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

on,ovhat out of the HER
IT, ,i So to devote so much space
hJpt M While being an inter
TO 3 y n,, ardent advocate of the
estea an industry, this journal has
IniDpe of the most cautious in
esn i o4 to the "pufing" of mines, It
regaf aoo N mining swindles which it
BIS S, T as such, but which other
deDounJnr raised and helped to for
pspefS burst and has noted the
~a 5ut It has never seen a mine
W I3sh # endorsed proved a fraud 1t
Will nrotested against prospects
9s3 Pc9Iled mines and sold as such,
teIng 6y companies or individuals,
el.nI, it has realized how much
Deca ga Is done to this important in
Iltrr how legitimate mining has
e.sn Tetarded, and how honest in
I 'sstment for honest Development
We been discouraged through fraud
D gont operations. The Ontario is a
. nod mine and has been managed
I'll business principles. not with the
" Srrnose of robbing the public, but
rifb the intention OF making all
. GlIl could be made for the share
elders The result is seen in the
most absolute confidence reposed
T. the property and its man
Cement. and in the firm
T2ice at which the shares are
.Fpld 1t is doing more to-day,
n attract attention towards this
territory, which is yet in its baby
Hand as regards mining develop
ne1t than all our mines, claims and |
[1gDects combined. What the On
{ario Mine has done and is doing
fr tab in a material way, may be
imagined when the amount oil
money it is paying out monthly is |
r8ted. For September 1872. the first |
month that Mr.. Chambers went to
work on the claim, his pay roll was
modest affair, amounting to only
yl140, and the aggregate eXpendi-
ure On the property tor the month
lid not exceed $1,000. The pay
oils have steadily increased, aggre- /
rating at the mine and mill in No
ember, 1881, $4,000. This all went
or labor, which was well paid, the
wages ranging from 81 to S. per
lay, according to the expertness of
.he employees and the character Of
The work performed by them. Not
less than 1880 people drew their
gpp0rt directly from the mine and
ll, to say nothing Of those made
icher by the $75,0 900 dividends. But
esideS the $4,000 paid for labor in
November there was an expenditure
$4,000 for supplies, material and
u construction account. the
Material and supplies, including
nachinery, lumber, wood, coal, salt,
1OViSions, etc, all, or nearly all,
jndlctS of Utah. Perhaps this lat
q sum represents the living of
mother 1900 persons, or more. 1t
vii thus be seen that the Ontario
S doing a large share towards sup
01ing the people of this Territory.
nd doing it quietly and unostenta-
iOgsly, making less parade and dis
lay than is made by many an in
igifcant prospect that employs
bree or four men only.
The HERALD, which has closely
watched the progress towards great
e@ OF the Ontario, and been a con-
Sent admirer of its management,
as for some time intended pub
iShing fuller and more accurate
count of the property than has be
lHbeen given, and makes this New
ears morning the occasion for
Ding so. 1t hopes that before the
eaE rolls round there Will be many
tab mines in whose praise it can
peak so conScientiously as it has
one Of the Ontario.