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the future site of Park City They Where does it go from here Some of ot the bedded deposits have daily capacity of ot tons It also aiso
the universal question Hun Hun-
Hun- been continuously productive for lor owns a sampling mill mm of af tons
ton
tons'
calledd it Parleys Park then The was
call dreds looked for lor the extension of feet along their strikee with daily capacity and modem modern change
Ontario wasn't really the first min- mm-
min the Woodside vein no indication of a decrease either cither rooms one at the collar of the SU
SU-
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eral showing in that section but it In the crowd vere in metal content or the dimensions ver yen King shaft one at the portal of of
were several
1 at
able ot the ore deposit the Alliance tunnel and the third at at-
was the first big mine Earlier finds miners Thomas Kearns David of portal
prospects Keith James Ivers John Judge and Lode deposits are found inchan-
were hardly more than prospect
the
fis solidated tunneL
fis- of the SUver
Silver King Con
Con
Con-
Con-
Hearst of California and his uso asso Having made up their minds the depth pected and development work done don
havo the claim for
dates have keen
hard
fisted miners went after The lodes being worked at pres pres- at greatest depth in the mine proves
pros
the Ontario would
and
yield between property and
and
He little dreamed that eventually a lease and bond on this promising ent
property
in divi ing a shaft one and
got
ot it
up the gulch at an elevation of
After start
start-
one
half
ent writes Mr M.
cral
eral manager of at
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miles the United States Bureau of Mines
consist ot
J. Dailey gen-
SlIver King for-
the Silver
seam
en the
gen
for
J uniform size the continuity andJel
the value of the ore bodies
Metal contents of the Sliver
ore in the first nine months of
Silver KIngK
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The wealth of the Ontario was in feet above sea level and sinking with fair sized bunches of rich suI sul
sul Includedd in the lead concentrates
sul-
sul-
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ore around Park in anything but Mining in the Mayflower contin- contin
contin- cent of the total output of the Sil- SU age zinc concentrates shipped dun
Sil dur
dur-
quartzite Had this tradition not ued tor
for years during which a ver King Coalition Mines the re
re-
reo
re- big
ing the re
same period carried per
pe
per-
taken such a firm hold of the imag
inations of
mag
imag- wealth of
ot the early miners the was
high lead
grade silver ore maining 95 per cent coming n from cent lead
wag shipped and the characteristics bedded replacement deposits
ounces silver OldO
ounce gold 31 per cent copper and
per cent zinc
and-
Ontario might have had a compan compan- of the new ore zone were defined The Silver King
compan- KIni Mine is served
Ion mine many years earlier tor
ion for it This work took the miners through byone
by one main vertical hoisting shaft Tons of ore and concentrates mai
was not in the quartzite that the the Mayflower to adjoining terri tern
terri- five vertical underground shafts in nine months of 1931 end end
endI-
end-
end-
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equal of the Ontario was to be tory the Silverr King a group of and two drain tunnels the total sub- sub ing
sub-
sub- ng
ng September 30 totaled iJ
found The mine
seekers
have followed the cows over to
should four claims terranean workings exceeding 9 Zinc recovery improved better than f
Alli 2Z per cent in 1931 on the average
1
to-
to-
The new group furnished the mUes miles One of ot the latter the Alli- Alit
ward Thayne's canyon where the name under which the Silver King ance tunnel connects with the main content of at zinc for nine months of
hills were of limestone
hUls Mining company and its ill successor shaft feet teet below the surface and 1930 1
It was 1888 Two prospectors the Silver
SUver King Coalition Mines the other the Silver King Consoli
Consoli-
metal prices and
the Wilmen brothers after a long company were destin
destined d to acquire dated connects with the shaft 1300
nott lack of ore reserves stand bbeI
and
weary
and weary s earcharch sat down to rest- rest some by location some by negotia- feet
bill beside Woodside gulch tion and somedeposits
oct a hill
on
teet below the surface
by purchase their The care taken to prevent loss
and to earn waste in the
Iou or mer tween the Silver
by men heavy
SUver King and its for
production When therei
for-
for-
for
ther
Digging around with their-
they discovered a piece Qt
their pick Vist
of rock in
vast mineral
i
an experienced miner got the nature of the and the market price correspond
corr pond
correspond-
pond-
and the trio leased the tions are the Park City and Thayne to see what the-
the cult lee
ore wu ingly advanced
It
Woodside from Ferry thee formations are
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DAVID KEITH M. J
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