Show QUICKSILVER MINES II I I The Democrats Special Correspondent Correspond-ent Takes n Trip to the Big Find on Mt Baldy The Region of Marys rale Ripe for the Utah Railway Project Itg Undeveloped Riches The Second Quicksirer Mine In the World Will the Big Find Cause Excitement Special Correspondence THE DEMOCRAT Alter resting a day or two in Richfield your representative made a trip up to Marysvale in Piute county As most people probable known TIE VALE As the place is familiarly called is i a mining camp and the only one on the Sevier River The ride up to it especially south of Monroe id i ji dreary dusty hot jaunt of twentyseven miles The country hereabouts is very rugged and wild A few miles west of the road the Sevier River by the way the longest river having its rise and ending in Utah passes through a narrow defile at the base of that grand old peak Mt Bald As the traveler climbs the Vale road winding and twisting around and about the his with the pines and the ceders on every hand there is visible a scene not at all attractive and were it not for the grandeur of the mountains to the eat and the sublime greatness of Mt Baldy to the west an uglier and more uninteresting piece of country would bs hard to find Within a short distance of the vale however as one rides to the top of the ridge the scene changes as if by magic and one beholds several hundred feet below be-low a pretty a spot a there is in Utah It is a pretty little dell where the Sevier river enters a narrow precipitous cny nand n-and coils its insiducus course down into the Sevier Valley Opposite to the mountain side where the road wiggles down to the river is the once honminc camp Marysvale now quiet and lifeless There are still remaining a store a hotel a school and a few private houses Up and down either side of the river are a series of splendid ranches 4 Everything looks fresh and pn turesque After sojourning over night in a most comfortable way at Judge Starlks hotel TIE DEMOCRAT man again mounted his steed and enjoyed a magnificent ride up the east side of Mt Baldy to THE QUICKSILVER MINE Arriving at the mouth of the shaft Mr Riclv the superintendent was found blowing the bellows for the blacksmith The sudden appearance of a stranger so early in the morning seemed to have made all hands as reticent a a closed mousetrap I was with the greatest difficulty that your correspondent could get the old gentleman to thaw out A little tact though answered the purpose to a dot A few questions displaying the newspaper mans seeming ignorance was more than the Deer Trail man could endure He seemed to be unwilling that a correspondent should be roaming about the country in such an ignorant state of mind and therefore gave the desired information in-formation very much to the hearts content con-tent of his interviewer The Deer Trail mine is the only quick silver mine in Utah and there is but one other like it in the world and that one is in Spain The Marysvale mine has been worked for many years yielding good productive ore from the start Last year up t September 10000 of quicksilver was taken out During the past winter the yield has been 11000 pounds For some time past however but little ore has been mined the superintendent having been directing his force of men in prospecting for a larger body of ore That an immense body of ore has been struck is a very safe conclusion to come to for more reasons than one The building build-ing of a fnrnace of 2000 pounds daily capacity coupled with the facts that prospecting has been the chief mode of operation for several weeks that the information in-formation obtained was given in such away a-way a to arouse suspicion that there is but one other mine in the world like this one and that mining experts affirm that the bowels of Mt Baldy are vast reservoirs reser-voirs of mineral wealth all uphold the fact Putting these things together your representative standing on the very ground could not resist the impression im-pression that the finding of a big body of ore has rewarded the work of prospecting prospect-ing far beyond all sanguine expectations expecta-tions The mine is owned by the Richmond Rich-mond QuickSilver Mining Company of California TIE BULLY BOY AND WE STIR Mines are located around on the north face of the mountain From these properties prop-erties shipments of good ore have been made during the winter They still keep up but a the leases so it is rumored in the camp end with the present month no one knows what will b done with these properties after that time OThER MIXES There are several other mines in the camp but none are being operated for various reasons The Copper Belt mill has been closed down for several months but may start up inside of sixty days But little prospecting is going on Like many other small camps in Utah Marys vale wants capital to go down and develop de-velop what now give evidence of being rich properties Should it turn out that your correspondents conjectures regarding regard-ing the Deer Trail are the proper thing the prospects for a railroad so often talked of for this camp will be fairer than ever With a railroad for these mines would go capital for investment and then would follow a boom for Marysvale So might it be MILOZIP MAUYSVALE June 10 1887 |