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Show J SOME PARK MINING NOTES. ! Fine Outlook of the Sampson and-I and-I Anchor Properties The Morgan ! Imbroglio A Welcome Free . , . ., . . -Deilyery. Correspondence Democrat..! The shipments of bullion from the Ontario On-tario mill for the week ending November 1st, consisted of 83 bars - containing 50,-482,52 50,-482,52 ounces of silver. Value, $55,530,-77. $55,530,-77. Through the Crescent and Mackintosh's sampling mills during the past week, 1,763,210 lbs. of ore were shipped, divided into the following lots : Sampson: 13.800 1 Daly. ...142,010 Ontario 429,750 Crescent;, 1,177,900 THE SAMPSON MINE. A visit was paid to the Sampson mine Saturday and everything found to be in a flourishing condition. Work is being done on the 200-foot level and considerable consider-able ore taken out. For some time past some of the stopes that were abandoned over a year ago have been worked and large bodies of rich ore have been found in numerous places. Besides the large amount of ore taken from these old workings, work-ings, a great quantity is taken out from the work on the vein. The drain tunnel which has been pushed in for 2,000 feet has been found to be less satisfactory than was anticipated, and from this tunnel at a distance of 1,000 feet a new tunnel has been started, which is thought will meet the" requirements. During the last thirty days as much oro has been shipped from this mine as in any preceding sixty days, and from the present fine condition of the mine it is thought the output for the next thirty days will exceed the last, if not in number of pounds it will at least in richness. Some of the . ore found in the old stopes run very high . and the output for tho coming month will be a valuable one. All preparations pre-parations have been made for winter and everything around the mine seems rustle and stir. , - OUH immediate delivery system. That Park City has attained to this dignity may surprise your readers, but true it is, and a well-established fact. Who knows but the vaunted system of our large cities, and so loudly heralded, had its origin in mining camps like ours? Our people who live near the postoffice do as of yore present their faces to a square hole through which they see the Postmaster, and having wrought every lineament of the face into an interrogation interroga-tion point ( ?), quickly change it into an exclamation or a ( z ) as a letter" is handed them or the word "nothing" crowds them from the delivery window and they give place to the next in the row of applicants. It is those living near the mines, awav tin the RAyprnl cmlfhoa that are the favored ones from our post-office. post-office. Upon the arrival of the noonday mail, each day, may be seen three bronchos hitched in front of the post-office. post-office. Inside, and seated on the floor in front of the lower tier of lock boxes, are three "by-thunder-boys" of unmistakable proclivities, ready for anything that may turn up. At hand, to each boy. are three large canvas haversacks, something like a game bag, and fitted up to be carried as such bags are. As fast as letters and papers are distributed from within, into the several boxes, the boys grab and redistribute re-distribute them into the pockets of their bags, thus assorting them for convenient delivery along each of their several routes. As soon as the last letter and paper has left the postmaster's hand, Mr. Emory's cheery voice sings out, as the signal to the bovs. "All set!" Then bang go the box lids, as quickly locked, and swinging the well-filled well-filled mail bags, one on each side and one on the back, the boys thus equipped rush through the crowd and in a second are astride of their brnnfhna onrl auroTT they whip and spur and race up Main street toward the mountains. Imagine your right arm outstretched to the south, with the thumb and first two fingers spread out, the thumb will represent the Ontario Gulch, the dexter finger the Empire Gulch and the second finger is Woodside Canyon, each diverging diverg-ing from the head of Main street. Here the boys diverge and vanish, one in each canyon, still whipping and spurring, speeding on to their destination. The Ontario mill and mine and the hundreds of employees of this royal employer of mind and muscle, are supplied with their daily mail by one of these boys, he distributing papers and letters at each cabin door on either side of the gulch as he hurries up the g-ade to the finale at the mine. Another t oy speeds up the Empire Gulch and distributes his load along to the Daly and Anchor mines, and there deposits all remaining to await applicants ap-plicants from beyond who at night come down from their "prospects" to enquire for mail. The third boy has Woodside canyon as his route. The Sampson and ! Crescent mines,, with the many prospectors prospect-ors at the head of Thayne's canyon and about the Pioneer, are daily applicants for the contents of his mail bags. Thus day by day these boys await the arrival of the mail train and dash away with their priceless messages of news and comfort and cheer. News from the busy outer world, letters from the old across the continent and the stormy sea kind words from a loving mother to her wanderer boy, than which no sweeter, no purer Ones are ever penned, letters from "the States" or "God's country" to those along the picket line of our advancing advanc-ing civilization are daily left at the cabin doors of the miners of this district. And many a loving letter thus brought, written writ-ten full of hopes from waiting, trusting hearts, are taken down the deep shaft ana aiong tne damp levels, hundreds of feet under ground,by the miner when he goes "on shift." Can you chide him, if,; when, alone,; he takes the precious missive from its safest lodgment against his heart and by the light of his candle re-reads the whispered words of trusting love that have 1 winged their way from one dearer to him i than his own life, to find him in the mine? Our "immediate delivery system" is prized by many an honest miner. THE ANCHOR MINE. i A visit to this promising claim revealed a state of progress that is truly astonishing. astonish-ing. Not quite three months ago, up amongst a group of towering pines, the nrst pick stroke was driven upon the Anchor An-chor ground. From that time to this 1 i truly gigantic strides have been taken.! Where three short months ago the pines and underbrush held undisputed swav ! now appears a main building 40 by 90 feet substantially framed, with self-sur-porting roof. In this main building ia I the shaft, hoisting engine and the other j etcetras of such a building. On the north ot the mam building is a wing used as a ! boiler room. This wing, which is 36 bv 40 feet, contains two fine "Eraser & Chalmer" boilers, with room and a stack sufficient to accommodate two more when the enlarged demands of the mine shall , render extra power ne- cessary. Running along the south of iS61?'!1 PuiIdi?K w another wing 20x60 feet. A partition divides this intS ! two rooms, one of which is used as a car-j car-j penter shop and the other as a black- smith shop, and last, hut not least, standing stand-ing a. little part from the rest, is the boarding -house.. The acceptance of a hospitable invitation from gentlemen in charge enabled us to judge for ourselves as to the excellent quality of the fare, i while a look through the store-room filled ; with a bewildering variety of eatables ': with which to defy the coming winter, left no doubts as to the quantity. Every- thing about the property shows a combi-! combi-! nation of mushroom-like growth, and "come-to-stay" solidity, known only to places like this where "nothing venture, nothing wins," is the motto for all. Last Friday the old whim with which the work of sinking had been facilitated was replaced by a good engine which will largely increase the rapidity of the work. Large stores of fuel are on hand, and every arrangement made for the comfort and convenience of .the employes, of which there are some twenty-five about the works. Under the able management of Mr. E. P. Ferry, with Mr. Martin as ; foreman and Mr. G. Andrews as chief engineer, this promising piece of property will be pushed for all it is worth during the coming season. THE MORGAN GROUP. The Morgan group trouble has presented pre-sented such a series of kaleidoscopic .changes of owners, possessors, claimants, plaintiffs, defendants, rulings, exceptions, nnes, costs, cnanges oi venue, etc., eic., as to make an attempt at a lucid explanation expla-nation a very hazardous, not to say doubtful, doubt-ful, proceeding. . The trouble seems to have grown out of a lease held by Mr. George A. Meears from the Morgan Mining Company, authorizing the said George A. Meears, for and in consideration considera-tion of certain sums of' money, to do certain cer-tain work in and about the property known as the Morgan group of mines. In pursuance of the power vested in him by the said lease Mr. Meears did do a certain cer-tain amount .pf work, principally on what is known as the Grizzly tunnel, a part of the said Morgan Mining Company's property. Work was . suspended before the lease held bv Mr. Meears had expired. The property then lay for some time without being worked. Then came the Morgan Mining Company, and, claiming claim-ing that the lease was forfeited, commenced- to work the property for themselves; them-selves; whereupon Mr. Meears comes forward, and claiming that the lease held good, ousts the other party and prepares to resume work. The ire of the representative repre-sentative of the Morgan Company being aroused by these proceedings, he' rallied his forces and by means of some "gentle persuasion" retook the camp. The Meears party then appealed to "the law's strong arm." and in a trial held at Wanship before be-fore Judge Anderson, succeeded in establishing estab-lishing a charge of forcible ..entry and retention of the Grizzly tunnel, and "a fine of $25 and costs was imposed upon each of four of the Morgan Company's employes. em-ployes. The Meears party then took triumphant possession, but their triumph was shot-lived for scarcely had they become installed when the Morgan Company Com-pany presented an order from the Third District Court giving the said company power to do the required amount of assessment as-sessment work on their nwnprtv TKioro- I upon the Morgan Company were again ahead. The whole affair is an exceedingly exceed-ingly mixed one, and it is very probable that it will be some time before the matter mat-ter will be entirely settled. The equity proceedings have been appealed to the Third District Court, the decision of which is being anxiously awaited bv both parties. In the three suits in which' judgment judg-ment has been rendered the Morgan Company has been successful in two and defeated in one. Representatives of both sides are now on the ground, but the Morgan men are confident of success. Further developments will be awaited with interest and given from time to time as they occur. - Gemini. |