The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30
M'DONALD-ELY ONE OF
THE BIG ONES OF CAMP

It has always been a well-known fact
that whenever there was a PROPOSE
ton in the mining world in this part of
the country Salt Lake capital never
shrank from investing if there was the
slightest showing of something worth
while. Ali Salt Lake capital never was
known as a piker. and when it goes
into thing it goes with a full knowl-
edge that there are chances to be taken,
but that they cannot always be on the,
wrong side, especially if the ability and
courage necessary to win success in
the mining game are crowded on to
their fullest capacity. 1t is therefore
that the Salt Lake capitalists have uni
formly made greater success in the re-
cent mining activity all over the new
country and are winning out in almost
every instance where they have gone
into the thing on any large scale.
The combination of influential back
ing and brains is one that is hard to
beat at any sort of a game, and when
it is directed in the right channels in
the mining business the rewards if
there is an even break with fortune
are phenomenal.
The Next Butte.
This is the case with the new mining
II
supporters say is going to be the next
Butte, the greatest mining camp in the
world. Whether that is true or not re-
mains to be seen, but that there are
wonderful possibilities in the camp as
evidenced by the showing already made
there is certain.
Some of Salt Lakes most influential
mining men have entered the camp and
are pushing the development work
there with their characteristic vigor.
The Guggenheim interests are heavily
interested in the camp, and from all
accounts it will soon make itself the
biggest new camp which has come into
the limelight of publicity during the
past few years.
One of the most enthusiastic COM
panies in the field and one of the new
est, also, but which has the experience
Of one of it's members which extends
over several years of the life Of the
camp-the Mechanically, Is one OF the
big ones of the district, and is doing
all 1t can to prove that the predictions
of good returns made for the camp are
no idle dreams
Salt Lake People.
It's board of directors includes for
mer United States Senator Thomas
Kearns, and David Keith Of Silver
King Otah) mine fame; Colonel E. A.
Wall, veteran, experienced and success
full mine operator and father of Bing-
ham. Utah; d. c. Mcdonald, one of the
pioneer owners of mines in the Ely
district; Frank Knox of the National
Bank of the Republic of Salt Lake:
George W. Parks and w. G. Lamb. sub
stantial Salt Lake citizens.
This company was Incorporated last
November, after having been regarded
as a probability by the mining talent
which had been carefully watching the
attitude of Senator Kearns and David
Keith and Colonel Wall toward it. II
these men entered, it was agreed. there
would be substantial assurances that
it's future must be quite well assured
as none of the three has been known
to look with favor upon any venture in
mines in any district not bearing the
resources warranting attention of cap-
itaL Mr.. Knox's attitude likewise was
similarly regarded.
Mr.. Mcdonald had been a fixture In
Ely for twenty-three years He COM
menced working there in 1888 and was
the owner and locator of the great
Ruth mine, the nucleus of the exhaust
less ore deposits of the Nevada Con-
solidated Copper company.
It was Mr.. Mcdonald who first real
lied the copper wealth of this zone, and