History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

746 AGRICULTURE AND MANUFACTURES.
ington county, south of Milford, and in the basin of
the Colorado. The town of Silver Reef in this district
was so named from a silver-bearing sandstone
reef 100 miles in length, and yielding in places $30 to
the ton. The Leeds Silver Mining Company, a San
Francisco organization, was the pioneer location of
this district, and from its ground about $800,000 have
been extracted. From the Christy Mill and Mining
Company's locations, 16 in number, about 50,000 tons
were taken out during the four and a half years ending
with the close of 1882, the yield of bullion being
over $1,275,000. At that date the Stormont Silver
Mining Company and the Barbee and Walker Mill and
Mining Company, both New York organizations, had
produced each a round million, the former having disbursed
$145,000 in dividends. The silver-bearing part
of the reef was at least 1 5 miles in length, and there
were hundreds of locations as yet unworked, which, if
consolidated and provided with mills, could probably be
developed into dividend-paying properties. 75
75 Silver Reef City was incorporated in 1878. Utah Laics, 1878, 23-6. For
further mention of Silver Reef mines, see S. L. C. Tribune, March 30, 1879;
Wkly Tribune, Jan. 3, 1880; Ruby Hill Mg News, Sept. 19, 1881; S. F. Chronicle,
Nov. 14, 1S80. In the Lucin district, on the dividing line between Utah
and Nevada, there were several good locations. Among other gold and silver
mining districts in Utah maybe mentioned the Lincoln, where was discovered
the first silver mine in Utah, named the Rollins, and containing a heavy deposit
of argentiferous galena. The Star District, a few miles west of Milford,
formerly produced considerable bullion, but the exhaustion of the surface deposits,
distance from railroads, and the fall in the price of lead caused smelting
operations to be suspended, though in 1883 development was still progressing
with good results. The Rocky and Beaver Lake districts, north of the Star,
abounded in ores containing gold, silver, and copper, the O. K. and Old Hickory
being the prominent mines in 1882. In the Timmons or Nebo district in Juab
county there were large bodies of low-grade galena ore. At the Pine Grove
district, 30 or 40 miles west of Frisco, the Carrie Lucille mine had been opened
at that date to a depth of 200 feet and showed strong veins of high-grade ore.
In the Ohio and Mount Baldy districts, at Marysvale, in Piute county, the
leading mine was the Deer Trail, at which there were 100,000 tons of ore in
sight in 1882, averaging about an ounce of gold and 15 oz. of silver to the ton.
There were several other good mines and prospects, but capital was needed
for their development. For further mention of this district, see Silver Reef
Miner, May 14, 1S79; for account of Clifton mining district, S. L. G. Tribune,
Aug. 15, 1874; of Camp Floyd district, Utah Gazetteer. 18S4, 80-1; of
Walker River placer mines in 1857-9, Sac. Union, Aug. 1, 29, Sept. 7, 1857;
Apr. 26, 29, May 24, 26, Dec. 11, 17, 1S5S; July 23, 1859; of Ruby mines, S.
F. Alta, Apr. 4, 1873; for gold discoveries on Bear River, S. F. Bulletin, Apr.
30, 1864; on New River, Sac. Union, Apr. 5, 1858; on the Sweetwater,