The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-12
new BONANZA
FOR ALTA CAMP
City Rocks Property Has
Opened Up Immense Bodies
of Rich Ore.
NEW YORK'S MEETING HELD
ANOTHER STRIKE is MADE AT
BLACK HORSE.

IL has taken some time to find just
what Is doing at the city Rocks COM
pany's property at Park City, and
while the chief officials Of the corpora
ton are now in the city after a sew
eral days trip TO the property and a
look over the camp generally, modesty
mas kept them from saying anything
president w. s. Cleaves, Secretary and
Treasurer James Edwards, John Ed
wards and others, including w. j. Law
renee, were IN the party, and il is to
the last named that The Herald is in
oeoted for brief statement touching
the physical condition of q property
that has grown into one of the big
mines OF the state without q word from
those who have been doing the work
L don't know whether they will like
Il or not" said Mr.. Lawrence yester-
day, but / want TO say that I have
not been surprised as much as ] was on
this trip for many a long day. / sup
posed the property was a good pros
pect: ] had not the slightest idea that
1t was a mine of any magnitude. much
less such bonanza as il is. The City
Rocks tunnel, the deeper of three In
the property. is in over 200 feet; the
last 2,400 feet Of II being in the vein.
Five or six shoots of ore have been
opened up by this tunnel. One of them,
the one that is being mined at the
present time, is 260 feet long and con-
tains over 500 feet OF backs up to the
next tunnel above. This shoot aver
ages five feet thick, and the ore from
It, / am told, nets the company from
$40 20 $50 a ton. In the face Of this
tunnel which is 900 feet below the sur
face, there are twenty-three feet OF
ore exposed now, and it looks as
though il was getting bigger all the
time From this tunnel wines have
been sunk in ore to a depth Of $50 feet,
and from all that L could see there is
practically no limit 10 the amount OF
ore that might be developed in the
property. nor to the tonnage that
might with transportation facilities.
be sent 10 market"
Mr.. Lawrence said he was told at the
property that the company was grad
ually adding 10 it's teaming facilities
and that it would not be long till q
large tonnage could be moved. Eight
teams are now landing at the sampler
about fifty tons a day, when it would
be just as easy to send out 200 tons or
more If II was possible to get the ore
hauled. Five men on ore now take out
more than teams can be secured TO
haul There is room in the mine now,
Mr. Lawrence declares, for $50 stopers.
New boarding and lodging houses,
blacksmith. carpenter and machine
shops are going up at the mine, and
everything about the premises gives
the impression that the future is being
looked to for big things The company
has been and still is. steadily acquir-
ing new territory, and it now looks rs
Sc. before IL got through, Il would have
an estate as large as that Of the Daily
Judge in the Park City district. Mr..
Lawrence states that the company's
mines are to be compared only to those
of the Columbus Consolidated compa-
ny. and he believes that il will not be
long till the mine is recognized as the
peer OF any high-grade proposition IN
the state He considers the Michigan
and eastern bunch that owns it lucky
set of mortals.