The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-16


From the Camps-Mining Notes
and Personals
The recent purchase by the owners
of Dalton and Lark Mining company
of the properties of their opponents in
what might have developed into the
biggest instance Of mining litigation
ever seen in Utah, and which was
happily adjusted by an expenditure of
larse sums If money for mines and
adjuncts, puts the Dalton and Lark
to the fore in the holding of mineral
ground in the West Mountain district.
It is presumed that no other mining
company in Utah controls as many
locations, as many developed mines
and as many miles of railway, as many
mills and hosting plants rs the Dali
ton and Lark now possesses, and if
any other association in the state con-
trolls property that has had as many
feet Of work done on shafts, levels.
WINES and Slopes The Herald has not
vet heard of the incident
The Lead mine proper was the first
notable mine in Lead gulch and was
supposed to have been worked out long
before the Dalton and Lark, the Dump.
Richmond. Dalton No ., or Antelope
were ever supposed to exist 1t has
the biggest Slopes Of any mine in the
West Mountain district, excepting,
possibly, the Old Telegraph. and from
q gent aElan who was at one time the
owner and manager Of the property.
it is estimated that the total output of
the mine to date has been nearly 400,
600 tons. There IS no means Of proving
the accuracy of these figures, but there
was one stope in the mine-the Crows
Nest-that from its dimensions must
have yielded not less that $4,000 tons.
The only other mine in Utah that
shows such extensive underground
workings is the Old Telegraph on the
southwest side Of the range from
which the Lead gulch IS an offshoot.
A feature of the Lead mine proper is
the great depth TO which the oxidized
ores ran before the SHphides We're en-
countered In the old Todman shaft
which was the farthest down the
gulch q depth OF 200 feet was reached
but the shaft WAS not properly timber
ed and shaft No. > was sunk to about
500 feet. being still farther up the
suich. Still no sign Of sulphides was
encountered. The ores being in the
form Of lead carbOnateS and ceruSites
or crystalized lead. and after the prop
erty passed into the hands of the
Omaha and Grant Smelling company
another shaft was started farther up
the gulch and on an incline conforming
TO the dip Of the vein. whereas the two
shafts preceding had been vertical.
This incline shaft went down to a
depth Of 720 feet in the oXidized ores
with 10 sign Of abatement, but about
that time sulphides were in demand
with the smelters, and the management
believed they would be reached farther
up on the vein. Accordingly a level
from the bottom of the incline was run
up the gulch 100 feet and from that
DOint the incline on the dip of the
vein was continued until total depth
of Z120 feet had been attained. 1t was
not. however, until the 500 foot level
had been passed that the sulphides
were first reached. They continued on
work IN the bottom of the shaft was
abandoned in 1893. and were showing
q higher average in silver as the great
or depth was attained.
The Lead mine was the first mine to
be developed and worked in the gulch
on the east side of the Oduirrh noun
taino in which it is located. and it had
produced at least two-thirds of its to-
tai output in tons before the Dalton &
Lark and the many other properties
running down into the foothills were
heard or dreamed OF. AS it is now the
output Of the gulch is probably ten
times as much as that OF the great
Lead mine in its best days. It is not to
he supposed that 1t is a worked out
mine. as when work was suspend d
in the main incline there was at least
twenty-four feet Of ore in sight.
The other historic factor in the
transa ction by which the youthful Dali
ton & Lark became the possessor of
its progenitors is the Brooklyn mine.
situated in the gulch to the south OF
the Lead gulch and containing the
Yosemite No. l mine. now the property
Of the New Tintic Mining & Smelling
company. The Brooklyn has probably
reached a greater depth than any
other mine In Bingham, and the bot
tom Of its shaft is perhaps the lowest
point ever attained in Utah under
ground or otherwise The altitude of
tie mine is very little above that OF
Salt Lake City but an incline SHAFT has
been pushed down on the dip Of the
vein to a depth of over 1900 feet. The
remarkable appearance of oxides at
excelled in the Brooklyn, where, on
the north side the oxidized ores con-
tfnued unbrokenly until after the 300
level was passed. while on the south
extension oE the vein the sulphides
were not reached until q depth of 600
feet had been attained. AS in the case
of the Lead mine, the values of the
ores continued to increase with the
greater depth
The first attempt that was made to
concentrate the waste dumps of the
Lead mine was in 1881, when the crude
ere was hauled over to the old But
terfield mill three miles distant, and
SO successful was the experiment not
withstanding the long haul. that the
company decided to construct its own
mill and treat all of its second class
ores. A mill site was secured near the
slouth Of Bingham canyon four miles
distant on the old Curtis farm and