The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-12
TO CELEBRATE THE FOURTH.
High Times Ahead In Baby Mining
District.
Especial Correspondence.)

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Snyder, June 1.-THE baby mining
district of Gold Mountain will this
year commemorate its first season of
genuine prosperity by a Fourth of july
celebration That the event will be
successful is already assured. An ex-
cursion will probably run from Salt
Lake City for the occasion, and it is
hoped that among the orators will be
numbered Senator Cannon, who is
president of the Holland company:
Captain James II. Meter of Richfield.
who served in the civil war. and Judge
William NJ. McCarty of the Sixth dis
trict
Fly-fishing contests. horse races. foot
races, target shooting, tugs of war, a
barbecue and dancing will be among
the features, and for all contests there
are offered medals or cash prizes. The
Snyder improvement company will
build a pavilion at their new town
specially for the occasion. and all
mine-ownerS, managers and miners are
contributing literally. The project is
being engineered by a committee COM
prised of nearly all the leading men Of
the district
Superintendent Martin over at the
Silver King is doing great execution in
the forests and tunnels of his promis-
ing property, with a force of twenty
men, which viii presently be greatly
increased The Silver Kings environ
ments. which only a little while ago
We're desert or shabby woods, are now
converted into a village of Well-built
houses. Underground work is con-
fined to a big tunnel with many drifts.
in which it is expected to find the i'm
mense body of free-milling ore at a
magnificent depth.
Mr.. Martin has already selected the
site and laid his plans for the mill.
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accoutrements so soon as the size and
character of the ore bodies shall have
been determined. Gill S. Peyton is
one Of the prime movers of the Silver
King company, and Mr.. Henrotin of
Chicago is manager.
Since his arrival. June ;, Mr.. Rutan.
the eminent chemist and mineralogist
of Chicago. has been busy daily making
d minute examination of the great
Annie Laurie. He finished the sam
ping last night. and expressed himself
as well pleased with the quantity of
ore in sight, there being something like
$4,000 tons blocked out It now ONLY
remains for the assayer to show this
dirt valuable to make Mr.. Rutan's re-
port favorable TO L. c. Huck. the Chi
cago millionaire, who contemplates the
purchase Of the ground. Gold Noun
tain gentlemen who are personal friends
of Mr.. Huck are President Pat RYAN
of the Golden Star company and Presi-
dent Charles Lammersdorf of the Sc
Vier.
Engineer J. T. Bieckon is surveying
lots I'm the camps new town, Snyder
Recent additions TO the business places
here are a saloon, owned by Orson
Keeler, and a general merchandise
store. operated by Messrs. Farnsworth
and Shipp of Joseph. City.
Todays visitors in camp are Lars II.
Outzen of Richield and William Cum
mings and Nell Ross of Kanosh.
The snow is passing away rapidly.
leaving the roads passable all over the
district. William Johnston, who used
to be district recorder and who now
keeps an accurate record of the snow
fall, reports that the total for the past
winter is % feet 10 inches. Last year
1t was Is feet.
Mr.. Johnston's memoranda b.
months shows: October, 2 feet inch:
November, 2 feet 8 inches; December.
] foot 10 inches; January, foot
inches; February. 3 feet inches:
March, feet / inch; April, . feet 5
inches; May. 3 feet inches. and June