Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-07-07

paper men, although the output of our mine!
has excelled many of those that have beer
Landed to the skies in other camps.
Bay Horse has never received "biacl
eye'' through the sale of wild cat" proper
ties, for, with few exceptions, the mines
are worked by the original locaters. II
speaks well for the richness of our ores and
the easy development of our mines, when we
investigate the matter and learn that most
of the properties of this district have
PAID FROM THE VERY GRASS ROOTS
To several hundred feet in depth, and were
discovered and successfully operated by men
who had nothing in the start but their own
labor to back them in their enterprises.
The most serious drawback that has been
encountered is the jagged and PERCEPTIONS
nature of the country, and the almost super
human efforts and large expense necessary
to open thoroughfares for travel. For years
our roads were narrow pack trails, our con-
| veyances the hurricane deck of saddle
horse, and our freight wagons the backs of
| mules and burroS. With the making of
wagon roads this manner of general loco
motion and primitive freighting has been
materially lessened, but many of our best
mines still ship their products to the smelters
| by packt-rains, and receive their supplies
through the same medium. Some of the
consolidated pack-trains have more than 125
mules, and the owner will contract to pack
anything from a 400-pound bale of hay to
lumber eight feet long To see a stove, in its
| entirety, perched upon an dpdrGjO Mexican
pack-saddle) on the back of mule is no
rare or novel sight here. Stamp mills have
| been carried on mules into countries where
| the outlay in building roads would have ex-
| ceeded the worth of the mines for which the
mills were ordered, the machinery having
been made in sections, no piece exceeding
$50 pounds in weight.
In the mines of Bay Horse district
THE EXCELsIoR MINE
Ranks among the best. The mine was orig
inally located in 1873 by Samuel Staples and
j. d. Wood. The interest of Staples having
been purchased by Wood and Fred. Phillips,
few men were employed IN development
work on the property in the fall and winter
of 1879 and 1880. Some ore was shipped
from the mine during those years, and in
the winter of 1881 the main ore chute was
discovered. In the summer of 1882 ore ag
gregating some $4,000 was sold from the
mine, and much development work was
done Small lots of ore were shipped in
1888, and in the spring of 1884 the present
bonanza was discovered and 1,054 tons of
ore, footing up an aggregate value of $751;
600, was shipped to the Clayton Smelter, IN
which Wood a. Co. own a one-third interest.
During the past winter the development
work and driving of main tunnels and cross
cuts has been pushed to the misunderstanding
been done principally by contract, with three
eight-hour shiftS-and III that time some 25O
tons of ore have been extracted, and Is now
living in the ore bins, chutes, ETC., of the
mine pending the decision IN the suit
brought against them by the Beardsley-the
adjoining claim-for alleged trespass and
extraction of ores from within the Beardsley
ground.
In counter suit instituted by Wood &
Co.. the ownership of twenty-nine feet of
the immense ore body of the Beardsley is
claimed to be on the Excelsior, and the
issues are now being tried before Judge
Morgan at Challis From advices received
since we received this communication we
learn that the first of the above-named suits
has been decided in favor of the Excelsior
ED. DEMOCRAT. The Excelsior Company
has the Beardsley Extension and several
fractions in conjunction with their main
property, but up this time no great amount
of development work has been done on them.
A few hundred feet south of the Excelsior
is the
EAGLE ROCK,
A valuable prospect. from which consider
able nav ore has been extracted. The vein
is quite large-some thirty or forty feet
wide-and the pay ore lies In kidneys" ana
chutes in the vein, the developments con-
sistino principally of one tunnel l4O feet
long, and few short inclines. The Eagle
Rock is owned by Riley and Newman OF
Aetna, and VIM. Scott of Challis.
On the opposite side of the canyon from
the Excelsior Is
THE HOOD MINE,
From which some 500 tons of ore was taken
ont bv the Bay Horse Smelling d Mining
60 in 1881. Upon the sale of their smelter
to the Rams Horn company, this mime was
closed down, and nothing but the yearly
assessment work has been done since. Inc
Hood has all the indications of being Of as
great value as either the Excelsior or
Beardsley, if prospecting were pushed upon
it with the same vigor as that of her sister
mines The Hood, as well as the Excelsior,
Beardsley and Eagle Rock are III the mann
limestone belt of this district Early last
fall the Dougherty Brothers opened up
THE GUY G. BARTON,
And sold an interest in the prospect to &. Il.
Tavlor. for the sum of 800. Shortly after
the interest was purchased by Taylor, a me
body of ore ranging from eighteen lnches 70
three feet in thickness was uncovered on Ille
surface, and several small shipments We ere
made. the ore being worth from SD to sou
nor tom. During the past winter consider
able deveIopment work was done, and sew
eraI ore shipments made. Through some
cauoa not generally known the mine has al
most entirely ceased operations, ana the
cauSe ASSIGNED seems to be Dlseu Oh ~
lack of ore. or want of confidence III une
mine. Near the Barton Is
THE JARVIS,
Which was discovered last fall, and OWING
to its fine surface showing and close pfoA-
unity to the smelter was conceded TO DE s,. one
| of the most valuable finds of the year. since
that time considerable ore has been shlppeu
10 the smelter, and if the property was III ~
the hands of company with capital to erec5
! concentrating works, it would no doubt hola
y far different place than 1t occupies un9 G,s
the management of the present owners. Inc In
i led is from eight to thirty feet IN width;
and as the ore is widely dlssemlnatea
f ti1 the whole, concentrating plant Il
necessary to work it to ADVANTAGE aeverat
norts of the mine were leased TO o1nere elIo
wIorkingnen last winter and consl9 I re
ore ore was shipped by them. JARVIS d Co. are
| the owners. r- uo,-n smaller.
! and within few hundred feet OF bay r1olS0
0-oo--' THE SILVER CREEK,
Which ;s owned and worked by Z. Dunpny
a. Son. The main works consist OF a gSi me
driven on the vein between aOO ana zSo t heot
in length. and for over two-thlrds Oh tna s5
distance shows a fine vein OF gaieha anu
conner ore. considerable of which assay