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

The operations of the Florida Noun
tain company this year have been by
far the most important IN point of ex-
penditure of money of any enterprise
in the county. While not having taken
out a dollar to speak of. the company
has opened up some rich lodges in the
Bonneville mine that in the coming
year will feed the big mill day and
night. The mill put in this year is
equipped with 20 stamps, 1,150 pounds
each, and 16 Frue yanners. and has a
capacity of so tons a day of "a hours.
The engine is 240-horse power, and an
other operates an electric light plant
that furnishes light for the mill. mine
and the town of Dewey, formerly
Bonneville, which has sprung into ex-
istence this year with q good many
airs. 1t has a first-class hotel and
other cOnveniences that make life in
that mining camp a pleasure. A tram
/ has been built from the mill to the
mine, a distance of $500 feet, with a
fall of over 500 feet.
There have been some interesting de-
velOpments on War Eagle mountain,
the mighty sister of Florida, which in
early days produced her millions. On
this mountain are the Golden Chariot,
the Orc Elmo and other old-time pro-
ducerS that made Silver City in early
times such a reputation, but in the
crash following the failure of the banks
! in California owned by the men hold
/ ing controlling interests in the mines,
they were closed down and allowed to
fill with water. Thus they have stood,
with spectre hosting works defying
the storms that beat about the noun
! tain, and quartz mills standing, mOnu-
ments of better days.
1t is to prove this mountain to the
greatest possible depth that operations
have been under way for some time in
the Relic PaOk Tho inrIina ic
down $50 feet and the showing is very
satisfactory.
Another project that has long been,
talked of without results but which
| this years developments viii probably
set in motion, is the War Eagle tunnel
scheme. The plan is to tap the very
| heart of the mountain with a long tun-
mel to be started on this side of the
mountain, works to be erected at the
mouth of the tunnel. Such a tunnel
would tap all the old lodges far below
the lowest workings and there is not
man familiar with the mountain who
does not believe the result would be
| the opening up of some of the richest
lodges of the northwest. The tunnel
would also drain the old workings. in
which, it is believed, the water encom-
passes bodies of ore of great richness
abandoned at the general down,
standing there already to be broken
down and carted to mill.
The new life that has been infused
into the camp the past year has awak-
ened interest in this tunnel project,
and it is more than likely that a year
/ hence will see the enterprise under
way, with sufficient capital to push it
! to successful completion.
/ The Cumberland mine, being worked
under bond by Spokane parties, is
making a splendid showing, being one
of the white marks on Silver City's
1897 record. They propose to sink to a
depth of 300 feet under the present
programme A winze started from 200
feet south of the shaft has been put
| down So feet. At the top there is an
1S-inch streak of ore, but at the bottom
| of the winze it has widened to two feet,
and the ore there is very rich, most
of the assays giving 800 d ton in gold.
During the year the Harrison and AL
pine mines have been sold to the Trade
| Dollar company, the consideration be-
ing $4,000, and they viii be worked
Trade Dollar. The bond was executed
early in the year, and about six weeks
ago the deal was closed. the company
taking possession, after having ex-
pended nearly $4,000 in development
on the purchases. The Alpine joins
the Trade Dollar on the west.
AS a whole, Silver City has expert
! enced successful year More men
have been employed, and there has
scarcely been a month when some
property has not been taken hold of
by outside capital.