The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-20
T|NT|C A GREAT PRODUCER
TWELVE HUNDRED CARS SINCE
JANUARY l.
Not Including the Bullion Output
opex Search For Centennial-Eu-
reka Vein-Ajax Improvements.
(snecia1 to The Herald.O

Mammoth, April 19-The statement
has frequently been made by mining
men of extensive experience that Utah
is destined to be the great mining cen
teP Of America. If such a sweeping
and unqualified prophecy is ever veri-
fed, the belief Is pretty general among
men who are familiar with the mar
Vicious deposits Of this locality, aeon
passed in the area embracing the coun-
try from north Eureka to and including
Diamond on the south, that the great
Tintic country will be the particular
section of Utah to be accorded that dis
tinguished honor. Truly the statement
does not after all seem so difficult to
accept as "a likelihood. when it is I'M
derStood that since Jan. l of this year,
the output of the three poorest months,
months presenting the preatest difficult
ties in the way of impossible roads and
at times inaccessible mines, the result
of snow blockades, from Tintic proper,
has reached the enormous total of more
than twelve hundred cars of ore. And,
in truth, these figures do not give an
accurate or comprehensive value at all
of the product of the district, because
the shipment of something over $50
cars Of silver and gold bars and con-
centrates IS omitted from the COM
piled statement, and the estimate in
cludes only the big and regular ship
pers, leaving out number of small oc-
casional contributors.
Who can make any intelligent pre-
diction as to what the Tintic country
may accomplish during the remaining
nine months of a year believed by
every one to be full of the brightest
possibilities?
Arrangements are being concluded by
parties interested to resume work on
a number of properties, fortunately sit
uated, that have been idle for some
time. The Cleopatra, OpeX, and West
Park and Swansea Extension being
notable instances.
The owners of the OpeX have eX-
pressed a determination to recommence
the search for the famous Blue Rock
Vein-more commonly known as the
Centennial Eureka. The OpeX adjoins
the Emerald and is but a short distance
from the Grand Central. When work
on this property was temporarily aban-
doned the much-sought- after vein was
not encountered, but the showing was
of such an encouraging nature as to
warrant the belief that with develop
ment successful results would follow.
There is much activity in the neigh
borhood Of the SWanSeaS. Four Aces
and Picnic. The Picnic folks are work
ing three shifts drifting in search of
the famous Park ledge. Work is stead
ily going on at the Emerald, the force
being engaged in drifting eastward.
Thomas Weir's visit to Mammoth is
said to be to consider the advisabilitv
of replacing the old Ajax plant with.
new and adequate power.
]. +. Walker, jr., accompanied by ].
s. Free. superintendent of the Showers
Consolidated. arrived from Salt Lake
at noon and drove at once to Diamond.
w j. Mcintyre is here on his GUS
tomary monthly visit.
J. y Ferguson. manager of the Min
ers Mercantile company, returned yes
terday from a visit to his family in
Salt Lake.