The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-23
FREE ANT|MONY
FOUND IN UTAH
Salt Lake and Butte Capitalists
Are Developing Mines in
Garfield County.
THOMPSON CAMPBELL, THE
MANAGER, ENTHUSIASTIC
Already There Is a Postoffice
Called Antimony, and PeO-
pie Are Moving In.

Every day, in every newspaper pub
lished in this intermountain country,
the reader will see glowing accounts
of fabulously rich gold, copper, silver
and lead mines. This is well-as in tho
main these accounts are true, and speak
volumes for the exhaustless riches
and resources of this wonderful coun-
try. Utah can boast more and better
dividend paying mines than any State
in the Union save one. The records
bear out the truth of this statement
One of the greatest copper mines in
the West. it is now being demonstrated,
has its home at Newhouse, in Beaver
county. and is known as the Cactus.
The product Of the West Mountain min
in -. district, better known as Bingham.
right here in Salt Lake county, is more
valuable in dollars than is the product
of all the mines in Nevada, In the
mineral line, Utah cau boast a further
distinction. II has distinction which
belongs to Utah alone-one in which
she has M known competitor in the
United States. Two hundred and afty
miles due south of Salt Lake, and
about forty miles southeast of Marys-
vale, in Garfield county, arc found TO
exist group of mines containing free
antimony, upon which considerable de
velopment work has been done-enough
TO uncover and place on the dumps 5000
tons of this rare metal ore.
These mines are owned and incorpor-
ated by Salt Lake and Butte, Mont,
capitalists and the company is called
property incorporated consists of nine
patented claims The company began
operations last fall Already there is
town established named Antimony,
for which postoffice mas been estab
lished A general store and other bust
nesses incident to new mining camp
are already in operation. Antimony is
already thriving little place. The
company mill is in course of construc-
son Campbell, the general manager,
says, in sixty days. The capacity Of the
mill is seventy tons per day of crude
ore, which viii give twelve tons of
concentrates Of so per cent value,
which is worth $3.50 a unit, or $3.50 a
ton. at the mill. The mining and re
duction of this ore is So per ton, which
leaves a net value or income of $1150
day.
80 By the time the mill is completed" "
said Mr. Campbell, "the roads to the
mines will be graded and the ore bins
and chutes erected, Eventually we shall
build a tram TO take the place of the
chutcs This will greatly facilitate the
movement of the ore.
The antimony lies in bedded plains
near the top of the cliffs in sandstone
formation, and is from 800 TO 500 feet
almost vertically above the mill The
mill will he run by water power, and
will he lighted and heated by electricity.
A complete telephone system has been
installed from the company g Office TO
the mines. BY the time the mill is
completed there will be 1000 tons of
crude ore on the dump, from which the
mill will be fed at the rate of seventy
tons day. The company will employ
about 100 men In the mill and mines this
year. On the day the mill is started
the Stars and Stripes will be flung to
the breeze.
"There are now in the canyon about
$50 people, and a number of families
are purchasing lots in the company's
townsite upon which to erect dwellings
The company has already erected com
Portable quarters for it's employees in the
mines and mill
cit is the only free antimony vet
found, not only in Utah, but in tho
United States. 1t is absolutely free
from gold, silver, lead, zinc or arsenic
and what is most encouraging is the
fact that we have already demonstrated
that II is there in large quantities.