Show I tvr AtI MINES FOR 18991 Is bet 1 The mining situation In Utah ter than ever before he years product prod-uct excels all records There were ninny successes during the past year In the way of opening now mines and In development and production of old ones More nulls andY I and-Y hoists were enlarged or new ones erected erect-ed during the year than In any one c prevIous n in the history of the State And the se wore of the better 0 and larcrer classes Indicating the confidence dence mine owners have In the permanency 1 per-manency of their ledges and the necessity ne-cessity of going to greater depth than I heretofore In nearly all cases It has I been found that the ore Improves with depth and not wifrequently the changes I are from silver and lead to copper be EiVC the ing of the greater value One of most startng and promising features of the yeur Is found In thc Huocessful grouping o the holding of old companies com-panies Into large areas In such manner man-ner as to permit one company to handle tinder one management a number I 1 of old groups which heretofore were sroups 4 each considered t large holding Among I these is tho United States group cm bracing with others the South Galena And Old Jordan the Niagara and the Old Telegraph three properties which have in the past been large producers and were operated on a largo scale iTc Highland Boy with Its great Blng ham group Its tram and also Its big smeller make a very extensive holding for one company and the same Is true of other companies of that district which have not yet advanced so far Inc I In-c development Then there are the Sliver I Sli-ver King and the DalyWest at Park clty which in the past year extended their area very extensively as well as their operations In mining and milling What effect this Hystcm of consolidation consolida-tion of so many and such large groups Into a few companies which become the holders of the greater portion of n district i dis-trict is a question to be determined by future events Tho system from being on such large scale ought to lessen the cost of mining and reduction thus Increasing the profits of the companies The effect with the general public can only be surmised at this time and results re-sults will have to he seen in the future fu-ture These consolidations have been aiding the present in distributing HO much money for properties for labor and also in the purchase of materials for use In the extensive Improvements being jaade on these properties Every old camp In the State had a prosperous year the past twelve months and they t all look forward for better times during 1200 Our special articles on Park City filngham Mercur TIntIc Little Qot tonwood Frisco Stockton Ophlr and other districts are Interesting in showIng show-ing progress in each and every one of them West Tlntlc Is more than promising prom-ising so Is the new Box Elder county amp of Park Valley while Deep Creek needs only a railway to mako It one of the mot prominent of any These articles ar-ticles along with the values In production produc-tion as shown In the annual report of Wells Fargo Co are enough to make tho citizen of Utah feel jubilant over the record of hlB State as a great mining I mi-ning country And the day is not far iiff when wo will look back to the past your as being small in Its record of nlnlng as compared with what it will ne IL few years hence This record of mining for metals has been fully supplemented sup-plemented by the coal Industry as shown In another columnan industry that took a greater stride the past year than for many combined years previous May we hope that our great Iron mines will ere long become the renter of a greater Industry In the production pro-duction of Iron and steel than is found anywhere west of the home of such industries In-dustries in the Alleghanies BULLION AND DUE SHIPPED I During the year 1899 there was shipped out of the State bullion and orco as follows Pounds Silverlead ores S392o227 Silverlend bullion GOOJ72T7 upper bullion 7S12S7J 30000 Copper ole 300 i Total 117755350 The abcvo figures are compiled by D S tfponccr of tho Oregon Short Line railroad rail-road To haul this amount of tonnage rpqulrcs about 3775 railway crs Compared with similar shipments In 198 there was a decrease of 1711798S pounds or a trifle over 10 per cent The dfcreaue In silverlead ore shipments as compared with I last year may be attributed at-tributed I partly to the consolidation of our anitlUr Interests a greater proportion I pro-portion of the ores heretofore shipped nut of the Stalu being now treated at huiiK And also to the fact that there are at present on hand at our smelters c awaiting treatment ores to the value of over 000000 confronting them with an unprecedented ore glut to re here which It Is I predicted another ptnulter near future will have to be built in the very A very nice increase over 1S9S In sil verload bullion and an Increase of 3 2CS70i pounds or about 12 I per cent In copper bullion shipped out Is shown by comparison given below with last years figures i Pounds Silverlend ores US711fSC KiJvcrlcml bullion u ilTllrefi opper bunion lflH07fi Copper mutt 192D50 Tulllnys mUll 10000 jc Total 4 t 0 1I3 i f MIN PROFITS The law taxing the net earnings of mines in thin State huJ caused much friction between mlnoownera and State 4 ntd county ouViuh Where mineown l K have made return llvru have been J I diNpules over llw amounts and WhhC I t Al5Qtlt ami founty Commissi r hae made tin Jlgurcn there hue bINYL more or less trouble Where companies arc stocked iiml inudt regular dlvldomlH them have been taken SM at least ap i proxlmutlmr the net earnings and such ii nhmunlx hat been a guide for taxation taxa-tion In 1KOS a largo portion of the net earnings assessment WUH from returns from the companies while much was fixed 1 by the AvwscsfeurH nud County commlHslonora The llscul year for calculating 1 L cal-culating such earning Is from April 1st to April lit Ju 1S98 the earning tuxed were lliovtf2CL I1 the V rending r-ending April 1 im the amounts to the I povcrul mines vere i follows t Not Proceeds of MineS Horn Silver Mining company 3 62 S ITttth Sulphur company l r TMuBjjant Valley Coal company Sai Plwwirit V 11 y Coal compeny 47W Tlntlc Iron llnUc company f7 Mlnlliff Bullloiinfk fk Champion tnlx roraiKi y Niphf 1Iistti Mig company 6 7 Kurvlcn Hill IlnliMf comiMiny Sta I Nophl Silt Mining and rnuufac turhiK corapniiy 3 Nonhi rn spy I Mining company 1 Cen cnnlul Knrfkn Mining corn puny 10 M Knlnjit taH J lCitIht 1 flr rul r1ril ttlnJ Oml1 11 t I Mammoth Mining l mpiII 1 1 11 fnl rmpiy I f mil i Minin rlH i y Bouth wr1fn 1nh lh r t Boss Tweed Mining company A 91 Ivanhoe kilning company 302 Jr Moylan C Fox trustee SOJ Niagara MInIng and Smelting I company 13283 W S McCornlck 1S2 I Jon Mining company u S 1 A K and J f R TIernan 14SS J Schcnck juul A Hnnnucr 3100 R O ChiPiljfis et al 317 I fonglomemtc Mining company 7492 Old Jordan Gth nIL SiJOO Ontario Silver Mining company 3470 Silver King Mining company li5273 I Estate of IHUIC 5 Waterman 2o5 Honorlne Mining company 52 SFcciU Gold Mining and Milling i company l 14211 I GeyserMarlon Gold Mining company com-pany I 18303 Sacramento Gold Mining company 42317 I Ophlr mil Consolidated Mining conmnny 1i500 Tho Gllhon Asphaltum company li T Pratt O 170 Total 17S22M I This list and amounts was largely arbitrary and fixed at least a portion by the State Board of Equalization The total arnount as compared with I that of the previous year shows an In ciease of 63G1GLS1 t I SAMPLING MILS Three sampling mills have been doing I good work for years in this valley but I as the mining output is fast Increasing I I these arc being enlarged in capacity while one company Is erecting a mill I I to operate in connection and yet distinct dis-tinct from the old one The following J report of thu work show a healthy I increase over the previous year I j I Taylor Brunton Ore Sampling I Company I This company is operating a modern sampling mill at Pallas station Utah I and has continued Its prosperous career ca-reer throughout 1S99 I has sampled during the year 85000 tom of ore the I layt half of Decc mber being estimated I This is approximately the same amount as sampled during the year IbJS This company is also erecting at the same place a complete new mill for the sampling and crushing of sulphide ores Tile framework of this new mill is now up und sheeted In and presents an imposing Im-posing appearance The machinery Is ordered and on the way and this linen line-n w plant is expected to be in operation about tho first of March This mill will ten have a capacity of 150 tons per I hour shift I The Conklin Ore Sampling Works I After a quarter of century of continuous i con-tinuous business this company celebrated I cele-brated its prosperous condition by replacing re-placing Its steam motive power with I electricity and otherwise Improving and enlarging Its capacity The year IVJSi was I recordbreaker in the I amount of business done over 75000 tons of ore having been sampled during the year and over fifty men having been II employed at the works This Is an Increase I In-crease of 5000 tons over that of 1898 I Both railroads run their tracks to the plant Thc business is under the management man-agement of C B Markland and his assistant as-sistant Harvey J Jones with W R I Yaples superintendent of the mill Pioneer Sampling Mil The greatly increased output of the Little Cottonwood district this year has been an Important factor in swelling the receipts at the Pioneer Sampling mill at Sandy I has been many year since sp much ore was sent out of Alta and n all shipments from that partku camp are now made by teams parl I hxr attention to this class of nhipmenw I together with unexcelled facilities frI fr-I weighing receiving and storing the amc 1 BIngham also has furnished some steady shippers and with Buttcrfield canyon to the south has sent down a considerable quantity of ore American I Ameri-can Fork Stockton and other camps have also contributed their share while I the neighboring States of Nevada Wyoming Wy-oming and Idaho have been heard from with remarkable regularity The total amount of ore handled during the year I aggregates 30750 tons I I Pennsylvania Lead Company This large plant was operated from January 1st to May 1 1899 when it was closed down for f time and passed Into the hands of its present owners During Dur-ing the dates named itsVmtput was Pounds Lead 3S1C72 Copper 210753 Ounces Silver 3SO 132 Gold 20S2 Hanauer Smelter This old and wellknown plant ran up to April when It was taken into the smelter combine and closed down During Dur-ing the time it run In 1899 it produced Load pounds 1M8070 Sliver ounces C2J250 Gold ounces 1310 Copper does not figure In this showIng show-Ing as the smelter sold Us matte to the Germanla lead works and Its product Is Included In the report J of the Germanla Highland Boy Smelter One year ago this new smelter was getting In shape for operations but It was not put in full blast until January 1st Like the Highland Boy mine both venlenccs so as to reduce the labor to u minimum American Smelting Company This company reports the following production of metals for the year ending end-Ing December 31 1899 estimating the I last half of December oci 4 = 5 o o E = eg r C S I ij < E 0 h1 0 S c > p 7 y 1 j I i r 1 > I J 1 f > I I I C s 1 Gpunod JcfdO3 Ui I Q c 0 2 i s < g Gunod pa 8 < bgi t I 1 < Y iLi S tno < AlS rn c 5Z43UflO PIOS t E Output vof Cyanides The receipts of dust from the cyanide mills at the gold sampling rooms of the Consolidated Kansas City Smelting and lielinlng company during the year ISOJ reached a total of 100000 pounds of the value of 1713000 From this volume of dust there was obtained 100000 ounces silver of the value of 00000 and SOOOO ounces gold of the value of 1653 COO COOOf Of the total receipts Mercur Sunshine Sun-shine West Dip and Lion IIlll all embraced em-braced In what is now commonly known aa Mercur district produced 86000 pounds of dust containing COOOo ounces silver valued at 30000 and 65000 ounces gold of the value of 1343550 with a total of 1379550 In this total Is Included the output of the Golden Gate or De La Mars Mercur mines for but seven months In 1S99 the product during the remainder of the year having hav-ing been reduced to bullion at the owners own-ers Independent refinery and gone Into the volume of gold at large without leaving its mark behind However it Is estimated that for five months the production from that source had a valuation val-uation not less than 150000 this carryIng carry-Ing the output from Mercur alone to 1829550 The contributors to the total at the gold sampling rooms during the year included tho GeyserMarion Mercur Sacramento La Cigale or Boston item cur Daisy Chloride Point Golden Gate Northern Light and OjPerland of Mercur flic April Fool of De La Mar Nov Dexter Tubcarora Nev Nevada Reduction company Battle Mountain Nev Wilson Leaching company Pine Grove Nev Ely Mining company Ely Nov Chainman Eureka Nov E V Duncan Ely Nov John Shea Co Yellow Jacket Nev Idaho Recovery company Halley Ida Old Jordan Galena and New Mammoth Bin ham Utah Star Gold and SilVor Mining company Pine Canyon Salt Lake county P C WaIte Silver Star MontE Mont-E Mueller Rochester Mont consignments consign-ments through John E Dooly and T R Jones Salt Lake City and shipments through Con hi in sampling works and Salt Lake Hardware company Reduction Mills Tho mills engaged in the reduction of ores In Utah are In capacity from the fhestamp singlebattery up to tho great Golden Gate with ponderous machinery ma-chinery capable of handling 800 to 1000 tons of ore per day These mills located lo-cated In the several mining districts are in condition for operating but some of them are now temporal Idle Part I are concentrating plants others are amalgamating or leaching and a number num-ber are classed as cyanide ml IN Combined Com-bined mills pave gold and sliver on plates then concentrate and amalgamate amalga-mate or use cyanide UlNUllAM I Tons per day I Old Jordan concentrates 200 j Old Jordan cyanides 200 lllchlund Boy cyanides i ISO Dalton Lark concentrates 100 I Rrooks concentrates SO Dcwev concentrates 75 1 Tied wing concentrates 75 Rogers concentrates 60 llcaston concentrate1 20 I Winnamuck concentrates 50 New Mammoth concentrates lf > 0 I Fortune ooricentratcH 100 Last Chances concentrates 100 Total lO MERCUR Golden Gato cyanides 1000 Morcur l cyanides COO Daisy cyanides 200 I I La Clcaln cyanides 200 lO I Sacramento cyanides I Overland evantilcb 100 noserMailon cyanides n 1W Chloride Point cyanldeH 100 3 ifl l y t If IJ I 1 I S4 I I p T t 4f7 t w i > ovt 1 I = = = S = Y i Highland Boy Smelter j belonging to the same company Information Infor-mation relative to Its operations Is i ulthhold from the public but there aro features hloh became knovn 101 iuv smelter Is well arranged and la do injc gOO work It In different from any I other wiidier In the valley In Its handling han-dling only one jltmn of ore and that under their process and quality of ore working very succo afully Highland Boy oro carrying 7 per cent copper Is put through at the rate of about 175 ton per day or a llttlv over 6000 tons of ore per month whIch ought to turnout turn-out about S0 tOils of copper This ought to make their tonnage for the seven month operated about KiOOO tona of ore and a product or nearly 2400 tons of copper The question of fuel I IH I reduced In thin plant to 21 small amount from the fact that th or oarnop Irn HO jS not to 1111 much xrrvn of jllllI und nun I oiilf y htt lime 1i I 3qtir 111 produn > tl r a uicliiR t Mi H 1I1n flic I IK M 11 PIIIl tl cdl cot I Northern Light cyanides i J SIiihiiilIlIC cyanides h Total 2SO I TINTIC Ktireku 1II1I roncontrates 3IjJ Mainimolh concentrates > 20 Farrel concentrates Z1 BulllonBccSc tf Champion coriccn Iratos 20 Total 7 PARK CITY Ontario amalgamation i 7 Marsnc leeching n 1 < SlUcr King concentrates 30 Anchor concentrates n 11 DnlyW concentrate lj Weber Kcnrns concentrates 304 oring Bros concontiftlo ft Total H vt t l1 IUHCO llnrp Ihr ron entrLt 17 VTFL1NU Jful rnhlnIn IJPlrrn ihlr Hill nntra < c STOCKTON 1 Honcrino concentrates 100 3NDIJN JiEIf Rob Roy gotd pliite 2S GOLD MOUNTAIN Sovler gold plato io 25 MARYSVALE Webster amalgamation 20 CLIFTON DESP CREEK Cano Springs amalgamation 40 I PARK VALLEY I Salt Lake Mining nnd Improvement I company gold 20 I SILVER REEF I Woolley Lund Jtuld amalgamation 25 i This makes a total of fortythree I mills in the State with a capacity Of handling 6270 tons of ore per day 1C I all the plans for new mills are carried out this capacltyJought to be Increased 20 or 30 per ccntnhls year New Hoists Much Is shown toward the conditions 1 of mining In the statement of new power hoist The past year has been quite prolific In adding these helps In 1 mining to the various camps These hoists range from the smaller class capable I ca-pable of going to a depth of 300 or 400 feet up to the perfect machines tq handle ores waste etc from a depth of a thousand feet or more The following I fol-lowing list of new power hoists will give some Idea of what Is being done I in that line and yet the proposed hoists I for this year would make a larger list than this one for lSt > 9 BINGIIAM New lammoth electric Montezuma steam PARK CITY Putnam steam Constellation steam TINTIC Silver Queen steam Grand Central steam Black Jack steam May Day steam Silver Park steam Little Chief steam Ridge artd Valley steam Eagle and Bluebell steam Victoria steam South Swansea steam Sunbeam steam Tlntlc Iron steam |