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Show United States Department of the Interior National Park Service OMB No. 102.-0018, National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No .~ Page l Utah Ore Sampling Mill, Murray, Salt Lake County, Utah ~~?~ (~~ "fJA <M-rltL~ Twe~ ampling works in the western United States were established in Leadville, Colorado, in 1877 by a August R. Meyer, a mining engineer from St. Louis. By 1880, there were ten sampling mills in the Utah Territory, these included two in Salt Lake City and four in "Sandy and v i c inity" . 8 At that time, raw ore was sampled by fifths or tenths of a "sack"; the charge was $1.00 per ton. Raw ore is sampled in order to determine its content , or quality and quantity. The information is then used as a basis for economic decisions, such as whether or not to invest in a mine. It is for this reason that the process of sampling ore is so important and continually being improved . In the 1880s, the process was simple; the raw ore was crushed to the size of peas, packages, and sent to the assayer who determined the value. 9 the process of sampling ~ or~ I was aut9~ated YVI.'\\\ ~-t~~~~~~~~~~::~~~~~~!?~~~~~~" vJo and required huge machinery. the Utah Sampling Mill(s); the were located "four doors west of Third West" . The business office for proprietors J.C. Conkling and F . O. Horn was located at 115 South Main Street Room 2. J. Conkling is listed in pre-1885 and post-1885 city directories as an a ss ayer; neither he nor his partner F.O. Horn appear to be associated with the Taylor & Brunton Ore Sampling Mill. The first year Brunton Ore .ing MiJJ app@ a r s i r:h the city directories i James W. Neill was the manager; the business office was located Dooley Building with mill operations in Pallas, Utah. 10 Neill managed the mill from 1893 to 1900. 11 In 1901 , Lewis A . Copeland assumed the duties of managing the sampling mill . 12 Copland was born on October 5 , 1863, in Otterville, Ontario , Canada. 13 Although the city directories do not list Copeland as manager until 1901 , his obituary states that "he came west about 1892 to manage the Taylor & Brunton Ore Sampling Mill" . In 1899, he married Louise Cahoon with whom he had two daughters . Copeland managed the mill until 1906 , when he left to start his own sampling company in Sandy, Ut ah . This must not have been a profitable venture , as he closed the Sandy operation and went to work for Interstate Brick Company as a draftsman, designer and engineer. Copeland passed away on April 20, 1947, at the age of eighty-three; his wife preceded him four months earlier. From 1907 to 1909, T.R. WOOdbr O "d served as the Vice-president of the Taylor & -=?" Brunton Ore Sampling Mill. Th 1910, city directory lists E . R Wolley as the I" - .J 8 http : //1ibrary . byu . edu/-govi nfo/bib_mormons/citations/921 . htm 9 http : //library . byu . edu/-gov info/ bib_mormons/c itations/921 . htm 10 Polk Ci ty Directory , 1893 . Pallas, Utah - ?forme r name for area of Murray where mill is l ocated? 11 An obitua ry was fo und for James W. Neil, howeve r t his man would have been 12 years old in 1893 . 12 Polk City Directory , 1901 . |
