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Show t MfIMS WESTERN IMinSTIIN O GAZETTEER. WASATCH MARBLE COMPANY OF UTAH. eral that will bring great wealth to the owners. If working capital can be raised so as to enable you to develop your property, The property of this company was located in 1879 and only all well. If not, I would advise the present stockholders to adassessment work done that season. In 1880 developments were vance the money themselves, as I have no doubt it will repay advanced to a considerable degree and the showing is at present them for the outlay better than almost anything else. Professor an excellent one for the amount of work done. The property is Holden says that in Michigan they make big profits on copper incorporated under the laws of Utah, with the following directors ore that does not go over five per cent, and I know if your claims and officers, all of whom are well known as energetic,, enterpris- were located in Michigan you would all be considered wealthy ing men: John S. Barnes, President and Treasurer;. G. F. Cul men, while in Europe your property would be considered of immer, J. F. Crowell, Secretory; C. A. Springer, mense value. To conclude, I sincerely hope that you will in Andrew B. Superintendent;Gebhardt, J, Rosborough. L. M. some way be able to raise means to enable you to show up .your Davis, Benj. Cummings, II. A. Van Praag. The following is immense property .in, its proper light. If you do not obtain the report of the Superintendent to the directors : enough means to develop all your claims, I would recommend Gentlemen At your request, I herewith submit the fol- you to go to work on the copper claims first, as. I think with less lowing Report of the Companys claims and property, situated means you could show a value in them that would enable you to at the head of Snake Creek Canyon, Snake Creek Mining Dis- sell all the working capital at good figures that you desired. trict, Wasatch County, Utah Territory. We have one marble Yours Very Respectfully, claim 600 feet wide by 1,500 feet long, of very fine white marC. A. SPRINGER, Superintendent . ble, also another claim, located as the Wasatch copper mine, which is also 600 feet wide by 1,500 feet long, and is mostly SURPLUS POPULATION IN MINING CAMPS. and runs first the mentioned claim. Last summarble, alongside 11 actual in the world mer we quarried about fifty tons fine white marble which is now seems to be compelled to Every producer The only ready for the mill, to be cut up into slabs to suit orders. We support by his labor two or three have thousands of tons of pure white marble in sight, and I be- wonder is that they continue to be willing to do so. This is nolieve it will take a hundred years or more to work it out or even, where better illustrated than in mining camps, and especially in perhaps, to show up what we have in the shape of marble. On new and prosperous ones. As the camp starts in when hard the Wasatch copper claim we have two veins ol copper which work is the rule and contingencies have to be considered, there As it grows, becomes are developed as follows: one by an incline 20 feet deep, show- are comparatively few ing 6 feet of ore going about 15 per cent, copper and 12.00 prosperous, mines are opened, reduction works are put up, and gold and silver; the other vein is developed by a shaft 15 feet the town enlarged, there will then be four or five times as many deep, showing 4 feet of ore going 14 per cent copper and about people living in the town as there are miners, who are the real 20.00 gold and silver. producers. Then a decadence sets in, times come down to abed-roc- k basis, the superflous population begins to drain off graduThese claims are about 70 feet apart and parallel, and the veins are growing much wider as we sink on them. It is the ally, until by and by the few miners only are left It will generally opinion of good miners that these two claims or veins of copper be found too that the people who have gone have all the money are more than likely to come together at no very great depth while the miners, who earned and spent it are without any. We were reading the other day the statement of a correspondent and form one monster copper vein. We have a splendid mill site and water power about three in Tombstone, Arizona, in which he said there were from 1,000 miles below our claim; and if the company had the means to to 1,200 structures fringing the streets of that camp, and that the inhabitants number at least 3,000. At the same time lie said the erect a smelter to make copper matte all the ore we have taken place only gives employment steadily to some 400 miners. This out would pay very well. The ore is growing richer as we go is only a case in point. down ; and as we sink, the veins are growing wider wedge In California, mining districts, with the exception of Bodic, shape, thin end up. If the company could raise say 5,000 by this surplus population has been cut off, and has taken to other Of Nevada, the same may be said. One will find in selling working capital to develop the claim, I think the prop- pursuits. this Territory and Nevada, that working miners, with their familwould be self not would but most only erty supporting, likely, ies, form the principal population of the mining towns. There before long, pay a reasonable dividend. Wc have a good cabin is not the idle adult male population, which formerly existed. at the mines, also tools and buildings at the mill site, and I think The fact that mining matters in this Territory and State are on a the best way of working our ore would be to erect a smelter to more substantial and steady basis, may account for this. Wc have now passed our periods of excitement. We have no matte the copper ore and ship it either to Baltimore or Liverrushes, no sudden opening of new regions to which flock all pool, so that wc would get the best price for the gold and silver the idle people of the country. Our camps are like manufacturin our copper matte, as well as a better price for the copper. ing towns. Certain mines are worked and certain hands are Thus it will be seen we have about 42 acres of marble, two cop- employed. People who work are acceptable, and those who per claims and also one or two other mineral veins on our ground come to live off the workers, or to idle away their time, arc not that have not been opened ; our titles arc clear ; wc have timber wanted. The time has gone by when the presence of a crowd in a town indicated prosperity. We have learned better now. and water at our claims, and no doubt need exist in your minds It is more apt to show signs of a feverish, unhealthy excitement. that cither the copper or marble will pay when properly worked But as a strictly business proposition a crowd is no use. In traveling through Nevada, as in this. Territory, the older by mill or smelter, and now that the U. P. have built a branch road to Park City it brings us to within about 10 miles of railroad camps show no signs of suqflus population. Everywhere are seen working miners who contribute their share to the aggregate connections, with a good wagon road most of the way, and with bullion product, but without any noise or fuss. We believe one very little outlay, say 300, wc could have a good road to our reason why California has kept up her bullion product so as still claims of marble and copper ore or matte, as the case might be, to be second on the list of bullion producers, apd this year shows and would thereby be able to ship east or west as would be most an increase of over half a million, is that so many small groups profitable. Wc can work our mines all the year round after we of miners are at work all over the State. Surplus population of arc properly fixed, as wc arc only about three miles in a direct mining camps is passing south. It is going to Arizona and New rid of a good deal line from Park City and the famous Ontario and Empire mines. Mexico, and those territories will have to get of it before a solid, regular and business-lik- e development oftheir Wc arc on the great mineral belt that will before the end of resources will be arc possible. The sooner the another year astonish its best friends, with developments of min set at some honest labor the better it will be for the country. Vice-Preside- nt; - nqn-produce- rs. non-produce- rs. . t J i i i i i ; t l f i i i i i 1 I 1 non-produce- rs |