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Show A nitiLVT CAMP. A well-known mining man who has ient much lime In American Fork cun-)on cun-)on and proei-ected n grent deal In n southwestern direction rrom Park City' big mines Mute that there 1 no que-tlon que-tlon but that the ran) on 1 In the same mineral belt. Thl mineral belt In broken up at the head or Snake creek nnd nt the head or the Cottonttocxla. spreads out about three mile wide rrom the east or Dry Fork to Alta, poed through the Pltteburg hill nnd Hitler hill, through Maj limns' gulch and Silver Glance hill, crowe the head or Deer creek und gue through Copper mountain, moun-tain, where It come In contact with the granite He states that there are spurn and gaud mineral Indication all down Dry creek to within a short distance or Alpine, where they have mime high-grade high-grade ore In sight In several in the claims that have been and nre now being wot kid From the Park to Copper mountain he aa), there are twelve inllei. or the biggest mineral belt In Utnh If It were away off In Nevndu, Montana, Idaho or even In some dletant corner of Utnh It would be, he allege, alive with miner ami capitalist He malntnlnn It I the onl) undeveloped close-In mineral belt for miles around where good ground cun be got for a rensonnhle price There I hate been many prosiiector come and go, he wi)-, a there has been -o mui h giound taken here nnd there In the i a n)on that If a.prospector find some- , thing fvmebcMly c lalm the ground and Ihe proector goes. Thl I blind work I for him The proepector or course could ; buy cheap, but he hasn't the money, and the conrequence 1st much of the 'propeit) In Ihe can) on has lain Idle i)enr after year, with only the nts- ment done barely suttlclent to hold the i claim and wait, Mlcawber-IIke, for i something to turn up. He claims, however, that the time I close nt hand when all will want a chunk of American Fork can) on There are mare tunnel being run to tap the numerous vein nt greater depth, nnd Ihe predlctn that by the middle of rum-. rum-. mer the) will reach a depth where large ore bodlee will be found |