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Show TUE MINES OF OPIIIR. From the Deseret News. (Continued From Our Last) pated, and nmong the more prominent onen were Iluckskln Clark, Daniel Htnnton and A. W. Moore. When It came to the selection of a name for the newly-found district quite u frlcndlv rivalry arose. A goodly number of those present wanted It called Galenn, others thought Agentn n more appropriate appro-priate name, while Ophtr wits suggested ns being a better one. The house seemed to be pretty well divided on the subject, so little slips of paper were pained around and the matter settled by ballot. Ophlr won und the ramp has borne that title ever since. Many. In fact nearly all, of the men who took part In that memorable meeting have laid down their toola nnd passed over the Great Divide. Iluckskln Clark and A. W. Moore were ntr.ong the latest to close life's chapter FIRST WHITE MAN. Mr Herman says ho Is positive that the latter waa the first white man who settled In Ophlr canyon, If not tho flrrt one who entered It. Moore hnd a ranch there und the present townsltn covered a part of It. When the tnwnslte was laid out Mr. Herman, who wns then Hure)or of Tooele county, was employed em-ployed to da the surveying. Moore coined money out of the sale of lots, but nearlv nil the wealth acquired In this manner was lost In mining ventures ven-tures made afterward, ORIGINAL MINERS. While the soldiers under the command com-mand of Gen, Connor may have done the tlret prospecting In the CO's, Mr Herman snya the first really active mining mi-ning commenced there In 1S70, und that the two men who discovered the present pres-ent Ophlr-HIII mine John W. Cooley and James Mcllrlde undertook to market mar-ket the first ore. They mnde no money of consequence, for the reason that they experienced dlttlculty In finding n market. Home of the oro wits shipped to the old Wnttermun smelter, seventeen seven-teen miles south of the Great Salt lake, but owing to their composition the furnace fur-nace would freese quickly: hence, tho product of the mine was not wanted. Cooley and Mnllrlde sold out their Interests In-terests for a few hundred dollars. WALKER llltOH. The Walker Rrothors entered Ophlr canyon, Mr. Herman sals, about 1871. and soon afterward built a mill and operated op-erated It for same time on ores obtained ob-tained from Lion hill, on the east slds of the canyon, Marcus Daly managed the Walker properties. When the mill was abundoned the machinery waa shipped to Ilutte nnd used at the Alice mine. The first experienced miners who entered en-tered the Dry canon section of the district, dis-trict, according to Mr. Herman, went there In the year Ut). The mountains In that portion of the ramp were heavily heav-ily covered with timber, nnd John Moore, the leader of the pioneer party, applied to Mr. Herman to survey some timber claims for them. Mr. Herman oannot recall the names of nil the men who comprised the little delegation, but a man by the name of John Dyer was the cook, Atonic about 1871 or 1173 the town of Ophlr contained several thousand o-pie, o-pie, and Mr Herman Is ready to confirm con-firm all that has been said elsewhere relative to tho morul condition of the camp In the early days, 1'IONEER HOTEL. John Duke was the pioneer hotel-keeper hotel-keeper and kept a place In a log cabin bulldlmr. on the stle of th nreaent O'Urlen house. The hotel waa known as the Duke house, and the owner did K very t riving business. Mr. Herman stopped ( the place a number of times and, on one occasion while he was engaged en-gaged In surveying the townslte, put up there. Every bed In the house waa taken, nnd In order to accommodate as many guests aa possible, three h.t-sons h.t-sons were obliged to deep In the same hunk. On one particular night Mr Herman turned lu with two bedinates whom he did not know and had never seen before. Thero were a numb-r of bede tn the same room, und all of them of nurse, were filled. While Mr. Her man ami hit slrmigar companions wore ti) lng to slumber. mrnl mem were busily engaged In n lively gnniq of mkur. Upon the table whero they were playing was piled n considerable amount of money, and nt times during the progress of the game n great deal of loud talking wns Indulged In. A number of times hostilities were threatened In the way of gun-plays; all the players were armed with six-shooters, six-shooters, as waa nearly everyone else In the camp at that time. Neither Mr. Herman nor his companions slept very soundly; In fact, after many attempts to do so the former got up, dressed himself nnd went down to the house occupied by A W. Moore, who, upon being nwnkened, let him In, where he put In the balance of the night undisturbed undis-turbed DECLINE AND REVIVAL. The cnmp began to decline nlong about 1876, two enrs later It was practically dead, and It remained In that condition until a few )ears ago, when the ramp took on new life, occasioned occa-sioned by the operations of Senator Vf. A. Clark. The decline of the cnmp came with the exhausting of the rich surface de-poslti de-poslti and the Inability to treat the baser ores to a profit with tho crude methodn In tKiie at that time Col. I J, A. Wall and thd late Allan O. Campbell became the owners of the Ophlr-HIll property, nnd It wns by them that tho deal for the sale of the mine to Senator Chirk was effected. The Montana Senator paid $75,000 for the mine. Mr. Herman settled In Tooele county In the fall of 1816. He filled the position posi-tion of I'robate Judge there for n period of six years, und for fifteen ears wns County Surveyor The Mono mine, In Dry ran) on, wns located and operated for yeara by Matt Glsborn, who lately disposed of It to nn Eastern (ondlcnte. The Mono hns produced over 11,000,000. |