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Show THE MARSAC MILL. Chambers, Caliher and Grant Resurrect Res-urrect the Old Works. There was a time in the history of this camp, says the .Park. City Record, when there were more mills than mines. Prof. Clayton estimated the McIIenry bluff to be worth $4,000,000: Seveno'aks, Hal-comb Hal-comb and the writer of this, came down the hill from the Lake, and an open cut called our attention to a spot in which men were at work. That spot is the present Ontario. Had an' enthusiast got hold of that mine, this camp would not be in existence. There was a crisis in the history of this camp that Creg Chambers filled just like timber-men in a mine work in a "Dutchman." Like all successful men, Chambers had enemies: but he surrounded himself with lieutenants that would pull the bottom out of hell and give the Devil' a contract to go deeper. Pat Kirviri was with him in the early days, and our readers know that, under Chambers management, it was Kirvin's mine for years. The depth attained in the old working shaft necessi tated machinery, ma-chinery, and as in the history of all countries, a man was found ready for the emergency. Dan Ball .had shot himself at the Valley House, but A. M. Grant was still at the mill. As when General Grant was inspired to have Sheridan -swoop down upon Lee's Army, Chambers placed Joe E. Galigher in charge of the Ontario null. Sheridan's work is historical when Galigher dies we'll write his biography millions have been turned out of this old mine and millions yet remain. re-main. West of the Ontario, miners had turned wistful glances. A bov came along and saw, what to some seemed a delusion, the continuation of the Ontario fissure. With the true instinct of a general, gen-eral, R. C. Chambers recognized his abilities, and that boy, J. J. Daly, has demonstrated now, what was then in doubt, that patent stakes do not limit a rein. In the early days of the Ontario mine, on the strength of Prof. Clayton's report, a mill was built for the McEIenry. The company had a mill but no develoDed mine. Chambers knew he had a mine, but no mill, and rented the McHenryin which to work his ores. Howland went on to Flagstaff hill and induced Michigan gentlemen to build a mill in which ore might be worked that only existed in his own fertile imagination. imagina-tion. It was called the Marsac, and when the McHenry machinery was worn out, Chambers leased the Marsac. Before the Marsac shoes were worn out, the Ontario mill was ready to drop its stamps. Daly having dropped upon the true west- ward course of the famous Ontario vein, a mill was required to work the ores of the new mine. The old Marsac was yet in fair condition and the new company bought it. Joe Galigher and A.M. Grant took hold of the old hulk, and about the first of January; thirty stamps v,KH drop from reconstructed gums upon ore rich as the Ontario ever had. There is much in the history of the Park that haa not been' m print, but the full story would fill a' book. |