The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-25
MAKE GOOD IN
AMERICAN FORK
$250,000 Worth of Ore Ready
for Shipment From the
Wyoming Mine.
FRIENDLY LAND SUIT TO
DETERMINE OWNERSHIP
This the Busiest Year in Min
ing Circles of American
Fork Canyon.
Special TO The Tribune

Special TO The Tribune
AMERICAN FORK, June 24.-The
operators of the Wyoming mine lease
during the winter past have mined and
sacked ore, which will bring returns
in excess of S250,000. This ore is now
commencing to be shipped, and will be
continually added to during the summer
months. This property is part of the
old Millar holdings aud is located on
the Millar bill near the head of Amer
lean Fork canyon, and has during the
past two years been the main producer
of the canyon, and while each year
have been exceptionally good ones, the
Tying brothers state that the present
year will far exceed either Of the pre-
vious years, so that this mine alone will
be the means of much actively in this
district
The Wilds brothers Of this city. who
have held a lease on the old dump of
tho Wild Dutchman mine in the Amer
lean Fork canyon. have also commenced
to send ore to this place. The operators
have been actively at work during the
long winter months separating and
working over the old dump and have
been successful in sacking enough ore
TO net them et least $500; the Old
Dutchman was operating during tho
early days and at that time much of the
ore which is being worked today was
not profitable, so that it went over
the dump, and it is this ore which the
Wilds brothers are now handling very
profitably.
The leasers who are working on the
Surprise property, and who have been
so successful IN opening Que of the larg
est bodies of ore ever discovered on the
old Millar hill, will no doubt commence
the shipment Of ore; this will however,
depend almost entirely on the rapidity
with which the suit, which they are now
tangled up with, is disposed Of. A short
time after they had opened up this large
ore body, the Tying brothers, who are
operating property ad.oiniDg the Sur
prise came to the conclusion that the
new strike was not on the Surprise
ground, but on their side, so that a law
suit was decided upon to rightfully de-
eide the ownership. The ore body lies
claimed by the TYngs on small margin
of seven feet. An effort will be made
to have this suit disposed of al an
early date so that much Of the ore may
be marketed by either one party or the
other, before the summer closes, and
makes the canyon inaccessible.
Many other mines and prospects in
1nlS district VIII, during TINS summer,
commence on the shipment of ore. some
Of which sent small shipments to the
market last year. The general opinion
of mining men who have watched this
section for years is that the present
year will see the banner year of the
American Fork canyon.
The Pacific Gold Mining & Milling
company, which has been operating the
Blue Rock mine in the American Fork
canyon district, have levied their forty
first assessment. This comes in the
face Of a very favorable condition of
the property, and Just as they have
opened up a nice looking vein Of ore.
The assessment will be used in develop,
ing this discovery.
a force of six miners have been taken
TO the Surprise mine on Millar hill,
and will he put to work on some of the
other large ore bodies which they have
uncovered besides that which is under
protest. The Surprise property is being
operated by the Surprise Mining & Leas-
ing company. under lease from Judge
r. n. Bsskin, of Salt Lake City, who
owns the property,