| Show utah lead marysa Marys marysvale vale s mining savior by william E white Yester yesterday dav tile the writer again wended bended his way u up beautiful bullion canyon to the bully boy basin the scene of utah lead mining activity for tile the purpose of giving reaper readers a first hand story of a wonderful change A very few months ago bullion canyon was vas a kealm of silence disturbed only by the squeak of mountain rats and the flapping of bat wings yesterday the canyon was fairly alive with mining activity and a tenton ten ton tractor awoke cliff echoes as it hauled supplies for utah lead mines and mill A young town is sp springing ringing up as if by magic at the mine where about 40 employees are hard at work the writer riter has never seen before a working crew with so good morale everyone appears to work willingly and enthusiastically and there is little or no loafing in bullion canyon this result has been attained in part at least probably pro baly by the bonus bomis system whereby the wor worker licer draws a daily reward for extra effort and this system is being extended to all ernpao employees ees as rapidly as possible and i in n sonie some lines double effectiveness has alre already ady been attained the old dully bully boy ground is rapidly asquini assuming ng its old time productive nes ness in no I 1 sublevel sub level drift has been driven 20 feet in good ore 30 feet wide bioni which good shipping ore can be sorted and balance is high grade milling ore and a thousand tons of tin this s ore have already been mined on oil the dewitt extension the foot tunnel has just reached the vein and entered it about 4 feet in good mi milling appi ling ore with good chances of shi shipping g ore on a distant ju jut just t across the canyon to the south the gold strike property is in ard milling and shipping ore some of the latter carrying values of and sacked the ore bins aie bulging with ore and moie are being built A raise lias has i cached the avi waight git tunnel milling ore the mine contractors james miller and joseph bulow are making remarkable progress at the mine one large tunnel has been driven 80 feet in 15 days daya by one machine man and one and an average of about 5 feet per shift is made in the different tunnels and drifts A fine high powered new compressor has been installed at bully boy tunnel and the former one will be installed on the tate property one is in operation on oil the dewitt claims witnessing all this sturdy human labor and ami effort the writer feels that he would be unfair to reaper readers if lie he failed to mention a hero bero and heroine of the holse hoise tribe owned and worked by the contractors at the bully boy tunnel bess a bald faced sorrel mare and baldy a bald faced brown horse are scarcely outdone in in efficiency by any person at the U utah tall lead mines these two alert wise babies haul in and out the ore cars without line or rein and hardly a word said and haul the hill dull drills to the shop turn around as carefully as a man could and return the sharpened drills to the mine go to the stable at the sound of the tally whistle and if they retain their present gait of learning may in time sabe the gong and lebair to the boarding house for t their h air meals mill rush is being lone done on the utah lead mill increasing its capacity to tons per day and modern equipment is being rapidly installed the services of jacob young have been fortunately secured as mill superintendent erin mr young has had years of milling experience with bully boy ores and is an expert mill man and good chemist as well the mill will be ready for work in about a week and production will be well under way the writer L knows of no more likely mining pr property anywhere than that OW owned ned and controlled by utah lead in bullion canyon in addition to the great oie bodies bodie the thousands of feet of sloping now encountered and in sight are ground lying between and beneath the bully boy bov tunnel and the old dalton mine in e woi workings kings and yesterday from an elevation the writer caught a view view to the great dorph porphyry ary dike standing 20 to 30 feet high cutting beecher mountain from north to south just what mother nature was up to when rhen she formed this dike this deponent not being present at the time of its formation not and therefore mayeth not I 1 but he believes she waa depositing mineral miner zil treasures therein or thereabouts and t tho lie qu quartzite a rt zi te contact nearby c confirms on fi ains that belief and the fast sinking wine in the bull bully y boy do y tunnel when it cu cuts ts the bedded lime may be a to utah lead and marysvale Marys vale |
