Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-03-06 | Page 10 | Old-Timer Talks of Camp of Alta

I old-timer tjhjis OF CIP OF ftLTA j Deepest Workings There Are i! ' Still Over 8000 Feet 1 Above Sea Level. An old operator nt Alta, who is down from I bat camp, well up in tho top of 1 I the Wasatch range, talked iutcrestiugly I I of operations there past and proscut J, and llic relation of that ore zpuoto those nwir or adjoining it Pnrk Lity ( on tho east and American Fork on tno i i south. . , ,,4 ' Ho. says the old camp is busy, that t an unusual number of. leasers .arc at i . -work ami that thov aro alt taking out ' ore. Tho snow road is good, the ore is coming down in an almost constant ' ' stream by team and tram and that about two cars :v 3av is being loaded at Nft utcb. lie thinks tho district is cu- ' tering dn a new ora of prosperity, due . in part to the fact that it is ao much k easier and cheaper to get ore out anil , i , supplies in than formerly, lie calls attention to the fact that the Little and Big Cottonwood mining ' districts arc a part of the irrcat ore zone of which tho Park City district tho eastern portion and the American Fork ilif-trict a southern extension. He says development has brought, tho known ore bodies of Park City and Alta to with-' with-' in less than three miles of each other and Alta and American Fork -within I : less than a mile. Speaking or the earlior ' 1 iluva. he said that over thirty years ago JO.'OOO tons of ore that, ran $300 to the ton was taken from the Prince of Wnlos ) ' . ground, adjoining tho Alta Consolidated, in tho northeast, and shipped to Swan-' Swan-' sea. Wale?. . He brought' oat tho interesting fact; ' . thai the lo.vest workings of any of the Alta" mines are about. S100 feet above I Foa level, whilo at. Park City mining 1 Jias been carried down to an elevation above sea level of but 6500 feet, a difference dif-ference in favor of Park City of 1(500 feet. The elevation of tho town of Alta ' is 8.100 foot while the deepest working is in f.lio Columbus Consolidated torrt-1 torrt-1 torv and is 100 feet below the. tunnel 1 r' level, the latter beiucr almost the sarao t. l as tlie town. The old Flagstaff -workings are 900 feet deep, but they begin at an elevation of over 9000 font. - ! Once a tunnel was started about a -i mile below the Columbus Con., and run j for a distance of 300 foot. This would, if carried on, cut -100 feet below the lowest workings in that ground or in . the camp. j There is, ho says, a tunnel site in Big 1 Cottonwood canyon that would, -with a lruuth of throe miles, cut 1900 foot j under the town of Alta and unwater , the district, to almost tho samo depth ' workings havo now numbed at Park' Citv. When that is done ho believes p 1 Alta will boeome a great camp, as it has , t produced more than any other camp in I this region at the same stage of" do- ! J Tclopmeut. ' ' Incidentally, it was mentioned that 1 tho dump and shaft collar at the Daly-AVest Daly-AVest arc at tho same elovation as the town of Alta S500 foot.