Show New Nev Discovery Stirs Stil'S Old I Utah Mining ig District I r I Looking northward at Alt Mt Superior at Alto Aita and mountains In foreground where base metals are again being mined A once native active mining district may languish into a ghost town but it never dies in the breast of 01 man There is always an timer old-timer who clings to the hope that it will relive its former days and there is always another young engineer who works out a new geological theol theory for the district Alta where thousands of go each winter to slide down its steep slopes was Utah's first mining mining mining min min- ing district district and for years one of the most active Some credit the area with a production record of all of which found its ways into the early buildIng building build build- ing of Utah During the early days Alta supported supported sup sup- ported a community of 2500 2600 pe persons per sons and its main street supported four saloons Alta bore all the romance ro ro- romance romance ro- ro mance and lore of any early day mining camp But Dut after the rich near the surface deposits had been mined Alta slipped Its buildings disappeared and its railroad was dismantled All that remained as a reminder of its glorious past was the scars of the mine dumps on its precipitous slopes Then came skiing and Alta slopes n and snows attracted the best belt In slick sUck slide aUde artists in this rapid growing sport It became a recreational recreational rec ree area of world renown and new road were built into the district Recently renewed interest has hal been taken in Altas Alta's mining pos pos- A new ore body has been discovered near the line of the famous old Cardiff and Columbus Rexall properties From this ore body twenty shipments of ore oro have already been made ore of a n grade of the boom days day of Alta The oro ore was Wal found by the tho second generation of a Pioneer Alta Alto ming mining mining min min- ing ing- family Thew knew the ore was there and after driving about 10 feet of new tunnel struck the theay pay ay dirt It had been missed by just just 10 feet an ore body the type of which some work all their lives Uvel to find Not only in Alta but in other mining districts throughout Utah more prospecting and development are needed The incentive to take the risk in mining must be restored and this can be done by hanging up adequate reward for those who take this risk I |