| Show UTAH HUH PIONEER OIES benjamin hampton one of the pioneer business men man of utah who was closely associated w with th the de bif various industries and bu business uness enterprises of the stee stae among them being some launched in southern utah and nevada in the old horn silver and bullionville Bulli onville days died at his home in salt lake city friday morning mr hampton was well known in southern utah in early days especially of the boom dayson days of bullion ville nevada and made many friends at that time who are now living in this section of the state in connection with mr godby a mining man of note now deceased he organized the chicago mining company which constructed the smelter te on an the east shore of rush lake tooele county which sent to eastern refineries over 2000 worth of silver lead bullion in 1877 they established a small se sm elting halting plant pill at fr fro frisco o then miles fron from the railroad and later purchased the cave group of mines from which with the ore of the horn silver Siver t they hey produced bullion vid valued no d ii at nearly 2 in I 1 1870 80 they constructed a small smelter at but homice nev from which nearly worth of bullion was ship ped after that mr all hampton mined extensively in many sections of utah and nevada locating several hundred acres ot of gold placer at O ecola of recent years his hia failing health prevented ire vented him taking active part in bislew af Taira but he was one of the most widely known know and popular men ion of the city aid d state rate |
