The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-07
He Returns From Chicago With
His Family and Is Stopping
at the Wilson.
A. A. HINCKLEY, RANCHER,
UP FROM MILLARD COUNTY
Piute Mining District Is Dis
cuSsed by A. A. AckersOn;
Other Hotel Arrivals.

y. II. flIHgcIalu OF GltZgcralQ BIOS,
Chicago, returned from short trip TO
Chicago Thursday night, and brought
with him his family. They are regis
tered at the Wilson Mr. Fitzgerald S
Utah enterprises have grown to such
magnitude that he has concluded not
only TO make of Salt Lake his bust
ness headquarters, but his permanent
home
Mr.. Fitzgerald in returning West
this time was accompanied by Frank
Il. Coates, formerly chief engineer Of
the Chicago Great Western railway,
and now of tha Wallace Coates Engi
neorlng company. incorporated. John
FindlaY Wallace is president of the
Electric Properties company of New
York, formerly general manager Of the
Illinois Central railroad and later chief
engineer of the Panama canal. The
Utah Irrigation and Power company.
comprised principally of Fitzgerald
Bros. and d. NJ. Landreth, and which
IS the outgrowth of the old Mammoth
Reservoir company, near Price, in Car
bon county, which was taken over by
the parties above named some months
ago. have arranged with the Wallace
Coates company for the completion of
the project. which had been previously
surveyed and reported upon by sur
veyors of the Wallace Coates company.
sent out from Chicago specially for
this work.
The Wallace Coates engineers. in
their report, pronounced it the finest
irrigation project i'm the intermountain
country. This reservoir and canal.
when completed viii bring under ir.
rigation $4,000 acres of splendid agri.
,lf al I,,sl f,,i =
ed that it viii take not less than 500.
600 10 complete the old Mammoth res,
Crvoir
Friday night Mr.. Coates, Mr.. Fitz-
gerald d. M. Landreth. and CHEF cngi.
neer of the Utah project, NJ Andcr-
son. left for Price, TO look over the
ground. preparatory to Mr.. Coates be
ginning active work on The project. 1t
is the Intention of Mr. Coates to have
200 men and teams at work on the
canal and reservoir within thirty days.
A. A. Hinckley Of Hinckley, MiIlard
county, and one Of that countv's
prominent ranchers and stock raisers,
is in the city on business. and is stop
ping at the Cooper. Mr.. Hincldey,
IN speaking of conditions in Millard
county, said: "T never saw indica-
tions which point TO a more prosperous
year than those which obtain al the
present time. The large amount of
land which will be brought under cult.
vation by the Abraham canal will
add much 10 the material wealth
and population Of the county. The
range has not been so good for years.
The grass has already made sufficient
growth to turn stock upon it. The
stock is in fne condition, so fine,
in fact, that sixty DAYS on grass will
make the poorest of them fit for mar
ket.'
In parting, Mr.. Hincllley said: ''The
outside world is Just beginning to ap-
preciatc what | have known for wears.
that there is more rich agricultural
land in Millard county than exists in
any county in the State, and that
ii is only a question of time when Nil.
lard county viii produce more grain,
more hay, more dairy products and
more fruit and vegetables, to say moth
ing of a greater number of fine horses,
cattle and sheep, than any other politi
cal subdivision in Utah. y
A. A. Ackerson of Denver is in the
city on mining business, and is a guest
of the New York hotel. Mr.. Ackerson
is just up from the Piute mining dis
trict in Iron county, where he and
associates have incorporated twelve
mining claims, which are being active.
known as the Wasatch Copper Mining
company. The company was not
organized for stock iobbing purposes.
but for convenience in working to de-
velop the property, The company is
now engaged in sinking shaft to
depth of 300 feet, in the doing of
which drifts will be run at intervals
as conditions may warrant, The shaft
is going down in a direct dyke, with
copper on all sides, assays from which
run as high as 80 and 40 per cent cop
per, The Piute district is extensively
and heavily mineralized, and Mr..
Ackerson feels assured that they will
run into large producing mine of
rich copper ore with this season s de-
veIopment. This assurance, he SAYS,
is based upon many years OF experience
IN many of the mining States of the
West.
The Raymond, Whitcomb New Eng
land excursion, which was scheduled to
arrive in Salt Lake Thursday after
noon, did not reach the city until early
Friday morning. The party consisted
of seventy-iive persons, under the guild
ance of those experienced conductors Of
transcontinental eXcursions-R. S. Coon
and w A. Edwards OF Boston, Upon
their arrival they were escorted from
the depot TO the Knutsford, where am
pie preparations had been made for
IuclI COHlplI aiil
The excursion party was comprised Of
the higher class Nof representative New
England citizenship. Nearly all the
professions and many of the honorable
avocations in life were represented
During the time they spent in Salt
Lake they took in many Of the sights
and attractive features of the city, and
were unanimously outspoken in their
praise of Salt Lake The close observ-
ing, far-seeing Yankees among them,
saw the making of a great city, not
only IN beauty and attractiveuess of
mountain scenery and fruitful valley,
but in a commercial way a great bust
ness center, a distributing point for a
greater scope of rich country than any
other city in this inland mountain EN-
pire. They much regretted that their
stay could not have been prolonged for
another and fairer day.
This Is the largest excursion thus far
Of the season. Another is scheduled to