Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-19
AROUND SILVER CITY.
One Of the Old Lively Mining Camps,
But Rather Quiet Now.
The Home of the Mammoth, Copper
OpOIis, and Other Good Mines.
Abandoned Claims Worked by Leasers
at a Good Profit.

Yesterday your correspondent took
tour of inspection over to Silver City ana
vicinity. Everything in these regions is
quiet and lifeless, and in marked contrast
to the stir and business of Eureka.
In Mammoth Gulch is located
THE oNcE-FAMous MAMMOTH MINE,
And what is now known as the Copper
opolis. These claims are, apparently, on
the same vein formation as the Eureka
mines. Since the Mammoth Company
under the management of Bowers and
Johnstone-made the most gigantic imam
cial fizzle known to mining history in this
Territory, nothing has been done with 1t,
the property having been IN litigation
ever since, but the matter is now IN a talr
way of adjustment, and recently work
in a small way was resumed, and ultl-
matelv operations will again be in full
blast on this great wealth-producing
mine.
OF all mines, the Copperopolis is one
of the most
FREAKIsH AND FANTASTIC.
It would be impossible with the pen to
convey anything like a clear comprehen-
sion of how the ore has been traced and
GOT out, the cost and labor having been
enormous, and although the ore that is
now being mined only pays working ex-
penses, operations are kept up because
experienced miners believe the claim will,
sooner or later, amply repay for all pa
tience, toll and expense that it has cost
in developing. 1t is owned by the Am
erican Mining Company.
About a mile and half south of the
Mammoth gulch is the beautiful little
CAMP OF SILVER CITY.
The site OF the town commands view
of the whole Tintic yalley-an evergreen
pine and cedar-covered mountain pass
into which runs the Salt Lake q Western
Railway. In the distance, south, can be
seen the Mcintyre Springs-very valu-
able ranching property-and few miles
directly north of the Springs is the rail
road station. Formally Silver was one
of the most exciting camps in Utah. 1t
has been the scene OF death fights and of
much mining excitement, the rich mines
in the surrounding hills and ravines hav
inc added wealth in abundance to the
country at large, the people in general,
and individuals in particular. But much
of that has passed away, or more prop
erly speaking has been temporarily sus-
pended, and Silver to-day is dull and
quiet, no ripple of mining, murder, or
| marriage excitement ever stirs the pulses
of the easy-going people remaining.
| The mines in the Immediate vicinity
are located on
THE SUNBEAM VEN,
The best of them including the Elmoray,
North Star, Northern Spy and the Carisa.
During the past eleven months the last
mentioned mine has turned out, clear of
freight expenses, the round sum of $21,-
3S6.56. The property belongs to a prom
inent citizen of Salt Lake, Mr.. Bolivar
Roberts. Within sight of Silver is the
Dragon mine. Before the Horn Silver
stoppage at Frisco, the output of this
mine was 100 tons per day; it has now
dwindled down to only thirty tons, which
is shipped to the Mingo company at
Sandy. Three-fourths of mile east of
the Sunbeam lode is another parallel
vein, called the Golden Treasure. On
this are located several claims that are
paying very well.
Between the three great vein formations
the Eureka, Sunbeam and the Golden
Treasure-are thousands of stringers,
which are to the main lodes what tribu-
taries are to large rivers, and on them
many small claims are worked to adj
vantage.
There are in these regions of the dis
trict something like fifty men who are
making miners wages (some of them
more) by
WORKING ABANDONED CLAIMS
On which companies have failed utterly.
The Old Swansea, long ago thrown up as
''no good, - is now paying six men good
wages. Old mines which have furnished
some OF the richest ore taken from the
district, but in the working of which
companies have been unsuccessful in
making them pay, chloriders, who lease
them, are now being handsomely re-
Enumerated for their labor
As it is not likely that your CORE
spondent will write any more mining
news during this visit to Tintic, this clos
ing paragraph, referring to the district
in general way, is added. Tintic has
the advantage of being
A GOOD MINING COUNTRY ALL THE YEAR
ROUND.
The snowfall is not deep enough to stop
hauling or outdoor work. The climate is
everything desirable, and notwithstand-
ing not more than one-fourth of the good
mining properties in the district are yet
worked, the want of capital and other
certain causes being the reason why, the
present output is large enough to rank
Tintic among the foremost wealth-pro-
ducing regions in the Territory.
MrTc-Zrp