Show lAME RICAN FORK DISTRICT M 1 AN A is the BC seene nO of oC oCr A r mining activity Al AI Alt t not a 1 deal nan bas been said Hid c ii nevertheless a stream of ot otI i I has bel lowing flowing from that h i in the shape of gold silver u J t I opper ores orell L working i Wyoming made comfort M f i unis un tI ant and from this one pro i mi n the average shipments IUM bs in from to 00 tons vve kly V ming U I situated on what la III las s Miller Hill and near ne r It aio I ana n 1 TI T lion anon of the tho Fork d t I is I near the Iho head of American F C n MI I and on the same sume mineral i i through Alia Alla U It U Is reach each n the town of American Fort e r th Ih towns of or Utah Ulah i tu ml nd a I station on 01 both the Rio nil W Western and San Pedro Los LosI U I i Halt Luke Lake Tho Th Thov v 1 r n Lake property properly one of thu thur J r Knight I situated jut juat di Me from tho Wyoming mine mille IM ts u G a mo Interesting features con cou cont t a i Ii n with the bl lory of i murk the early stages of no nl i 1 ih 11 mining campe The plOll the th boom period the 1 i j I the 11 final lale into slum Ium na tell tho same old uld n H J fr certain of ot r n usual usuRI character l nd to 10 ar n i h to a rather unique In Inn n 11 11 I III more mr ordinary N it iK W aB all aBin alli in i 1 lr of th the Salt Inke Mining J Hi aid Id from whom accompanying MII 1 n were obtained visited the Ur i r ml 01 while there thore run across n i familiar with the early camp 11 m related substantially the 0 I Mory in rl days of mining m In i man hy II the nom of Miller Uller became Interested In the canyon and I I through his hI efforts the Miller Mining Smelling company was WILli organized Connected with this enterprise was Judge II n X r of oC Halt Lako Iko Col Aspenwall of New r ew York and several other well wAil known mining men The base bep of the Ibe operations was on u what la I Inow now known us 1 8 Miller Hill the mother mOlher of oC the The project was a n largo one for those days das c I J l Col 01 son son was Rent Kent out hy lIy the company from the east e sl to take lake charge char of or Its affairs I Im Improvements were mad among mong thao being the con of a railroad from American Fork J ork to tu Deer Creek anI the erection of a smelting plant Sub Subsequent sequent events has hal proven that the mine was not yet In for such Improvements l but ut at any an rate th I hI y were w made At the smelter site a I sized town sprung up lp anti and Hour our for a time Hut jut just about time that 11 Improvements were made the hod of or carbonate ore 0 that had been the main source of revenue gave out I Ut or rather a faulting of oC the th vein lost loat It to tb Miller company al although although though It has lias lIMn been demonstrated Iino that when work ceased and the smelter shut hut down the th ore was waa only a 1 few feet away a Nev r the property went Into decay The railroad and smelter were abandoned abandond and later Iter dis dismantled mantled ml n lied All that remain to mark mrk the spot pot of a once onee prosperous camp campaN are aN a II few buildings aad the old coke 0 It Is I claimed that am aa aI like whereas the production amounted to Ie only a little over There l Ja some talk of railroad nut next year ear and judging g from the manner In which the mines have been to the Inroad by the pick and drill there seems s to tobe tobe be ample aple Justification JU for euch n B move in mint wit |