The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-01-01

-SNSSSt AOA ~ AANSO NC OOJ liz III ulHO
that the person who finds the
mine" is seldom able to open il
su11clently to ascertain whether he
mas been doing more than guessing
as TO the existence Of mineral in
paying quantities. He must sell to
some ore who has the money t.
spend for development, or induce
the capitalist to open the claim fol
a share in it. Fancy prices FREE
quently drive the moneyed man
away, and the claim lies idle; it NAV
be, is soon forgotten, the finder per
haps being off in search of some
thing more promising, or laborine
for wage to obtain a"grub-stake. .
But this is all preface.
THE DISCOVERY.
Herman Budden was prospe ctor
Of the ordinary character. He was
an Austrian by birth, and had been
a sailor in the service of his coun-
try. Twenty years ago he found
himself in California. where he at
once developed into q miner. He
drifted about the Golden State, and
through the mining camps of Ne
vada, for ten or a dozen years, and
then floated over the border into
Utah. He came here at tlme when
mining was in its infancy, though
the fame of our Emma and others
less notorious had gone abroad. Al
legged rich discoveries were being
no ado dolly a,,d brood Iodoroc x,,oro
crowding each other all through the
WaSatch and Oquirrh ranges. Bud
den at once turned prospector, and
began to roam the hills, like scores
Of others were doing. Nine
years ago last summer he
found himself over in Par
ley's Park, probably attracted by
the never-tO-be-forgOtten legends of
the thickness, and depth, and length
and richness of the then famous
McHenry ledge. The McHenry af-
forwards became notorious, but its
nOtOriety was not Of the character
to aid n the development of a min
ing district. Budden appears to
have had partners, one a big MIS-
familiarly known IN the
camps as Pike" and two others.
Whatever was found by Budden or
Pike was to belong, One-third to
to each and One-siXth each to the
others. How long this arrange
ment was IN operation is not
known, out it was in existence on
July 10, 1872. On the afternoon of
that day Budden was returning to
camp from an uns ucceSsful pros
pecting jaunt, when his eve rested
on d cropping" jutting from the
steep hillside. As he was passing,
more from the force of habit than
with the expectation Of finding any
thing of value, he struck. with the
head Of his prospectOr'S pick, the
knob, which was no
larger than the crown of a mans
hat. That was the luckiest strike"
ever made by Budden, and one of
the luckiest. ever struck in the
United States, for it discovered a
vein from which already eight mil
lions of dollars have been taken,
and, to all human appearance and
knowledge, we have seen but the
beginning. The tired prospector
had passed down a few feet when it
occurred to him that the broken
rock had the appearance of chic
ride of silver. He retraced his
steps, maze a closer examination,
and rightly came to the conclusion
that he had at last struck something
that was worth "gsing down on.
as they say in Mining parlance. He
christened the find
ONTARIO"
claimed 1900 feet of the supposed
vein, together with its ''dips, spurs
and angles went through
the necessary preliminaries Of
posting notice, recording, ETC.,
and he and his associates
went to work sinking shaft.
When they had reached a depth of
five or six feet on the ledge they of
fered the prospect for sale, modestly
ixing the price at $1,000. Nobody
buying or manifesting q disposition
TO purchase the rather unpreten-
nous little hole in the ground, Bud
len and party continued their labors
Of development. and as each week
added to the apparent value of the
claim, they correspondingly in
creased the price. Finally, Al.
GviWits, Jim Berry and others
we'll known here in mining circles,
having examined the prospect, took
4 fifteen-day bond on it for $50, 600.
This was but a short time after
Budden's pick had struck that jut-
ing knob of chloride, hence 1t may
De understood that slight develop
nent had rapidly demonstrated the
act that the ledge was valuable.
The owners had stripped the vein
10 feet in length to a depth OF,
perhaps, eight feet, and prospector-
ike assorted the ore taken OUT,
oiling the first and second classes
INTO separate piles along On the
dump, to show the product TO Inc
best possible advantage. ABOUT
that time
GEORGE HEARST
vas drifting about Utah, locking
or stray lodges which appeared
and could be obtained
or s0mething ike their real worth.
Uncle George as he is afIectlon-
ltely caiiel from the Black Hills 60
San Francisco, is very apt to know