The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-17
BEAVER INVESTORS RETURN.
Hartford Contingent Confesses to
Having Gone Crazy Over Majestic.

DIR. Z. W. Pratt, Charles Merriman,
H B. GoodenOugh, c A Hart and
George w. Wilson, all prominent cap
italists and investors of Hartford.
Conn. returned yesterday from a tour
of inspection of the Majestic company's
mines in Beaver county. They had pre-
Vlously become interested in the COM
pany and came out here TO learn for
themselves what the mines amounted
TO- They are none of them sorry they
came, and every one of them leaves
perfectly satisfied that the mines will
be classed among the greatest in the
west before many years have elapsed
speaking for himself and those accom-
panying him. DR.. Pratt said:
81 am frank TO admit that we were
not prepared for the surprises with
which We were greeted at the mines
we have visited. We have none of us
doubted for a moment that Mr.. Lewis
has some good properties, but our pre-
Nlously conceived ideas were scattered
10 the four winds at the end of our in
vestigations.
We first went through the o. K.
and after We emerged from the shaft
we would have been perfectly willing
10 take the arrangements word for
what was to be seen az the other
mines On every level and in every
cross-cut. raise and winze we were
with the face of the drift or raise
through which we were conducted.
The sight was a revelation TO us. and
while none of us claimed to he ex-
perts, the naturalization of the rock
was so pronounced that a school bow
could not have been deceived. The
sight was well worth the trip we have
made to see.
From the o. x. we went TO the Old
Hickory xx-a
we had been told we could sea YER
liable mountain of copper ore We
had read descriptions of it before I
need not describe il now. II is there
for we saw it. IT is there ready to be
Quarried and hauled away for con-
version into bullion. There must he
hundreds of thousands of tons of il I'm
sight. In my humble opinion. Expert
Farish's report did not begin 10 do it
justice
our party was next driven to the
Vicksburg and Harrington Hickory
groups At the former we were shown
the mountain of gold-iron ore that we
had heard SO much about We went
over the great dumps that have accu-
muiated' inspected the workings. and
viewed with surprise the monster
groupings that mark the course of the
ledge. After seeing the property and
knowing that its ores carried over S23
i'm gold per ton. we could not help but
believe that the Nicksburg was A bo-
nanza in itself. ana all the. more val
liable when the excellent fluxing in
gradients of the ore were taken into
consideration.
Then we took in the Harrington
Hickory. In the AdeIia workings we
were shown an eight-foot body of the
finest kind of Silver-lead-gold bearing
ore that would look good to anybody
whether he knew anything about min
ing or not We had seen enough.
and absolutely refused to go any far
Their. What was the use? We had
seen enough to last us for the rest of
our days.
Before returning to Milford we were
shown over the new SmeIter site
where the management has acquired
all the land that viii ever be needed,
together with the waters of tn Tad
pole springs and our curiosity was en-
tirely satisfied. You can say we are
all crazy. if you want to. That is what
our friends Will say when We get
home. sure"