The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-26

tory will assist materially in devel-
oping the north part OF Davis county.
MINING.
There seems to be good reason to
believe that ere long Davis county will
add mineral wealth to her already null
Hilarious resources. For a great num-
Der of years there has been desultory
prospecting in the mountains and some
good values bearing silver, gold and
copper have been found, but there has
not been much permanent work done.
The best prospects in the district are
located in Pennington canyon, where
well defined f1ssure veins have been
found, giving reasonably good assays
and furnishing quartz containing
splendid specimens of free gold. The
formation there is the same as is found
in the gold and copper propositions re-
Gently opened in Park City.
A mining company formed princi-
pally by Evanston men are owners of
the property on the north side of
Pennington canyon, free gold speci-
mems from which have created SO much
comment recently. The Horseshoe Gold
and Silver Mining company have a
number of claims located in the right
hand fork of Pennington canyon The
Rather. one of their best prospects,
has a good fissure vein cutting through
solid quartz. Assays show 10 per cent
copper, IS in gold and 81 in silver. The
Keystone is pronounced by experts to
be a perfect fissure vein, smaller but
richer than the Rather.
The Pennington Gold Mining COM
pany's property is situated less than a
mile from the court house Consider
able development work has been done
on this claim and it bids fair, when
litigation ceases to support a small
stamp mill.
High up on the mountains east of
Centerville Richard Duerden, Of Boun-
tiful, and Richard Mills, of Centerville,
have located a gold and copper propo-
sitiOn, from which shipments will soon
be made. 1t is stated that an immense
body of ore is in sight. Recent assays
show II per cent copper, Is ounces of
silver, and gold that more than equals
the other metals in value.
BUILDING AND IMPROVEMENTS
No one other thing so accurately in
dicates the financial condition of a
community as does its activity or
slothfulness in the matter of making
improvements. In his journeyings from
one end of the county to the other The
Herald correspondent was impressed
with the enduring evidence of prosper
ity on every hand in the form Of new
and substantial residences and public
buildings.
Scores of fine brick houses. ranging
in value from $500 to $4,000 have re-
Gently been erected, and Mr. William
Allen. the local architect, expressed
himself as hopeful of a continuation
of the present building boom.
The people of Syracuse are just fin
ishing a fine brick meeting house. The
general style of its design is Italian
Gothic. With its fine entrance, clus-
tered arches, ornamental brickwork
and neat yentilating turret, with
graceful steeple surrounding the whole
the structure presents a very pleasing
exterior. It has a seating capacity of
from 360 to 400.
A beautiful church building has also
been erected this year at West Layton
at a cost of about $780, Its seating
capacity is about 400.
The three new school houses in the
Eighth district will cost. when furnish
ed, near $4,000.
In the Sixteenth district a school
building of like dimensions and archi-
lecture has been erected.
A new central school building has
been constructed in Centerville at a
cost of $4,000.
Among the residences erected this
year are the following:
John r. Barnes, Kaysvilie, cost
$4,000; William Allen, Kaysville. 81. 200:
John w Galley, Kaysville, s., 500; John
G. owen, Kaysville, $1,000; Oscar May
field, Pennington, $1,5G0: Franklin
Hess, Pennington. $1,000; Henry Bow
en-, Pennington, $1,000; Isaac Mills.
Centerville, ST. 500: Farley Parrish. cen
teryille, 81, 500; Stephen j. Hart, Boun-
tl1ul $1,000; John Barlow, Bountiful,