The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
Many Improvements at Park City
Bonanza.
NEW BUILDINGS ERECTED
THINGS MADE COMFORTABLE
ALL AROUND.
Concentrating Mill Completed Dur
ing the Year Now Ending
Bunk House and Office Building
Bette-ed and Much Other Work
Done-Statement Of Ores Shipped

The first of January, $685. found tn,
new concentrating Silver King mil
about half finished, and it was not com
pleted and started till about the mid
die of June. Since then several import
ant and beneficial changes have beer
made. the last one being the sub-sta.
ton of six fine vanners for treating tn,
finer material from Huntington, which
gives marked improvement over 'tht
Willy tables.
With the two elevators for fine ma
terial. and the slime tables in process:
OF construction, which will all be com
pleted within month, the mill will be
complete and in frSt-claSS condition
for efficient and economical work. Dur
ing the year a complete up-to-date as
say Office and laboratory has been con-
structed and equipped with the latest
and best appliances.
A change house for mill hands and a
large, convenient and well appointed
mill Office, with three extra rooms for
superintendent and assayers, has also
been built With the erection of 80,
000-gallor water tank for fire purposes,
the construction of water line and
the placing of seven hydrahts with hose
houses, runways, ladders, ETC., all
placed in convenient locations for the
purpose, the protection from fire is
first-claSS
The construction of the pipe line from
the Hanauer tunnel was not COM
menced till late in the fall, but was
completed late in November, and con-
nection made with the mill. This is
an eight-inch line OF heavy wrought
iron pipe, and discharges into two &C.,
000- gallon tanks.
ore bin with the large ore house at the
mill has been covered its entire length,
and is lighted by electricity through
out.
The bunk houses occupied by the
men have been greatly improved dur
ing the year, all rooms being lined
throughout with compo board and
painted. Iron bedsteads have been
constructed, two new bunk houses built
and all put in prime condition for the
Use and comfort of the employees.
At the shaft house the machine shop
is being enlarged, and a large new lathe
added. new blacksmith shop has
also been erected, with two FORCES and
appliances.
The development work performed
amounted to 2.725 feet in tunnels, drifts,
crosscuts, etc. The new lower tunnel
which will tap the ledge $50 feet deeper
than the present workings. has been
driven SIS feet, leaving about 400 feet
to run before cutting the vein at this
depth After prosecuting to the ore
in the upper tunnel, the ground was
found to be quite wet, with probable
ity of increase should sinking be at
tempted from this point, 50 it was
deemed advisable TO drive the lower
tunnel and the results and conditions
prove the course to have been a wise
one, as the ground for the last 200 feet
has been very wet, and at times the
flow has been so great that work in
the breast had to be suspended to en-
large the tunnel ditch to carry away
the water.
Excellent progress was made in the
tunnel up to Dec. l, but since that time
hard ground and increasing water have
made progress slow and difficult. The
company's property consists of nineteen
claims in a group, nine of them being
patented, and the balance in process of
patent.
Three assessments have been levied
since the new management took charge.
and the plant has been put in good
shape for the work in hand.
In order to make storage room for
tailings in the canyon below the mil,
the company has made new road
from the mill ore bins to a point near
the Alice shaft. This road is eighteen
feet wide. in solid ground and rock,
about -fourths of its entire length
having been blasted out of solid rock.
This road will be open much earlier
in the spring after the breakup, and
being I'D above the canyon. the snow
will not drift in as badly. and having
an eastern and southern exposure. the
snow will be melted much earlier.
With the uniform liberal policy of the
management as to development work,
the ore reserves in the mine have been
largely increased during the year, and
ahead is being vigorously
carried on at the 1,200 and 1,300-foot
levels.