The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-24


, doubled.
Silver City has made numerous public
improvements during the year, and
everything taken into consideration. 1892
has been a prosperous one. Improved
train service has had q good effect here as
we'll. Much prospecting has been done
during the summer months, and num-
Der OF mines that have been lying idle
for some time have been opened. Silver
City's producers are mostly owned by IN
dividuals, and the yearly output, with
one or two exceptions is not large, but 1t
all counts in swelling the grand total
yearly shown by the Tintic country.
Mammoth has also been fairly prosper
GUS during the year about to close. Sev-
! eral public Improvements have been
? made, and the many other properties IN
and around the camp have furnished en-
ployment to many heads OF families.
There have been some remarkable de-
velopments within few miles OF Eureka
. during the year. Among the most re-
!; mark2ble was the discovery of the Gold
Blossom last March and which set the
western part of Utah IN blaze of excite
, ment. As seems inevitable, however, in
such cases, ignorance on the part of the
locators and cupidity of others have
caused litigation that may hold back for
, some time what otherwise would prove to
be great producers. Ore taken from the
Gold Blossom and at the grass roots, too,
assayed so to 20 per cent. lead
and $50 to 500 ounces in silver.
Expert miners say the new camp has
great future, which is only retarded by
the litigation above referred to.
West Tintic was also the scene of con-
siderable mining excitement during the
year.
, In and around Holman vile there are at
least 100 claims upon which great deal
, of labor has been expended. Many, of
course viii never pay interest upon the
assessment work that the law requires to
) be done yearly; but, on the other hand,
) there are many rich prospects that seem
0 ingly need but the magic touch of capital
. to bring them to the front. The greater
. proportion Of these of these claims are
. owned by poor men, who delye along day
after daY in the hope that some time in
! the not distant future they viii receive
D the reward they so justly merit. There
, can not be the slightest doubt
but that much OF the mineral country
: within a short distance OF Eureka will yet
| prove equal to any ground yet opened by
{ the pick OF the prospector.
| THE MINES.
To make individual mention of the
/. hundreds of properties large and small,
that go to make up the Tintic district
would be TO burden an article,
hence, The HERALD gives passing
glimpses Of only the most prominent and
promising.
THE BULLION-BECK
last year produced AZ, 631 200 pounds of
first class ore, and has paid to dividends
reaching nearly $1,000, 900. 1t is developed
to the l ,0G0-fOot level, and employs be-
tween $50 and 300 rnen-usually the latter
number. 1t is a close corporation, how
ever, and but little authentic information
is given out. Frank Y. Taylor is now
the mine superintendent having sue
ceeded w. Fl. Smith several months
ago. a recent rich strike on
life and energy into the camp,
and has proven that the Bullion Beck
has ore reserves that cannot be
exhausted for many years to come. The
surface improvements are the best that
money could procure, and the mine is
being worked in q systematic manner.
The output for 1892 will be fully equal to
that of 1891, Notwithstanding the de-
pressed condition of silver and lead.
THE CAROLINE
has also been a big producer. 1t adjoins
the Bullion Beck and is worked through
, the shaft Of the latter. 1t was owned by
John Beck, but it has lately been alb
sorDed, it is understood, by the Bullion
Beck company. Application for figures
as to the output was refused, but 1t may
be safely said that the Caroline added her
!
, ing the present year.
THE EUREKA HILL.
This twin-sister of the Bullion Beck has
been comparatively idle during the year.
The shaft is now down /, 100 feet, and the
ore reserves are larger than they ever
were before. No ore has been shipped
since April last, and but thirty men
are now employed in and around
the mammoth works. where
year ago at least 200 were on the payroll.
Whatever ore is mined is being piled up,
awaiting, apparently, rise in the pre-
cioas metals. The mine is well equipped
in every way, ard has produced very
heavily in the past.
CENTENNIAL-EUREKA
There is, perhaps, no mining property
in the territory that has attained
such providence in the west as
the Centennial Eureka. But a few
years ago the now famous mine was
only promising prospect, perched high
among the pines OF the mountain known
as Eureka hill. A complete steam hoist
ing works have lately been added at a
cost OF not less than S150.000, and owing
TO this fact the mine was closed
down for several months while
the work was going on. The Centennial
has paid out over hall million in divi-
dends, and is good for many millions
more The first dividend was paid in
July, 1890, and stock that then went
abegging has since that time sold as high
as $50 Among the Improvements CON
templated in the near future is a tramway
from the mine to the railway, which will
obviate a long wagon haul and add to the
profits OF the company materially.
THE KEYSTONE.
New hosting works have been added
to the Keystone during the year. The
mine is on the same vein as the Bullion
Beck and Eureka Hill, and is owned by
j. @. Packard, J. II. McChrystal ct al
The Keystone proper is but a narrow
strip OF mining ground lying between the
Red Bird, on the east. and the Champion,
: OF the Billion Beck Champion group. on