The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-13
WORK IN NHITMORE CANYON
TWO HUNDRED COAL MINERS
EMPLOYED AT SUNNYSIDE.
Banker Whitmore's Ownership of
Water May Not Net Him a For
tune-Another Spring Tapped.
(special Correspondencel

Price, Utah, Aug. 1.-THE force of
miners at work in the new camp of
Sunnyside, in Whitmore canyon, has
been increased during the last few
weeks until there is now more than 100
men underground and on top working
with PICK and shovel. This force is to
De materially increased as soon as some
more mules can be gotten into the camp
TO do underground service. The men
are working three eight-hour shifts
but have been somewhat retarded by
the lack OF mules, which are as neces-
Sary IN coal mining as are the men.
Inc company has run four drifts and
some OF these are in as far as 200 feet,
in the remarkably short time of about
two months steady development. There
are but two Italians in there now, and
IL is said no more will be employed, but
that 1t will be white mans camp.
More competent miners are wanted
there, and if they come they will be
given work. The policy of Superintend-
ent Robert Forester is to issue no
passes, for he finds that the class of
men who are looking for free rides are
not good miners. but as a general thing
irresponsible men who are taking ad-
vantage of this to get around over the
country.
bothering the company more or less,
is in fair way to be solved In one
of the slopes at distance of something
like 200 feet from the side of the hill
and at depth of about 400 feet. flow
of fine magnesia water has been en-
countered that will be all that is nee
essary for every purpose in the camp.
1t is said. An analysis has been made
in Salt Lake City, and men in from
ic, Of haf
quality than anything in this part OF
the state. The company has already
in operation a big pumping plant and
IS preparing to construct a huge reser-
voir to properly take care of it, and
also to Permit of it's settling before use
for drinking and culinary purposes. Up
to lately there has been an effort to
buy out George c. WhitmOre, the Nephi
banker, who owns all the water rights
in the canyon, and upon which it
looked for a time like the company was
absolutely dependent. Whitmore has
asked the company in the neighbor-
hood of $40, 900 for his ranch and rights.
He owns a fine ranch some two miles
below the townsite and has been in
there for years. Lately he has been
figuring on putting in a pipe line for
irrigation purposes that will cost him
in the neighborhood of $50. 600 His
above the town. A pipe line would pre-
vent the inhabitants of the camp from
getting any water whatever. Now that |
the company has it's own water and is |
not in the least dependent on Whit |
more, it is said the pipe line project |
will be abandoned.
Sunnyside will be the biggest town !
n Carbon county, or eastern Utah. in |
fact, and with a market right at his /
trr1far . rau1a will ha.-
come the most valuable property in the |
county 1t has been well played chess |
game all the way through, and had it |
lOt been for the flow of water uneX-
encountered. Whitmore would |
nave won out. He has been playing for |
big stakes and it may be that he has
lot yet lost the game. Without the /
own that the coal camp will create
here, the ranch would be worth prac-
ically nothing. AS il will be, there is
10 estimating its value in dollars and
,ents. One man will have the saloon
privileges in the new town, the same
IS at Castlegate, where the proprietor
las made many thousands of dollars in
lis five years lease, and it is said
Nhitmore has been offered a large sum
rom this source. The upper end of
he ranch is near enough town to be
'aluable for this purpose. There has
nen of this part of the state for the
aloon privileges in the camp, but it is
they have been given to T.
|. Ketchum of the Rio Grande Western
pecial service, whose headquarters are
/ Helper. He will have a man from
irand Junction, Colo, who is already
n the ground, conduct the place for
i'm.
There are some four miles of the new
rade of the railroad to the camp COM
leted now, and it is expected trains
ill be running in there by the 1st of
eptember, when work will begin on
big scale. The company is employ
lg a large force of carpenters and they
ill have a number of houses ready for
cupancy by the time the railroad
caches the camp. The embargo is stils
n on women, and none will be per-
lifted in the town or on the lands
the company until the titles of the
ompany are fully established.
Richard Cotner, one of the Carbon
Dunty volunteers in the Cuban war,
as been granted the boarding house
rivileges.
INDIAN WAR VETERANS.