r. r P. P r DAVIS SEES WONDERS BONDERS I IN DUCK DUCK CREEl CAMP I 1 Remarkable Cave Discovered Near Property of His Company MINE IS GROWING BETTER 4 F- F H f Bottom of Steptoe Shaft at 6 65 Feet Is In Steel cI L Galena I If f i T A. A J. J Davis who vIo has just returned 1 4 from the Duck Duel Creek Creel district l where when he went to start active e development 4 wor work on the property o of the Lead Copper Conner company compan of oC which he heIs I Is pre president tells of the discovery l covery near nearL there of an L his hh property while he was vas Immense natural cave which promises l 7 to rival 11 In size as it does in beauty f 1 f the time famous fr caves cs of the world Only one ouo chamber has haR been heen explored a as yet et 1 but another o opening enin was discovered 7 r t the bottom of which is at least feet below the floor or of tho the first one believed that It contains contain c nu and it is 4 l many won wonders ers yet rel to be revealed tt Hidden en In a grove ro o of ce cedars ars about f r 00 feet from the ot or the Step Stel e too loo company's compans property some Io prospectors ec- ec about tour sour tors bra discovered an nn opening opening- j feet square Thinking It ft was as a small tJ shaft some one had lad sunk years ears ago o t the they threw rocks Into It and amI were wele a astounded when they timey could not hoar heat them strike bottom Thc They returned y to tho the place tho the following follo day duy prot pro pro- i t with a rope eighty feet long To 10 this they tied a a. rock rocie which they le let down into the tho opening finding bottom botton 1 1 at the depth of seventy live feet I. I i Like a I Diamond Palace The rhe men niemi then went down on the ilie rope mope and the sight which met their thelt J p o gaze as they descended with lIhte lighted candles was one which fairly paralyzed 4 them with amazement Upon reaching reach reach- lug Ins the bottom the they found oun themselves in Jn a chamber chambor feet long bug five fifty f feet et wide kle and aud sixty feet teet high roughly octagonal in form fonn the ceiling and amI walls of or which were covered with I stalactites of ot lime and salt alt which dazzling dazzling- In their whiteness gave ga the explorers the impression that they had dropped into a diamond palace Mr Jr Davis himself afterward went down do with the men an and found the scene one of beauty beyond the power of or wor words s to describe In Iii one corner cornel of the vast chamber l was found another opening Into which I let down their to the tho t f c o li their eighty of feet f rope ropo r 1 bottom They timed the of rocks into the chasm r and and antI estimated ted that it ft was about 1 feet to the next floor It was tho the Intention in intention in- in i to make mako further furter er explorations as ns soon as the time necessary appliances could be taken up I INo No Xo one In that region had ever el heard of the cave e before and it goes without saying that it will attract a great deal of or attention Mr 11 Davis thinks that without doubt it is the he crater of ot an extinct volcano The rho tides sides 1 of the first filst small opening at tho the surface surface sur sur- c face show the stains of iron peculiar to the districts district's formation It is re rear regarded regarded re- re ar cd as a luck lucky chance that no one has ever fallen Into nto the opening The place is near the crest of the Duck Creek range at a point about nine miles mUes north o of the smelter site sHe at McGills Mc- Mc Gills GlUs l Property Exceeds Expectations In It regard to tho the Duck Creek district district dis dis- ls- ls and the Steptoe Lead Copper company's property Mr Davis says bays that both hoth exceeded his expectations as asto asto asto to their pro productive po possibilities He Ho had acquired the impression that th the formation was distinctively lime bu buhe but he ho found it to be limo lime and quartzite In his company's property Is a strong ledge In and lime contact The ledge has been crosscut by a 0 tunnel at about fifty feet depth going through twenty feet of ot vein matter with no walls in sight the entire twenty feet running better than 40 per percent percent cent lea lead A shaft i is now nov being sunk eunk in the lodge It is down clown sixty-five sixty feet and ancI Is h In Ill high grade c lead ore all the theU U At the thO top ib It a coarse ore and the bottom Is Just getting Into fine steel g galena Two shifts o of miners arc are now ut tt work and lumber has been ordered with which to build ore oro him bins and hou houses es for fOt the men Good shipping ship ping plug ore oro has been taken out from th the tart tatt and Mr Davis re regards ards the pros pros- I et of ot a paying mine the best est ho ha hm r M sen ceJ n ut anything an like the tho sam r- r aia e 01 or r The Duck Creek district Mr Davis Yr tays says is fully twenty three miles long 1 and while little development work has hs r h been n done good indications are arc found almost ever everywhere All minerai ground has been heen located and the tho holders have high Ideas of tho the value of their claims Comparatively few tow strong drong companies have go gone gono no in yet et and everyone Is walling waiting for th tho fey few who arc are at work to lo prove the value of or their property properly That it will ultimately make a dl district as great as Ely there thore is not lack of indications Gh u a Trade frd Til ripI Tip rip I t. t Mr dI Davis is was greatly surprised ed to toi i l l. that Salt alt Lake Lale business hou houses 1 have apparently made mado no effort to get set t the EI Ely trade One man mun who has tho the l. l r contract Co for I feeding ceding 1 1200 00 skilled employed on the tho new f Q smelter told him that he had never even received a n call from a t. t of any ony Salt Lake firm This 1 ft man buys bus goO goods in Iii carload lot lots an and while Mr Davis Davia was cn engaged abc In Iii talking talk talk- lug ing with him a traveling man from another town ton butted Iri In and secured secure a it carload order The rite towns tons of or EI Ely and Ely City two and a a. half hair miles apart are aro being built hullt up rapidly tho the mines arc are makInS' makInS making mak mak- lug InS oven better showings with their deve development work than was vas anticipated antici antici- paled an and within a year from now the smelter will doubtless be ready a 1 to hc begin ln treating the ores The trade of such a community Mr Davis l thinks should be well worth looking after r