The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-07
THE OLD GARFIELD MINE.
interesting "reminiscences Regard
ing This PROPERTY.

through the courtesy of the editor of
the Ogden Switch The Herald is in re-
cepit of advance sheets of that paper
containing the following interesting ar
ticle regarding the old Garfield mine
viz.
; The people of Ogden seem to have
the idea that since the disastrous snow
slide. BIZ which Foreman Fred Wal
haupter and TWO of the miners lost
their lives at the Consolidated mine in
Gibbs canyon last month operations
on the property have been suspended
mis- is away wrong. The regular force
employed before the accident has been
| increased h. the addition of a black
smith and machinist, and is now at
work clearing away the havoc wrought
Dy the slide, and getting things in
shape to start work on the rock again
New buildings will be erected at once
n place of those destroyed. and will be
made as nearly slide-proof as possible.
The property is now in charge of Mr..
H H. Wardleigh. who has taken the
place left vacant by the death of Fore
nan WalhauDter. The real story of
he accident has never been told vet
and next week the Switch will tell il
N the graphic language of one of the
Eve witnesses. illustrated with repro
auctions of photographs of the scene
taken on the spot shortly after the slide
passed.
Will Turner who was buried for ten
hours under half a hundred feet uf
snow and debris, pinned against the
boiler. is recovering finely and as soon
IS the skin that was scalded off his an
lromv is replaced, he will be ready to
go back to work again.
STORY OF THE GARFIELD.
The old Garfield mine in Gibbs can
yon, near Brigham, now a part of the
Consolidated, has as romantic a his
DRY as any around which the prospec-
-ors fancy fingers and a mighty in
eresting book might he written from
|. In the early SOS Jonathan Brown
ing used TO have a blacksmith shop in
Ogden, where he also did gunsmith
work. In those days firearms were
scarce here. and accordingly highly
orized and when the owner of one ac-
eidentally injured it, it was forthwith
AIKEN to Mr.. Browning 10 be repaired
de was an artist in his way, and when
4 broken gunstock was to be fixed he
aad a way of ornamenting it with a
metal which passed for silver This
METAL was brought 70 him from time
o time in the shane of ore by certain
parties WHO could never be prevailed
lpon to tell where they got it from. 1t
..as so rich that Mr.. Browning used TO
run ii out in his forge.
Al last rumors of this rich mineral
came 10 the ears of General Coanors.
and in October. 1863. he started out on
tour Of inspection" with a party of
20 men, and party who had agreed to
cad them to the place where Brown
-ng's silver came from.
The guide led the party north to Raft |
river. near Twin Springs, where he |
showed them d great ledge of rock. all |
iecked through with black specks, |
which he said were pure silver. He /
hen took his leave. and hundreds of |
dollars worth of work was put in on |
the ledge by Connors' party before
they discovered there was not even a 1
trace Of minera! in it. City Council /
man H. c. Wardleigh Of Ogden was
with that party, and that guide really
knew where the Browning silver" was
located, and honestly intended to take
hem there. on the start. as was proven
BY Mr.. Wardleigh in later years to his
entire satisfaction.
Many a hunt was made afterward for
the coveted ledge, but to no purpose
rntil in 1885 when two miners from
Dial fell in with a Mr.. Stewart of
Wellsville who offered to show them
he longed-fOr mine, where, he said, the
mineral was sticking out of the
ground" He kept his word. and Do
an and Dial located the Garfield
nine. In 1886 they brought down some
samples of the ore and formed a COM
1any. of which Mr.. Wardleigh was a
member. Later he obtained control Of
he property. which he retained until
With II. c. Baker he interested eastern
,apital in the proposition. and formed
he Consolidated Mining & Smelling
company. which owns several other fine
properties besides the Garfield in the
anne locality.
This. in brief. is the story of the Car
ield mine. now one of the biggest prop
,sitions in the state.