Show la plata continues to draw GOOD alien atten lion ion DEI WILL I 1 lett Bt cliner luj of climber of commerce oo 00 the tute comments on a tea th low bining lining district LA PLATA city utah sept 1 1891 TUB tue STANDARD up to the present time la plata plats city and thia this mining district has kept dp up its merits ona on a substantial basis no one can say ought douht of doubt aa as to its value as a genuine mining milling camp jenaine mining lining men thoroughly understanding their business have been he here they quietly investigate the re situation and leave with their opinion unexpressed and unsolicited they realize the situation at a glance and being genuine mining men bold hold their council from the fact that they know la plata is a mining camp with genuine minea mines to back it but they readily see that the owners of these mines are not mining men and are all in for sale profile profits not production and development A chance change la is necessary in ownership before there will be a chance for good substantial mining men man to get a foothold during the past week thia this camp has been represented by over ten millions of dollars worth of capital but when an offer was made to any of the principal mine owners who are poor inexperienced men they have refused all propositions 0 e it io n s of bonds or working bonds a and n d w want a n t cash down nothing has been opened here to warrant a wholesale bargain on any mine but a willingness has been expressed by these representatives to chance a reasonable amount on a working bond basis to see the formation of the veins and convince themselves that the country is truly formed when their offers will be made good and work started on a systematic basis in the case of the sundown Sao down as an instance the sundown owners have been offered for their property with a cash payment of 2 2000 in thirty days ana and in sixty days they have refused t the offer on account of mr 11 grabel grahel one of the owners who refuses to sell and makes makee a different proposition with his partners mr grahel grabel left for butte city monday morning to consummate a deal he now baa has on bands hands brig boden roden and pete wilson want cash on their proposition and being majority hold the claim until they are secured with tile amount asked the boys are unfortunately poor and wish to evade subsidy in preference to going ahead and develop and produce ore without something in a financial way to protect their operations mr grabel grahel being a mining man of co considerable 0 experience promises to be back here by thursday next in the meantime nothing will be done to show any startling development in the sundown mining claim upon which hinges the future of the camp for the present this is the status of the sundown the la plata people are working steadily upon their property getting the mine in shape for active operations they have formed a company comprising loan logan end and salt lake men with a capital and have pat put up as a working capital As yet they have a showing encouraging cou raging enough to warrant them in continuing work and get the la plata mine in shape for steady development at the came same time producing enough ore to pay ex expenses pen ses they have erected substantial buildings and are otherwise preparing for work during the winter A meeting of the company compan y will be held hold at logan today to day and all mattera of importance will be considered with reference to future operations it is stated that hoisting 9 works tor for the mine will bd ba ordered at once and will be boon on the ground ready a for operation before the snow flies aaron farr mayor ila ines and ahers ortho of the company are here adjusting matters no pre preparatory par story for winter work the la plata plats shaft has reached a depth of twenty feet and the mineral body holds its 0 original rig width of seven feet and is in becoming more regular and the ore more permanent they have shipped one ton of ore and have about pounds on the dump awaiting the ganda completion ale I 1 of the new toad this thiele is the status of the la plata mine your correspondent took a tries trip yesterday over to the mountainview mountain view better known as tho mine their camp is located 0 on n the sight eight of the old Wood saw mill about two miles of la plata city the mice mire is situated on the bill hill about 1000 feet north of the camp the mountain view is to owned solely by jas jac and clarence wol haupter ba an old butte miner minor who came into la plata with jim on a prospecting tour it was wa a streak of fortune to them that the they y ever found the mine as it ie is jim is the discoverer having occasion while sitting on a limestone ledge to throw a rock at a chit chin monk the rock seemed heavy and the life of the frisky little monk was prolonged when 0 wardle 1 gh discovered that he bad had a fist bet full ful 1 0 of I 1 heavy mineral the vein la Is exposed in the center of a limestone ledge about twelve feet wide through which is scattered galena in in immense boulders the vein is indistinct but feeders come in from the top and the bottom to insure them that the cap rock will uncover a rich body of ore assays essays show 61 per cent lead one ounce in silver and far 1 ain l in gold this is considered a very fair air I 1 showing for surface outface especially I 1 in n this thi camp scamp the boys n ill begin begia industrious dust rious mining operations opera tiona today to day and in a few days the claim will be either a mine or a limestone quarry the north extension of the mine is owned by ool A 11 hayea and others while bile the south ex tension has been located and is bein being 9 worked by J al Mc latosh and bis his company both claims show mineral of the same character as in the mountain view in spite of 0 contradictory reports the camp is better off than it was a week ago so far aa so a mineral showing is conce concerned ned the mines show no indication di of petering out andin and in stead of decreasing in value and mineral showing are getting belter better all that is necessary is development and its lack is the principal drawback men who own the best beat mines in the cam camp P are no not t able to work them as tb they ey abound and the fact that they are not miners or mining men met establishes a distrust among colorado and montana experts detrimental to a prosperous camp P it is estimated that over a locations have been made in the district out of which only to ten a can be called mines with a mineral a showing bowing lov I 1 I 1 c a are visible in every direction fr from am la plata for over five milea miles bat th this ls a should hould cut no 6 figure g u a BO so far a as prospectors pe ctr are concer concerned n ed in the be location not of a mining claim the locator m ant t show mineral in a apeci 1 diedri mulk ape fied time or his location 1 is invalid invalid mineral will hold ground L in preference an ce to stakes and all other claims and the man who first shows mineral has a full fall right to his location iJ the sound of the blast and rie ring ol 01 the drill is heard in every part of the camp and pro prospectors ectore are at work in every direction developing the ground more 08 and andrichen richer strikes may ba be looked i for in the next week A gold find is reported from the hills bills four miles wee west t of here which if true is enough to insure a genuine boom for the camp this fall the ore Is a fine honeycombed quartz and is said to carry to the ton in gold and 16 in silver another one from the range two milea miles east of la plata city is also reported the ore is a pare white quartz covered with pockets of honeycomb indicating that floor gold bonel is t the substance of the rock with a fair percentage of silver one complimentary feature of credit to the camp Is that the flailing floating popa population is rapidly decreasing and at the present time there are about but one halt half the numbers of men in camp been seen here ten days ago men who come came here with experience and land good intentions are re staying by the camp caret carefully ily looking over the ground and waiting for developments A A more class are taking the place of the stay in camp people and doing justice to the hills by actual work and pros prospecting acting A buti nesa claas class of men from bath both ogden and logan have been permanently located and are doing well about fifty men left the cam camp p this morning some intend returning while others have no desire to come back from the fact that in their estl estimation at on the tte ca camp al is not tar far enough advanced to snit suit ohp them m and an exist ance is not sufficiently easy for them this is true as regards men who would not work were they given the best beet of advantages alv es work rk ia Is being prosecuted with vigor on the sunside subside Sun side north pole sumeet blue bird heller dead rat D ar R G sage hen lion queen of the hills hill surprise locky lucky thought og d den on queen jose mcmillan POC pocahontas hontas unknown fairview banner jay bird sunflower no 1 and sunflower no 2 and the red rock all of which are within one mile of la plata not counting those that are being worked outside of the circle daring during the day time the town is de populated but in the evening there is a continual whirl of miners everywhere all have something to show for their days labor druly la plata is in a genuine mining camp and it will take all the working campi tm time a left eft this fall to prove its value A great deal depends upon the opening of the sundown property and the amount of work to te be done by the la plata thus establishing a payroll pay roll for the camp these two wo mines are capable of employing men now if they desired to do so but it seems that both are holding back tor for speculation more than any hing thing else the question of an outlet is one most important ot of all the road from logan via the paradise valley junction is being pushed by a force of 0 men and will be completed to camp sy by wednesday night this route makes logan juit just twenty two miles from rom here A force of forty men are at work on the middle midd e fork route as well but do not expect to complete the he road before september this route will be twenty three miles thus affording the miners bare hare a better I 1 nearer and more profitable outlet direct to a market ogden is the recognized cog nixed point and will be patronized in preference to the logan route outside of the la plata com company piny As matters now stand the road question is one must most important of all the establishment of a in mail a it route via ogden has been petitioned orand forand until a daily stage line is permanently established the people here will have to take their chances with their mall mail the town lot question is to still in an unsettled condition and some twenty lots iota are in dispute the question has been loft left to a committee who have failed to act en the dispute atthe at the meeting saturday night another committee was appointed to act in the place of the absent committeemen and are to report at the next inc eting whenever that shall be called A call has been issued for a miners mineral meeting this evening at which time the question of indiscriminate mine locations will be considered also other matters coming directly in contact with the interests of the district an organization of bf this kind is vs very ry much desired four town sites have been located within a radius of five miles around la plata city they are 0 mound city over the hill a about bout two miles east oi of here the town of monte caristo Ct CL risto about three miles south of her here e at the head of middle fork and red rock another camp southeast of here on the ogden road another move is on foot for the location of a townsite about four miles north of here on the new wag wagon n road coming up south fork canyon on the logan road A mining sensation was created here hero saturday by the dincov discovery ery that a portion of the tile sundown gr ground aund III lying n g nearest the city was vacant a fall fault in the location of the ground and placing the stakes A lady by the name of 0 0 hicks who is largely intern eted in mining properties bertles throughout utah detected igo the aliw and at once measured the ground finding that the stakes covered feet east of the discovery shaft instead of aa as tb the 0 law lair ro r quires this leave a strip of land feet wide by 1503 feet long between the sundown and dead rit rat locations this one hundred feet takes in the galena ledge recently opened by the sundown company the fault is an unpardonable one on the part of the sundown people and a question will at once arrive arrive as to the legal owners of the disputed territory work lias has been started on the ground in several places by several disinterested parties and siad a force of 0 men ara now at work on the sundown hill opening new now ground parties working on th the ground owned by mrs lira hicks have hav been ordered off and their location destroyed thui thus far everything has been peaceable in the tile C camp amp but the prospects of a disturbance ara are brewing daily and ud you may bear of trouble at moat most any lim time e unless amicably settled A distinguished party of Loga nitea arrived in camp AMP this morning nor ning they are composed d ot of don kimball sheriff of cache county hon lion 0 D W fulmer county clerk accompanied by his we aue noble warrem jr and ft wife mr 3 fulmer Is here looking after licenses and to take a general view N low of the camp while mr warrum I 1 is 5 his side partner in adjustments sheriff kimball kimt came up here to select t a competent man for deputy sheriff and constable of tills this precinct clarence Westover was wals appointed deputy ana at the next court meeting will oz ably be made the le leal al constable J jaa as P law of cache valley was appointed point ed justice of f the peace mr fullmer stated to your reporter that work was being numbed with all possible viper vigor on the logan road and that it would be completed on or about saturday no special appropriation ra pria tion haa has been made for or its adf c construction on st but orders given by the court to no go ahead and complete the roue route orson sent smith it it is the locator of the route and N W crookston is superintendent DOWN TO BUSINESS leadville enterprise began to cr crop op out in the camp this morning your correspondent is informed that three lead leadville vil Is men associated with J D mcginley of ogden have made three thre locations on the contact to the west and will at once begin operations erat ions to sink three shafts shifts each one hundred feet deep to try the ground thear conrid upon their property the leadville a d ile men are ben T br brooks 00 its J 0 edwards and A veil they have located the sunflower and sunflower ko no 2 and another claim upon which they will sink shafts to the depth of feet each to fully test the third formation a of the contact in this district they will begin operations ope oper ratina atins to by locating camp and retting getting provisions at once to start the work mr brooks Is an expert of long experience and contends that the formation in this locality is settled and more regular and if it there is an any mineral in the A first rat contact it wl will iti deelo develop p here they mean business and ar are e pre prepared icare ipare d to do business red ted rose is the third location west of the sunflower bun flower claims and Is owned by I 1 L B krout A M bouldy and adolph who purpose to fillow the advise of our leadville friends and sink 10 feet on their property they are going over tomorrow to morrow to make all ne cestary arrangements and get down to business as long and so no long as the tall fall weather will permit the contact following the limestone formation of the mine has been traced |