The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-24
BINGHAM BOOMS.
The Old Reliable Well Deserves the
Name.
A Solid Camp That Has Made Very sub
stantial Progress in the Year
About to Close.

Of the various camps Of Utah, Bing-
ham, population considered, Will IN
doubtedly make the best showing this
year of all.
While there has been reason for some
mining sections to complain of dull times
because of the depression in the price of
the precious metals, Bingham has forged
steadily ahead. True, her progress dur
lug 1892 has scarcely been as rapid as in
1891, yet the residents and mine-owners
i'll Bingham surely have no reason to
complain of the results attained.
Bingham is located high in the Oquirrh
range OF mountains, and about twenty
FIVE miles to the southwest of Salt Lake
city
It is the oldest camp in Utah, the West
Mountain mining district having been
organized on Sept. II, 1868. by the sol
diers under the command of the late Gen
eral P. Edward Conner. a. Gardiner OF
West Jordan was elected recorder at the
time, position that is no filed by B. B.
Quinn, who is to Bingham hat Pooh
Bah is to 'sThe Mikado'' in a great many
ways.
The troubIous times of 1884 are prob
ably we'll illustrated by the following ex-
cerpt from the bylaws of the district:
al, Each company must do one faithful
days work on their claims each month
after the first day OF April, 1864, failure
to -do so the claim viii be jumpable; pro-
vided, however, that II the company ara
prevented by local Instruction or rebel
lion from working, a failure TO do so viii
not forfeit their claim. -
The reading OF the above paragraph to
r Of tl4
produced hearty laughter, and at the
same time it brought to the mind of one
OF the oid-timers-a man who had made
and lost several fortunes IN the campfire
fact that Bingham was the only mining
camp III the United States where a loca-
ton had been made entirely by ladies.
THE woN1AN's LODE.
Among the records Of the West Noun
tain mining district, in a book that IS
badly battered by age, appears the follow
ing:
NOTICE.
WoBsGn's Lode.
We, the undersigned strongmlnGed women,
do hereby determine and make manifest our in
tention 10 take uD-'feet. - or anything else IN
our own names and TO work the same. lndepend-
emit of any other man. We DO, therefore take
no and claim in our own right 200 1.-TWO hundred)
feet each and 200 two hundred feet for dlScoV-
cry on this Womans lode commencing at this
notice and running in q n. Ely direction 1909
Zone thcusand) and in a S Wy direction from
the same LOO zone thousand) feet, with all its
diDs SPURS angles and variations and whatever
other rights aud priv eyes the laws or guns OF
this district give to lodes SO taken up.
Names. rect.
Mrs Gen p Edwd. Connor. ................2)O
Mrs Col r. Pollock. ...................-....Z0
MIS- Capt. ketchum- ...-..-.........--2 yO
Mrs Capt Ewing ..-..-......... ...-.......-.2O0
Mrs Capt Hampstead ..-.-........-. 200
Mrs b. Kirkpatrick --..-....-- .....----.-.. zoo
Mrs. hewitt Observation-Disclosures. ..-.....-.-]U O
Mrs E. W. Farnham. 1870. --..........-ZOO
Mrs G.. 3. Kirby .--...-.2O
Located april II 1864.
Recorded May = 1854
West Mountain Mining District
James S. Warren.
Deputy Recorder.
Attest: B. B. Quinn. Recorder.
The exact location of the Woman's lode
/ is not known, but was undoubtedly near
Bingham The lady locatOrs were evi-
IDENTIFY the wives and lady friends Of the
/ officers then located at Camp Floyd.
ATTRACTS ATTENTION.
While there was vast amount of ear
nest work done, hundreds OF claims To-
Gated and a great deal of ore shipped be-
/ tween the date of the organization of the
camp and 1872, it was not until the latter
wear that Bingham attracted much atten-
ton in Utah; and the town was then
comparatively unknown outside OF Utah.