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Show 102 UTAH GAZETTEER. Jordan and Galena are situated west of the preceding. These mines are very extensively developed and have produced great quantities of good ore. Revere group, situated east of the Old Telegraph, has attained a depth of over 800 feet on the vein. Eight levels have been run east and west, 100 feet apart. Thousands of tons of low grade ore are in sight. The mine has produced at an average twenty-five to thirty tons of ore per day for years; assay 30 to 45 per cent, lead, 10 to 25 ounces of silver per ton. Attached to the aforesaid mines are the Jordan Smelting and Concentrating Works, consisting of six shaft and one reverberatory furnaces and extensive concentrating and leaching works; situated on the Jordan River and Canal, near the junction of the Utah Central, Denver and Rio Grande and Bingham Canyon Railroads. The company has at the Old Telegraph Mine a steam saw mill. Yosemite group, situated east of the Revere, produces, with a force of thirty-five men, about 400 to 500 tons of good ore per month. The mines are largely developed. The ore averages 50 per cent. of lead and 20 ounces of silver per ton. Spanish, situated between the Old Telegraph group and the Jordan mines. This mine has produced large quantities of ore and is developed by about 26,000 feet of tunnels, drifts, inclines and stopes. The ore is concen¬trated at the mine. Neptune and Kempton, situated southwesterly of the Jordan. These mines are developed by about 30,000 feet of inclines, shafts, tunnels, drifts and stopes. The main tunnel is over 600 feet long and connected by a long level on the vein with the main incline which is over 400 feet deep. The mine has produced in the past large quantities of ore, and produces at present the finest and best ore with profit to the owners. The Stewart Gold mines disclose an enormous body of gold ore to a depth of over 200 feet, the body being from 80 to 400 feet wide, averaging $5 to $10 per ton. Attached to the mines are two 10-stamp mills. The Atlanta, San Francisco and Irish American tap four veins with a 900 foot tunnel at a depth of 600 feet. The Lead Mine group has opened an enormous body of galena and carbonate of lead ore. The main ore body is from 60 to 100 feet wide, con¬taining low grade carbonate ore, of which ore fifty tons are reduced in the Lead Mine Concentrating Works to twelve tons of ore assaying 62 per cent. lead and 6 to 10 ounces in silver per ton. In what was for a long time supposed to be the foot-wall, milling ore has been found lately, assay¬ing 1 per cent. lead and 40 to 300 ounces in silver per ton. The principal works of the mine run toward the Yosemite mine at a rapid rate. Attached to the mine is a good boarding house. From the mine to the mill a tram¬way four and a-half miles long conveys the ore. At the lower end the cars dump into the top of the mill 100 feet above the point where the ore leaves as concentrated ore. True Fissure group, extensively develoyed; the lower tunnel taps the vein at a depth of 500 feet wide, contains galena, carbonate and oxide of lead, and, in the upper workings, black sulphurets. The True Fissure is one of the Old Reliable's coming treasure chambers. The Tiewaukie and Accident mines have opened a large body of rich ore, extensively developed, carrying galena, horn silver and wire silver. The Winnamuck and Dixon mines group and smelting works belong to a Holland Company and are situated just below Bingham. These mines are developed by over 40,000 feet of tunnels, shafts, inclines, drifts and stopes; they are among the oldest mines of the district and have produced immense quantities of ore. UTAH GAZETTEER. 103 The Queen, Bemiss and Hiatt, Chubb, Monterey, Russell, Boston, Arthur, Fisher, Garfield, Badger, Louisa, Zuni, New Times, Summit, Liberty, Red Cloud, Northern Chief, Nellie, French Spy, Eagle Bird, Opulent, Lucky Boy and Black Jack are extensively developed to a considerable depth by tunnels, drifts, shafts and inclines, disclosing to the eye large bodies of ruby silver and other ores valued at from $20 to $300 per ton. The Northern Chief Mining Company are erecting extensive first-class reduction works in Butterfield Canyon in connection with their mines. Their tunnels are from 200 to 1,400 feet long, tapping the lodes at a depth of from 100 to 1,500 feet. These mines are situated in a formation of diabas, diorite and syenetic porphyry. Last Chance group, extensively developed, with a brilliant prospect for the future, if the work is continued. Prominent among other valuable mines are the Agnes, Ashland, Aladin, American Flag, Alameda, Argonaut, Apex, Amanda, Amazon, Alamo, Alice, Ashton, Alta, Austin, Bully Boy, Bargain, Bulldozer, Bret Harte, Buckeye, Bullion, Bobtail, Baby, Black Hawk, Benton, Bazouk, Buffalo, Backer, Burning Moscow, Canby, Commercial, Constitution, Croesus, Col. Sellers, Casco, Colorado, Charles Dana, Centennial No. 2, Chicago Fire, Champion, Central City, Caledonia, Carbonate, Dixon, Dartmouth, Dom¬ingo, Dividend, Dalton, Ely, Elvina, Edison, Extension, Elephant, Eclipse, Fraction, Fliess, Flint, Fanny Bemiss, First Chance, Fairview, February, Flyer, Flora, Florence, Fabian, Gray Eagle, Grizzly, Grecian Bend, Grand Cross, George, General Shelby, Giant Chief, Green Grove, Gold and Silver, Gold Crown, Golden Era, Georgia, Grand Duke, Grand Duchess, Granite State, Gibbons, Henrietta, Hydaspe, Henry M., Hamblin, Horace Greeley, Honest Abe, Hampton, Howard, Hooper, Hoogley, Hibernia, Ingersoll, Irish-American, Jersey, Kanosh, Kitty, Knickerbocker, Keep-a'pitching-in, Live Yankee, Live Pine, Levant, Lucky Boy, Lulu, Miners' Home, Melissa, Merrimac, Miner's Dream, Murray, Mill Creek, Mountain Gem, Mountain Maid, Martin, Mighty Dollar, Mystic, Maple Tree, Monitor, Mayflower, Nina, Northern Light, Nick of the Woods, Noonday, National Greenback, North Star, Nast, O. K., Owyhee, Ole Bull, Omaha, Osceola, Overland, Old Hickory, Parma, Peabody, Portland, Providence, Phoenix, Parker, Prince of Wales, Parvenue, Pay Roll, Quakingasp, Queen of Sheba, Queen, Rough and Ready, Rainbow, Red Warrior, Roman Empire, Red Rover, Rattlesnake, Rising Moon, Roman, Railroad, Rustin, Sacred, St. John, St. Bartholomew, Saginaw, Savage, Sturgis, Silver Comstock, Sunrise, Sunset, Silver Shield, Silver Maid, Star of the West, Silver Gauntlet, St. James, Stanley, Salt Lake, Southside Tunnel, Stevenson, Thomas Jefferson, Tipperary Boy, Tiger, Tulare, Torpedo, Toronto, Tilden, Utah, Ultra, Venus, Veto, Vespasian, Victor, Vanderbilt, What Cheer, Washington, Wide Awake, Wide West, Winnebago, Williams, Yampa, Yankee Blade, Western Chief and others. We must not fail to mention the placer mines of this district, which produce considerable gold and average from $3 to $9 per day to the man. The principal placer mines are in the main canyon and in Bear Gulch. There are a number of other mining districts in Utah, but though the discoveries in several of them indicate undoubted wealth, the developments are limited compared with those already noticed. The most important are: DRAPER DISTRICT. Organized May 7, 1872; lies between the Little Cottonwood and American Fork districts. Not a great deal of work has been done, owing in a great measure to owners of lodes lacking capital to develop. There are several mines being worked in the district, containing copper, silver and iron. Specimens of pure, native copper have been discovered in seams. |
