. The resources and attractions of the Territory of Utah /prepared by the Utah Board of Trade. lope, opposite Bingham Canon, arethe Ophir and Dry Canon mines in a limestone country. The chief produc-ing mine is the Hidden Treasure, an immense deposit of lead ore, worked toa depth of 1,000 feet on the incline. Here also are the Miners Delight,Mountain Lion, Zella, Mono, Queen of the Hills, Chicago, and many others,the surface bonanzas of which have been exhausted and work struck forwant of disposition or means to go deeper or wider in exploitation. Oneday new conditions, greaterknowledge, accid
. The resources and attractions of the Territory of Utah /prepared by the Utah Board of Trade. lope, opposite Bingham Canon, arethe Ophir and Dry Canon mines in a limestone country. The chief produc-ing mine is the Hidden Treasure, an immense deposit of lead ore, worked toa depth of 1,000 feet on the incline. Here also are the Miners Delight,Mountain Lion, Zella, Mono, Queen of the Hills, Chicago, and many others,the surface bonanzas of which have been exhausted and work struck forwant of disposition or means to go deeper or wider in exploitation. Oneday new conditions, greaterknowledge, accident, or luck, or pluck, willbreak this spell of idleness and the busy hum of mining industry will againenliven Ophir and Dry Canons. The Stockton mines lie further north toward Salt Lake on the westernslope of the Oquirrh, and are being steadily wrought about the same as Utah Western Railroad connects them with Salt Lake City, turning thenorth end of the range via the Lake shore. This railway has a favorableroute through Rush and Tintic valleys west of the Oquirrh along its entire. iyifV: iimti. -.,„ ■..:^:>:-,;:„.;:^£. MINES AND MINING, MILLING AND SMELTING. 27 length resembling in this respect the main railroad route through the Jordanand Utah Lake valleys, from which it is but a step to the mouths of themining canons. Tintic.—South of Bingham Canon, on the Oquirrh, are the Camp Floydand Tintic mines. The Crismon-Mammoth, at Tintic, has a twenty-sevenstamp-mil1, and large bodies of ordinary ore carrying silver, gold, andcopper, with an occasional bunch of gold quartz full of the visible metaland of course exceedingly rich. The mine is hardly second in repute to anyin the Territory. But the owners are largely in stock growing, andhave never devoted themselves to mining as a business. Hence the productof the mine, though steady, has not been extraordinary. A second promisingproperty at Tintic is that of the Eureka Hill Company, a consolidation ofse
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