The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-05-07
MINING MEN
GOING TO
NEYAD
STOP OFF IN OGDEN TO SEE THE
CITY.
They are to Play an Important Part In
Reviving Mining Camp
Once Famous.

a company of mining investors from
| the state OF Kansas registered at the
| Heaiy hotel last evening and remain
ed in the city during the night. The
| gentlemen we're On their way to Aus
| tin. New. to review property holdings
there in which they are largely inter-
ested The party was met by Coach
Masters of the ogden high school, who
is a Jayhawker, and were escorted to
the various points Of interest In the
city.
The members of the party expressed
themselves as being much pleased
with Utah, generally. and Ogden in
particular 1t is the first trip west by
number of the party and they we're
loud In their praises of thrift and push
of the westerners manifested to them
The party is making a hurried trip to
Austin, on business, and could spend
but few hours in the city. 1t is their
desire. however, to spend day In Og-
den on the return trip next week
d NJ Bell of Kansas city, had the
party in charge, he being the promoter
of material interests OF the Manhattan
Consolidated company Of Austin. He
stated that Kansas people had recent
ly subscribed for 100000 in the COM
pany referred to, a great deal OF which
had been taken by the gentlemen who
visited here last night. 1t would ap-
pear that these men will play an I'M
portant part in reviving the once fam
Gus mines of Austin.
Those in the party were: William
T. Keeder and +. w, Sidle Of Win
field, Charles Steininger. Grant john
son and c. A. Cook of Newton; ]. X
Breinger and S. ] Euard OF McPher-
son. and D. NJ Bell of Kansas City, all
of the state of Kansas. They are
prominent business men OF the cities
In which they live and are ready TO
spend their money in the development
of the old mining properties,
Austin. situated on narrow gauge
railroad 80 miles south of Battle Noun
tain. is one of the most famous min
ing camps Of the west Discovered In
the early sixties, 1t produced up to
1886 over S30000,000 in silver, the
ores yielding $100 to $4,000. ton by
a process known as pan amalgamation.
which saved about so per cent of the
values.
The veins of Lander Hill, the center
Of the mining district. are compara-
lively narrow, but regular, being trace
able over a great area. The formation
Is granite, similar to that Of the mines
of Caracas, Venezuela, and through
this granite a network of veins. with
here and there pockets or chutes OF
fabulously rich ore. are exposed. A
tunnel over a mile long has been
driven Of late years from Clifton can
yon to the heart of the mineral zone
and at the mouth Of this tunnel has
been erected a modern stamp mill, and
a cyanide plant is to be added, which
is expected to extract the values up
TO small margin OF loss.
The old waste dumps from the ear
lier workings are said TO disclose an
average of $40 a ton and there are
dumps at every mine large enough to
cover city square.
In the long tunnel. which was prl-
marily intended to drain the central
workings, there Is exposed 26 foot
vein which samples S30-according to
the reports OF experts who have eX-
amined the property.
This new blood and capital promises
to revive camp which at one time
contained population of 10000 and
which produced more mining men and
mining lawyers of eminence than any
other city on the Pacific slope, with
the possible exception of Virginia City.
Austin today is town Of 600 or 700
population and Illustrates the ups and
downs Of the bonanza camps more I'm
pressively, perhaps, than any mining
camp in the battleborn state 1t was
In Austin that the Grldley sack of
flour of war times originated from the
sale Of which 100000 was realized
for the sick and wounded soldiers Of
the northern armies, In those days
Austin was radically pro.unlon, al
though towns like Virginia City were
honeycombed with secessionists.
The restoration of Austin to even
shadow Of Its former self will be
hailed with pleasure by a scattered
population which. since the exodus
twenty years ago, has drifted to all
parts of the world.