ore one having been products of in horn silver that averaged nearly it a ton toil HANDLE THE GOLD lit in 1873 bo however trever the stream of stiver alver became exhausted and in its place appeared the vein of gold what to do with W till this gold ledge no one knew and so it was that the miners gave cave their attention to the search tor for new silver ledges thoy they found them in the carrie S asleele t cele that adjoined the sparrow hv hawk k and to handl its ita ores the litters latter a mill was leased through it the carrie began to pour its stream of riches and continued it until 1876 when gold took tho the place of the silver ores and its career i ref r m was as temporarily ended then followed the silver cloud now regenerated KS as the rover it experienced the same change after earning thousands of dollars in silver tor for judge D P wheadon who died at park city about three years cars ago and h his Is associates a te a william H and steven W howland the superintendent at that time was torn tom couch who Is now associated with the boston copper plant at great falls mont and who Is now seeking a foothold in the new gold camp ABANDONED THE CAMP the fate of 0 one proper propel ty in the then silver bearing camp was waa the fate ate of 0 all they all turned to gold and with no method with which to handle it daly chambers kennelly kennel ay hine s green and others packed up and abai abandoned tile the camp they never put muc much h rc reliance liance in the assayers assa certificates concerning the presence of 0 gold any way they had sought colors through the pan but not a color was to be had marcus daly who had tried it day after day finally threw down donn his pan in despair and declared the a asse assayer yer who aho had rendered rend ored the certificate showing gold was a fraud who kept levying on the miner tor for the 2 that an assay cost everybody even Evert body was ready for the exodus exodus when the report came that a a strike had been made by harrington and others I 1 in n the elkhorn on eagle hill this induced the population I 1 to tarry but it was for or only a f few ow months the experience of the elk horn was the experience ot of those that hart bad anter antedated it and front from a stream ot of silver it changed into one of gold THEN CAME THE EXODUS the diggings were deserted those who had worked them lor for silver scattered alth tt lah the winds marcus daly sought the north and v when hen he got hold bold of the alice mine in n montana had the mill removed from mercur to that property properly then came the interval of inactivity the period between the gold cold and silver ages that was the destiny of the dig dl aings gings that are today the transvaal of america the men who owned a claim did hn his assessment nork or had bill hickman who tillit was clinging to the solitude ot of ahat Is now the site of the mercur mill inlall do it that ehat was all many neglected to do that much and abandoned the locations altogether occasionally sio nally iome borne prospector entered the empty field that had been originally located ds as a placer but unable to reveal a single color drew his stakes and went over into ruh ru h valley or or bingham or ophir the outlook for or camp floyd mining district was dismal RESCUED BY THE CYANIDES the sayer has persisted in his report that gold was the essential metal in the camp until thoyce who had d decried e him because it had refused to pan out began to search for it in another tonn form they finally satisfied themselves that it existed but in juat what specific form orm few metallurgists have been daring enough to proclaim those who he had undertaken to handle the ores found them exceedingly defiant and not until the autumn of 0 1890 vi was as it discovered that the values could be saved through the use une of a weak eak solution of tho the cyanide of potassium otherwise known as the macarthur forest forast process meanwhile the mercur mine had been acquired by gill S PCS ton hal INT brown john dern and C W hedges for it thy th y paid today it has bisti in dividends an and 1 has ore enough in sight flight to guarantee six times that amount its career Is the career or of mercur upon the successful handling 0 of Us its ores was laid the foundation of mercur two efforts have leen made to purchase it the first was mady made by henry wolcott ot of colorado whose option was fixed at taso that was on the eve of 0 the great anac or of 1893 mr failed to take the bonanza not because ho he did not lot we want nt it but because conditions in the he world of 0 finance at that time rendered it impossible for him and his associates soc socia lates tes to raise the mony mon y all have lived to deplore it by day and night while those nho w ho own it have lived to rejoice over the syndicate failure VALUED AT tl then the eyes of 0 others were fixed upon it the wall street wing vitas of 0 an international syndicate had its attention drawn to it and out went its lt hand the option had grown so had the bonanza and when tire thea mercur company was waa asked to fix 1 I its price it was put at the development ot of the bonanza however hod had not been without a struggle the ores orea that averaged at that period about als 15 a ton but which have steadily increased in value as aa depth has been attained attal ned were so nearly spread over the surface that to mine them was but to quarry them the struggle was to procure a process that would save the values and until that was accomplished the stupendous deposits much remain without commercial value the owners pe heisted Isted in their experiments and when they finally triumphed and tho the ores were made to succumb to the cyanide of potassium and cold nater the destiny of 0 the mine and the destiny of 0 tile the district was waa es ea that the mine was not taken in by the new york carls syndicate under its option was waa d due ue to no lack of energy on oil its part like wolcott the indicate tor for aich which capt delamar had negotiated the option was unable to raise the money resurrection ol OF THE CAMP meanwhile the marcur was pouring from its apparently edlu austi oss deposit the stream of gold that was anil and 18 16 still being shared by inhabitants of a dozen down different states neb raki ka drawing lh the alons abare then ral the diggings that had years yeara size aero been deserted awoke to now new life the pioneers who had ridiculed the claim that gold cold waa the predominating began to reappear ar and engaged in tho the ope arch for kold gold at mercur sunshine rush valley anti and other camps campb in the some of them are men who were upon the ground twenty six years year m ago to cheso were rapidly added new facet faces and today nearly every state slate lit in the union la Is represented in the district AT PART prominent among those theme who cams came when it was I 1 kanom n that a for extracting thi the values had bud been discovered was wa capt J R delamar ile he drew his check for something like ilk ila 76 and handing it over to A N butt l took in the golden gate cate group its systematic development was begun and today its workings cover over feet with less than 1000 feet of dead wall chile the value of the ore bodies that have been blocked out are estimated at as much as towering above the collar of its it shafts Is the marlon marion that has long been turning out a stream of 0 gold icille at the base of marlon marion till hill on the north west Is the geyser from which another stream of tho the coveted metal lias ban long been flowing with these and other mines mine tho the ores in aich which resemble so closely those of south africa the district has by con common consent been christened the johannesburg han of america its tame fame as such has spread in all directions and the future of tile the camp Is assured from every hill and every gulch in tire the district comes the roar of giant powder and another year promises to sew see its output of gold equal it if not exceed that or of any camp of ancient or modern times |