The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-26

and the question Of process cannot long
remain in doubt, as we can call into
service some Of the brightest metal
lurgical talent of the world"
Mr.. Annisfield is a bright-loolking
man of middle age and of excellent ap-
pearance and address. He seems the
last man in the world that could be
fooled in a Business venture. He has
been proceeding so quietly in his inves-
legations that even the people in the
park did not understand why he was
so assiduous in his attentions to the
sandstone which underlies almost the
whole of the park
Mr.. Annisfield strikes d stranger as a
winner.
Alexander B. Marshall, cashier of the
National Bank of Commerce, Cleve-
land, O., the bank of which Mark Han
ma is president, is one of the gentlemen
who is deeply interested in the Wood
land Park mining enterprise. Mr.. Mar
shall spent the day in bed at the AL
bany hotel yesterday, but was fble to
come down into the rotunda in the
evening before leaving for the east.
woodland Park is a remarkable dis
trict," said he, "and if the observations
which we have made are correct, the
geological map issued by the govern
ment viii have to be revised. Accord
ing to the map, there is no mineral in
the park According to tests which we
have had repeated scores of times.
mighty fortunes in yellow metal lie in
the bosom of the park. / have visited
the spot several times and on each oc-
casion l have been more profoundly i'm
pressed with the possibilities of the dis
trict. Some of the experts tell US that
the park was once a lake and the rock
&c -sa,- ,.o+ on
have a different story, but everybody
who sees the returns from the rock
must agree that the gold got there in
some way. The probability is that
work will be commenced upon large
plant or a series of plants within the
next thirty days. OF course, these final
assays may disappoint all of US, but
that is only one chance in thousand.
Mr.. Annisfield has given the subject a
great deal of attention, and / rely upon
his business Judgment. He has super
intended the expenditure of $4,000 in
his preparatory work, and from what
have seen of the result this week
am convinced the money was well
spent"
The gentlemen expected to have with
them upon the trip to the park DR.
Whitman Cross, the great geological
expert, but unfortunately DR.. Cross
was taken down with severe cold and
his physician forbade his leaving
Washington at this time. DR.. Cross is
TO be a member of the syndicate and
viii be one of its leading. advisors
Whether he can do so and remain in
the service of the government is a
question to be determined. Dr. Cross
has been studying the geological form
ations of Colorado mining camps foI
fifteen years, and is looked upon as the
greatest living authority in his specia
field.
1t is also known that a number oil
United States senators and leading of
ficers of the national administration
are interested in the results of the tests
now being made and will become active
members of the company. The syndi-
cate Will be able to have at its call I'M
limited capital.
The company now owns 740 acres OF
land in the minefalized portion of the
park.
]. Stanley Brown, one of the NOS
prominent members of the syndicate
left for Washington at 1870 yesterday
afternoon, and he was followed east
ward later by the other members of the
party. The sandstone deposit which
now enlistS the attention of eastern
capital is one of three miles in Width
ana extends IenSInWlSe III the park IOI
distance of eighteen miles. The for.
nation rests upon the granite, but it i!
claimed that Immediately under the
sandstone there is a layer Of red gran.
ite which assays even better that the
sandstone itself The ground is located
as placer, and one company. which ha:
$50 acres of the area, estimates that i
has 100000 600 tons of ore in sight. Tht
tonnage controlled by Messrs. Brown
Annisfield and associates is almost in
calculable.