The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19
Old Honorine, One Of Utah's First
Producers.
HAS YIELDED $1,000, 900
MAMMOTH VEINS NEVER WERE
WORKED TO DEPTH
Property Was Located By General
Connor's Soldiers and Operated By
the General-Purchased By Mr..
Scheu and Walter g. Filler of
Pennsylvania.

The old Honorine mine of Stockton,
in the Rush Valley district-one of the
earliest properties of note operated in
Utah, a mine from which General P.
Edward Conner, its original owner,
took out several millions Of dollars
prior to 1873. when it was purchased
for large sum and incorporated-was
yesterday transferred under two
years lease and bond to Charles H.
Scheu of this city and Walter G. Filler
of Sharon, Pa, one-half interest to
EACH The terms call for a large
amount of work and the payment of a
big sum of money before final posses
sion is acquired by the purchasers.
Negotiations have been pending for
several weeks between the parties
named and Lemuel U. Goliath, for the
company. which is composed almost en-
tirely of eastern people. The figure
named in the contract neither side
would divulge, but Mr.. Goliath ac-
knowledged that the price was big
one, and those converSant with the
past history of the mine and its future
possibilities, placed it at all the. way
from $100, 600 to s250,000 yesterday. That
it is a magnificent property all admit,
and Mr.. Scheu declares that it is des-
tined to rival all the big producers in
the state as shipper and dividend
Pay III the DC<tTs lQlOIt
Under the management of the Hon
orine company the mine paid $125,000
in dividends, but as was the case with
most mines operated in the early days.
when water was struck operations
ceased. and in the case of this property
that problem confronted the manage
ment at a depth of 165 feet, in an in
cline from the tunnel level which had
little more than scratched the surface.
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The Honorine was located away back
In the SOS by soldiers of General Con-
nor's command, then located at Fort
Douglas, and from them the general
secured the mine. Vast amounts of
good silVer-lead ore were marketed
from the five veins which traverse the
ground, and when it is known that
those lodges were respectively eighty
four, fifty-one, SiXty-three, ninety-one
and lib feet wide, it is no deep problem
to figure out where the money which
it paid came from, though it is believed
that under the Connor regime no less
than $4,000, 900 was produced.
Discussing their purchase yesterday,
Mr.. Scheu said he and Mr.. Filler and
their associates proposed to equip the
mine with a $4,000 air compressor at
once. put in a pumping plant capable
of handling 400 gallons of water per
minute, and open the mine 100 feet
deeper without delay. The mine is al
ready equipped with a. hoist and boilers
sufficient to develop 300-horse power.
Steam, however, will only be used for
the present, as next year the new own
ers propose to substitute electric power
TO run the mine, and more than likely
a mill as we'll.
Notwithstanding the great size of the
lesIges running through the property,
Mr.. Scheu's investigations led him to
believe that with depth they will be
found to have all merged into one
mammoth vein over 500 feet wide, in
which event the old Honorine will have
proven itself to be the biggest mine in
Utah.