Show DALY WEST MINING COMPANY It Is a common saying that Park City made Stilt Lake and there Is a considerable measure of truth In the statement For many years a steady stream of sold In the shape of dividends divi-dends hns been flowing Into the cotters or lucky shareholders In the Parks bonanza bo-nanza mines and many a palatial home and magnificent business block has been built In Salt Lake City out of the money so received Mines are generally looked on as temporary speculations even the best of which will play out some day but the mines of Park City do not appear to belong to that class They seem on the contrary to be In the same category with Rio Tinlo mines In Spain which have been steady and profitable producers for three thousand years and are today better than ever In Park City great mines have come to the front at regular intervals for many years past and all of them are still there Prospectors were formerly told that there would never be another Ontario In that camp but a greater than it the Silver King appeared Other good ones followed and finally the Daly West was opened up and now promises to soon dethrone the famous monarch of the hills and become the leading producer of the greatest camp in Utah The Daly West has done more for the Park than to pay dividends and employ em-ploy men It has proved that Park City is not only a great silverlead proposition but an Important copper camp as well and this gives reasonable reason-able assurance that at greater depths than have yet been reached vast bodies bod-ies of copper ore of Increasing richness rich-ness will be uncovered As If copper was not enough to satisfy anyone this mine has also proved Itself and the region re-gion to be a great zinc producer During Dur-ing the year it added 1535 tons of copper cop-per and 11079 tons of zinc to the worlds supply in addition to the lead silver and gold which formerly composed the output of Park mines The Daly West now owns over 500 acres of the finest mineral land In the Park City district The equipment of the mine is the best and most modern that money can buy and engineering skill produce and Includes a line hoisting hoist-ing plant air compressors and all other accessories necessary for the safe and economical working of a great ore producer pro-ducer The main shaft Is now down to a depth of 1100 feet and is being sunk through an additional 300 feet for the purpose of sloping out the vast body of ore recently uncovered at the 1400 foot level 1 A large concentrating mill is operated in connection with the mine and results In an Immense saving sav-ing in freight charges on the low grade portion of the ores produced which have to be sent out to the smelters In addition to Its own main shaft the Daly West uses the mill tunnel of the Ontario mine and the exits of the Quincy for the purpose of getting its ores to the surface and the connections 10 made add greatly to the safety thorough thor-ough ventilation and economical operation opera-tion of the mine Exploratory work on an extensive scale Is being carried on and while the exact results have not been made public It is known that no sign of change save for the better has been encountered In any direction Wherever the miner drives his drill he meets ore of a grade that will pay to take out Not only does the production produc-tion of the mine for the past year show a great Increase over the previous one but the ratio of gain promises to be kept up In everIncreasing proportion The mine continues to be as dry as a bone clown to the greatest depths yet attained and It Is unlikely that trouble from water will ever be encountered The splendid position enjoyed by the Daly West at present Is largely due to the able management of its board of directors and especially to the efforts of Its manager J E Bambcrger and John A KIrby the superintendent of the mine It has not always been plain sailing with them Problems In connection con-nection with the treating of refractory ores of a complex nature had to bo solved and threatened litigation the bugbear of Western mining enterprises had to be dealt with They have overcome over-come all difficulties and their triumph is great In proportion to the difficulties difficul-ties they have overcome A statement of the output dividends and other statistical sta-tistical Information regarding the mine will be found In another section of this paper the perusal of which will be of Interest to all who are In any way interested In-terested in mining The only danger which ever seriously threatened the prosperity of the Daly West was removed nearly two years ago when the management purchased the rich Quincy mine and thus settled In the best and most satisfactory way a lawsuit which threatened the future prosperity of both properties The disastrous dis-astrous condition of affairs now existing exist-ing In Butte shows what might have happened to Park City had those In charge of the Quincy and Daly West not been Imbued with the spirit of fairness fair-ness and common sense To thorn Is due the thanks not only of the shareholders share-holders but of the whole community whose prosperity hung in the balance |