The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-16
MINES OF MARYsvALE.
Breezy Items From All Sections
About the Gold Camp.
(Specisl Correspondencel


Especial Correspondence
Marysvale. Utah. Sept 14-During a
score of years MarysvaIe has waited
for a railroad The Rio Grande West
ern railway is here. Now, will the
railroad have to wait twenty years on
Marysvale? The lethargy and seeming
Indifference OF the average Old-time
resident here would seem to answer
the question in the affirmative A few
enthusiastic, but misguided souls
thought some kind of a greeting ought
to be given to the iron hOrSe-that at
least the people here would turn out en-
masSe and give three cheers (and pos
Sibly a tiger, if our short but strong
breath held ouD for the company
which has had the hardihood TO push
the iron rails TO this point. But nary
a cheer even. AS the snort of the iron
horse daily sounded nearer the interest
in his coming waned until some sar-
castle cuSS proposed "a dance in his
honor with an admittance tax of so
cents per capita on railroad employees
But there comes a feeling of relief
and cheer as we look with pride and
hope to the little army of toilers in
the mountains. The ringing steel, the
sharp and muff1ed reports of blasts
prove that new found veins of ore are
being opened and older ones developed
The Dalton people have now a fine
showing Oh grace ore, the output
being sacked for shipment. Ore extrac-
ton in the Bully Boy and Webster has
been going steadily forward and the
product sent down 70 the mill some
three miles west of town Shortage of
water for power at the last moment
prior to starting compelled Messrs.
Colbert and Holderman to defer reduc-
ton until an engine could be installed
to supplement the lack of water The
mill will start tomorrow, and it is
hoped that shipments of concentrates
viii be large and continuous
Messrs. NJ. and S. Krotki, prosper
Gus and enterprising merchants of
Richfield and Marysvale, are backing
operation on the Copper Belt, and will
send the shaft down on the ore chute
to the AIS foot mark. then run out
levels in the vein and determine for
all time the value of this old-time
producer.
Work on the Wedge tunnel has been
resumed, and if the vein is not soon
encountered an Upraise to shaft, now
partly filled with water, win be made.
AS fine ore as ever came out of the
mine is found in the bottom of the
shaft, some 100 feet below groupings
of vein, and there is no apparent rea-
son why a great mine should not be
made of the Wedge property. Other
claims in the Horse Heaven country
are reported to be looking well.
A small force of men are doing good
Work IN prospecting for ore on the
Crystal ground, in Cottonwood canyon.
The place selected for recent work is
lower down on the quartzite porphyry
contact, which dips uniformly to the
west on an inclination of about 80
degrees. Small pockets of good ore in
the tale Indicate the presence of a
nearby and large body of sulphide ore
The sOlidity and uniform nature of the
ground promises permanancy for all
ore bodies found in the contact on its
steep weste-'v dip.
Nearby a. the east the Park Gold
Mining conlr is sending a Shaft
down to the 81 B. The 200 foot mark
has been passed and it is expected that
the coming new year will witness ex-
ploratOry work from the 300 foot level
The company is making no noise Just
digging for the objective point with
evident confidence of finding a paying
mine, of which there is not a doubt
The most unique mining camp on
earth was started this season about ten
miles south of this place. From the
mouths OF their tunnels the honest
miner can cast his hook and line into
the SEWER river, and While pounding"
MS drill can watch and wait for the
suggestive "bobbing' of the pole which