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Show THE STOCKTSH BOOM. Several Groups of the Leading Mines Transferred to a St. Louis Syn-dicate. Syn-dicate. ; More Men to be Pat to Work and More Money to be Taken Ont. . Lack of Shipping Facilities, With a ! Gentle Reminder to the Utah & Nevada. ' i i . - j Correspondence Democrat. ! Stockton, Utah, November 12. During the past few days there have j been several large transfers of mining ! properties in this district to Messrs. ! Neidringhas & Black, of St. Louis, the j celebrated manufacturing firm of granite ware. Your correspondent called upon j Mr. W. P. Black, part owner and general j manager, last evening at the Eureka ho-j ho-j tel, who kindly made him acquainted with the following facts relating to their I recent purchases and their present and j j future operations. Their recent purchases amount to $160,000. The Calumet group of twelve claims was purr chased from L. C. Karripk, of Salt Lake," for $125,000. The Silver King group was purchased from Messrs. Lawrence, Hampton, General Connor and others, of Salt Lake, for $20,000. The Muscatine and Iroquois group was purchased from Messrs. Lawrence, Hampton, General Connor and others for $15,000. In ad dition to the above purchases, this company com-pany have recently purchased the celebrated cele-brated Stanton and Buckhorn' group of mines, at Dry Canyon. This company, as their recent purchases prove, have the command of unlimited capital, and their management is composed of men who have had thorough experience in the successful suc-cessful working and management of large mining interests in Colorado. Their re-, cent purchases here are beyond question composed of a large and , VALUABLE LIST OE MINING PROPERTIES, And the prices paid are considered by our best informed mining men "bed. rock" prices, and all parties interested are amply justified in anticipating large and valuable results from this company's operations. This company will employ about one hundred and twenty-five men. Mr. W. P. Black will superintend the working of the Stanton mine at Dry Can-pon Can-pon and the Silver King, Muscatine and j Iroquois groups of mines in this district, j. Mr. Black impressed your correspondent correspond-ent as being a gentleman of eminent abilities, abil-ities, who is acquainted with all the dips, spurs, angles and variations of the mining business, and a gentleman who possesses a large fund of general, information and amply qualified to gain and retain the confidence and respect of all with whom he may. come in contact. Mr. Black's mission is not directly to correct the social and political evils existing in Utah, but I think I cannot be successfully contradicted con-tradicted in saying that Mr. Black and the company he represents are, and will be, one of the principal factors in solving the Utah problem, through the expenditure expendi-ture of large sums of money in developing develop-ing the valuab'e mining resources of our Territory and. GIVING EMPLOYMENT TO LARGE NUMBERS OF MEN, Which will enable them to be independent independ-ent of church patronage for a living, and will allow them to assert their manhood and exercise the rights of American citizens citi-zens without the danger of starving. They should, and no doubt will, receive the hearty encouragement and best wishes for success, not only from the residents of this vicinity, but of all who desire the best interests of Utah to prosper. L- C. Karrick, the well-known mining ' man of Utah and Idaho, will superintend the working of the Calumet group of mines. Under Mr. Karrick's former management, the mines have been largely developed and prospected, and everything is in first-class condition to imminence large suipmenis oi ore as soon as machinery is put in place for the proper working of the mines. The ore from this group of mines is of a high grade, and will average, from $50 to $60 per ton. The Buck Horn group, at Dry Canyon, is under the management of Mr. E. C. Quinbey, a gentleman of long experience in the management of mines. Th j pany are now shipping from the Stanton mine thirty to forty tons of ore daily, and have sufficient ore now in sight to enable them to keep up and increase the shipments ship-ments for a long time. The shipments from the Silver King group after this week will be thirty tons per day. I do not want to appear in the light of a fault-finder, but in the following criti cism of the penurious and Cheap-John management, -and the LACK OF ENTERPRISE DISPLAYED BY THE - U. A N. R. R. I am but voicing the sentiments of the mine owners of this section. They are charged with employing no one but a boy at the terminus of the road, who is incompetent in-competent to attend to the' business required re-quired in transferring freight. Freight that is billed for Stockton will often be sent to Dry Canyon and Ophir, and vice versa, and the present terminus- of the road is so far distant from the mines, it being in Tooele valley, under the brow of the mountain, that it is of but little practical prac-tical value to the mines. The yield of ore would be much larger from this vicinity vicin-ity if they had proper facilities for sniping snip-ing the ore. Great difficulty is experienced by mine owners in getting teams to haul the ore from the mines to the rail-Toad. rail-Toad. I have good authority for savinff that if thfi TT. Ar. N T?. P ,w : - xiub OUUli display more enterprise ; in meeting the needs of the mining interests in this section sec-tion there will be a rival road that will. j It is rumored that there is a probability of a complicated lawsuit between Messrs I Bamberger of Salt Lake and the owners ; of the Stanton mine. It is claimed that the Stanton company are working ground included in Messrs. Bamberger's patent. N. Trewick, the well-known mining expert ex-pert and superintendent, is . here in the interest of mining. Miner. |