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The Barbee & Walker Mill and Mining Company is a New York organization, incorporated on the consolidated Barbee & Walker locations, embracing somewhat more than half a mile in length of the White Reef. Hoisting from the mine incline, which is 500 feet deep, is done by steam, and the ore is delivered directly on the floor of a five-stamp mill, which has pounded out in five years a round million.
The Leeds Silver Mining Company, a San Francisco organization, was the pioneer of the district. It owns a group of locations and a ten-stamp mill. It has taken out more than $800,000, and paid $78,000 in dividends. In all of these mines the silver-bearing rock is remarkably uniform, both as to richness and thickness of the stratum. The best geologists differ as to whether it came by sublimation or was precipitated from a silver ocean, but they do not differ as to the probability of its great extent downward. The silver-bearing part of the Reef is known to be fifteen miles long, and Captain Lubbock is authority for the statement that there are groups of locations practically unimproved and producing nothing of any consequence, which, in all probability, are as good as those belonging to the companies men- tioned, and which could be purchased at very reasonable figures, consoli- cated, provided with a light mill plant, and made dividend-paying properties. Amongst these locations may be placed the Lulu, Independence, McKelvy, McMullin, Gisborn, Emily Jane, Vanderbilt, Butte, Stormy King, Grey Eagle, Duffin, Toquerville, Last Chance, May Flower, Lamb & Steele, Thomas James, Susan, Romulus, Napoleon, Gibfried, Silver Plume, etc.
Deposits of rich copper ore are found in the sandstone near the Colorado River, from some of which the ores are shipped east; at Grand Gulch they are being smelted on the ground. Certain districts in Northern Arizona- the Gold Basin, Mineral Park and Cerbat-find their nearest source of sup- plies at Silver Reef. Mining in them is reported as in a prosperous condi- tion. There are some districts about Silver Reef, but so far they have done nothing in the producing stage. It is almost certain that other parts of the White and Buckeye reefs will some day be made as productive as that
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herein described, which has produced over $4,000,000 in five years, one- third of it profit.
TIMMONS, OR NEBO DISTRICT.
Nebo is situated in Juab County, eighty-five miles south of Salt Lake City, and thirty-five miles from Provo; it lies within a mile and a half of the Utah Central Railway, which gives an impetus to mining in that district, as the ores are found in immense quantities, but are of too low grade to pay for shipment, except by steam power. The district was discovered in the spring of 1869 by F. Carter and others. Its boundaries are, commencing at Willow Creek, running thence easterly to the summit of the Wasatch range, thence northerly along the summit of said range to the northern boundary of Juab County, then westerly along the line of Juab County to the summit of West Range, thence southerly along the summit of West Range to the place of beginning. Following are the principal mines and their develop- ments:
Olive Branch-Situated on the north Twin Mountain; formation, quart- zite and limestone; average width of vein, three feet; average value of ore, $35 per ton.
Mountain Queen-On north Twin Mountain; formation, limestone; average value of ore, $20 per ton; average width of vein, four feet.
Blue Bird-At the head of Secret Gulch, on the south side of North Canyon; formation, quartzite; a true vein of first-class ore.
Monitor-At the mouth of Twin Canyon, showing a good vein of galena ore; average value of ore, $18 per ton.
Commonwealth-On the north side of North Canyon, showing a good body of galena and ochre ore.
Elephant-In North Canyon, showing a good vein of galena ore.
Bluff-On North Twin Mountain, showing a good body of galena ore of a low grade.
Knuck-On north side of Twin Canyon, showing a good vein of galena ore of a low grade.
Magpie-On the south side of Bear Canyon; large body of galena ore of a very good quality.
Eureka-On Olive Branch Hill; body of very good ore.
Sultana-On the south side of South Twin Canyon; good vein of galena ore, low grade.
Trench-on the south side of North Twin Canyon; galena are.
Gray Eagle-On the south side of South Twin Mountain; galena ore of low grade.
Agnes-On the north side of Twin Canyon; large vein of galena ore of grade.
Morse-On the north side of North Canyon, with a vein of galena and carbonate ore, two and a half feet wide, increasing as it goes down.
Great Western-On Mountain Queen Hill; good vein of galena ore of low grade.
Following are the names of the principal locations in the district, show- ing well on top, but which have not been developed, except enough work to hold them: Mount Pleasant, Sonney Boy, Whimbamper, Rip Van Winkle, St. Patrick, Lilly, Rising Sun, Clipper, Cooke, Watsike, Mountain Lion, Crooked Horn, Honey-Moon, Stonewall Jackson, Wild Dutchman, New York, Morning Glory, Montezuma, Black Hawk, Little Emily, Wandering Jew, Flag-Staff, Ground Hog, Keisel, Herald, Silver Star, Home Ticket, Hoboken, I. X. L., Wild Frenchman, Mormon Chief, Wild Cat, Octoroon, Jersey, Olive Branch No. 2, Live Yankee, Aspinwall, Hagar, Midas, Cat- aract.
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There is no smelter in this district, and for that reason but few of the mines are being worked, as the ore from most of them will not pay to ship.
TINTIC DISTRICT.
Is situated in the Oquirrh Mountain Range, Juab County, commencing about seventy-five miles south southwesterly from Salt Lake City, thence continuing for about ten miles in a southerly direction. The geological structure of the Oquirrh is entirely different in character and formation from the structure of the Wasatch and belongs to the Palaeozoic age, com- prising such rocks as porphyry, granite, syenite, hornblende, quartzite or metamorphic sandstone and lower Silurian limestones, (dolomite and calcite). The limestone is considerably changed in its appearance by the great masses of eruptive igneous rocks. In the western part of the district we observe quartzite at the base of the mountain. The ore in the northwestern and western part of the district occurs in the fissures, bearing northeast and southwesterly and northerly and southerly with a very near verticle dip. There appear also numerous gash veins cutting the country rock in different directions, and so making the whole appear as a complete net-work of veins. Occasionally we observe also ore bodies appearing as contact veins at or very near the junction of two formations, and in a few instances as bed or strata veins, complying with and parallel to the course and dip of the strat- ified formation in which the ore bodies occur.
The ores here are very rebellious, containing lead, copper, gold, silver, bismuth, antimony, iron, arsenic and pyrites of iron and copper, varying in value from $20 to $400 per ton. Here and there, in places, the veins are barren, the ore appearing in chimneys and pockets only, but some of these pockets and chimneys are veritable bonanzas.
In the southern part of this district the mineral bearing formation is principally composed of hornblende, porphyry, syenite, feldspar and por- phyry containing kaolin.
In the eastern and northeastern part of Tintic we observe the ore deposits as appearing in granite, quartzite and limestone and as contact veins between the formations. Spars of all the different silicious, calcite and magnesian varieties abound everywhere as gangue or vein matter, as mag- nificent crystals, and as stalactites and stalagmites in caves and crevices.
Prominent among the Tintic mines is the Mammoth, situated near the junction of the limestone and granite of the westerly slope of the Mammoth Hill at an altitude of about 7,000 feet above the level of the sea. The Mammoth ore deposit is a true fissure vein in the Silurian limestone; this limestone is crystalline an'd silicious. The gangue or vein material is brecciated quartz.
The Mammoth is remarkable for its dimensions as well as the great value of the ores extracted, which ores are chiefly carbonates of copper and oxides of copper, carrying a high percentage in gold, silver and copper.
The mine is largely developed. Two shafts have been sunk down to a depth of 300 feet, at which point they are intersected by a tunnel; from this tunnel a winze has reached a depth of 200 feet. Levels, drifts, inclines, and cross cuts have developed the lode in various directions, exposing a deposit sixty feet in width, containing over $10,000,000 worth of ore in sight as actually established by measure.
The plant of the Mammoth mine consists of fourteen furnaces, crushing and refining works, possessing a capacity for the conversion or separation of 200 tons daily of the mixed copper, silver and gold ores of Tintic. The daily production of the mine should and could average $10,000, netting an annual profit of at least $2,000,000 to the investors.
Crismon Mammoth, largely developed, ore rich in gold, silver and copper.
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The mines of Eureka Hill in the northern part of Tintic are next in prominence, forming a series of veins and deposits in the Silurian limestone. The limestone is tilted up. These deposits form one large true fissure vein, subdivided into a series of veins, irregular in strike and dimensions, by stratas or beds of limestone. These veins are connected by numerous feeders and spurs. The character of the ores extracted is gray carbonate of copper, rich in a considerable percentage of gold and silver. In past times rich deposits of horn silver have been found in the mines in Eureka Hill; foremost among those veins are those owned by the Eureka Hill Mining Company. The property comprises several mining locations, is extensively developed to a length of 600 feet and 400 feet in depth. The sinking of the main shaft is done by steam drills and the hoisting by a fifty horse power steam engine. The regular shipments amount to over 1,000 tons of ore per month, produced by a working force of seventy men.
Immediately north of and adjoining to the Eureka Hill Company's mines, is the property known as the Bullion, Beck, Champion and Crown Point mines, embracing in length 4,200 feet, and in width 200 to 300 feet of valuable mineral-bearing ground. These veins are developed extensively by shafts, tunnels, drifts and levels to a depth of from 150 to 300 feet, and an aggregate of over 2,000 feet in length. The vein is from a few inches to twelve feet wide, containing ore of an assay value of 30 per cent. lead and 30 to 300 ounces of silver per ton. The daily productions is about twenty tons of good ore. A steam engine hoists the ores and a forty-horse power engine concentrates the ores of lower grade of the Bullion, 'Beck and Champion mines. The character of the ores extracted is galena and gray carbonates of lead.
The Julian Lane mine, situated between Diamond and Silver City, developed to a depth of over 300 feet, and in the strike by over 4,000 feet of levels, drifts and cross-cuts. The ores extracted are bismuth silver, valued at from $30 to $2,500 worth in silver and $3 to $10 in gold per ton. This property has been and is as yet worked very profitably and is dividend-paying to the owners, the Consolidated Julian Lane Mining Company. Other prominent mines in Tintic Mining District are: Cornucopia, Argenta, Lib- erty, Hiden Treasure, Kentucky Jane, Shower, Silver Spur, Silver Wing, Sunbeam, Estelle, Elmer Ray, Gemini, Reverse, Montana, Joe Bower, Independence, Butcher Boy, Black Dragon, Morning Glory, Isabella Vic- toria, Swan, Ocean, Robbins, Golden Treasure, Iron Clad, Diamond, Manhatten, Albert Paul, Bobtail, Mormon Chief, Aspinwall, Como, Wyom- ing, Susan, Carissa, North Star, Centennial, Eureka, Godiva, Blue Rock, Cross Dragon, Contest, Elise, Governeur, Brooklyn, Ridge, King James, Lady Aspinwall, Limited, West Bullion, Red Rose, Red Bird, Golden King, Young Mammoth, Jenkins, Three Ply, Silver Coin, Zulu, Valley, Midgley, Black Jack, Voltaire, Alpha, Talisman, Eclipse, Iron Clad, North End, West Eureka, Key Stone, Kohinoor, California, May Flower, Rising Sun, Brigham, Undine, Shoebridge, Mary Bell, Southern Bell, Bis- muth Chief, Pacific, Lily of the West, Merrimac and Iron Queen.
Two and a half miles northeasterly from Eureka Hill is the Tintic Min- ing and Milling Company property, consisting of a ten stamp mill and all the necessary appurtenances thereto. The ores are worked by the dry crushing process and are chloridized before amalgamation.
In the vicinity of Silver City are situated a number of iron mines which are shipping iron to the Horn Silver and other smelting works, several hun- dred tons of iron ore daily. These ores are peroxides and sesquioxides of iron or hemitite and occur in strong veins, assaying 60 to 70 per cent. of iron and $5 to $15 value in gold and silver per ton. These iron ores are principally found in Tintic as bedded deposits in the Silurian limestone: they are not suited for any other purpose or use than flux on account of 18
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their containing other minerals. These iron deposits are the sure indicator and apex of gold, silver, lead and other mineral-bearing ledges.
UINTAH AND BLUE LEDGE DISTRICTS.
These are adjacent districts-Park City being the nearest supply point- and lie on tributaries of the Weber and Provo Rivers, at a high altitude.
The great mine is the Ontario, owned by the Ontario Silver Mining Company, incorporated in San Francisco; capital, $15,000,000, in 150,000 shares; J. B. Haggin, of San Francisco, president; R. C. Chambers, of Salt Lake, superintendent. It is the Ontario, Switzerland, Last Chance and West Ground, consolidated. It is a contact vein between quartzite and porphyry (Prof. Clayton holds, in quartzite), strikes east and west, dips 75° from the northern horizon, is opened to the 900-foot level, the pay-chute being, so far as known, over 1,600 feet long, and, on an average, perhaps three feet thick; the 500 level is 1,630 feet long, the 600 level 1,625 feet, the 700 about 1,500, the 800 maybe 1,000. It is equipped with a set of hoisting and pumping machinery at both the old and new shafts, and has sunk a third shaft, supplied with enormous power and a Cornish pump, with twenty-two-inch column. It has a complete forty-stamp chloridizing mill, with revolving dryers and two Stetefeldt furnaces and other first-class facilities. It has three years' work, for the present mill, in sight, in the lower opened levels, and had produced, to the end of May, 1884, $13,750,000, and paid to the same time, (May dividend paid May 31st), ninety-five monthly dividends of fifty cents a share, sixty-four of them on 100,000 shares, thirty-one on 150,000 shares; total dividends, $5,525,000. The mine turned out $1,014,996.96 before the company was organized (included in above total). Mining and hauling to mill has cost $13.90 per dry ton; reduction, $20.83 per dry ton. It makes water at the rate of 3,000 gallons a minute, which probably accounts for one-half the total cost of mining and reduction. Cost of pumping will be greatly reduced now the large tunnel is completed. It is the best in the lowest workings and the pay-chute grows longer with every level opened. A tunnel somewhat more than a mile long has been driven in to the 600 level to receive the water there and run it off. It is 5,867 feet long. The new shaft is now 1,000 feet deep and will be connected with the mine workings on the 900 level. It is a wonderful mine. It has few equals on the globe. Its productive period is only fairly begun. There is no reason, Professor Newberry says, why it should not continue fertile to a depth of 3,000 feet or more, and the pay-chute bids fair to double in length.
Adjoining the Ontario, on the east, is the Parley's Park Silver Mining Company's property, the Parley's Park, Lady of the Lake and Central, each 200 by 1,500 feet in area, incorporated in New York, capital $1,000,000 in 100,000 shares. A shaft has been sunk within seventy-five feet of the Ontario line, 1,000 feet deep. The levels in the mine are 300 feet higher than the same levels in the Ontario. The shaft passed through the vein, diagonally, above the 300 level, and drifts have been started toward the vein on three levels. The shaft and stations are ample and well-sup- ported. There are five pumps and a double-acting hoisting engine. That they have the Ontario vein in this ground has already been demonstrated.
Further east is the Lowell location, 200 feet by 900. A shaft has been sunk 300 fect, the 200-foot level exploited by 600 feet of drifts, and the vein cut on the 300 level. Good ore is found, mixed with vein matter, along both walls. The walls appear to be approaching each other, and it is . probable that the ore will make into a concentrated clean body, deeper. There is steam power for hoisting and plenty of pumps for the present amount of water.
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The McHenry, Nos. 1 and 2, lies next eastward on the belt. It is owned by a Holland company, is opened to a depth of 400 feet, exploited by 2,500 feet of drifts and cross-cuts, makes ore in considerable bodies in places, carrying 50 to 100 ounces silver; no lead. It is regarded as sure to prove a great mine, properly opened up. The company owns a 20-stamp mill at Park City, costing $100,000.
There is beyond this the Hawkeye property, four locations consolidated, incorporated in St. Paul; capital $2,500,000 in 100,000 shares. It has a first-class steam mining plant, shaft 300 feet deep, 200 level extensively exploited, vein of highly mineralized rock, fifty feet wide, with high-grade ore, more or less clean and concentrated, on both walls. The opening of the 300 level has begun. The ground in all these mines is wet and the vein very wide, and it will take time and money to bring them to the producing stage.
Next east of the Hawkeye is the Boulder property, a group of locations covering 3,000 lineal feet on the fissure, consolidated. In the vicinity are the Free Silver claims, with prospecting tunnel in 400 feet; the Homestake, Little Giant, Wasatch, Romeo, and a great many others, all being opened as the means of their owners permit. All of them have turned out good ore, and apparently lack only development to make dividends. The Romeo has a heavy vein of smelting ore of good grade, opened by an adit for several hundred feet.
The Barrios property, adjoining the Ontario and Parley's Park on the north, is a consolidated incorporated group, considerably exploited and regarded as of great promise.
Westward of the Ontario, the first working company is the Empire, organized in New York; capital, $10,000,000 in 100,000 shares. The prop- erty is a consolidation of thirteen locations of the ordinary size, making sixty to seventy acres. It is developed by a shaft 400 feet deep, with drifts to each 100-foot level, and drifts on each level for 400 or 500 feet. The vein is a strong, well-defined fissure, traversing a quartzite formation, vary- ing in width from four to twenty feet. The ore on the 100 and 200 levels is a medium-grade free-milling ore. On the 300 level a large body of high- grade ore was run through and this has recently been cut, stronger and richer than above, on the 400 level. The machinery is ample for the work- power, pumps and tanks capable of handling 3,000 gallons a minute.
Two miles west of the Ontario is Pinyon Hill, stratified lime, making an angle of 15° or 20° with the northwestern horizon, containing one and possibly two bedded veins or strata of smelting ore, broken up by several faulting fissures cutting through them. This belt is really two to three miles wide and extends from Park City to the head of Big Cottonwood, five miles, taking in the Woodside and other mines in that vicinity, Pinyon Hill, with the Pinyon, Walker, Buckeye, Climax, Rebellion, Apex, and other groups of locations, and Scott Hill. It is perhaps the faulting by the fissures spoken of that enriches it on Pinyon Hill. There appears to be a mine there, if there are not two of them, 1, 500 feet on the strike by 1,000 on the dip, from one to six feet and sometimes twenty feet thick; smelting ore, in the Walker & Buckeye about 30 lead and 30 silver; at Scott Hill, about the same; in the Pinyon, Climax and Rebellion, 40 lead and 40 silver, on an average. In Scott Hill there are two beds at the least from six inches to four feet thick.
The Pinyon, Rebellion, Climax and Walker & Buckeye have been consolidated as the Crescent and are now owned by one company. This company, having bought the Nettie and an undivided one-eighth interest in the Roaring Lion for dumping, has ninety acres of ground. Twenty thou- `sand feet of openings have developed thirteen acres of it. Nine thousand . cubic yards of stoping, requiring 16,000 linear feet of timber for square sets,
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was done for the year ending November 1, 1883. Eleven thousand five hundred and seventy-five tons of ore were taken out and sold at $30.75 per ton. The total expenses for all purposes were $15.95 per ton; the profits, $14.80. There are 5,000 tons of low grade ore on the dump. Tests have shown it to be good concentrating ore. Into wagon roads, tramways and buildings, have already gone some $18,000. The tramway to be constructed it is estimated will be $18,000. The mine is well opened-1,000 feet on the strike and 600 on the dip; it is well equipped with buildings, and has been made accessible. Nearly 8,000 lineal feet of openings were made the last year. It is said to look better than ever. The proposed concentrating works, five jigs with appurtenances, will cost $10,000. It is expected that these and the tramway will be completed by July. There is then the sum due on the Walker & Buckeye-$42,000-and that is all. There should be dividends in the coming fall, unless smelting works are to be erected this year, which is not probable. The present output of fifty tons a day will be doubled, perhaps, within six months, and the expenses are already much less in comparison with the output than formerly. It looks as though the mine would be shipping twenty to thirty tons of ore per day this ten years, and at the minimum of cost.
Southwest of the Ontario the ground is also located for two or three miles, many supposing the Ontario contact fissure to curve in its trend so as to take that direction. The wash or debris is heavy, but the ledge is believed to come to the surface again in the White Pine and Utah, from the character of the vein matter and ore and enclosing country. The White Pine has steam hoisting and pumping machinery, is opened by shaft and level to a depth of 400 feet, and is already a producing mine.
The Utah joins the White Pine westward, and is similar to it in all respects. It is owned by the Utah Silver Mining Company, it and the Ban- nister, Monta and Neddie and Midget locations. The capital is $10,000,000 in 100,000 shares. They have fine steam hoisting works, have sunk a two- compartment shaft 350 feet, and will go 150 feet further before drifting for the vein.
It is thought that the Ontario fissure extends beyond this property to the head of Big Cottonwood. The Mohawk, Morning Star, Mclaughlin, Farrish, Keystone, King Solomon, Great Western, Silver Bar and Laka- waxen, are locations of promise along the supposed line of the fissure. The latter belongs to the New Bedford Silver Mining Company. They are driv- ing a tunnel to cut the vein 500 feet below the croppings. The vein is in granite and bears fine ore. There is talk of a tunnel from Snake Creek to Bonanza Flat, four miles southwest of Park City, crossing and cutting at a depth of 3,000 feet the Mohawk, Utah, White Pine, and the entire group of which they are the centre. South of Utah is the Jones Bonanza, Nos. I and 2, which has steam hoist and pumps, and is opened to a depth of 400 feet by shafts and levels.
The Park City Smelting Company is a Michigan organization; capital $200,000. There is one sixty-ton stack, in a fine building, well arranged to economize labor, and large enough for two more stacks, with convenient charcoal sheds and ore bins. Fluxing iron is brought from the Provo River. Limestone is abundant and close at hand.
The ground east and west of the Ontario, for more than a mile in width and for five or six miles long, is all located. There are a score of companies, not here named, incorporated on groups of locations, mostly local, and only prosecuting work as the owners, generally miners, can earn and spare the means. It is a great district, well supplied with wood and water, accessible by rail, with the coal mines of the Weber but twenty-five miles distant, and two railroads to bring the coal. The mines (save on Pinyon Hill) are located on true fissure veins, of which there are several systems, and give
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promise of great regularity and permanence. With money and time the dis- trict will no doubt show many productive mines beside the Ontario.
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