Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-05-28

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miuus are turned In hope and faith.
Nature has done her part ana done II
nobly.
Some years ago Prof. Newberfy ex.
plotted the December company's mines
here anu made an exnaustive report
which wns published in pamphlet
form and Ia s,ill extaDt. After having
read the rep ut carefully, visit 10 the
underground workings is more pro nc.
tive OF an immediate understanding ~
TO what they annotated to IL a ael-
eral way. The qualification seems to
run nearly east and west with soliu
walls OF porpbyIy and blue limestone
Hacking the vre boJy. whicn is an i'm.
mense one consisting largely high
praue smelling rock running we H.
gold, eilvor, lead anu copper. As nis II
a. S,0UU ounces silver ald Sl60 gold
nes been obtained. II mas not hocf
worked much OF late year., not b, =
cause work canuot be done profitably 4,
but chilly 1t seen 3, becsu q every
dig l-ng here must wear lis bltcR
eye. The LAST shipment that was made
came from tho principal incline anu
consisted VI twelve tons OF ore which
yieiued tho company the net sum o.
as many hundred dollars. AS the in-
cline Is V.shapea affair, running
fret u certain distance IN one difec.
TOD, then taking short turn anu
subteDdlng the previous excavation
about as lar, and all boistiDg was done
with winulas aud bucket, the direc-
Tors decided to push In tunnel from
the nearest point to the orc bouy, AMI
cutting II at u distance OF about 800
ieet from the surface; they therefore
applied the Sl,20O gained from the
shipment to this tunnel, exhausted 1t
and lot mvrs until the stockholders
refused to respond TO further assess
mentp, and there the work was stop
ped after about thee hundred
ieet had bten gaiued and
only about fifty more neeieu to
briug the workers TO the goal. The
stock was sold block alter block, and
bought IN with tolerable uniformity
by Hon. Presley Denny, until he 10
now the owner In chief. 1t 10 his
present Intention to resume work at
an early day and make shipment
from where the work WAS discontinued
IN order that the illfated tunnel might
be. A carload Of ore would enable him
to completes the tunnel and have
money over, besides doing Its share
toward the general revival that now
seems imminent in this dittrict. The
December has the distinction OF being
both patented and incorporated. II
aujo!ns the Lone Brothers, two paten.
ted mines, on the weet, includes the
Doppsfberg on the north west, and the
mammoth Creole property with its ex-
tensions Join 1t on the south; there is
nothing hut the rolling, monotonous,
sege.ridden country constituting the
eastern and southern end of the valley
on the west. The d CT mber lie a great
property, and needs only what nearly
everything else here needs to become
famous anu profitable work.
Recently shipment Of ore was
about completed by w. l.. Croft,
owner Of several properties here, III
which he was assisted by his son
and another man experienced in the
IN the working OF mines. The pro-
posed shipment contained several TOT 0
OF high grade copper ore, the remain
der bsipg silver-leat runuing up
pretty we'll in ounces and percentage;
on being Analysed In Salt lake pre-
parattry to removal TO the railroad tho
disclosure was made that the copper
contain OF more eilica than was com.
patibls with the welfare OF Ia em 81.
ter and so this lot was rejected.
The shipment will thus have to be
made up Of silveI.'ead exclusively or
q short carload be sent OF what ls NJ
ready out. II the former shall be de.
cided on some little more time will be
required, as the process OF extraction,
in the absence OF machinery, IL very
tlow. Discouragemsnts, like misior-
tunes, generally bring all their rela.
tives along with them when they pay
Q visi still, there 10 no disposition to
let 60, cut rather to pull all the harder
and make circumstances, however I'M
willing. yield little at least.
81. A. KENNLn.