The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-04
hin and Bullion-Beck mines as fol

Hill and Bullion-Beck mines as fol
lows:
What is Utah's chief mining district
How many of the mining world know
Probabl half would say Mercur, others
Park City, and some would give this
post of honor to Bingham. All would
have to guess again. Not one in a score
probably knows that Tintic, in Juat
county, is the leading producer of the
youngest state. Eureka, the princi-
pal town, is distant so miles from Salt
Lake City, a little west of due south
The other towns of the district are
Mammoth, Robinson, Silver City and
Diamond, all within a radius of three
miles. and reached by the Rio Grande
Western and Union Pacific railroads.
The district is a producer of nearly
all the metals required for every day
needs. Ores of gold, silver, copper,
lead and iron-the latter of f1uxins
silica, as Utah has no iron furnaces
are forwarded daily from the different
stations. During 1896 there were 12l,9OO
tons shipped to smelters and $4,000 tons
of low grades treated at the local mills.
How many districts can show greater
| tonnage? In dividends there were
paid $1,155, 900 for 1896.
The oldest Eureka mine is the Eu-
reka HILL John Q. Packard,
THE UTAH D. H. MOFFAT,
in mining, is the chief owner and SUI
preme ruler of this bonanza. He does
/ not take the public into his confidence
and little is known of his mines more
than that they are big shippers. Mr..
Packard also practically owns the
| Gemini, Godiva and other good ones.
The Eureka Hill shaft is down 1900
/ feet, there are over 20 miles of track
! in levels and drifts, five machine drills
! are steadily employed in exploring viz
cir Ground and the mine n3V-rOll car
ries 125 names. Low grades are treated
on the ground at the 1O-stamp Packard
mill, on the hillside above the shaft
house. This non-cuStomary location
was necessitated by prevailing condi-
tiOns, the mineral being conveyed
from the shaft over a train 700 feet
long and 200 feet elevation to the top
of the mill at a cost of cents a ton.
The stamps weigh 900 pounds have
seven and one-half inch drop and 100
drops to the minute, the mineral pass
ing a 40-mesh to Frue vanners, of
which there are 80 of the siX-foot pat
tern. The vanners concentrate five or
more tons into one, effecting half the
total savings, the tailings passing to
Washoe amalgamating pans, thence
into agitators and settling tanks, COM
pleting the treatment. Milling ore
carries from 10 to % ounces silver, OIL
to o. ounces gold to the ton and to 5
per cent lead, caught in the vanner
concentrates. A metallic recovery of
so per cent is accomplished. There is
an
INDEPENDENT WATER LINE
from Homansville and an iron foundry
where finished ore cars are made and
all sorts of casting done-an innova-
ton for a mine surface plant. Eureka
Hill has a dividend record of 81, 100000 !
While the company is incorporated !
with 10000 shares of 800 each. Gemini, |
formerly known as the keystone, north |
of Eureka, has a 1,200-foot shaft and a |
strong ore zone. Just prior to New |
Years a large body of copper mineral !
and higher gold values was opened in |
the lowest workings. The Gemini Min |
ing company has 5000 shares, par 500 !
each, and has paid $780, in dividends. |
a marked difference is noticeable be
tween the capitalization of Colorado
and Utah mining companies.
Bullion-Beck, next to the Eureka
Hill, is the big Tintic mine. John
Beck, its discoverer, is
THE w. S. STRATTON OF ZION,
in that he affords another of the rare
instances where a poor man, the orig
inal locator of ground afterwards
proven to contain millions in treasure,
managed to hold on through years of
ildIu hllOChS Ill 10 WI III was AiicSAA-
fest. Unlike the great Independence,
this storehouse of treasure is owned BY
a company, the Bullion-Beck and
Champion, having 100000 shares. par
SO. of which John Beck is president.
No man is more progressive in devel-
oping Utah'S mines. AS usual Bullion
Beck heads the shipping roster for
1896 with 1855 carloads of ore and 497
IF concentrates, or in all 81, 551 tons. 7
Smelling products average 60 ounces a
ton and 16 per cent lead. Dividends
asst year were $1,000
A TOTAL OF 2,197, O0O
The shaft is 900 feet and there are IS
niles of levels and drifts. Some 200
eet above the shafthouse is a model
cotton concentrating mill, built two
ears ago. Cost of elevating ore from ,,
he shaft to the top of the mill is :
hree cents a ton. The plant consists !
# a ID" Comet and two Dodge I
.rushers, three sets of Cornish rolls I
to a quarter-inch, six double =,
r u jigs, the middlings from which !
20 to three Bryan millers, thence !
through a 35-mesh to vanners. there /
icing ten Frues and five Johnsons r
ig and vanner concentrates are piled I
ogether, mixed and shipped. The r
Mills greatest length is $50 feet, IT'S {
eet at widest part, five stories high :
nd the handling OF mineral and waste c
s automatic as can be devised Mine I
nd mill employ 230 men. il
The Observation-Disclosures begins the
ear
WITH 4 ROSY FORECAST,
s lowest workings, 800 feet, showing
marked Improvement While the
re bodies maintain their generous di-
tensions there is an increase in gold
alues. the smelling products carrying e
ON one to three ounces gold so or u
lore ounces silver to the ton, with )
arying percentages Of copper and
ad. Last year S,551 tons were
lipped. Dividends for 1896 were $780,
TO- or in all $500. 600. Vast stores of L
w grades are on the dump in the
line, to treat which a mill is soon to
2 erected. The Centennial Eureka
)mpany has $4,000 shares, par $50. It l
mooted that a London syndicate is u
)On to pay a round 50, 800, 900 for the =
Inc. Several other properties are :
orked about Eureka of promising =
oment.
The Van Duzer Placers. u