The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-28
FAITH IS SHOWN
IN UTAH MINES
Industry Is Out From Under
Expert Knockers and 0dium
of MiSmanagement.
GOLD MOUNTAIN METHODS
HOW BIG PROPERTIES THERE
SURMOUNT DIFFICULTIES.
GOLD MOUNTAIN METHODS
BY j. E. 1 BS.

BY j.. F. GIBBS.
Marysvale, Utah, July 27.-Along in the
middle sixties a short. sharp and cy-
clonlc boom struck the Pahranagat sec
ton of Nevada Hundreds of Utah men
rushed into the district and an almost
universal exodus seemed imminent. The
Mormon leaders were surely wise IN
those early days when they advised the
men of Utah to stay at home. attend to
their farms and build up Utah.
The writer well remembers a jocular
expression made by the late President
George A. Smith in the old tabernacle,
Salt Lake City, that, in view of the craze
then on, and as bearing on the greater
portion of the boom literature that has
poured out of Nevada during the past
seven years, is most appropriate Presi-
dent Smith, in talking of the craze, said:
Boys, don't go down to Pahranagat
to search for gold. In order to get at
tbs gold down there you'll have to dig
down through twelve feet of solid sill
YER"
With no thought of disparagemen of
the magnificent achievements of Tono-
pah and Goldfield-the only ones of Ne
vada's boom camps that nave thus far
made good" it would seem that the
Ol0-time advice of the Mormon leaders
middle sixties. No sane man will deny
that the Nevada boom put the brakes
DOWN hard or oil the other states whose
mineral assets were at least equally en-
titled to consideration.
Confidence in Utah Mines.
Yet, Notwithstanding the handicap jusc
referred to, Utah has forged to the front
with irresistible strides and is now so
firmly intrenched in the public conf
dence that no outside booms or inside
adverse forces will again even check her
advancement.
In view of the era of greater prosper
ity upon which Utah is entering there
should be an increased broadening Of the
field of Wow of Utah mining mon Nanu
of them have been claiming that all of
Btah's bonanZas are punched around
Zion, and that outside of that extremely
select Semf-circle of rich districts there
is nothing of special and permanent
value Remote camps, like those of the
Frisco country, for instance, have suf-
fered from the carping of backcapping
Would-be promoters otherwise known IS
chair-warmars in the hotels and other
places in Zion. Dug out" too far
from the SHELTERS" etc. are the prin-
cipal' stock phrases of the chair-warm-
ers who pose as experts and as unap-
pealable authorities on Utah'S mining in
dustry. But the Frisco country has
passed beyond the reach of lions carp
Tintic was the victim of expert ad-
verse criticism. Dug OUT was the
t~hreadba-e assertion. Yet Tintic today
is bigger than ever before in her remarf-
able career.
BY many the foregoing may not be re-
garded as legitimate mining correspond
ence, hut those thoughts. suggested
while rejecting on conditions along the
Mt. Badly mineral belt. will form a fit
ting preface to a few items on Gold
mountain and the M~arvsvale country
that during many years has been a shin
ing mark for backcappers who were
never within $50 miles of Mt. Badly. The
items concerning Gold mountain are fur
rished from personal investigation
made a Few days since.
Badly Handled Bonanza.
Numerous bonanzas have failed to
make good because of inefficient man
aSenent, extravaganza and bad equip
ment. 1t is 1t fact well known to those
familiar with the history of the Annie
Laurie mine at Kimberly hat 1t has
been the victim of all three of the handi-
caps JUST enumerated. That positive as
SeTTiOn may not be acceptable in some
quarters, but as a matter of justice to
the Gold mountain district the unvar-
DiShCd truth is necessary.
nous Annie Laurie once more on its
mine was simply butchered, thus entail
il,S enormous and unnecessary expense
in its regeneration, which is not yet
complete In addition, the mill was
Wretched1y planned and poorly built. It's
system of elevatCrS-not unlike an an
cient flowing mill-haS been enormously
expensive in it's consumption of power |
and loss of time by ~'clOgging." And the
close masSing of its machinery and maze
of belts has made of the mill q Veritable /
Ceath-trap to the employees. It is only
- q ~ VI hui ClllS lIldI Tilt /
Anticipated rattle trap can be kent in
even partial commission. 1t is up against
such tremendous odds that Manager
James. Long is now labOring. With tire
less energy he is working to put the ia
nous Annie Laurie once more on its
fett. and here's hoping and praying hat
the genial manager will succeed.
IN the present condition of the Annie |
Laurie 1t is impossible TO keep the an
tiquated mill running full time. and un-
til recently deep SHOWS and impossible
roads have made it impossible to draw
on the Mammoth and Surprise groups
for additional supplies of ore.
Over the Fish creek divide. some two
miles northwesterly from Kimberly, are
situated the mine and mill of the Sewer
Consolidated. The mill is modern. airy.
clean and sanitary. The ore is handled |
entirely by gravity and such is the per- |
lection of arrangement that three men
on the night shift take care of the eH-j
~tire%plant. The battery consists of eigh-
teen ], aO-pOund stamps that pulverize an
average of about no tons of ore during
each twenty-four hours. From the
stamps the pulp flows over a group of
plates that collect the cOarser atoms of
gold and cyaniding completes the process
of extraction.
The plant and machine drills are
driven by the company's power plant,
situated some twelve miles north IN
Clear creek canyon and about 1000 feet
nearer sea level than the mill At pres
ent steam power is used in generating
the subtle current, but water power is
contemplated and which will effect a
saving Of several thousand dollars per
month.
William e. MaisOn of ogden. vice-pres-
ident of the company. is now in charge
of the mine and mill. Mr.. Maison is
singularly modest in his frank admis-
sion that he is a neOphyte in the bust
ness and is. therefore. compelled to rely
on the intelligence, skill and loyalty of
his aids in the mine and mill and which
his democratic. kindly treatment of all
employees instantly compels
1t is a somewhat strange faulty that
the Veriest novice in mining becomes. In
his own estimation. an infallibIe Eek
pert" the instant he shoulders a pros
pector's pick and begins the fascinating
search for the precious metals. If a
be a born egotist the faulty &C
companies him through the school of
mines and out into the field. Instead
of sitting humbly at the feet of nature"
quoting from Bacon land permitting her
to teach him.. he at once begins dictat-
to nature" and thus becomes a veri-
table hOodOo to the man or company
employs him. Hence the failures
to make bOnanzas where nature has per-
formed her full share of the preparatory
work. TO that special brand of experts
Mr.. Maison charges the major part of