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Utah Consolidated Mining and Milling Co.

(The Utah Consolidated Mining and Milling company was an enterprise of C. E. Loose and associates, and encompassed mining properties immediately north of the Sioux properties. Franklin Farrell purchased control of both companies at the same time by buying the stock shares held by C. E. Loose in September 1895.)

August 9, 1892
"New Mining Company. -- Articles of incorporation of the Utah Consolidated Mining and Milling company were filed with Territorial Secretary Sells today. The general office of the company is at Provo. S. S. Jones, president (69,000 shares); T. R. Cutler, vice president (15,000 shares); John R. Twelves, secretary-treasurer (1,000 shares). Directors include above officers, plus C. E. Loose (100,000 shares); Reed Smoot (100,000 shares); Ira D. Wines (15,000 shares); A. M. Cannon (15,000 shares). (Deseret News, August 9, 1892)

August 9, 1892
The Utah Consolidated Mining and Milling company was incorporated, with offices in Provo. The directors and officers were the same as the later Utah Mining and Milling company that was controlled by Farrell and Robinson in September 1895. (Salt Lake Herald, August 10, 1892, "yesterday")

January 1, 1895
The Utah Consolidated was owned by the same persons that owned the adjacent Sioux mine, with the Utah mine being accessed through the Sioux property. When the Sioux mine was sold to Franklin Farrell and his associates in December 1894, the Utah company drove a new tunnel from Pine Canyon, at a point about the the middle of the Utah property. (Salt Lake Tribune, January 1, 1895)

(Newspaper references in early 1895 giving legal notice of an annual meeting of the company used the Utah Consolidated Mining and Milling name.)

September 18, 1895
C. E. "Ed" Loose resigned as director and general manager of the Utah Mining and Milling company, and was replaced in those positions by George H. Robinson. (Provo Daily Enquirer, September 18, 1895)

September 19, 1895
C. E. Loose resigned as a director of the Utah Consolidated company. (Salt Lake Tribune, September 19, 1895)

September 23, 1895
"Another changing of great importance has just taken place in the affairs of the Utah Mining company. It is nothing more nor less than the passing of the control of the company from the hands of C. E. Loose to those of Franklin Farrell, of Ansonia, Conn., the owner of the control of the Sioux, the neighbor of the Utah. Out of a possible 250,000 shares of stock, Mr. Loose held something like 130,000 shares and these have been transferred to Mr. Farrell. It is not known upon exactly what basis the sale was effected, but it is known that Mr. Loose has just received a cash payment of $25,000 on the purchase price, which is supposed to be in the neighborhood of 50 cents a share." (Provo Evening Dispatch, September 23, 1895, citing the Eureka Democrat)

(There were no further references to the Utah Mining and Milling company in available online newspapers. The name was reused in April 1896 by a new corporation with gold mines in Kingman, Mojave County, Arizona.)

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