Show GOLD HILL ITS STORY X r l ir i- i r f 4 r. r 2 t Mi d J f f Y Sir t li f w J i l f ift 77 ii i f t 1 V. tt y i j t r i O 1 F.- F. C i t- t h. h J. J g a tj I iW ok JK l C y p x ilof c i- i Ate 0 e j el r 1 1 k o 4 Y YS iy 1 ir j t 1 t HJ r A t 7 Jt f 11 c fJ 4 J h I J E t r Jit 3 i 7 7 2 ve a i P c. c t. t J J w f w i r. r e J gs L t NCR r- r j S w J i 1 i t 1 f C T t ty it t o t 1 i Z Sf 1 J f i t. Mr H 4 tj tiC tiC- r tVr 4 A l S r W A A Ir Z r lt c r. r 1 t i nt i 1 o Western Utah Utah- Copper Copp r q 1 i Mi G Gold 0 Id H HI iI V Vt t 1 1 Gi 1 1 mM oo t t i I I By GEORGE H. H SHORT fights milling ventures INDIAN profits from poison and wealth ruining mining min ruin from a single-handed single gold ing operation are some of or the colorful colorful colorful color color- ful features In the history of or Gold GoldHill GoldHill GoldHill Hill at the western end of county Utah Officially the area Is the tho Cllfton Mining district Its metropolis Is Isa Isa a a. ghost town of ol about 30 inhabitants Inhabitants In In- habitants miles west of or Salt Lake Lako City and 43 miles south of Wendover with which It Is connected connected con con- by rail Prospectors h he heading e a d din i n g toward California were Intrigued by gold specimens in 1858 but it was not until 1869 that white men subdued the Indians and began real mining A district was organized In that year By 1880 1850 some claims had been located of which about 50 60 were being worked sporadically Shipping being precluded by dIstance distance dis tance and poor roads smelting was vas undertaken on a small scale In 1871 and 1872 The combined efforts ef of- forts of the promoters resulted In Inthe Inthe Inthe the recovery of p P. few hundred tons of lead bullion containing silver From 1877 little was doing In the new camp until 1892 1592 when Col J J. 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F Woodman with a fortune made at t camp came a o looking kl for o go gold d Acquiring tine mo Cane liane springs and ana anu Alvarado groups he be installed a small amalgamating mill With an average recovery of or 10 10 a ton the mill mm saved In four years It Is reported reported re re- re- re ported about Woodmans Woodman's death In 1897 halted operations The copper boom of 1905 focused attention on the red metal Obtaining Obtain ing several properties near Gold GoldHill GoldHill Hill Hlll Duncan MacVichie and associates asso elates clates organized the WeE Western tern Utah tah Copper Co sank a foot foot shaft and procured tho the building of ot the railroad branch from Wendover When the boom subsided only tons of copper ore had been shipped and the company was glad to sell Its Us mine to Frank Rowley a a. textile manufacturer ot of Rhode Island Ignoring copper Rowley went after acter an arsenic ore oro then In great demand to suppress suppress suppress sup sup- press a weevil boll Invasion of the cotton fields This paid well while the weevil boll lasted More arsenic arsenic ar ar- was developed In a property owned by Jacob Gerster Its sale brought him The claims passed eventually to the United States Smelting Refining Mining Co Arsenic ceased to be profitable but silver gold and lead In tho the shipments were more encouraging and may cause the property now now Idle to be worked gain by the smelting company Smaller but more remunerative were the operations of Leffler Leuter Palmer in a little gold mine known as the Rube near Gold Hill Palmer discovered It himself after his return from the World war and by himself picked gold from froma a seam that was to bring him a a. small tor fortune tune It was spoken of ofas ofas ofas as the one man mine The slow slow- filled ly-filled cars br brought Palmer about each from the smelter Over Overa a period of ot s several veral years he Is said to have extracted about In gold at a n total expense of or 22 In 1933 Mr Palmer accepted the bid of a Los Angeles moving picture actor for the Rube An attempt attempt at at- tempt to Increase production by widening the cut diluted the ore to such an extent that deficits replaced replaced replaced re re- placed profits and the mine was closed down The Cane Springs mine idle after the tho death of ot Col Cot Woodman was leased In 1931 by Salt Lake Lako City operators For two years the operation was carried on with suc suc- cess Approximately 2000 tons of ore of an average value of 1078 per ton was shipped to a Salt Lake smelter As depth Increased heavier machinery was needed A New NewYork NewYork NewYork York syndicate was interested and formed a company to take over the lease and option Water and other troubles made the work unprofitable unprofitable unprofitable un un- profitable and led to the failure of the company The Cane Springs has since been Idle The recorded production of the tho Gold Hill Hlll region up to 1930 has been Ore tons W Gold ounces Silver ounces Copper pounds 14 Lead pounds Zinc pounds a. a Arsenic tons i Value dollars It Is evident that a gross mineral miner miner- al production of around Is not a great contribution to the states state's economic importance nevertheless nevertheless never never- the region n has given employment employment em em- to many people people people-at at times Umes as many as men men men- and It has supported a few people at all times In the tho writers writer's opinion the arsenic arsenic ar are ar- ar deposits are able to supply a very large largo tonnage of ores If sr and when there Is a a. market for ar ar- ar- ar The gold deposits are numerous numerous num num- erous though comparatively small and these can be developed Into profitable small-scale small operations that will last for many years |