The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-20

A telegram announced the death yes
tsrday morning at 7:30 o'clock in Los
Angeles of ". W. Chisholm, a pioneer
miner, and one Of the most wideiy-known
men in Salt Lake. Mr. Chisholm went to
southern California last December for the
benefit of his health. The telegram an
nouncing the death was Tneager IN its de-
tails, but it Is to be presumed thaS Mr..
Chisholm sUecumbed 10 the infirmities
of advancing years.
The story of the growth and develop
ment of Utah's natural advantages, the
making of the state what It has become.
referring to the activities of ". w.
Chisholm. He has hal a hand in the
upbuilding of the state in its most i'm
poItant departments. He has contrib
uted to the development of its mineral
resources, its soil fertility, it's deposits of
building materials and no small lIsrt of
the present richness Of the state is due
to him.
He was born in Wisconsin. In Grant
county, June Is, 1872 There n the pub
&c schools and in the parocnial schools
he obtained his education. and it was
there he spent the carly years cf his
life. He began his own lire Struggle in in
lS2>, ana his first venture was an under
taking to learn the pT'nteC trade which
hs followed for ten Esdts lie worked
a the printing busin SIS in Chicago dur
ing the civil war, but. in :sSi. n was at
tracted To the u-e~t AMI went to virginia
City. Mont. He didn't remain there. be-
asa IDDDilASGU not finding his
father. whom he had expected to meet
there.
He continued on the same year to Utah.
travelling by teams across the desert. and
arrived in Salt Lake City IN the fall of
1854 Here he found his father, who had
located one of the first mining claims in
Bingham canyon He spent that winter
and the following spring in the canyon.
and he and his father located number of
different claims which they disposed Of
later very edvsnt geously. In the fall of
1865 he returned to Illinois and resumed
the printing trade.
Arrival in Utah.
1t was in 1859 that the mining interests
he had formed with his father brought
him again to Utah. The father moved to
California in 1888, spending the remain
ing years of his life in that state. He
died there in 1891. The mother died in Ell
gin, Ill, in 1873. Besides the mining prop
critics in Utah, father and son had inter
ests in mines in Nevada, and Mr.. CHS
holm helped to found and was director
in the Bank of Commerce, in this city.
and was also a director in the Western
Arms & Sporting Goods company He
married Miss n. Jeanette Kendall Of
Illinois in 1876
Mr. Chisholm. at the time of the silver
agitation became a Democrat, and was
an active member of the party since. He
was Mason of high standing. q member
Of the Blue lodge chapter and a Knight
Templar.
HIS Mining interests,
In the early sos Mr.. Chisholm. associat-
ed with James T. Woodman, J. d. Ken
dali, J. E. Bamberger. Simon Bamberger,
Judges C W. Bennett and Moses Kirkpat-
rick, opened and developed the Centennial
Eureka mine in the Tintic district. This
mine, one of the most famous in the his
tory of Utah, paid dividends amounting to
g. 100000 up to 1899. when It was sold to
Cole Clark &. Coolidge of Boston for 81
100, 600 The property was later turned over
to the Observation-Disclosures Mining company
of Maine. which is owned by the United
States Smelling. Refining & Mining COM
psny.
MI Chisholm also participated in the
opening of the old Emma mine of Alta.
and from which about $5.000,000 was taken.
The Emma mine was one of the most IA
nous of the early discoveries in the Little
Cottonwood district 1t was named for
Miss Emma Chisholm, sister to William
w. Chisholm. New Workers purchased a
half interest in the mine for S3l5.O00. and
after buying out the other owners and
organizing the Emma Mining company of
New York placed the mine on the En-
giish market.