The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-29
THE STORY OF
A MINING TOWN
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bank. How they ever found the cour-
age to rear their dainty heads in such
forbidding place only Nature herself
could explain.
Further up the hill above the snow
and above the timber line, was spread
out the most magnificent view in that
part of the country, and that is saying
q good deal. On one side was Empire
canyon, winding it's way down by the
great buildings of the Daly-West to
Park City which was clearly visible i'm
the distance On the other side
stretched Bonanza fiat. the scene of so
many active mining operations. Away
to the south lay wide. green plain,
cut into farms as squares are laid out
on a checker board. BY the side of
distant range OF hills the little hamlet
of Midway nestled, miles and miles
away.
The view in all directions was mar
velously beautiful. The gashes cut in
the mountain sides by the wagon trails
leading up to the mines seemed q part
of the natural, virgin beauty; even the
columns of smoke here and there from
the stacks of the hosting works seemed
to add to the splendor OF the scene
From that point of view II was easy to
understand what the Apostle Paul
meant when he said God had put all
things under the feet of man. that all
had been put in subsection under him.
Those men out there in the eternal
hills, where the wagon trails were cut,
where . ne smoke was rising from hoist
ing works oerched on peaks mat eagles
might have chosen for their aeries, were
proving the truth of the saying.
An Unique Drill in Operation.
After a time / walked closer to one of
the works of man. Down near the bot
tom Of the hill OH the Bonanza fiat side
was the West Quincy. A brisk rain
storm had set in and l was in search
of shelter. In the bunk house there
found It, and company also, three OF
four miners and F. Harley Davis. in
Ventor of the Davis-Calyx drill that is
doing splendid work on the 400 level of
the West Quincy. That drill deserves
4 description from some one better ac-
quainted with machinery of that kind
than myself. Mr.. Davis tried patiently
to explain it to me there in the bunk
house. He got me interested, so inter
ested that / broke a solemn resolution
never again to go underground.
The engineer, Era LambersOn, low
cred u as gently as ever the down Of
4 thistle fell That helped some. The
drill, as has been said, was on the 400
evel. 1t bores a hole eight inches in
diameter at the rate of twenty-five feet
m twenty-four hours. The machine does
not pound through the earth. 1t bores
down on the principle Of an anger, ex-
cept that there are no threads in IL. AT
he bottom of the drill are chilled steel
shot These do the boring. They grind
around and around and, as they wear
out, new shot are fed into the drill from
the top. An idea of the hardness of the
shot may be had from the fact that at
my request Mr.. Davis laid one of them
on a blacksmith's anvil and struck it
a smart blow with q tWo-pound ham,
mer The shot was driven into the iron.
Arouad the drill is an iron easing.
On top of il is a cup. or calyx, into
which the trimmings that do not get
into the core are forced by a stream of
water that runs from the working sta
ton down through the casing about the
drill These cuttings are regarded as
even more valuable for assay purposes
than the solid core because it is said
that from them it is possible to obtain a
better idea of the character OF the
ground in which the boring is going on.
The purpose in drilling at the West
Quincy is a double one. First is the
desire to ascertain whether or not there
is ore between the point of beginning
the work and a point some hundreds
of feet lower; second, the bore will drain
the lower workings Of the mine and
permit the extraction of ore that is
known to be there The progress of the
work has been satisfactory thus far In
spite Of some annoying delays, and Mr..
Davis feels confident that he will be
able TO interest many mining men in
Utah In his invention.
1t was late in the afternoon when
came up into the blessed sunlight again
and tramped over the hill to the DAILY