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Show half a million dollars, ami is to be 20 feet less thau three miles Knit'. This tunnel will strike So. 2 shaft al'a depth of 1,,)0 feet and it is fully expected, that it will relieve. the mine to a great extent of water and make it possible to sink a great deal deeper with the present pres-ent niaehiuery. This great bore, which is being rnu under tho tnanagemeut of Johu Kcatly, has now peuetrated the mountain to a distance of 5.00J feet. It is about 9 feet high bv 7 w ide aud is one of the greatest enterprises ever undertaken un-dertaken in the west. Tired of sight seeing I again ascended as-cended to the surface, pleased and astonished by what I saw in probably prob-ably the greatest silver mine in the world. Again visitiug the office I placed mv autograph on the. roll of fame, just below be-low Senator Hearst's, J. 11. lloggiu, Speaker of the House Tom lleed. Congressman Con-gressman McKiuley, Kato Field and other people of prominence. Iu my uext, I will speak of some of the other big mines of the district. Ihere aru lots of them here. I'at Caskv. (Shift Boss). mine from sources iU ,.. 7 tativo, and whiH, ' ? .""thori. been ma iV i ,1 if. l.u fnot Ui uk e l-fectLt rmsh r mad incrv of in t as. iuVMte since owned bv 1 1 , ' J haf glided the . J , , l"('p"t compauv. work; Ti,a',1 r,,!ai''-v U,irty i mino i l; f!''.eU.l lu l'llll'S from this .n l i 0 n llle various workinca ifcr1W!?lltllfldrail' tunnel toVklZsun hT l!,e eS stock lode. All of this Wator nnu, loot tevo aud debouches at the mill po ver to run the machine shop of the M: isae mil and electricity enough to light hoth the Marsac and OuUirio mills and the entire works of the mine I I'JilJEK THE MINE. Kilt I was curious enough to want to so the mine underground. So I took or tall rubber boots, a rubber coat and a "so'westcr" hat and descended So shaft to the WOO foot level. Here there is a Knowles pump with double eylin-ueis eylin-ueis three iect in diameter, one hieh pressure aud the other low The plungers are twelve and a half inches "I diameter with a four foot stroke. on the 1200 foot level, boih of which raise the .water to the 1000, from whence it runs to No. 8 shaft aud is taken from there to the 000 by the Cornish pump ;',oni ,V'vh u ""is out of the tunnel! J.I10I.JO0 has only been opened a short time, and yet I went in to some of the levels and slopes and saw as much as Personal Visit Made jBy The .Xm-Mry .Xm-Mry of "The Times" To An Old Mining Camp, UITAH, THE OLDEST AUD GKEAT. ,t Years It Has Occupied the Position of Honor for Prestige inMin-"1 inMin-"1 ing Producing Utah. ? ,;. ' v Fitf Citr, June 30. Speoial cov-.pondouco.to cov-.pondouco.to Tub TiME8.-h-In my .rt-ioiis letters to The Times from A, I have beeu writing of the place fnurully, of its situation, surround iugs ij ucoi'le, and tho geology and min--ilology of the district collectively. I ill in this letter endeavor to treat of I miufs individually and of the min-ul min-ul resources of this camp, rjiutali is ouo oi tne oldest mining npj of Utah- For years it has occu: , il the position of honor in tho race irprcstiigo among tho mining districts , this territory. And this has not (eu without good reason. There are 1 1'aik moro developed properties Inch nrc largo producers a larger Wi of mineral producing country an m nny of the surrounding districts; ud this is not said in-any spirit of dis-;raement dis-;raement of other camps, for a ir.ine iy be a mine in all that word implies it were situated iu the heart of the ,ert of Sahara, if it could only show production. It would not be neces-,rr, neces-,rr, either, for it to have contiguous rowers in order to establish its own frits. S 't is that there are many -tricts which have built for theni-iies theni-iies splendid names on the reputation lone mine. THIRTEEN FEET OF OKE. I am vain enough, too, to think that I know one when 1 see it, and so there was no chance for the foreman tora.zle dazzle me had ho wished to. After climbing up raises and slopes and beinc surfeited with tho sight of mineral, and wading back to the shaft through a wet drift I concluded there was nothing but water and ore in this part of the mine, in fact I had seen enough to satisfy me, and was ready to go to the surface again. .CABLE HOISTING ENGINE. I There is a splendid double cable hoisting hoist-ing engine on this shaft that is decorated deco-rated in tho highest stylo of tho art, together with a new R and air compressor com-pressor that is now being placed in position. po-sition. Xo. 1 shaft is close besido Ho. 2. It also has an engiuo which is used more for hoisting aud lowering timbers than for raising mineral. There is a machine shop in this building where almost any ordinary piece of work can be forged aud finished with the company's com-pany's own workmen. Near this shaft there is a place where the great Ontario vein crops out on the surface. It is about eighteen inches wide. What a mean and bumble beginning with such a grand ending. VISITING THE MACHINERY. The same night I went to visit the machinery on the surface of shaft No. 3. There are many astonishing things to bo seen on this groat property to de- BUT NOT SO WITH PAKK. Although it has one niiue which towers ove the others and straddles them, so 1 speak, like tho Collossus of Rhodes Jons not alter the fact that as a niin-il niin-il iLstrict with very many producers a varied class of ore, it is ,,rthy of consideration aud care-il care-il investigation. For L would ut have any one even think, that be-disc be-disc one of tho mines is so very largo, mothers are so very small, for they v not. Neither would I lead the ader to believe that there is nothing :value that is not ulready controlled 1 one or the other of the big compass compa-ss operating here, for my personal knatious taught me differently.' I I so many promising claims which I I'lieve have a largo prospective valuo ml which I think an expenditure of a nail amount of money would make of idi paying mines, that I was sur-rised sur-rised they were not being more ac-icly ac-icly developed. If I were writing worn" letters I would point out these ines, but as my trip did not have that l in view I shall not treat of them pccially. The only reason that I Dtiou'the names of individual mines ill is becauso I have found it abso-itcly abso-itcly necessary to speak of represeuta-vp represeuta-vp properties in order to write of the strict collectively, - scribo which would take several entire issues of The Times. There are, I think, no fewer than twelve boilers at this shaft, which with those at Mo. 2 consume about 40 tons of coal a day. At one time the coal burned amounted to lllo tons in twenty-four hours. Here there are two hoisting engines, one of which is built On the tug-boat style, not so much for looks but great for strength. This is used to hoist pumps up and down the pump shaft and for the exclusive use of tho pump engineer, who makes a round trip every hour to inspect the machinery under his supervision. super-vision. There is another gigantic double hoister with reversible cylinders anil ilat cables six inches in diameter. The mind could scarcely conceive of a moro THE MINES OF l'AKK. ' - kail of the lively and interesting !;ices within a radius pf fifty miles of Jl Lake, there is probably no place i worthy of a visit as this Croesus-likc imp, which nestles like a gem at the el of these majestic peaks. There is i much that is beautiful, so many iings that aro wonderful . Nature ''Uisto have been so lavish of her iors, in tilling the wonderful veins so odigally full of wealth. Then a visit the mines where the silver is hoisted I1 to the tune of several thousand dol-r dol-r monthly. So much has been writ- ii of beautiful piece of machinery than this. It is worth a fortune in itself aud has enough brass aud nicklo plato on it, all of which shine like the proverbial nigger's heel to start a brass foundry. One of the. cages in this doublo shaft goes up, while tho other goes down, thus economizing on steam. There is a Burleigh air compressor on this shaft too. which runs tho drills on this part of tho mine. coitNisH ruiri'. But all the great things at the mine culminate in the cornish pump, for it transceuds all that is wonderful iu power, or marvelous in mechanism, that this great properly furnishes. It is rather awe-inspiring to contemplate such a monster piece of machinery as this is, with its great lly-wheel 1)0 feet in diameter, and its great throbbing cylinders, one of which, tho high pressure, is 43 inches in diameter and its mate, the low pressure, pres-sure, is 72 inches on the inside. This great machine is bedded in 50 feet of solid masonry which reaches to tho bedrock. And yet with all its strength it is as delicate as a Geneva watch, and seeing it work is a fascinating fascinat-ing study. One interesting feature I about it is the recording of tho number of strokes. It counts up to 999.099, and then turns back aud starts with 1 agaiu. So that it is easy to tell how many revolutions revo-lutions the lly-wheel has made since it TV ft Q first started. THE ONTAKIO ui its history so thoroughly reviewed it every writer is accused of being mded to the merits of other really ud properties, and it would seem, too, it the subject was worn thread-bare. !e only reason why this property is sen up first is becauso it must be, til a successful rival wrests from it fame, tho groat show place of the -trkt Its record of 169 consecutivo TOuds, amounting to nearly ELEVEN MILLION DOLLARS, Ave, together with its rich sister, adjoining Daly, so effectually dis-wes dis-wes the theory that mining cannot made a perfectly safe and legitimate wiiias, if the same amount of care business shrewdness is devoted to tat obtains iu other commercial cn-;I"'ses. cn-;I"'ses. All of these things taken to-r to-r makes it impossible for anyone 'Store this great ruineralogical won-'r won-'r to start from any other point, treating at . all comprehensively of resources of the district. AT THIS MINE ' -rj'thing is conducted on such a scale as to bewilder the "' reason. and . should iwvo heard the manager company give an order for a f pumps, a couple of dozen steam cisor a hundred thousand cords of tw.it would not at all have surprised hus mine is unique, not only in '. out in its appointments; in the lru'ng houses aud oflices, in its ma-, ma-, 7-V, and more particularly in its WEST DOWN IN THE CAGE. In company with the foreman, Mr. KcithI got on the cage and went down to the 700 level aud spent fully three hours under ground, traveling levels, climbing up and down winzes, inspecting inspect-ing slopes until ray curly head was turned upside dowu by what 1 saw when I reached the 1000 level, covered with chlorides and candle grease. In a sump sunk below this level the Cornish pumps takes thirsty drinks at the rate of ten a minute of about 430 gallons each. These huge double barrels, twenty-two inches iu diameter, can carry' lots of water. There is also a Knowles pump at this station which is only used in case of emergency or accident acci-dent to the Cornish giant. It is forty feet lonr, with scventccn-inch plungers and a four-foot stroke. These pumps raise the water to a tank on the 800, where a Cornish and a Knowles pump of tho same size as the one on the louo. lifts it to the liOO, where it runs out of the tunnel. OKE IN SIGHT. My examination of the mine was quite exhaustive enough to convince me that there were many millions in sight to be distributed to the lucky stockholders. It was every where, and it will take many years to exaust what there is in sight. Professor Clayton some years ago estimated that there was enough ore exposed to pay dividends for ten years to come without with-out opening any new ground. one could inspect tho mine and doubt the most fabulous statement. DRAIN TUNNEL. Perhaps as so much space has been consumed on this property, it might be well to bring it to a close by speaking of the drain tunnel, which started in 1888 aud is to take at least three years to complete, and cost over ;i"uJe, and although filling a man's aeh with boiled oysters, "and din-i din-i nun like a Methodist preacher, is wuciilaled to make his brain bril-5 bril-5 whig pencil facile, I shall wrestle -n tii subject and do niybest. t'ESESS OF THE APPOINTMENTS. Je uniqueness of tho appointments iimlrng the mine, consists in the L"erVthingiskept and the honest 'te llle cmpany in at least try-fVeilts try-fVeilts emPloyees all of the de-, de-, land comforts and a good manv luxuries of life. The boarding ad i!re as WH kPt as a new Eu- lrili1SBWife's- They are sin'" itt- "y 'autiful lawns, niagniii-,,, niagniii-,,, es and blooming fiowers. Ev-;i, Ev-;i, S has au air of refine-4 refine-4 i a ' attraction, which ;il, Ucn'tieinlly to the company I ; ', - Here is a mino that can well r r !? I,a,ve the best and from what I n 1 would judge they considered the .""e loo good and hardly any-:Lz'' any-:Lz'' fnough. The benefits ac- of . C01uPany in all this lavish-a lavish-a r, thi"gs, is in tho interest 'U f,' every one connected with in i n-' tlle foreman, down to pick 'ar TK his bcst- AI1 seemed to ;in.v. thpy had not nlv lheiT lain! ?;tlons but that of the mine mi no'1"1',. Isaw men working in i.jCf.Pol'shing the head of a drill, s wen employed there for fifteen w --onie of them were worth, as as told, as $30,000 in stock, of 'a?;anj"; which thy had bought Mk, ' M hon it was probably not lixlav6 than ten per cent of what .,TUif.xX3 KEGABDS TUB .MINE. Ati statements in regard to this |