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Show Whatever may be the reasons why the mine is idle, or nearly so, I do not know, for it would CKKTAINLY VAX HANDSOMELY if worked, one prominent mining man tel nig m thero was at. least a half million dollars iu sight at tho present tune. How near true this statement is I do not pretend to sav, but that there are some thousauds of tons 1 know, for I saw them. In some places, almost on the surface, there was from five to ten ft'ct of pure carbonates that will run about thirty ounces silver and eighteen per cent lead. In the mine there are immense bodies of ore, carbonates, sulphides sul-phides and silieious, the most of Inch of course is low grade, but a great deal of it would pay. In some places the slopes are as much as forty feet high and all ore. To say that tho mine was exhausted would be entirely nntru'. as it is not even prospected below a water level, all of the work done up to this time being be-ing by adit tunnels, of w hich and drifts and crosscuts there are some miles. These workings arc kept iu splendid repair, tho most of tho work done being with that end in view, for no effort towards a largo production can bo made with tho ten or twelve men employed There is no reason why this mine cannot can-not now produce from one to two hundred hun-dred tons a day, if tho company so desired. de-sired. Of course much of it would not be of a high grado, but thero must bo au endless quantity. When it has been demonstrated that nearly all of this low grade oro in this district can bo successfully and cheaply concentrated, the value of tho Old Telegraph must be very great. THE BROOKLYN MINE. Leaving the Telegraph and passing oyer another divide we come to this mine which 13 at the terminus of the tramway that starts at the lead mill seven and a half miles away. The Brooklyn has been working and producing produc-ing continuously for twelve years, and is still outputting at tho rate of forty tons a day. They are now down in tho shaft to the l ino-foot level and sinking witlv three shifts for the nest. There is eight feet of oro iu this shaft that will average about 13 ounces in silver and 55 per cent lead for the first-class, and 5 to 10 ounces in silver and 25 per cent STEWART X UMBER TWO, and many a yZw doll1.:rr-dUCed muu-v by, that vLy out W10 grade qa S of I h m 'e s worked 'n'l . A. STEWART SIMBEU OSF paired the old mill ami 1,1 I.!),- """Mmry ..onsis ngo tfvcHuut.ugton mills and twelve Dun-km Dun-km Concentrators with a capacity of u.nety tons a day. Supermte, ulen Lagan seemed to be confident that these works would be a success intse I here was very little time to examine the nine but I was told bv thesuperin-teudeu thesuperin-teudeu that there were more eS 1 We ore bodies exposed than in any other thero bejng as much as three hundred feet wide, which would mill run between be-tween $, and $10 a ton. If this statement state-ment s true, and the value can bo saved, It not only ought to bo tho big-ges big-ges mine in the territory but tho big-gps big-gps 1,1 the entire west, for the ore b higher grade than any of the Black Hill mines which pay so well Leaving the Stewart and going on up the lull the Last Chance i? passed but as it is only being worked by three or tour men under a lease it cannot bo noticed only to say that some vears ago it had a seven foot breast of ore 00 eet long by C0 feet deep and which took about two years to exhaust. This ore would mill about 100 os. in silver and $30 in gold. The miuc has produced pro-duced over a million. ..SOUTH (IALENA JUNE. This is one of Biugham's favorite mines ami 0110 that promises to be a !,cac,y . producer for generations J. his is onu of tho truo fissures fis-sures of the camp. Its vein cutting .all the formations, starting in quartzite, cutting through it and' the limestone. Tho property embraces some forty claims and ha been produeiug steadily for three years. At the present time the production aggregates about forty tons a day of iirst-class ore and concentrates, concen-trates, the product of its own mill not more than a quarter of a mile from the mine. This mill is also a pronouueed success as it saves nearly all tho value which the ore contains, assays from the fjt Casey" Continues His Gamblings , Among the Gold and Silver Deposits ,HI0H CONSTITUTE THE WEALTH f rjtah'A Graphic Description of Some of the Workings of the - Rich Veins. There has been much justification in . caoip's assumption of tho name of )ld Reliable," for it has mines that r,only half explored, whiph have pro-need pro-need millions. These aro sonic . of m Wiuneniue, $3,000,000; Ticwau-!1 Ticwau-!1 tl 000,000; Old Telegraph, $1,000.-).' $1,000.-).' Yoscmitc No. 1,1 $2,000,000; Span-i' Span-i' $l,W0, 000.; Jortlau anil. Last Chauce vet a million each. ; Even if tlie old camp bad never proved pro-ved au ounce of silver, its enormous eduction of gold in past years entitle 'to lasting respect. this yellow metal, notwithstanding l( fact that there have been SOME MILLIONS OP IT ken nut, is still present here and ,fn me largo banks of gravel that so r ,ave only had sufficient work done (li'tmiiiiue their extent and value. !1on!r these aro tho Bingham jjjxin cumpauy's, Watson & Chau-,,rS) Chau-,,rS) the Argonaut and many others, 1 have said they were rich in gold ,J could with ample water bo uiado pay largely. This statement I w as le'to verify in at least one gravel .it u that 0110 I saw fifty feet of lV dirt and I myself pieked up ou tho Irock, nuggets that wore worth as iich as iiO cents. All of it was coarse 4 gold and I do not believe any fruity will be experienced in saving Yur the past two years these placer nTjiiuus have been much retarded by ikarlh of water, and for this reason a;lwiu's production of gold will not heavy the present year. But while ,re have beeu millions taken out of tie gulch diggings there are still OTHER MILLIONS IX IT. These placer mines of Bingham hav e i n worked since 1800, when pay dirt is struck by the Dixon Bros! who uk out iu that year, $40,000 In 1808 lead for the second. All of this oro is taken bv tramway in two-ton ears to tho lead mill whero it is concentrated. The greater part of the production at this time comes from the twelve, thirteen thir-teen and fourteen hundred foot levels. Ou the 1,300 there is one stopo of galena gal-ena thirteen feet high. There is a wonderful nniformity of value in all the ore produced iu the 'mine and endless quantities of it. The mine is equipped with air drills and all the latest improvements im-provements in machinery. It is owned by Utah men and is managed by A. lianauer of Salt Lake, and Chas Legg. superintendent at the mine. Last year the mine produced and sold the enormous enor-mous amount of 23,000 tons of ore. YOSEMITE KC1IBEH TWO is between the Brooklyn and Lead Jiiiuo, and on the line of the tramway. It is getting carbonate ore at a greater depth than any other mine in the district. Under tho management of E. D. Eagan it is being worked on three different levels from the 200 to the 000, and producing pro-ducing from all of them. This vein was cut by a tunnel run a distauee of four hundred feec. After reaching the contact which has a quartzite foot wall and limestone roof a drift was continued on tho vein three hundred and ninety feet farther, where a station tailings seldom giving as much as an ounce in silver or one per cent iu lead. This mine is also supplied with a railroad rail-road of its own, which conveys all the ore to the depot three and a half milos away by its own gravitation. Coming back three mules are hitched tandem and the cars loaded with coal, lumber and the various other supplies required. THE JORDAN MINE. This mine enjoys the proud distinction distinc-tion of being the first location made in Utah., It was discovered in 1803, by some soldiers belongiug to Gen. Connors Con-nors troops who were on a prospecting expedition in these mountains. Where the vein was found, the lead carbonates and galena stuck out of tho ground and the body was at least a hundred ur Italians washed out $12o,000. In same year and the one following, ler Cla'vs received $05,000. May, .1 Merrill got about $25,000 the year Sowing. But these are only a few of big ones. There were hundreds of in who made from wages up to a few iiisaml dollars in a season. Records tt are reliable go to show that Bing-iu Bing-iu has yielded between two and three lliou dollars iu gold alone. . MINES AND MILLS OV BINGHAM. lint it would take too much space to I all the interesting features and iuci-uts iuci-uts about the mines of Bingham and many it would prove tiresome so it niims. LEAD MINE MILL. was cut for the engiue. From this station sta-tion tho incline is started, so that tho six hundred and sixty foot level which are the deepest workings at this time on the mine is really about nine hundred feet from the surface. While tho ore produced Is not high grade, there are large bodies of it, (in nla-ces, nla-ces, from fifteen to twenty feel), and its adaptability to simple methods of concentration con-centration make it very remunerative. The Lead Mill is now working successfully success-fully on an old dump of several thousand tons belonging to this mine, which only runs about three ounces of silver and ten percent lead. So that it can be seen, whenever it is necessary to take out this class of material in working richer bodies, it can be made prolitable, for there is no waste or really worthless worth-less material produced. It all has some value. LEAD MINE. This old mine which has been worked these many years is still iu a vigorous condition and producing about fifteen tons a day. As it is yet only about 700 feet deep, it is still good for decades to come. At the present tirao the work is mostly development, which is being dono with the aid of compreiscd air drills. There are two sets of hoisting machinery machin-ery on tho mine, one a double cylinder engine on tho surface, which pulls up the skip and another that hoists by compressed air and is located about three hundred feet from the incline on the seven hundred foot level. While tho incline is only about seven hnndred feet deep, tho levels which aro run south from it would give a depth from tho crest of tho mountain of about eleven hundred foot. Tho miue is worked very economically economi-cally and is supplied with air drills and other modern incidents of raining. It is owned bv the samo company as the. Brooklyn, and they own together the Lead Mill and the tramway which leads to it. n writing of these mines, it might as well to take the reader, on tram-y, tram-y, horseback and afoot around the tie, commencing and ending at this inl of interest, which is about three H from its principal part of the m. Hie mill was originally constructed to tk the ores of tho Lead mine and 'oklyu but when there is iifliciont ore from these properties to ! it going, some custom work is lie mill is situated on the line of the ' firamle Western railroad and on terminus of tho tramway leading to lead miue and the Brooklyn. THE OI!E FROM THOSE QUITE mis mines comes down iu cars from hafts, which aro about six and a and seven and a half miles away pectively. Arriving at the mill it is aped into chutes, from which it is "li to tho crushers, from which it "to revolving sizing screens then to aydraiilic classitioator and on Who thirteen double compart-t compart-t Hartz mountain jigs. After pass-throuffh pass-throuffh the jig, the slimes, are tuoil with Fnie vanders and oscil-?g oscil-?g tables. c crushed product is not touched aud from the time it leaves the r until the concentrates are 'tea aboard the cars, every thing on automatically, "rapacity of these works is from " lOO tons every twenty-four hours, 'oe entire working force is only U' men on the two shifts. There wn so many failures in all kinds jesses, that it is quite a novelty a pleasure to visit one 'ks successfully. That these Remonstrated by the barrenness tr tailings, they scarcely going a auything. ' I was there I saw them work-'f'w work-'f'w of carbonate from the o. 2. Oro which would only feet wide. I did not even dare to compute the number of tons that had beeu taken out of: this surface cut, which was worked out in 1870 and 1874. Wagons were driven in the opening and loaded up with pure carbonato and galena that would run about eighteen ounces in silver and nearly 50 per cent lead. Any man who had plenty of strength and who did not know when he had done a day's work, was the kind of miner most needed. AU ho had to do was to keep right on shoveling. It passed into tho hands of the Old Telegraph company in 1878 or '79, but when that mine was sold to the French syndicate, this was reserved. It was worked once under the name of the Galena Co. and from records believed to be rel.able, it must have produced about $3,000,000 gross. It was closed down about three years ago, owing to tho depreciation of lead, but should the present advance in that metal continue, it will soon be started up again. Thero arc acres and acres of ore in sight, both of carbonates and sulphides, that will run about fifteen per cent lead and ten ounces silver. As yet it is only about 400 feet deep. This is believed to be ou the same vein as the Telegraph. t'TAH AND SPANISH. . What has been said of the Jordan Jor-dan concerning tho amounts of oro extracted iu many open cuts and levels, would apply with equal force to these two mines. There are dozens of open cuts on these mines where wagons were driven in some years ago aud loaded writli ore. In many places this mineral was from twenty to thirty feet thick of pure galena and carbonate. The Utah, now in charge of Dr. Hunter, is building build-ing a concentrating mill of the same pattern as tho South Galena. THE TELEGEAl'H. After making the examination of the lead mine, I boarded one of tho down-going down-going cars on the tramway and enjoyed an exh'lirating and swift ride to the Lead j A, w hich completed tho circuit. There iverc many other mines which I visited on the route, but which I cannot can-not mention particularly at this lime. I left Uingham very favorably impressed im-pressed with" the resources of this great low grade district. Knowing it has produced largely in tho past, 1 believe that it will continue for years to bo the great lead camp of Utah. 1'at Casev, (shift boss). Continuing my journey ou down a half mile farther south than tho last mentioned properties, I came to this wonder of some years ago. Here is a mine that has provoked the speculation and gossip of two continents, that was once the most famous mine in the west. It was sold for $.000,000 and is considered by many to be worth as much today, although al-though it probably could be bought for less money. Tho mine was iirst worked extensively bv L. E. Holden who took hold of it in 1874 and worked it until 1879, when it was sold to the French syndicate who own it now. During 51r. Holden's ownership its average production was from one hundred to one hundred and fifty tons per day. Thoso w ere the palmy times of Bingham. Bing-ham. This company owned the . LARGEST SilELTEES AT THE TIME in Utah, located at Bingbam Junction; the five stacks of which were run almost al-most entirely on the Telegraph ore. When the" property was armirert by its present owners, who also control the Lexington at Butte, Montana, and are largely interested in the gold mines of South Africa, it was Placed 'infer the management of W. i. C.D. Med-hurst, Med-hurst, a pure blooded Johnny Bull, a thorough sport, a companionable gentleman gentle-man and a general hail fellow well met. At the time of the transfer it was paying dividends of $20.-000 $20.-000 to !MO,000 a month, but strange to say after the salo it never paid another while beiug worked by the company, who claimed they had been swindled The new owners w orked it considerably consider-ably after their purchase, for atM months, when it was closed dow n for a ! time, until Hazlegrove. Mullet and Davis took a lease on it and in to years succeeded in producing about &J50 000, proving there was still considerable consid-erable ore remaining m the mine. 'mi, mrce ounces in silver aud P''i- cent lead. This was v"1 w that it would run about 'ounces silver aud 50 per cent .making it very desirable for ;iiiR this point and goiug uu the " "ic next point of liiteresfis . TK W-INNEMUC JUNE, J, is now idle, but uinps aro being sorted S b3- Chandler auit Watson. c hem working thorn over for JNgl't years and will probably i-1111 " up the present summer. ; W mine was worked fully ' e years ago by tho Dixou .uo ere -u discovem.S( and ""M a vein of galena aud car-, car-, "opping out about six feet : of 'i7 i ass of ore continued to a iij k f rl when il changed to a Wo ua was penetrated and torftuagain foun1- The Dixon toT.ni ? -mme t0 DaSget & Bristol sold it to a Holland company, kLv iVired hy the Holland tjnZ. . a two Btack smelter fn? ?nd Worted the mine sue-'A sue-'A It 0T tnre5 years, paying " f $00,000 a month. ( ATEB WAS STRUCK sH0laiof grade, the mine was VSi beea Practically li th .innemuc and going np ion ?ure 1S nothing to provoke riJjh than theS placer dig-; dig-; W which sufficient at-hrtnf at-hrtnf !f ea devoted, until the H th t0WI of Bingham is s k-n,!0aJs diverge, one going up :fen as Car Fork and the :tUDT ?ulch- Taking the road 'teUtherk' the firSt rail,et0 |