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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- MINING REVIEW. N The Old Lead Mine. to stand up, especially with the dry, soft carbonates and bodies of crysLast week the owners of the Dalton tallized lead that the mine yielded. It & Lark mine and mill at Bingham puris a matter of record, however, that chased the Brooklyn and Lead mines, not a single fatality has occurred in the Lead mill and the tramway, seven the property, but there is one John L. miles in length, belonging to A. Han-au- Barratt who, if he is still alive, will er A New ninitig Bill. The Review publishes below the full text of the bill introduced by Representative Raddatz in the Utah Legis- lature, providing for the manner of locating quartz and placer mining claims. It changes the existing law In several important respects and should be careand fully examined by mine-owneprospectors. Sec. 1. That on all mining claims hereafter located, a discovery of mineral recall an experience where his life was in danger for two days and one night in the neighborhood of this same Crows Nest, and who during that time was buried alive. Barratt had been prospecting the mine to the north of the Crows Nest bearing rock, vein, lode, crevice or deposand had run a drift, which subsequent it shall be necessary, and is hereby redevelopments proved was within a few quired to be made within the boundaries feet of the big ore body that afterward of such a lode claim. made the Dalton & Lark famous. He Sec. 2. The length of any lode claim was the only man in that part of the hereafter located may equal but not exmine when, about 8 oclock in the morn- ceed 1500 feet along the vein. Sec. 3. The width of lode claim ing of a day in August, 1883, the Crows may equal but shall not any exceed 300 feet Nest collapsed without warning, dam- on each side of the center of such lode; aging the shaft so that the cage would provided, that when locators have set not travel up and down and allowing stakes, posts or monuments as described the surface where the engine and shaft In section 5 of this act, to indicate the house was located to settle. line of the vein, ledge or lode, such stakes, It is difficult to imagine or describe posts or monuments must be taken for the phenomena attending the collapse the purpose of such location to mark corof a large underground chamber. The rectly the line thereof, and such line chamber held its air of course in every must not afterwards be changed so as to affect rights acquired or interfere with part, but when it collapsed the air had locations made subsequent thereto. to find an exit. In the case of the Lead Sec. - It shall be the duty of the dismine this was through the small 4x4 coverer to locate his claim by posting shaft and when the air vented itself at the point of location, on the surface, through the shaft it tore the lagging a plain sign upon a stake, or notice from the sides and actually drove the within a monument of rock, containing cage up into the sheaves in the shaft-hous- e. the name of the lode, name of locator, date of discovery and the number of feet In the meantime, however, it claimed in length and in width, along had penetrated every winze and stope the lode, a general description of its loin the mine and the hundred or more cation, and the mining district, county men who were at work were tossed and State. manager , and James Beveridge, who about like wisps of straw. At length Sec. 5. The discoverer shall, within ten is now managing the properties of the the shaft wTas cleared out, so that the days after the date of location, mark the company in Old Mexico, cage could be operated and the work surface boundaries of such a claim by was for a long time superintendent of of rescue began, every man being establishing at each corner thereof and the Lead mine. Its latest superinten- brought to the surface without serious at any angle in the side lines and at the dent before it passed to the Dalton & injury except Barratt. When the men center of each end line, a substantial each hewed on the side facing Lark was R. G. Legg, better known as realized that Barratt had not been post, toward the claim. On the hewn side of Charlie Legg. rescued they gave him up for lost, as each one of these posts shall be marked The mine was first located about the they knew that he was no the Crows the name of the claim it belongs to and beginning of the seventies by Old Nest side and whether he was alive or the corner or angle it represents. Man Williams, father of Rone Will- not they despaired of the possibility of Sec. C. The locator of any mining claim iams, and afterward passed into the reaching him. Not so, however, with shall, within twenty days from the date hands of Henry M. May, one of the Manager Shell and Superintendent Bev- of location, file for record in the office of the district recorder an original loowners at that time of the Yosemite eridge. The latter had kept a complete cation certificate; he shall at the same No. 1, located on the east side of the map of all the underground workings, time furnish the district recorder with a Old Telegraph hill. Under Mays man- and each night had posted up the days loca Ion certificate, to be foragement the Lead mine produced its workings. By this means he knew ex- duplicate warded by that officer to the County Refirsjt ore but it was still nothing but a actly the point Barratt had reached in corder for record in the manner preprospect and continued so until about the drift and after making careful scribed by law. Both copies shall con1878, when Capt. John Todman, who measurements he discovered that from tain: (1) the name of the lode; (2) the was then associated with G. D. Shell a certain in the shaft a drift name of the locator or locators; (Sy the point in the Frisco mine in Carr Fork, se- eighty-eigfeet in length would reach date of location; (4) the number of feet on each side of the cured a lease. Barratts drift, but that it would have claimed in(5) length the number of feet in width location; Captain Todman sunk a new shaft to run through a portion of the ground claimed on each side along the center which is still known as the Todman just caved. The station was cut in the line of such lode; (6) the general course shaft, and for the first time demon- shaft and the men were with of the lode as near as may be; (7) a destrated that there was a mountain of relief gangs so that organized the man in the scription of the location of the claim with lead ore under the end and side lines face worked only ten minutes when he reference to some natural object as will of the Lead mines location. would be relieved and another put in fix the location of the claim and shall The work of Captain Todman and his place. certify the claim with reasonable certhose who followed him has opened up Barratt was tainty; (8) name of mining district, counreached on the morning in the Lead mine some of the (9) if the location is for largest of the third day. He was alive, but he aty and State; placer or mill site the certificate shall underground chambers in Utah and was in darkness as the exhad collapse contain the number of acres or superfitheir extent could probably be excelled tinguished his and his light coat, in cial feet claimed. by the great stopes of the Old Tele- which he his kept had been Sec. 7. No location certificate shall graph only. Indeed one stope in the left at the mouth of matches, the drift. claim and describe more than one locaLead mine, known as the Crows Nest, The old No. 2 shaft, through which tion, and if it purports to claim and dewas a close rival in its dimensions to the mine was scribe more than one location it shall be the famous Gray stope in the Old Tele- the cave, was worked at the time of absolutely void, except as to the first loabandoned Mr. after n graph, being twenty-sevesets high, or Shell ceased to be interested cation therein described. in the 162 feet, and Sec. 8. Any location notice or certificate probably 250 feet across. a and property, incline was big sunk Even with the very best methods of farther of a mining claim which shall not conup the gulch to a depth of 1400 tain the name of the lode, the name of .timbering such immense underground feet, but for about two no years work the locator, the dale of location, the numchambers could not always be expected has been done on the property. ber of lineal feet claimed in length on and other Salt Lakers and members of the Omaha & Grant Smelting The property includes company. e twenty-thremining claims, showing large bodies of ore, and the consideration was $200,000. The old lead mine has an interesting history. It was in no sense one of the early locations in the Old Reliable, but it was a pioneer on the east side of the Bingham range, where it is located, and its development was the first incentive that was furnished for the prospecting of the lower end of Lead gulch which has resulted in that fine string of producing mines running down into the foot hills, among them being the Dalton & Lark; Dump, Richmond; Sampson; Antelope; Wasateh; Miner's Dream and many others. Moreover, the Lead mine has had men connected with its development and management whose names are now held in high esteem in the mining vrorld and some of them have acquired more than local celebrity. Among them was Capt. John Todman, who was probably the first to make a prospect. It has been under the management, of Col. N. T reweek of this city, arid of John Treweek, now superintendent of the famous Mercur mine. G. D. Shell of Salt Lake was one time its owner and rs .4- Pan-Americ- an ht . |