The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-29

shipped to Omaha shelters out Of the
first nifty feet of development on the Cop
per Cave lode. y camp IS growing NJ
about the mine and a number of pros
poets are being driven
Gold Mining.
In production of gold Wyoming showed
little increase over that of the previous
year. for the reason that the principal
gold mines were not worked as extern
sively as during 1909.
The principal gold camp is in the vi
Cinity Of Atlantic City, Fremont county
The greatest producer is the Carrissa,
which is owned by Salt Lake men. Dur
ing the past year the output OF this mine
was not as great as in 1900 The mine Is
located eighty miles from the nearest
railroad and only very valuable ore and
concentrates can be shipped al a profit
A small mill which the Carrissa company
built at the mouth of the mine was early
IN the year shut down because II failed
10 catch more than % per cent OF the
values. A much larger mill Is now in
course of construction, and with its COM
pletiOn the low grade ore of the district
will be treated for the first time In the
Carrissa nothing but high-grade ore has
been mined and there are thousands of
tons OF lOw-gTade ore blocked out in the
workings awaiting the opening OF the
mill Tt will run from 81 to $40 and eX-
lists in unlimited quantities. All through
the section iOw-grade ores have been
found and when the district is connected
with the outside world by a railroad, or
has ample reduction facilities at hand,
the district will become a gold producer
of Importance
The South Pass mine in the Atlantic
City district was early in the year sold
for taxes. In the early days the property
produced several hundred thousand dol
lars worth of gold and was then aoan-
dOned. 1t fell into the hands OF Ogden,
Utah. men and for twenty years has not
been touched. The owners delayed pay
inc Ms
auction. It was bid in by a South Pass
man at very low figure. only few
dollars. and Is now in litigation. If the
title of the tax buyer is aproven valid the
mine will be re-opened and worked
On May a very rich gold strike was
reported from point between Atlantic
City and South Pass. A prospector
turned earth from a ledge that fairly
of as high as $4,000 per ton. But for
some reason the ledge has not been de-
velOped, and the find lies idle.
A small amount of gold was mined dur
ing the year in tn northern part OF the
state and placers in numerous sections
of the state contributed considerably TO
the total output, while not a little was
extracted from copper ores.
Banner Year in Coal.
Almost in the very beginning Of 1901
the need Of one Improvement at least
was forced upon the coal mine operators
of Wyoming. At that time nearly all OF
the. brattiCeS and partitions IN the coal
mines of the state were made of wood
or canvass. On Feb, ., an explosion oc-
CURED in mine No ] at DiamOndVllle,
in the southwestern portion Of the state
which set fire TO the brattices. AS a re-
suit the escape of all of the miners in
the lower Levels was cut OF by the
flames and tWenty-eight men perlShed-
State Coal Mine Inspector Noah Young
at once took up the matter of having the
b7-rf l-fca
sJructible ones. There is no law in the
state prohibiting the use Of wooden brat
tees but the larger companies recOg-
nized the logic Of the request made by
the inspector and the wooden braulces
are rapidly being done away with. The
first mine to be equipped with steel brat
tees was the one in which the frighttul
holocaust occurred.
The year just closing has seen big
advance in the coal industry Of the state.
Two big mines have opened at Cumber-
land. and about the slopes town OF l.2O3
inhabitants has grown up. The place has
over 300 residences and the coming year
over 200 more viii be built Electric light
and waterwOrks are among the improve
ments, while a SI,000 schOoihOuse has just
been completed Fifteen months ago the
site Of Cumberland was marked by.
prospect hole. The mines now employ
over 800 men and the daily output is
about LOGO tons The town lies twenty
miles south of Kemmerer and is con-
nected with the oregon snort Line Dy
the Wyoming &, Western railroad.
Situated also in Dinta county is the
new coal camp OF Spring Valley. The
Union Pacihcs cutoff around Piedmont
hill tapped a vein of coal as large and
OF as good quality as has ever been
found in the state, and a camp was at
once established. Two hundred men are
employed there, and with their families
make a town Of 800 inhabitants. The
town Is also TO be supplied with the many
cOnVeniences of a city now being estab-
lished by the company at Cumberland,
and there is also talk of extending the
Kemmerer-Cumberland line Of railroad on
TO Spring Valley to a connection with the
main line OF the Union Pacific down
grade for the loaded cars could be had
for the entire distance. and the new route
would make the haul to Ogden much
shorter than at present.
At GlenTOck a new coal mine was
opened during the year and now employs
about 100 men. Il is located about a quar-
ter Of a mile from the old mine, to which
the town owes its existence
few miles from Meeteetse Senator
Clark Of Montana has secured 5000 acres
of the finest coal lands in the state. With
the coming Of a railroad to the section the