Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-06 | Page 12 | The Geologists on Park City's Mines

THE GEOLOGISTS ON PARK CITY'S MINES v From Contributions to Economic Geology, Ge-ology, issued by the Department of the Interior, the following report of progress at Park City Is taken; "It might have been expected, from tho generally Increased activity of Inst year, that the output would also increase. in-crease. On the contrary, it fell from a total shipment, Including crude ore and concentrates, in 1902 of 330,062,628 pounds to 292.59S 365 pounds in 1903, a decrease In the shipments of laet year amounting amount-ing to 33,064,263 pounds. Notwithstanding Notwithstand-ing this small decrease, the mines of Park City were the prime factors In making ma-king Utah the leading silver-producing State in the country In 1903. The decrease de-crease is not so unpropltlous ns might nnnnar fnr It !c rliio tn Mia f-lnt flint tlir Ontario company, on deciding to erect a concentrating mill, greatly reduced Its shipments. Dismissing the Ontario shipments during these two years, the total output from the camp Increased In 1903 approximately 17,500.000 pounds. Each of tho great mines contributed an Individual Increase to this total, but the larger portion of the Incrense was supplied sup-plied by the Silver King mine. Two great producing mines alone paid dividends divi-dends last year amounting to a total of $2,701,000. With regard to tho future,, tho outcome of exploration and of experimentation ex-perimentation In the treatment of zlne-Ifero'us zlne-Ifero'us ores by one of the great properties, prop-erties, the results of development by several young properties, and the proof of the capability of the mines and the new mills of two Important properties, are awaited with deep Interest. On these factors, and the continuance of good prices for lead and silver, the future fu-ture expansion of the camp depends. As to the Immediate future, it Is assured as-sured that If the lead and silver market mar-ket holds its present strength, tho productive pro-ductive mines, even without continuing continu-ing their current rate of Increase, equal their shipments of last year, and the Ontario and the Kearns-Kelth mines ship regularly, the total output of tho Park City district in 1901 will considerably consider-ably exceed that of any previous year."