The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-02-04

III IuO 1OI Ii VI OAiQCc, CeSt OOu0O5o
and sulphurets. Mr.. John Eddins
and sons also have some very prom
ising looking prospects in the vi
cinity of the Rockwell property.
WEST TNTTo MINING DISTRICT.
This mining district lies on the
western slope of the mountain
range which separates East from
West Tintic Valley. There are
several ine-looking prospects in the
camp which, with proper develop
ment, the erection of jigger works,
ETC., the ores being mostly low grade
carbonates and galenas, could be
made dividend paying mines; but
the camp has been cursed with the
relocation class of miners -
owners of property no are mostly
cow-punchers res dent in the vi
cinity, doing nothing in the way of
development, but with each recur-
ing 31st of December, repair to their
several claims and wait patiently
for the advent of the New Year.
When their time pieces mark the
hour Of twelve, they place a new
location notice on the monument,
go home, and on the following morn
ing pay their recording fees, and
then sit down and wait for devel-
Opments. 1t is needless to say that
up to the present time developments
have not come along very fast, and
the camp is dead.
EAST TINTIC.
l reached the terminal point of
the Utah and Western Railway,
Mammoth Smelling Works, just
in time to see the train on which /
hoped to ride to the centre stake Of
Zi0n Tuning and fretting up the
grade toward the BOwlder Pass.
There was no help for the delay,
the train had too much the start TO
make an attempt to OvertakO it
afoot successful, SO perforce l
Whiled away the tedious hours in
speeding the works now in course
of erection for reducing the ores
extracted from the certainly not
mis-named Mammoth mine. These
works, situated near the old "Shoe-
bridge" mill, are of the kind known
as 'reverberatory furnaces" Of
these furnaces there are nine now
in active operation, fourteen COM
pleted, and the company propose,
constructing ten additional ones,
the work of construction of
these latter being well under
way. Each furnace has smelt-
ing capacity of eight tons per
twelve hours, being recharged
every four hours. The furnaces
consume large quantities of iron as
dux. This fux is furnished by the
Utah Iron Company from the
Dragon mine, near Silver City.
The company also purchase large
quantities of pyrites of iron, used
as an auxiliary flux, which is fur
nished by several mines in the
vicinity of Diamond City. The
Mammoth Company are construct
ing railroad grade from the smell
ter to the Mammoth mine, distant
about six miles, for the purpose OF
transporting the ole to the smelling
works, this work being now done
by wagons, which is very expensive
The company also propose to erect
sixty stamp mill in the vicinity OF
the smelling works, to run on GER
tain classes of ore which the mine
produces, and on custom ores from
various parts of the camp. The
mill will be brought from Montana
having been used on the Broadway
mine by Mr.. Bowers. The com.
pany employ a large number OF
men as smelters, mechanics and
laborers, and have adopted the rule
! that their employees shall not in.
dulge in intoxicating drinks, and to
enforce the rule they promptly dis
charge any person in their employ
detected in visiting the doggeries
which have spring up a short dis.
tance from the works. The entire
camp, which a few years ago was
so dull that mining men never spoke
of it, has been reYivified by the en-
terprise of Mr.. Bowers, Butler John
ston k& Co., and is now full of life
!! and activity. The result will be
that East Tintic will soon be one OF
the foremost rank of wealth pro
duciDg districts in Utah.
HOME AGAIN!
On the following day, about L
o'clock the engine came around the
,. curve, announcing its arrival by q
scream which put me in mind Of
squawk of an angry gobbler, and
after wheeling undertaking around
the switch for about half an hour
the conductor shouted, fall aboard
and 1 realized that at last / was
moving slowly towards civilization
The accommodations on this road
for passengers are not first class, the
only carriage used being an ordinary
caboose with two compartments
which the superintendent, who
was aboard, explained as follows;
the front compartment, furnished
with arm chairs, was designed fol
frst-class passengers, the rear com.
partment, with the ordinary side
lounge seat, for second class, the
cupola to be used by the train hands
as a smoking apartment. dead heads
to ride on the rear1platform; which
to say the least, showed economy IN
the use of space and a decided in