The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-09
MUCH MINERAL|zED
IS BEAVER COUNTY
More Than Fifteen Districts
That Are Producers of Pay
Ore in Quantity.
HAS BEEN NEGLECTED
First Mine Opened in 1860,
but Development Retarded
by Lack of Money.
HAS BEEN NEGLECTED

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Mining is, and probably will be al"
ways, the premier industry IN Beaver
county. From end to end the county
is mineralized. 1t has more separate
mining districts than any other county
in the state, and is third In the number
Of its producing mines, according to
circular issued by William Child e. Co,
brokers at 343 South Main street The
United States geological survey counted
twenty-nine shipping properties in this
county in 1911. The total value OF the
mineral produced was $685. ,406, divided
as follows: Gold, SAT ,568; silver, S1O6,-
! 667; copper, $467 40; lead, S2O4 600;
zinc, S370J. For each inhabitant OF the
county $175 Of metal was mined
Beaver county has Jagged behind
! some other Utah counties in mineral
development, although the first pro
duclng mine in the Lincoln territory
was opened near Minersville in 1860,
only four years after the first settle
ment by white men.
The reason for this is not difficult
TO find. The county is so large, the
mineral so widely diffused, and 80 much
of the mineralized area far from rail
road transportation that the capital
available for mining was conferred In
few of the more accessible camps, leav-
ing the others to struggle along as best
they could without financial support,
Much in Reserve.
While these obstacles have retarded
the progress Of Beaver county in min
ing, they have reserved great sections
of wonderful promise for future devel-
opment and exploitation. There are
more than fifteen districts in which
ore Of pay value has been discovered,
and they are scattered from the eastern
edge Of the county to tho Nevada line.
Best known Of all the districts is
Frisco the location OF the Horn
Silver, Beaver Carbonate, Lulu and
Frisco Contact mines. 1t is tapped by
branch railroad from Milford, the
metropolis of Beaver county, and is
about $50 miles southwest Of Salt Lake
City. The district is In the north CEN
trail part Of the county, and has an area
of about 200 square miles.
The country rock is of igneous, or
lava, formation, with instrusions of
mineral bearing quartz. In such for
nation the Horn Silver and Beaver Car
Donate found their ore measures, re-
placing the volcanic rock along fault
planes.
Great Horn Silver.
The greatest and one Of the earliest
mines Of Beaver, tho Horn Silver, was
discovered September o., 1875, by
James Ryan aud Samuel Hawkes.. They
located an outcrop and drove a thirty
foot shaft in ore when the property
was sold to Allen G.. Campbell, Matthew
I'LL IL ~
$50 feet OF depth the purchasers ex-
tracted and turned into bullion about
25 900 tons of ore. In February, 1879,
the Horn Silver Mining company took
over the property. From 1880 to 1884
it was one Of the largest producers of
lead and silver in the state. Work was
interrupted in 1885 by serious cavein,
but was afterward resumed. Up to
1879 the ore from the Horn Silver
by 1912 the total value of the output
was $50 500 200, of which $6,S92 900 had
been paid in dividends. Until 1889
the ore was exclusively lead and silver
Then copper began TO figure in the out
put. In 1892 gold became factor in
the earnings, and in 1904 zinc became
a commercial product, The company
is still producing lead and zinc ore,
from which it earns an average Of
COZ CeulS tpH'
Needs Tonic.
| The Beaver Carbonate Is about two
| miles northeast of the Horn Silver. It
was discovered in 1873, and produced
| lead-silver ore 70 the value of SS00000
up to 1909, when it was closed down
pending the erection OF milling plant.
| The new Christensen chlorination pro-
cess may be the tonic needed for the
restoration OF this property to useful
ness. There was large tonnage Of
mill ore blocked out when the work was
| suspended.
South of the Horn Silver is the Lulu
Mining company's property, with a
! 650-foot shaft, from which drifts extend
along the contact between the lava and
/ limestone. y little gelena has been
| found. The Frisco Contact, owned by
the Frisco Consolidated Mining COM
pany. is north toward the Beaver Car
! Donate. It's shaft Is down 700 feet and
| crosscut runs out on the 600 level
1 Ore has been shipped from an inclined
shaft in the mobzonite.
| West OF the Horn Silver On Grampian
! hill the King David Mining company
/ has driven a double-compartmen shaft
140 feet aId drifted on the 900 and 800
foot levels
Cactus Big Producer.
The Newhouse district is northwest
Of Frisco. It's principal mine is the
/ Cactus, owned by the South Utah Mines
& Smeltrr company II was discovered
in 1870. was acquired in 1900 by Samuel
! Newhouse and taken over in 1903 by
I the Newhouse Mines & Smelter cor
! poratIon. i 1910 the company was
rcorganiZed As the South Utah. Up
to that time the property Welded ID.
| 1892 pounds Of copper, 75IJ ounces
Of gold end 1906 ounce. Of silver
Of gross yalue OF $3.534,s76.
The mine lis deyelonnd hv q main