The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-13

IA. Sheep, Wos1.-There are
probably six hundred and seventy
Eve thousand sheep in Utah, shear
ing two million seven hundred
thousand pounds Of wool, part OF
which ranges with the best Cali
fornia wool, part is inferior. One
| fourth Of it is manufactured in the
territory. It realizes to the pro-
Queer about twenty cents. Sheep
are worth tWo-and-a-half dollars, as
they run, require no feed or shelter
in winter, are not liable to disease,
and yield an annual profit of 40 per
cent on cost. Many are driven in,
and out, yearly.
Is. Conclusion - Agriculture is
in comparatively primitive state
in Utah. Wheat, flour, potatoes,
eggs, butter, chickens, seeds, dried
fruit, beef anu mutton on foot, and
wool, are exported, but their value is
cOunIerbalanced by nearly ten
thousand tons of corn, oats, beans,
cheese, hams, bacon, lard, sugar,
| syrup, currantS, raisins, wine, starch,
crackers, mustard, tobacco, canned
meats, fruits and pickles yearly i'm
ported, hardly one of which need be.
This indicates the scope Utah farm
ing offers to capital, enterprise, and
skill. There is enough water and
rich land, the home demand is great
and prices stiff enough to make
agriculture, instead of mining, the
prime industry. It should not need
to bring food for man or beast to
Utah.
MINING.
16. Product, AreG-Mining began
in Utah in 1870. The output has
been ffty-six million dollars, lead,
silver, and gold. The yearly pro-
duct averages six million dollars
year. The mining area is co-exten-
sive with the mountains. Mines
have been found in every county.
There are eighty mining districts,
embracing five million acres, Many
are now abandoned, but with better,
facilities of intercommunication
and more experience in reducing
ores, they will be revisited and
work resumed, not again to cease.
II. Productive DiStTIcts-These
are popularity known as Park City,
the CottonWOods, American Fork,
Stockton, Bingham, Tintic, Frisco,
and Silver Reef. The great mine at
Park City is the Ontario, III quartz
lite; pay four feet thick by twelve
hundred feet long; ore milling
one hundred dollars a ton: finely
equipped and dead work kept we'll
ahead product to date, ninety-two
hundred thousand dollars; divi-
dends paid, thirty-seven hundred
thousand dollars; no signs Of eX-
hausti0n; lowest (600-fOOt) level the
best. The Marsac Company has
mines, a mill and smelter here; the
McHenry Company a mine and
mill; there is great mine in Pinyon
Hill, and many other prospective
mines, eight Of which are being
opened and employ steam machin-
cry.
Is. Cottofe0oods, Binqhane,
Sandy, I'Ggtic.-The mines of the
CottonWoOds, at Bingham and
Stockton, all accessible from Salt
Lake City byrail and sentencing the
city within thirty miles, ship their
ores to Sandy and lose their indi-
Yidual output in that Of the smell
ters-all but the Stewart and Stew
art No. 2 at Bingham, which have
mills and vast bodies OF ten-dollar
gold quartz. At Sandy and vicinity
are the NIingo. Germania, and Han
auer SmeIters, the Germania refin-
ing lead also, whose united monthly
product averages shout eight hun
dred tons base bullion, worth one
hundred and twenty-five thousand
dollars. At Tintic, the Mammoth, !
a vein forty feet thick breaking !
through the limestone across its |
bedding and producing One-hundred |
thousand dollars per annum, is the
leading mine. The Tintic mining |
and milling company is steady |
bullion producer. The Eureka Hill
mine ships its ores to Sandy.
10. Frisco, iSj1csr Rsef-At
Frisco, the Horn silver, after much
work., including cree
ton Of steam hosting works, ex-
tension Of Utah Central Railroad to
mine, and building five stacks at
Francklyn, near Salt Lake, IS ready
to begin paying q long series Of divi-
lends. The pay chimney is fifty
feet wide by one hundred yards
ong; the capacity Of the mine and
furnaces is at least Il quarter Of Il
million per month. The Frisco
Company has one stack here and
he Cave and Carbonate mines. 1t
.urns out about twenty-five thOus-
nd dollars monthly. At Silver
Reef. the Christy. StOrmOnt, Leeds,
md Barlee and Walker Companies
produce together q million III fine
bullion annually. 4 mill has just
near Ogden, and one is being
rected at MarySvale. From the
ong continued development Of Ger
ain mines, the building Of new
Mills and reduction works, and the
Extension of railroads, there is a
Of a large increase in the ;
mineral output OF Utah in the near
uture.
COAL, IRON, OTHER MINERALS.
20. Coal. Iron.-The great coal
cid of Utah is in the WaSatch