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Show An "Unseen Empire" J The Park Utan Consolidated Mines company could rightfully be called "an unseen empire". Pictured Pic-tured above is the eastern end of the company's extensive properties in the Park City mining region, showing the portal of the Ontario drainage and transportation tunnel. tun-nel. From this eight mile tunnel has come millions of dollars in metals and millions of tons of waste material. ma-terial. It connects with a vast labyrinth of underground workings, aggregating more than 250 miles, mostly in the western end of the property. This is the reason Park Utah Consolidated might be called an "unseen empire" as all that is visible is concentrating plant on the western end of the property, four shafts and a surface plant on the eastern end of the properties. Few people realize the vase amount of unseen work in such a mine as the Park Utah. The 200 odd miles that were driven beneath the earth's crust at this property were driven with the object of finding ore bodies and for the pur- I pose of making their extraction J profitable. The company has spent millions of dollars in this work and much more will be spent in thel future in developing its holdings..: Up to the present time contribution contrib-ution of the properties of the Park Utah Consolidated Mines company to industry of the state has been nearly two hundred million dollars of new wealth. The property embraces 4,400! acres and embraces such old pro- j ducers as the Ontario Silver Mining Min-ing company, Park City Mining & Smelting company, Judge Mining & ! Smelting company, Daly West Mining Min-ing company, Daly Mining company and the Park Utah Mining ;com- pany. Production dates back over 60 years. In the past the mine has supported more . than 1,000 families through direct employment. employ-ment. In addition to mining, the Park Utah has been instrumental , in agricultural development. Water developed in the Ontario tunnel has been of great benefit to fertile Heber valley. |