The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-24
MINING REPORTS.
A Few Brief Showings of Last
Years Work.


A short time ago we published brief
list of mines in several of the districts
of Utah, which had been forwarded
to. DR.. Bredemeyer to be incorporated
in his report to the authorities
who are collating mining sta
tistics in Washington. Since then,
the Doctor has received re-
ports from several other localities, and
the following are condensations from
number of them. .sev
In the Tintic mining district. there
are nineteen producing mines, five
only of which had been worked
vember Both, 1884, yielding
a total of $4,000 tons of ore. The five
which have been worked from January
1st to November Both, 1884, and their
outputs, are the Eureka Hill, 14,311
tons; Beck, Bullion and Champion, s.
$50 tons Black Dragon Extension,
q, 1896 tons; Park, So tons; Northern
Spy Consolidated, $50 tons, The num-.
Der of men employed in all the produc-
ing properties is 237, the greatest num-
bers being at the Eureka Hill, 100;
Beck, Bullion and Champion, so; Nam
moth Copperopolis, 10: Black Dragon
Extension, 20; Northern Spy CONSOLE
dated, u, and Carisa 16 The character
of the ores is silver silYer-lead, copper
and iron, with little gold. There are
mines of great merit in This district,
which have not been worked the past
year. twenty-three in number, among
which are the familiar names of the
Crismon- Mammoth : Red Bird, Key
stone. Crown Point, Golden Treasure,
Joe Bowers, Rising Sun, North Star,
Black Jack, Sunbeam, Brooklyn, Black
Dragon, etc., the first one of which
has been idle on account of litigation,
and the rest have been prospecting and
developing. -. - - - IS r~5ss..'3
Separate reports from single mines
have been forwarded, among them one
from the Silver Mountain mine, the
development of which consists of shafts,
inclines and tunnels aggregating 1858
feet. The ore production to date has
been 1, 168 tons, averaging in value $3.50
per ton. r
The City Rocks group, in. Little Cot
tonwood. This is a assure vein, in lime
stone the ore silHer-lead; average value
of ore, 35 per cent. lead and 40 ounces
silver. The work for 1884 was prin-
cipally developing the mine through a
new tunnel. The deepest work in the
mine is /, 200 feet.
The Spanish mine, in American Fork
district, has been extracting 800 tons per
month, of an assay value of 1856 per
cent. lead 20 ounces silver and 3.S
ounces gold. Twenty men have been
the ore is carbonates and sulphurets.
OF the reports from the coal regions
the Pleasant Valley Coal COmpany's
statement is furnished, which gives
the capacity of the Winter Quarters
mine, with three openings, at 900 tons
daily; that of the Mud Greek mine at
700 tons; and the average output 800
tons. The coal does not make good
coke. The product for 1884 was only
10000 tons.
Among the stone quarries and granite
beds the one Superintended by Mr. James
C. Livingston, at Wasatch, this county,
is the only one so far heard from. 1t
gives the amount of wages paid for the
year ending the 31st inst. at $26, 1868 ;
amount of rock shipped in same period,
Is ,200, 900 pounds; amount shipped dur
ing the ten years preceding January 1St,
1884, 132, 600 900 pounds; an average of
forty men are employed in and around
the quarry.
From these few brief reports it will be
seen by the general reader that the in
dustries represented are not entirely
dead in the mining camps and rock de-
posts; that great number of men and
large amounts in wages are being en-
ployed in these pursuits; yet, after all
the totals are not a circumstance to
what were shown in the same directions
few years back.