Show KNOW UTAH I. I By fly ALBERT R P. PHILIPS In lii 1897 1891 another big tumble In sliver silver price oc occurred oc cc a a. drop to 1 64 4 cents ent The Daly West and Ontario On On- tario tarlo closed down own in irV Park City but the Sliver Silver King continued production and new economies in mining and reduction were Introduced I In 1901 the th-e Quincy Was vas op opened n d and tho the rich smelting ore from this property property prop prop- erty again pushed the tho Park City district to the front frontas as a producer r. r S The larger mines of ot the tho district are all located ted within an area of ot ono one and three quarter miles square The Ontario Daly Daiy Daly- Daly West Daly-West Vest and Judge Daly-Judge properties prop prop- are In the great fissure system In Ontario canyon Is the old Nail Driver property In Empire cany canyOn n the American Flag West Vest of ot the American Flag and th the Daly Judge are tho Silver King Con S tile the Sliver Silver King icing Coalition and anu the Park Park- Utah Handling of or water was the tho great t problem of or orthe the district Pumping wa was resorted to in the early da day das s but draining tunnels tunnel at d depth solved the tho lem Iem The creek tunnel which wa was originally driven to drain the Mine and Smelting company com corn pany property has a a. water channel three and one one- half halt feet deep and four tour feet wide and a a. capacity of or thirty cubic feet of or water ater pe pet per second It I Is 1400 feet long with a grade of one-fourth one of 1 I per cent and ad it cuts the oro bodies at a a. depth of feet below the surface There Thero are three large mills In Inthe Inthe inthe the district those ot of the the- West Daly Mining company the tho Sliver Silver King C Coalition Mining ng company the Judge Mining and Smelting company The discovery of or the Ontario mine now part of the Utah Park In the late seventies gave the first Impetus Impetus impetus Im im- Im- Im petus to mining In th the Park ParI ParICity City district and furnished the sinews for the development of ot the other large pr producers of ot the district It Inspired the prospectors and operators of ot earlier days das to search In new territory territory territory ter ter- ter- ter for tor undiscovered deposits deposits-a a search requiring large expenditures of or capital and fend years of ot disappointed disappoint disappoint- ed hop hopes s which could not have continued except for that optimism brought forth by the success of ot the earlier operators Without these Park City mines no railroad could have existed to foster th the agricultural Interests of ot this portion of ot the state S S Four-fifths Four of ot th the metallic value ot of tho the output of ot the properties of the Utah Park-Utah Consolidated Mines company compan according to What Mining 1 Means to Utah have hav been paid back into the coffers of ot industry In the f form rm of labor Jabor taxes freight charges smelter treatment charges charges' and the purchase of or sup sup- plies piles S S The direct payroll of ot the company supports i more ore than 1000 families and the industries s of ot the the state which Its operations help support furnish the hood for unnumbered more The treatment of its ores has been an important f factor in the m making of ot the Salt Lake valley alley the largest nonferrous smelting smelting smelt smelt- ing center of the w world Its tonna tonnage e output has i fostered the the establishment of a custom o ore oro o treatment treatment treat treat- ment industry which has made productive mines treat treat-I out of losing or idle idie properties mid Had tl the Utah Parl Utah Park company compan not operated In 1927 1921 the of ot new wealth which it expended and added to circulation within the st state te would have been lost Jost to Utah's business one of the counties in which the p company is situated would have felt an ap oppressive oppressive oppressive sive increase in Hs tax levy and another county 56 66 per cent of whose total taxes Tie rie paid by this one one corporation would have lia had s s tax levy more than than doubled S S But of most importance notwithstanding th heavy production of metal and notwithstanding the extraction extraction extrac extrac- tion Uon and depletion of ot ores within certain portions of ot its properties the net result of ot the years of ot operation operation opera pera tion are that a permanent and successful mining organization has been created a new area of ot mineral ground has been brought int productive tive existence A. A |