The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-25
GOLD MOUNTAIN
MINES MERGED
Consolidated Company Gets
Annie Laurie and Other
Properties.
LARGE TRACT OF GROUND
THouSAND-ToN MILL TO GO ON
PROPERTIES.

Some OF the biggest deals in mining
property pulled off in Utah for a long
time have. during the past few weeks,
been closed on Gold Mountain properties.
The result has been that the Gold Noun
tain Consolidated Mining company, with
Alfred Carr of New York at It's heau.
now owns and controls all but rev OF
the mines of that district It's territory
embrac cling over $500 acres. or apprONl-
mately four square miles OF ground, that
is punctured only by the possessions OF
the Sewer Consolidated, which it sur
rounds.
rho mammoth pstented possessions of
the Annie Laurie company, recently
bought in by George A. Baird at receiv-
er's sale for $270010. has just been ae-
CURED by Mr. Carr and his company,
while 8 short time previous ne took INTO
camp the properties OF the kimDerly
Mining company, controlled by Willard
r. Snyder and his associates. In the lat
ter was the Holland, Surprise and Frac-
ton A groups and other properties. Inc
mammoth group the company already
Wheeler and Bunker Hill groups are new
also controlled.
Twelve Years in Camp.
II is twelve years since Mr.. Carr and
his associates first entered the Gold
Mountain district and began the acquire
ment of properties From that Tar BACK
until now the combination has been
ground and opening up the mines until,
exclusive of the miles and miles of work
ipgs in the Annie Laurie. the Gold Noun
tain Consolidated company owns prop
critics in which more than 1890 feet Of
development work has Deen performed
and in which great bodies OF sold-silver
ore have been exposed and opened Up.
With the opportunity that presented itself
90 land the Kimberly Mining cOmpanys
properties and then the famous Annie
Laurie, which has a record Tor produe-
tion Of nearly $4,000 durirg the last six
years, the objective IL Air. Carr plans
and aims has finally been attained
Thousand-Ton Mill Planned.
While nothing has ever been printed
about The Mammoth property AID what
was being done in it, the statement is
now officially made that the manage
ment considers it the richest gold mine
in the state today; At the present, mo
ment the Annie Laurie 3Oo-tOn mill IS
being overhauled with purpose OF plac-
ing ii in commission on the high-grade
milling ores from the Mammoth group.
while plans are being matured for the
building of a mill of 1,000 tons capacity
to treat the ores from the Annie Laurie
and all the other mines OF the CONSOLE
dated company when It has been complet-
ed. The roads leading from the mines
are to be wdened and improved and
tremendous amount of other surface inn
provements will be made by the big COM
peny.
Nearly all Of the money produced by
the Annie Laurie company has been spent
i'm Development of the mines. which in
cludes the running of five tunnels, the
purchase of ground patenting,- building
mills and power plants, surface buildings,
roads, telephone lines, etc The company
paid about $4,000 in dividends, but the
policy of expansion, the death of p. l..
Kimberly and L. c. Huck and the de-
sire of the estates to get out of active
mining operations, ali conspired to in
Vove the company in debt and necessi-
tate its final sale as stated. For a long
time past the Annie Laurie has been like
lass With the change in ownership II
will be brought out all right.
Extensive Development Campaign.
The Annie Laurie and other rich pos
sessions of the Gold Mountain CONSOLE
dated company have barely been
scratched as yet. The Blue Bird group.
for which the Annie Laurie company paid
$4,000 in cash, has had little if any work
done in it since the claims were secured.
rich though the lodges were known to be.
This and all other possessions Of the COM
pany are to be developed on extensive
lines from now on and during the present
wear there viii be more activity in the
Gold Mountain camp than was ever be-
fore seen. Next year the cOmpany's big
min should be completed and when it IS
there is nothing to prevent the company
dividend-payers in Utah. In the mines
there is already developed a practically
inexhaustible supply Of ore that will mill
at the rate of $40 to so a ton, and BY the
time the new works are ready the re-
sc Fves will be augmented by possibly mill