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Show Some Provo Prospectors Visit the Country. And Find That It Is Not Exactly Ex-actly an Earthly Elysium. Where Sand and Snow Flies and the Horned Frog Propagates. One of the greatest flights of imaginative imagin-ative fancy ever penned for publication publica-tion in a newspaper appeared in the news columns of the Salt Lake Police Gazette last Sunday morning. The Deep Creek country was pictured forth in glowine phraseology, as "a land flowing with milk and honey;" where rich metals abounded in absolute profusion, pro-fusion, and a certain and sure suifeit of wealth and luxury awaited the poor, worn-out and poverty-stricken prospector. prospec-tor. The story of '.'Gulliver's Travel v ' has at last been surpassed by t!ie genius of a more modern lotus-eating author, and the fables of yEsop eas.ly sink into insignificance when placed bv the side of this, the supiemtst flight of journalistic misrepresentation ever launched upon an unsuspecting aud gullible public": About one month ago a party or wer 'equipped prospectors lef Proo cit for this promised land. Three of the members had had considerable previous previ-ous experience in different mineral sections of the United States, while the fourth possessed a knowledge of assaying. These gentlemen returned to Provo last Wednesday, and a representative re-presentative of The Dispatch had an interview with them immediately after their arrival in this city. The party, during their absence, visited vis-ited and prospected in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of Lookout, Simpson's Springs, Deep Creek, Eagle district, Swazey Mountain, Desert mountains and West Tintic, and are unanimous in declaring that the mineral possibilities or the whole territory, with probably the exception of Eagle district and West Tinti;, have been greatly exaggerated. ex-aggerated. In the Deep Creek district, as a whole, the ore proves to be very low grade indeed. If that country had the advantage of a railroad, the mineral could be shipped from mine to mill at a profit to the owners. But, under the present cicumstances, very little of the production could be shipped by wagon without entailing a monetary loss to the shipper. The reported re-ported rush of prospectors must be to Salt Lake city, for, in the mining region re-gion above referred to, there is absolutely abso-lutely no excitement whatever. The great majoritv of the prospects are not even being developed, and where work is being done, about one man to each claim will cover the "thousands of busy bees delving in the bowels of the earth." It is not, or has not been, the poliey of this paper to cast a damper upon any business or enterprise that conduces toward the welfare of the people of this territory at large, but it would be criminal in the premises to pass unnoticed any false statement that might ultimately cause untold misery and hardship to intending prospectors. At Fish Springs mountains the country has been monumented' for miles around the Emma and Galena mines, both situated on the west side of the range, about four miles from the old stage station. The Emma is owned by Lehi parties, who aie shipping ship-ping pav ore. and gives employment to one waii. Tlie Galena is in litigation. In this glorious neighborhood, it, does not seem necessary to make a discovery before staking off a claim, and the district dis-trict has been appropriately named "Hog Camp." Over in the dug-way one or two fair prospects have been struck, and the remainder of the country coun-try located. The numerous stage lines, each employing em-ploying from G4 to 100 horses, have not yet materialized, nor has the numerous numer-ous wells which the Salt Lake fairy newspapers have dug on paper. At West Tiutic the party found quite a number of prospectors in the lield, while considerable assessment and development work was being done. While in this Ciimp a coterie of miners had quite a discussion as to the identity iden-tity of a map which was printed in the Salt Lake Tribune last Sunday. Some were of the opinion that it ra-seirs'oled ra-seirs'oled LJrof. UiUxrtE. IJ .iley's geological geo-logical map of the Black Hills, while a grizzly-bearded veteran insiduously remarked re-marked that it put him in mind of Sutter's first map of the placer gold region of California. Two others unanimously pronounced it Chinese Gordon's map of Khartoum. During tne trip very bad roads were encountered, and tlie party had to contend with a succession of snow, rain, hail and sand storms. Water was found to be very scarce, supply points being situated all the way from fifty to seventy-five miles apart, and time is not a particle of feed for horses, sheep having consumed all the bunch grass and shad scale upon the deserts. Parties contemplating a visit to this region should provide themselves with one or two fifty gallon water . barrels, plenty of provisions, good warm clothing cloth-ing for the nights are sometimes very cold and an unlimited faith in an all-wise Providence |