Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-17

Inc OuIlOOh lOI prosperous OuAAANA
is most favorable. The Eureka is hoist
ing enormous quantities of rich ore, and
visit through the mine showed that
there vet remains a supply-unknown IN
extent and running in every dlrectlon-
that will take years and years ot work
before it is exhausted. The underground
workings OF the mine are marvellous,
tunnels, drifts and shafts innumerable
running in every direction and intersect-
ING each other in such complications that
no one but experienced miners &C
ouainted with the ground could find the
way out if once left without a guide and
strange to say, these subterranean pas
sages connect the three principal mines
in the gulch, enabling the miners to com
municate between the Eureka, the Bull
lion and the Red Bird, although located
in different directions, hundreds of yards
apart, and before long connection will be
opened to the KingstOne, nearly a mile
distant.
A FIGHT FOR POSSESSION.
1t might be interesting to state that in
a fight for possession of ground between
the Eureka and Beck's mine, the latter
resolted to the novel scheme of tanning
poisonous smoke into the tunnels con-
Meeting the mines, thereby driving out
the Eureka men, who kept up the strug-
gle for two months and did not yield I'M
til the Eureka superintendent and fore
man had both two or three times been
taken to the surface for dead, having been
overcome by the suffocating fumes.
The dispute arose over valuable ground
claimed by both companies, and finally
went to the courts, where a suit, involv-
ing important points in mining matters,
is now pending decision, the termination
of which will be of great benefit to the
winning litigant and the whole commu-
nifty in the district, as it will then allow
of further development, the shipment of
thousands of dollars worth of ore now on
the dumps (but which can't be touched
until the suit is ended, and the employ
ment Of greater force of men, thereby
bringing into circulation 4 great deal
more money.
At present the Eureka Company en-
ploys over 100 men, and their payroll
amounts to over 200 per month. The
mine is in the best of condition and
putting out great quantities of ore, some
of which goes $4,000 to the ton.
THE BULLION, BECK AND CHAMPION
Property is also yielding Mr.. Beck for
tune, which he, be it said to his honor, is
spending, not to his own agrandizement,
but in building up the camp and making
extensive improvements elsewhere. Mr..
Beck is the man of Tintic. Everybody
unites in saying that he has done more
for Eureka than all other men or COM
panies put together. He is generous to a
fault, and the most public-spirited man
in the camp. A splendid rock school
house FUSED also for church purposes)
furnished with new desks and chairs,
has been at the disposal of the trustees
without costing the district dollar An
other evidence of Mr.. Beck's generosity
is large number of new and neat frame
houses built for the miners and for which
they pay very small rent.
The Beck mine employs about $50
men, and as they are daily expecting
their chief TO arrive in camp with the
''stuff7' to pay them off, they are as
anxious for his coming as the Adventists
are for the temperance Of certain rev.
erential parsonage.
HE GLADSIONE COMBAN0,
Recently organized, has located six
claims-a succession of the vein formation
of the Eureka and Beck properties.
These claims, although undeveloped.
have been prospected enough to show
rich groupings, and if Engineer Cameron's
geological and mineral chart of the strata
formation of the country is correct, the
Gladstone Company has q fine thing in
these properties. The intention of the
company is to erect machinery and COM
mence developments as soon as possible.
Quite number of poor men are doing
all they can in developing their claims,
with The hope of either selling to moneyed
men or of some day being able to erect
works themselves. Very little prospect
ing is being done What the camp wants
is what is slowly and surely coming to
lt-capltal. With money invested here.
Eureka would become one of the best
camps in the Territory; it is now the
nVellest, with the exception, perhaps. of
Park City.
There are many drawbacks to the town,
the Saddest being the treatment it gets
from Juab county. Let facts and figures
be the proof OF the assertion. The total
mineral product of Tintic in 1884 amount
ed TO the round sum of
THREE MILLION DOLLARS.
The Territory derives a yearly revenue
from Eureka of about So 900, and the
county is enriched to the amount of
5000 per annum. This fat thing has
been going on for fifteen years, since
1870, when Tintic was first opened up.
with. OF course, such notifications as the
developments of the mines alone have
made. During all these years the camp
has never received a dollar in return, or
yet Il representation among the county
officers, and consequently never knew
what became of the vast sums that have
been collected by the officials of the
Peoples Party No appropriation has
ever been made for repairing of roads,
prosecution of criminals, aiding the poor,
or assisting in anyway in the protection
of the peace and prosperity of the people.
There is no place to confne a peace
breaker and the town has no such officers
OF the law as are needed among a mining
population of 700 people, many of whom
spend much of their money in whisky !
and some of their time in fighting. Des- !
peradoes may murder, thieves NAV steal. |
honest tax-paying people NAV be |
but they are powerless TO de- |
lend or protect themselves.
These are facts, and they are an ont |
rage upon liberty, society and free govern |