The great silver camp of park city has poured out a stream of new wealth to be immediately absorbed and converted to the uses of mankind. The camp has paid enough in dividends to make three or four louisiana purchases and has paid out as much more for machinery and wages. The new mill will be able to handle twenty tons an hour or tons a district. King con tram carries fifty two buckets each of five years ago and moves at the rate mous old ontario pointed the way to the of
The great silver camp of park city has poured out a stream of new wealth to be immediately absorbed and converted to the uses of mankind. The camp has paid enough in dividends to make three or four louisiana purchases and has paid out as much more for machinery and wages. The new mill will be able to handle twenty tons an hour or tons a district. King con tram carries fifty two buckets each of five years ago and moves at the rate mous old ontario pointed the way to the of
The great silver camp of park city has poured out a stream of new wealth to be immediately absorbed and converted to the uses of mankind. The camp has paid enough in dividends to make three or four louisiana purchases and has paid out as much more for machinery and wages. The new mill will be able to handle twenty tons an hour or tons a district. King con tram carries fifty two buckets each of five years ago and moves at the rate mous old ontario pointed the way to the of
park city prosperous in 1916 lacity and is so designed
that more units
can be added as needed after the new tun nel enters the ore bearing formation con- BY JEROME B IRELAND currently with the building of the mill the company constructed an aerial tramway 10 did the average salt laker ever take four and broadwater mills also were re- feet in length extending from the work- time to consider the important role which modeled and enlarged ings at the mine to the new plant the has aas been played by the great silver camp big work undertaken by king con tram carries fifty two buckets each of five of park city in the growth and develop- years ago the management of the fa- cubic feet capacity and moves at the rate ment of this city if not let him look up ud mous old ontario pointed the way to the of feet per minute giving it a carrying the history of our wealthy men the men economical development of the mines of the total of twenty tons an hour or tons a who have bul it fine homes here and who bui lt district by the driving of a long drainage day the company saves 75 per cent ot are back of the great business enterprises tunnel into its ground this example was the original cost of shipping by wagon and and he will be surprised at the number who emulated more recently by the judge min- more than 85 per cent on the cost of up laid the foundations of their fortunes in the ing elting company then the daly freight besides the inestimable value of be- smelling smelting Sm mines of that district for nearly forty judge in the driving of its great snake ing able to keep its transportation system years the camp has poured out a stream of creek tunnel another project along the open both winter and summer new wealth to be immediately absorbed and same lines commenced the past summer important ore discoveries in 1916 enabled converted to the uses of mankind and mak- calr and now being pushed ahead as fast as the company to close the year with more ing the entire world richer to the amount money and men can accomplish the task visible and probable ore than at any previ- of its shipments of the metals and the is the new drainage and transportation tun- ous time in its history early in the year greater percentage of this new wealth has nel of the silver king consolidated mining an incline from the 1500 to the 1625 level come to salt lake and has been spent here company which is under the able general opened what is called the carbonate or invested in this city the camp has paid enough in dividends to make three or four louisiana purchases and has paid out as much more for machinery and wages in rW rw fact it is still a common occurrence to hear the answer oh liehe made his money in wo park city in reply to certain questions olis one is almost led to believe that everyone who ever lived there is or ought to be wealthy decreased tonnage although the figures are not all in at this writing it is evident that there has been a decrease of nearly 10 per cent in the luu nage shipped during as compared with art the preceding year this is due almost en- tirely to the fact that some of the largest shippers are now buildingg new milling plants N A
and are holding back a large tonnage awaiti- X
ng their completion it is interesting to ni note also that more than half of the ton- nage sent out has been in the form of con- centrates cen total shipments including crude ore and concentrates are estimated at ap- looking up empire canyon park city utah judge M 8 tunnel at left and mill at right proximately tons for 1916 they were management of solon spiro of salt lake this is about feet from the main ore about tons in 1915 however de- the long bore was started near the mouth channel and at a point where ift was thought spite the decrease in the tonnage the earni- of hhaynes canyon at the site of the com that the ore was pinching out the tonnage ngs of the mines of the camp show a de- banys new mill and will be extended from this has more than made up for cided increase partly due to the advance feet to open up all the known and unknown the ore extracted from the former reserves in the prices of metals and partly to the ore shoots in the ground although the and it is extending strongly into virgin fact that a better grade of ore was shipped work was started late in the summer it is ground it was found late in the year that than in the preceding year already in about one tenth of the total dis- this deposit contains two separate beds practically all of the heaviest producers tance planned and is going ahead at the each running from two to four feet iii in thick- of park city have their own milling plants rate of feet a month it will open the ness almost the entire body being of a ship- which fact makes it difficult to learn the park city lime formation at a greater ping grade this deposit is said to be 1001 1000 exact tonnage produced in any given length depth than has ever before been done and feet long and extending from the 1500 to of time and those which did not already the great possibilities of the work under the 1700 level numerous Nume fous other faces of have their own plants have been engaged way could not well be overestimated over estimated ore have been opened on the ground not- during recent months in the construction of comp anys new mill was originally ably on the 1800 level where an enormous the companas these necessary adjuncts to success three grassell chemical com tonnage awaits the time when it will be the plant of the grasselli new mills were built in the district in 1915 an it was enlarged and remodeled during needed for the new mill p anl the big four broadwater and daly west the summer and in the early fall the new shipments from the king consolidated in 1916 the silver king consolidated built a machinery was put in it consists of stand- during the year were approximately new plant and the judge mining smelling smelting Sm elting ard crushing and grinding machines con- tons the company paid four regular quar- ends the year with a new electrolytic zinc flota- terly dividends of 10 cents a share and an cent rating tables a ball mill and oil nota- centrating plant rapidly nearing completion tion equipment it is of fifty tons daily ca extra of 5 cents at christmas time making the big and new plant average from forty to forty five and big slag dumps near ketchum idaho the years total disbursements bringing the grand total for the company per cent zinc the company paid two dividends of 5 to above the million dollar mark or 1096 mine operations are being carried on in cents a share or it is said that the property will be all parts of the mine from the to the silver king coalitions policy producing at the rate of tons of ship 2300 level with ore opened on all of them in reviewing the operations of the great ping ore per day by next summer and that the company has developed during the past silver king coalition for the past year one its prospects were never before so bright year one of the greatest high grade milling of its officers recently had the following to as now ore bodies ever found in the state it has say there are more than miles of tun- judge has great year been drifted on for considerable distances nels in the present workings and of the the judge mining Sm elting company smelling smelting and opened from the to the 1200 with vast holdings of the company only about which is a reorganization of the daly judge apparently no limit as yet found it is in one third has been explored connecting up mining company the reorganization taking virgin territory and extending out into the the various channels has resulted in the dis- place during 1916 reports the greatest year bonanza flat or snake creek ground covery of new ore bodies and the ventilation of its history reports of operations show other developments in the mine have been of the mine is much improved the mail main greater earnings and production the con- on a par with this one and the manage- deposits have been followed for feet struction and practical completion of a ment states that there is now more ore in and an average production of tons of electrolytic zinc plant the acquisi- sight than ever before in the history OI of the L ore per running foot hari has been shown with tion of the great snake creek tunnel the property an average value of per ton installation of new electrical hoisting appar- despite the great amount spent in new the company has its own sampler and atus the enlargement and extension of the equipment and development and in the ac- milling plant of tons daily capacity flotation process in the main mill mili and a quisition of new territory the company has every improved method known to modern general rounding out of the affairs of the paid its stockholders more money in divi- mining and handling of ore has been intro- company which has proven the mine to be dends during the year than in any former duced electric motors are used for haul- one of the truly great properties of the similar period the company has paid its ing and the mine is electrically equipped west regularly quarterly dividends of 25 cents a throughout the silver hill shaft 1670 early in the year directors of the com- share the rate was not raised but the feet from the surface and feet from pany decided to take over the snake creek increase in the capital stock called for the portal of the alliance tunnel is equipped property upon which a drainage tunnel 14 larger disbursements after the reorganiza- with compressor switchboard electrical ap- feet in length had just been finished to tion the total for 1916 amounting to pliances ances hoist cable and all necessary ap- the line of the judge ground this great as compared with in 1915 the paratus for a three compartment shaft an bore was designed for the drainage of the corporations grand total is now important improvement of the year is the latter and was run under the supervision of the big four mill construction of an underground station in george W lambourne general manager for the big four exploration company at the solid rock it is one of the largest in the judge company the tunnel will be con- that time controlled by kirk leavell well the west and consists of three rooms the nected with the workings of the company known construction engineers of salt lake roof arch of the station is elliptical and it and will drain them to a depth of placed its big ton mill at atkinson seven as well as the walls are of heavy reinforced feet it has already enabled the company miles below park city in commission dur- concrete adjoining the compressor room to work the lower levels profitably and ing the summer A complete description is the engine room forty two feet long by makes it possible to mine at great depth in of this plant was given in the issue of au- thirty five feet wide and rising in height the southwesterly portion of the district gust of the mining review it was from twelve feet at the back to fifty four the tunnel is eight and one half feet in designed to handle over tons of feet at the shaft the remaining chamber width six and one half feet in height above tailings from the great mills of the camp is that excavated for the head frame which the rails and has a water channel three and gave satisfactory extraction of values is thirty eight and a half feet high with a and one half by four feet it has a fall of from the start the great dumps of tailings spread of twenty five feet from front to three inches to feet and the water flow are estimated to contain values of about back and a width of twenty eight feet the at the time it reached judge ground was per ton in zinc lead gold and silver rooms are finished with smooth white ce- gallons a minute and the estimated profits are figured at 2 ment plaster and are well lighted by elec lec the comp anys electrolytic zinc smelter companas a ton making the net value of the dumps was commenced late in the summer and was tri city triciti above the company has always followed the practically completed at the end of the year control of the big pour four company passed policy of taking care of its employees dur- its cost between and was late in the year to interests closely associ- taken care of entirely by the sale of stock ing dull times and in the bad slump of ated with the united states Smsmelling smelting elting com- 1914 and along into 1915 it kept practically which was increased from to pany new directors elected at that time shares at the time of reorganization the its entire force of men at work doing included W H eardley of kansas city development work and putting in improve- plant is designed to handle from thirty to missouri who was made vice president and forty tons of ore a day and will turn out ments this aliis work has been of great bene- general manager he is manager for the fit during the past year and has enabled from fifteen to eighteen tons of refined spel- united states company in the kansas mis- ter daily it is similar to the great refinery the company to ship the usual heavy ton- souri and oklahoma field S A block was nage of the anaconda copper mining company at made auditor and P E coyle E P thomp- great palls falls montana but the judge plant son and L B davidson all of boston the king coalition paid its regular quar- has a number of new and original devices and terly dividends of 15 cents per share during all associated with the big sm smelling smelting elting cor- the ore will be subjected to a leaching pro- poration po the year disbursing a total of ration were made directors the new cess and will be precipitated upon aluminum owners have already enlarged the atkinson these together with a dividend for the cathodes which are of a revolving type the same amount paid on new years day plant to a capacity of 1000 tons a day brought the grand total for the company to deposition being caused by an electric cur- other properties owned and under develop- rent the cost of producing refined spelter ment by the big four are the queen of the the total dividends of the by the methods employed is said to be not great ontario the last of which was paid in to exceed 3 cents a pound the comp hills mine near stockton utah the tres 1902 are anys companas hermanos mine columbus new mexico the this property has concentrates which will be handled by the held the lead in the camp for a period of chinatti mine leased at shatter shafter texas forty years but the king coalition will push om its position before many more surrounded by the holdings of the great sil- david keith of salt the management of H G mcmillan early months have passed ver king coalition the company has sunk in the year and until late in the spring the is president of tile company and the the a shaft to a depth of lake feet from a drift company had trouble in securing water for property jsis under the general management on oil the level a whize has been sent down its milling plant causing a great reduction of thomas kearns also of this city a distance of about feet and this work in the tonnage sent out but through the ontario and keystone is being actively continued it is expected summer the shipments increased and the to reach the weber quartzite within about property was shipping more than 1000 tons tile present conservative management of the fiftyy feet more at which point prospecting proceeded with development a month at the end of the year the com- the ontario has tile will probably open important deposits ot work and shipments throughout tile the year of pany has employed an average of about ore the has been highly mineral- men in mine and mill since last spring and without making any great noise about op- ized throughout its entire depth this com- erat ions there the no 3 shaft which was erations pany has good location the right formation shipping ore has come from numerous por- allowed to fill with water following tile the cav- tions of the property the 1400 1700 and and an able management and is expected to ing of the long drain tunnel several years 2000 levels showing up particularly well in make good W R elliott of salt lake is this respect milling bodies have been ago was pumped out early in the year from president and general manager and P J opened on practically all levels the flota- the 1500 to tilethe 1700 level A large elec- mackintosh is secretary and treasurer of tion process at the mill has proven a notable tric pump was installed here which is said the company to have handled the 1000 gallons of water success and has added greatly to the sav- a minute without much trouble prospect ore in new quincy ings of the plant it will probably be ex- work on this level disclosed several bodies highly important ore disclosures have tended to other parts of the mill at a later of fine ore and superintendent newton A been opened in the property of the new date the property has had a prosperous dunyon reported during the spring that a quincy mining company during the year year and the outlook for 1917 is promising big body of mill ore had been uncovered and ore was first found last spring in a drift it is of course impossible to do justice was being developed A large number of being run at a point feet above the to a district in an article of this kind even leaders worked in the upper workings dur- leasers level of the daly west property through the properties which can be given special ing the year all of whom helped to swell which it is being developed shipments mention must be skimmed over rapidly fig- the shipping total the tonnage sent out were commenced from the ground in june ures are difficult to obtain this early in the approximated tolls compared with tons and have continued fairly regularly ever new year and often facts are distorted un- slightly more than 2000 during the precedi- since the company shipping a heavy ton- intentionally in transmitting them to paper ng year this old mine is responding in nage at the close of the year the property however the worst feature is the inability an encouraging way to the present develop- is under the of P P har- to give extended write ups to all deserving ment work and there are many who expect ring ton and W mont ferry of salt lake is rington properties of which there are an exception- to see it again assume the high rank it held president of the company this group is ally large number in the park city district i being watched closely as many mining men other shippers during 1916 besides those when it was one of the sensational prop- erties of the west J E bamberger of think that it is destined to duplicate the mentioned above included the american salt lake is president of the ontario silver success of some of its great neighbors flag tile the broadwater mills the daly the alining company and ernest bamberger is mining the daly west iowa copper the mines development the general manager vice president and treas- another heavy shipper of the year has union lime the utah ore sampling and the urer besides these its directorate contains the daly west mining company under been tile western ore purchasing companies such well known names as J L hilton D AI hyman john C critchlow W C os- borne H G Arc Millan and W H linforth mcmillan work was commenced during the year on the keystone property lying to tile the west the silver king estate this group is of tile controlled by practically the same interests which are back of the ontario and is under the supervision of clarence bamberger the com anys capitalization was increased early in the spring from to shares and work was commenced as soon as the snow was off the ground an electric hoist was installed and good progress was made with the sinking operations the shaft now being well below the foot point the ground is in the immediate vicinity of some of the famous producers of the camp and the owners look for it to develop into a big mine the crescent fissure which has been the most productive fissure in that part of the district crosses the group
the three kings
another promising property and one which is expected to leave the ranks of prospects the coming year and enter the list of producers is the three kings located in hollow lying between hhaynes canyon and the town of park city the group comprises acres and is practically