The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-02-25
THE MAMMOTH.
A Mine Ghristened With Pro.
phet1c Certainty.
A Colossal Property to be Worked
on a Colossal Scale.
Tintic the Coming District.

TintiC the Coming District.
The Mammoth Mine, at Tintic,
formerly owned by Mr.. j. A. Gun
ningham, the Mcintyre Brothers
and others, has always been looked
upon as a most valuable property,
and of great promise. Originally it
was worked for milling ore, but in
short time, ore was discovered
which contained metals that could
only be extracted by the smelling
process. Consequently, four rever-
| beratOTy furnaces were erected at a
point about seven miles south of
the mine, in the valley. An ore
crusher, run by steam, with a ca
pacity of about 100 tons per day,
was put up on the property and
the ore crushed by this means. AS
drifts and levels were run, DO kets
of ore remarka ly rich in gold, were
occasionally run across, and this
ore would all be taken out
before the work was prose-
cuted further. The effect Of this
process-frst taking out the milling
ore and leaving the smelling, and
then taking the smelling and allow
ing the milling to remain, with the
occasional employing of gold pock-
cts, was to leave portions OF the
mine not as safe as they might
have been. The mine was tim
! bered with the surrounding cedars,
of 8 smaller size than was desirable,
and these, as the excavations were
enlarged, proved to be wholly mad
euuate. The mine, however, not
Withstanding the primitive manner
in which 1t was worked, was q
source of profit to its owners, and
undoubtedly would have been so
still had they still continued to re-
tain it.
A year ago last December w. FL.
Fl. Bowers, well-knoWn in mining
circles here, took q bond on the
mine, and worked the property with
a view to its sale. In place Of the
/, cedar timbers and brush tagging, he
had larger timbers put in where the
excavation had been SO great as to
leave very large chambers made en-
tirely by the taking out of ore, and
. in which there had already been
one very heavy cave. He also
developed the mine in different
: parts, and had it, as far as possible,
put in a shape which would show
, its extent and richness. During The
autumn following, the English
parties with whom he was origin.
ally connected in the bOnd, re-
uuested Hon. H. A. Monroe
Butler tombstone to visit the mine,
and to have it reported upon by Mr.
ii. Taylor, a Well-knoWn mining
4 expert, belonging to the firm of
John Taylor s. Sons, of London
| The report of the expert was so fay-
+. orable, that the English syndicate,
Il with which Mr.. tombstone was in
9 communication, authorized him to
erect furnaces and refining works
and to deal with the property as
he deemed best, with view to put.
ting it on the English market as
r. soon as the works were completed
With this view, Mr.. F. E. GO0dhart
'r of the firm of Goodhart q Metcalf
of London, is about to leave London
to come to Utah to make final ar.
y rsngements for the disposal of the
property. Since the time that Mr.
tombstone took charge Of the prop
ETY., the Crismon Mammoth
j. Mine has been the subject
of considerable talk among mir
ing meu and those interested
in that locality. With the change il
the control, the aspect of the lis
~ trict, and the Mammoth Mine il
u particular. was entirely changed
Mr., Johnstone Immediately begaI
D. making preparations for the work
ing of the mine on a scale in keep
y ing with the character of the prop
erty. John w. PlummeT, Esq,
man of large and varied mimi!
experience, covering not only Mon
| tana, California and Nevada, bu
Lake Superior, was engaged an
took eharge OF the operations. TIL
mine WIS placed under the imme
date charge of Mr.. Z. johnson,
young man Of large practical expe
rience as a miner, in Utah, Mon
tana, and Idaho, as well as else
where; and while work was prose
cuted here with 8 view to vastly il
creSsing the output of ore, prepars
tions on scale equally as gres
were making at the smelters,
handle the increased product.
THE SHELTERS.
81 Though It was already late in ii
ID season when this change took plac'
and while the expense of putin
81 the property in shape for eKtonsiV
working was largely inc eased i
5 consequence of the unfavorab
Rs3 season, nevertheless Mr.. Butlt
MID tombstone having determined thi
"a no time shonld be allowed to pa
unimproved, at once set to Wor
and the changes made were dali
perceptible. A large force OF me
was put at work in the constructlo
of frame buildings, and in prepar
Il ton for the erection Of new one
II Up to this time four furnaces we
II already up and ia operation al
these have been kept going co
stantly. The ore crusher used h;
capacity of probably 100 tons
. ore day, and latterly it has bee
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