Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-03-07
LETTER FROM FRISCO.
a General Description of the New
Mining Camp in Utah.
D, Beaver Co., Utah,
February %, 1879,

particular portion OF Zion.
Our trip, via Ward and Osceola, was all
that conld be desired, barring the mule
acquired in Robinson. I'm p%rejudiced,
I'll admit, where mules are concerned,
whether of the two or ~four-leggcd persua-
sion. We arrived in Frisco after an eleven
days trip, and found what at that time
appeared to me an unusually lively town
but | soon learned the cause. Some OF
Eureka's jolly sons had arrived the day
previous, and were ~endeavoring to in.
still a little life into the boys and the town,
by the administering of large doses Of
Sheepherder's delight.
III TowN n BUSINESS.
We have here a town of about 1000 in
habitants, pleasantly. and l am told health
fully located, about midway between the
Wa-Wa range of mountains and Beaver
river, in a range of mountains apparently
without a name, at least, l have heard Of
none applied to it. The main or business
street runs almost due north and south,
on which there are some twenty-five or
thirty business houses. As usual, most OF
these are saloons, with a restaurant or two,
three boarding and lodging-houses, three
blacksmith shops, a banking house, a bak-
cry, and numerous feed and livery stables
minus the livery. 1t is a one-company
camp, and that company CONTROLS every
thing, stores, saloons, etc., etc. There are
two stores owned by Campbell, Cullen &
Co and when | speak of the stores, ]
might as well include all other branches Of
business and for parties having such con
troll over the business interests, / heal
them spoken OF very favorably. Theil
houses are well stocked with merchandise
peculiar to mining towns of the Pacific
Coast, such as miners, mechanics and la.
borers require.
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK
At present. is not what l anticipated, by
any means, everything being at a ~standstill
awaiting the contemplated construction OF
furnaces for the reduction of ores, conse.
quently the town, in a business point, il
dull though all with whom / nave con
versed paint in glowing terms a bright
future for the camp.
THE
Not being an experienced miner. or one
" tIt ktHuN uupDtu tADtII, l. Cdn SAY
but little Of the mine; from my own obser-
walton, though, after visiting it. if all is
ore of paving quality that was pointed out
to me as such (and l am satisfied from
what | have been told by miners Of expe-
rience that such is the easel, then, indeed,
the mine is most properly called 'The
Bonanza The mine is under the able
management of Mr.. NJ. Cody, not unknown
to old residents Of Eureka, and at one
time President of the Ruby Hill Miners
Union, and whom | and others have found
to be an affable gentleman, at all times
ready to enlighten the inquisitive while
showing them through one of the most
perfectly timbercd mines it has been my
pleasure to see.
THE FURNACES,
OF which the Company have three, only
one of which is running, and another
called the Godby, in honor, / suppose, Of
the Manager of that name, is now treating
ores. They are something after the style
of the old Roslin furnace, and, / am in
formed, were constructed by the party whc
erected the Roslin. To an Eurekan, accus.
toned to seeing the workings end products
of the Consolidated and Richmond fur.
naces, the furnaces of Frisco appear very
insignificant, accomplishing but very little
when compared singly with one of Eureka's
furnaces, only treating about II o n of ore
every 81 hours. The ores have to go
through a process called '.calcininS" ere
they are smelted, which process requires
considerable labor, and is attended with
quite an expense for fuel in treating.
STOCK JoBBING.
Report says that the old Company have
disposed of two-ffths of the mine to j.
Cooke and other Eastern capitalists, but of
this there are many opinions, the majority
believing it to be a stock jobbing arrange
ment, put up by the Company to induce
parties to buy as soon as the stock can be
put upon the Eastern market. | say the
Eastern, for it would be too old a bait to
fish with in the Western market.
THE COAL INTEREST.
Coal burning is an industry that has not
as yet developed itself to that extent that
would induce "A Lamoureux, or a Sadler,
or any Of your coal kings to invest their
thousands in. The coal is delivered at the
furnaces principally by Mormon teams,
loaded in bulk, no sacks, a load being, rs
near as l can judge, about $50 bushels. 1t
is received by weight. Wood hauling, too,
Is in its infancy, compared with that in
dustry in Nevada, but we should antiei-
pate something of this kind when we are
in the land that is so prolific in infants.
WATER QUESTION.
The great drawback, apparently, is
water. there being but a meagre supply,
and that being of a very inferior quality of
surface water, SO highly impregnated with
minerals as to be unfit for drinking or
culinary purposes, the water for which is
hauled in tanks fifteen miles, and retailed
about town at four cents a gallon. The
Company are constructing machinery for
boring an artesian well, on the success OF
which depends thefuture of Frisco. Should
they succeed the town will no DOUBT be
permanently located on its present site,
which is both pleasant and picturesque !;
though, judging from past experience, is
too near thef furnaces, should the new ones
in contemplation ever be erected.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Property, like everything else, does not
command a very high figure, nm Eurekan
having purchased a splendid location for
5000; lot 2Sx100 feet, with improvements
that would cost 81 900 to erect in Eureka.
Board is seven and eight dollars per
week, wood, four dollars per cord, and all
other requisites of living about twenty-five
to thirty per cent. less than in Eureka,
which is due-you can tell my friend Dave
Baily-to a discrimination in freights.
Through freight from Chicago to this
place, via Salt Lake, York, and thence by
teams here, being, as am informed by
the business men, four and %one-fourth
cents per pound.
One popularity of the camp is, that I'M
like others ON the Pacific, it cannot be
called cosmopolitan. as every one you meet
will readily answer to the name of John,
Tom or Mike, and should you only go on
Main street, and yell Pat p the houses
would look like the inside Of a contribu-
ton box in Parson Kelly's church, though
a more sociable and friendly community l
have seldom if ever met. Gentiles and
Mormons mingle agroeably together; have
not heard of an arrest since my arrival.
There are not more than half a dozen
Cinnamon in the camp, which is won
1erful