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Show INTER-MOUNTAI- 7 now lying idle will become producers of stone, and report the main shaft down grold, silver, copper, lead and iron the to a depth of 350 feet, with two ledges day a railroad is completed into this showing good indications, well defined. The ore is of a limestone silicate forwonderful belt of country. Considering the above facts, in con- mation carrying large quantities of Meus of tl?e 5amps. The Review desires reliable correspondence from every mining camp in Utah, Idaho and Nevada, and will give publication to any news items of merit coming from a trustworthy source. Liberal commissions will be paid on subscriptions. nection with the further fact that several large towns would at once spring into existence as a natural sequence to the construction of a railroad, the wonder is that so many years have elapsed without one. Salt Lake City, without the aid of a dollar from outside sources, could well afford to build and equip every inch of such a road, not only on account of the enhanced value to its business and real estate, but as a paying business investment as well. UTAH. Deep Creek. Correspondence Mining Review. Deseret, Utah. April 20. Realizing that the space of your journal will not admit an extended description of the territory so widely and generally known as the Deep Creek country, this is not intended to cover more ground than a brief synopsis. The western parts of Tooele, Juab and Millard counties, in Utah, and the eastern parts of Elko and White Pine counties, in Nevada, constitute the terthe caption hereof, and ritory creating covers a space of about extent in miles square. Prominent withidistricts the many mining among n! the boundary lines of this square are Clifton, Fish Springs, Dugway, Fer-be- r, Willow Springs, Spring Creek, Eagle, Glenco, Muncie, White Horse, Kinsley, Johnson and Snake Valley, with territory and mineral-bearin- g grounds enough for as many more. The valleys of Deep Creek, Antelope, Pleasant, Snake Creek and Willow Springs are about equally divided along and within the mountain and mineral ranges. So advantageously located are these valleys to each of the mining districts named that the question of securing a ready supply of hay, grain and farm produce is a matter of but a few miles haul to the most remote camps. Within each of these intermountain levels are to be found thousands upon thousands of acres of excellent farming lands, all subject to irrigation, and with a systematized reservoir plan, new and beautiful homes for many thousands of farmers can be made, and with the advent of a railroad will be made. The farm products, the shipment of hay, grain, fruits, horses, cattle and sheep, without taking into consideration the most important factor, ores from the mines, would alone soon pay for the construction of a railroad. From a mineral point of view, no like area of territory within the United States can compare to this. It commences with Dugway mountains, after leaving Salt Lake City. Dugway is the first in this general group and also the first district reached after passing over the arm of the desert west of Johnsons Pass via the Tooele and Stockton route or Grantsville to the west. Twenty-four miles southwest comes Fish Springs as a prominent and continuous shipper; Willow Springs, seventeen miles further west, is the next district in order; adjacent to this, on the western side of Ibapah range, is Spring Creek district These two districts extend north and south for a distance of twenty-fiv- e miles to the Overland Pass. North of this pass, over which the wagon road into Deep Creek valley extends, is Clifton district, the oldest in western Utah. This district covers the whole of the northern end of the Iba-pa- h range from the desert on the east to the banks of Deep Creek on the west, where it joins lines with the Fer-be-r district, in Nevada. South and southwest of Ferber district follows the enumeration embraced in the above adjacent to each other, all of which have their individual peculiarities in quality, kind and value of ores. The general formation is granite, limestone, porphyry, shale and other varieties of rock. There the prospector can follow the contacts, fissure veins for mile after mile, filled aij dykes with mineral and mineral-bearin- g rock. Thousands (not hundreds) of claims sev-enty-fl- MINING REVIEW. N ve G. A. H. Tooele County. CAMP FLOYD DISTRICT. Correspondence Mining Review. Mercur, April 22. S. F. Hunt and associates have sold the Markham group to Idaho men. The price is not defin-atel- y stated, but it is understood that it is in the neighborhood of $10,000. Mr. Hunt has had assays as high as 1650 ounces silver and $16 in gold. The Markham is on the base of Lion hill, near Silverado canyon. A new formation in the Seal shaft carries good values. They are near the ore body. The Hecla is down 300 feet and is now in the hard lime, which in all the large mines of the camp overlies the ore. Important developments are expected now daily, when the Hecla will be among the large things of Mercur. J. D. Forbes has sold to Mr. Mimhart the Yucatan claim at the mouth of Lewiston canyon. This claim is on the lower ledge of the west foot hills, whereon is situate the Omaha, Daisy, La Cigale, Gold Flake and other promising properties. Sheriff John Cudahy has just completed a survey of the Brooklyn group. This is one of the coming bonanza properties of Camp Floyd. E. N. Jenkins is feeling jubilant over the strike in the Harvard group. Assays show values as high as $3 at a depth of three feet. The election results please the maby the jority of the people, isasa shown man who has votes. Francis Hall Mercur and in interests valuable many first-clas- s a make will undoubtedly Mayor. He had the pleasure of being elected over Mr. J. F. Bradley, a man whom no one can say a word against, and who, if elected, wrould have made a good official. The Camp Floyd company has let a contract to sink the shaft 100 feet deeper, which will make a total depth of 270 feet. Superintendent Treweek of the Mercur says that property is in shape for the production of 1000 tons per day. The Searchlight shaft has reached a and will now be depth of 100 feet a gasoline hoist. equipped with the purchase of the Negotiations for to be about closed. Songbird are said Juab County. TINTIC DISTRICT. Correspondence Mining Review. Eureka. April 20. As contained in the Review, Eureka last weeks issue ofone of Utahs greatis unquestionable the in est camps. Situated onthe heart of her each side, hills that raise about to such an her encircle mineral belts and extent that the longest resident with those apparantly most familiardo not her resources, yet confess they of her resources. know the full extent a is now hugging The Centenial-Eurekmade during the past a rich strike, week the extent of which it is impossible to discover; the Keystone is pegnew ging away at large ore tobodies and almost light, ore is being brought there are and the week, in every day many of the insmaller claims which are right good shape. showing up The Lombard Bros., and Messrs. away Fields and Adams, are working and the Norway at their claims, extension of the Ole Key Bull a northern manganese and iron pyrites, with indications of silver. The May Day, which I mentioned last week, is oon to be one of the mines of the camp, and among those interested in it are Judge Wenger and Henry Peery of Salt Lake. Mr. Hunt, president and general manager, told your correspondent that a shaft has been sunk to a depth of sixty-fiv- e feet, with shifts of men. There is a drift leading from the shaft, with a large ore body in sight. A three-fovein, showing gold ore has been uncovered, and preparations are now being made to begin active operations, and Mr. Hunt confidently asserted that inside of six months the mine would be shipping ore. Mammoth, April 21. A quick trip was made to thi$ camp by the Review man, which disclosed the fact that though Mammoth is not heard from to a great extent, it is yet holding its own as a money-makin- g part of the country. As town the regards itself, new Mammoth is now literally under the hands of carpenters and masons, and a building boom seems to have struck the place. Several new houses have been built and business blocks, and of the latter are being opened by new business many firms. The survey for the new railroad switch is completed and the town apparantly on the high road to prosperity. The addition of twenty stamps to the Mammoth mill will soon be inaugurated, and the arrangements for the handling of the increased output of the mine will be fully completed. Mr. Cunningham was down during the week and reported everything moving satisfactorily and that the new strike was a surprise even to the owners of the Mammoth. The Sioux, Ajax, Grand Emerald and the rest of theCentral, mines are looking better than ever before and Mr. Robertson, superintendent of the Sioux mill, gives the information that the mill is running day and night at its full capacity. The weather has been cold, snowy and disagreeable for the past week, making hauling a hazardous undertaking. Hotel traffic is light, but among those In the city during the week are registered W. H. Ryan, George H. Robinson, J. A. Cunningham and some others. 100-fo- ot t-w- ot BRYANT. Tintic Miner: Shipments from the district for the past week are reported as follows: From the Bullion-Bec- k mine twenty-fiv- e carloads ore, from the Bullion-Bec- k mill 10 carloads concentrates, from the Centennial-Eurek- a 9 carloads ore, from the Eureka Hill mill 8 carloads concentrates, from the Mammoth mine 5 carloads ore, from the Mammoth mill 3 bars bullion, from the Ajax 6 carloads ore, from the Sioux 3 carloads ore, from the North Star 2 carloads ore, from the Dragon Iron mine 2 carloads daily. The new hoisting on the Swansea was started upplant on trial Tuesday and the first blast of the whistle was heard Tuesday noon. The new pipe line from the Mammoth was completed Saturday, but was frozen up by the cold snap and has so far prevented the operations of the hoist. Manager Hatfield states, however, that he expects to begin hoisting ore this morning and shipments of eight to ten carloads will be made at once. Three shifts will probably be put on in a few days in the shaft, which will be sunk at once to the 400. Eureka Democrat: A strike of high grade ore is reported on the 1100 level of the Eureka Hill, which makes the second big strike within the past few weeks in that great mine. The framework for the additional forty stamps at the mill Is all up and part of the machinery already in place, and before the month closes the 100 stamps will be ready to drop. The work of sinking and on the quartz continues in the drifting Tetro, and the development shows the value of the ledge matter to increase percept!- - |