Show GREAT IS DEEP CREEK How Fish Springs and Dngway Have Prospered A Section of Utah That Must Soon Come tf the Front as the Greatest of Mineral Min-eral Producers nc MONO the rich mining sections ot 1eONG which have attracted the attention of tile country during L the present year Is the Deep Creek country which lies about one hundred and fifty miles to the west of Salt Lake and near the Nevada line In Utah In April May and June last Deep Creek enjoyed a veritable boom Miners prospectors and tenderfeet flocked in there by the hundreds a stage line established and business houses erected TIle little camps took on a new appearance ap-pearance For three months or more the excitement ex-citement kept up but after that time it began to cool owing mainly to the fact that the promised railway seemed as far in the future as ever before Some of those who went out with bright visions of untold wealth luring them on returned very much disappointed at the result re-sult but there were none who did not say the country was rich beyond all conception so far as tae precious metals were concerned But a railway was the one thing needful they said to bring the ores to market Many hundred claims wore located and sufficient assessment work done to hold them for a year and all who are Interested in Deep Creek are anxiously awaiting the advent of the iron horse into that country There is good evidence to believe that before another Christmas rolls round these men will see their hopes fulfilled and there win be opened up a rich mining section of the country which Is as yet comparatively unknown un-known Although many of the prospectors returned disheartened and dissatisfied the Immediate result of the Deep Creek rush was the discovery of the Dugway and Fish Springs properties all of which have added materially to the mineral wealth of Utah during the year and bid fair to develop into second Ontarios or BullionBecks A GLIMPSE OF THE DISTRICTS Although not strictly within the limits known as Deep Creek Grantsvllle may be named as one of the rich sections which would yield heavily with better facilities for transportation Here is located Jennings Third Term mine which produces an ore low in silver but high In lead and carrying a good percentage of iron A concentrator has been built this year and was worked successfully for several months but both mine and mill are now silent pending litigation liti-gation The Third Term produced 600000 pounds this year and there are inexhaustible bodies of ore in sight IN LAKESIDE there are immense deposits of high grado fluxing flux-ing ores from which many hundred tons were shipped some years ago and used by the smelter then running at Stockton The veina I are small but can be worked to advantage with cheaper transportation Iron district produces specular and hematite iron and shipped many hundrgda tons dur 1 ing the operation of the smelters in Rush Valley w CEDAR DISTRICT produces copper silver lead and gold Assays made not long sinco showed from fifteen to fifty per cent copper and eighty ounces silver others sixty per cent lead thirty to forty ounces silver and from E2 to J5 in gold Indian Creek also has some very promising claims DUGWAY has lately jumped into prominence in mining circles by the discovery of the Buckhorn mine which is mainly owned by Sam Gilson and who has mined and shipped extensively during the year The first shipment of Buckhorn ore reached Salt Lake on April 5th last and since that time work has bean pushed and shipments have been quite numerous There are immense bodies of rich ore now in sight in the Buckhorn and the mine will be among the heaviest shippers ship-pers during the coming year In the Dugway district are many other very promising properties proper-ties which will bo frequently heard from in avery a-very short time Buckhorn City as the new mining camp has been named presents a very thrifty appearance and may be classed among the permanent camps of the territory risn SPRINGS shipments have been among tho wonders of the year Ore was first discovered there about tho beginning of the present year and the first to become interested were Messrs Chipman S Grant of American Fork and W S Crismon and George Crismon of this city The district has yielded abundantly during the year the principal shippers being tho Utah The nearest near-est railway point to Fish Springs is Oasis on the Uinon Pacific and this is seventyeight miles distant About forty four and sixhorse wagons are employed in hauling haul-ing ore to the railway These properties proper-ties are not being gouged as is too frequently the case with new discoveries but nre being worked in a systematic and scientific manner No great depth has yet been attained at-tained but each foot from the surface so far has shown more wonderful results The Utah mine sinco July 1 last makes the following showing Lot Pounds Per Ton Sold For I 25110 516 00 6 1783 58 1 6291 198 41 133 10 2 18 ° 51 100 00 1W3 St 3 19016 158 83 1510 35 4 21842 155 G5 171 03 5 21483 8700 170103 6 30141 66 50 IOOJ 18 7 27358 9SO 1313 28 8 21650 112 8 1231 SS 9 2913 147 50 2151 50 10 41381 148 00 3OOJ 19 11 187Si 186 00 174719 12 4109 144 00 2954 00 13 41212 12150 250302 1 23 13 00 15i8 62 15 363 2 40 3719 46 16 S6 196 00 3492 2 17 309 2 10 3tH 01 IS 6Sil 10 CO 2552 75 1 1218 100 81 50 2 84823 liG 0 3ml 86 21 69 10 15 l1 8 2 43 65 1 0 40 355 86 2 16 13 00 1040 24 311 123 3 1023 80 2 43810 14 50 25 81 26 22m 74 J 87142 27 31431 155 00 250 9 28 545 178 50 5217 3 20 3Gi 101 45 10 S 3 2 tG 8 0 19 95 This is a most remarkable showing for a new mine and there is every reason to believe the Crismons have a second Ontario in the Ulah Whether the mine will hold out when depth is reached is yet to be determined but there are good reasons to believe that richness and quality will increase as depth is attained i AT CLIFTON there is also a remarkable showing Several of the properties have shafts down 100 to 300 feet while in many cases assessment work only bas been done There are not less that 5 promising claims in Clifton which has developed de-veloped into quite a little village during the past few years Assays have been made of the ore found in Clifton district which go all the way from 10 to 200 ounces in silver and 15 to 40 per cent lead Considerable development develop-ment work was done early in the year in anticipation that the road would have reached the district this fall and the Qre is now on the dumps of the various mines 1 F Woodman G D Shell Yo J Leraoyne Newton New-ton Dunyon T W ampler and a few others own the greater portion of the claims already located but they are all free to say there is plenty of other good ground which has yet to be touched by the pickhammer of the prospector An average of the assays male of Clifton ore during the excitement of last spring was 40 percent per-cent lead 3 ounces silver and 57 gold One great drawback to Clifton has been a lack of water but Mr Woodman and others have solved this problem by sinking a shaft at Gold Hill to the depth of 150 feet and drifting into the hill 150 feet where a good flow of water was encountered en-countered and it rises to within ten feet of the shaft in quantity to supply all demands for mining milling and culinary purposes On Gold Hill Mr Woodman and others are working a large force of men sinking shafts and running drifts preparatory to putting the properties proper-ties in proper shape They will do a great amount of work the coming spring when a stamp mill will be put up The ores are free milling and very strong veins are shown everywhere Mr Goldsmith has some good properties one of which has a shaft 300 feet deep opening into a sixfoot ledge of ore assaying 40 per cent and as high as 100 percent per-cent in silver On the same vein there are other similar locations tho oro being distinctly traced for several miles AT DUTCU MOUNTAIN which i in Clifton district the character of the ore changes There are largo bodies of lead carrying considerable silver the whole country coun-try for miles being covered with lead float THE DOLLY YARDEN DISTRICT there i one of the greatest copper mines in the entire est It i patented and owned by a f Philadelphia company Immense bodies of silcer lead ore are also encountered there The whistle of the locomotive will awaken a second Anaconda A short distance to the north of Dugway i a croup of mines owned by Angus M Cannon of this city in which he has expended considerable money and the Ratter has made several shipments A tunnel Is being run to tap the Rattler at a depth of 5 feet ann the most encouraging results re-sults are confidently expected KIKCSIiEY is an old district from which much ore has been taken Here is located the famous Morning Star the stock of which is mainly controlled by Salt Lake parties This mine has produced ore In the past rich enough to guarantee a COmile haul to Toano on tho Southern Pacific and then brail Y b-rail t this city IN EGAN is the Gilligan mine which was discovered in i 1863 and from it millions of dollars of ore has been extracted it merely needs transportation facilities tto again start up both mines and 6hpmentsCUERRY CHERRY CREEK district i also very rich i mineral deposits I many of which have been worked in years gone by and were only abandoned on account of a lack of railway facilities AT SPRING CREEK Messrs Karrick Dooly S McNamara have lately made some very rich discoveries and development work is steadily going on The better ore bodies there are found In lime and some carry a large per cent of lead and run very high in silver Amongtho rich properties arc the Montana Boston Mahogany No 1 Mahogany Ma-hogany No 2 Assays from the latter have shown from 300 t 1100 ounces of silver The Muldoon owned by Harvey Hardy Is a new district find and is considered one of the best in the JOHNSONS PEAK district is located about ten miles southwest of Spring creek and here also Messrs Karrick Dooly Bounelt and others have some very promising properties On some of them development devel-opment work is being pushed large bodies of rich ore are being opened up the rock going very high in lead and silver Spring Crook and Johnsons Peak are bound to bo among the argest producers of the Deep Creek country The ore is free milling and easily smelted EAGLE DISTRICT is attracting considerable attention from Salt takers also The Well Annie Mining company recently organized In Salt Lake will operate at lenco in this district The incorporators are Oscar H Hardy Jesse W Hardy J H Watts J L Nebeker George Burton W L N Allen jr H B Clawson jr Elias Morris George Romney jr W J Burton S M Barlow George Swan Henry Tribe J Wash Young Charles Auer J L Laird W B Hardy E M Fowler F B Platt Isaac Brockbank L H Young W J Tuddenham C J Brain G E Ford W T Noall George Curley W T fewer few-er Mrs Alice Butterworth Heber Young William Fuller and a few others The company controls thirteen claims in Eagle the Well Annie Nellie Pook Miny Harrison Ella Fern S Amanda Mary Nora Union Flag Monitor and Glencoe on all of which developments to the extent of 511000 have been made The Well Annie Nellie Pook and Miny claims are all situated on one xis thousand foot vein and the most extensive Work has been done here consisting of severe 1 small drifts and shafts a crosscut tunnel 220 feet long run to tap the vein and a forty foot tunnel run in on the vein which is a true fissure vein in granite running from two feet to six feet in width with a pay streak from eight to twenty inches in width the ore from which averages av-erages 105 ounces silver When the tunnel that is run in on the vein is completed the company will have from 5000 to 6000 feet of sloping ground running 800 feet above to the apex of the mountain moun-tain The vein covered by the Ella and Harrison Har-rison Is the same formation as the Well Annie vein and a tunnel has been run in on the vein into the mountain 110 feet and shows up I fine body of ore The pay streak in this vein assays as-says 3 ounces silver A parallel vein to this is covered by the Fern S in which the pay streak is four inches wide in a two foot vein and assays 1004 oz silver No work of any Importance has been done on the other mines except the necessary assessment work though all show continuous veins of good ore Messrs Tippett and Arta D Young have entered into an agreement with the other stockholders of this company to place SMOOO worth of ore on the dumps before March 11892 I this contract is carried out leaching works will be immediately put up by the company com-pany and the best of machinery will be procured to work the mines From the great bodies of ore already in sight it can be said with safety that the mines will show unlimited quantities Of ore when they are sufficiently opened up Seven of these claims were located by John Tippett a bal j interest in which was bought by Arta D Young the rest of the claims being located by these gentlemen in common There is plenty o I water ana limner on the claims ana most of them are conveniently situated for shipping purposes and can be worked economically Considerable ore has been shipped from Glencoe to this city in years gone by the great value of the rock guaranteeing the long wagon and rail way haul yielding after paying heavy transportation trans-portation and other charges from 10 to 8600 per ton Three miles west from Glencoe is BLACK MOUNTAIN on which Harvey Hardy and others have some very promising claims The ore is all free mill ing and smelting running as high as 1000 ounces In silver and 30 per cent lead Harvey and Bews have four men at work and there is every reason to believe they will open up tome good mines At the foot of Shellbourn mountains is Animal I where is the Davis and Sandford mine in which was recently made a strike of six feet of ore assaying 125 ounces silver which is found in iron with scarcely sufficient lead to smelt easily On the dump there are 50J tons of ore carrying 63 ounces silver I MUNCY CREEK is in Silver Mountain district Ti3is water In abundance plenty of timber for mining purposes pur-poses and the most extensive deposits of lead and copper ore carrying a large percentage of silver The mineral belt can be traced southwest south-west over the range to and beyond Deep Creole a distance of over twentyflvo miles there being large bodies of ore uncovered un-covered at intervals the entire distance Mr Levi Snow says The mines at luncy art in the north end of this belt in describing the mineral resources of this camp I shall confine myself to the more prominent mines as it would be impossible to attempt to describe them all Commencing at the base of the hill and describing each mine as we ascend the first one we reach Is the Grand Depositand it is considered the largest mine here but there are others which show fully as well for the amount of development done and undoubtedly will prove as large in tams This vein is a contact con-tact with lime slate for a foot wall and pOI phry for hanging wall It has a perpendicular eshaft 174 feet At the 100 foot level the vein is 25 feet wide and at 174 feet it is 37 feet averaging aver-aging 10 per cent lead 15 per cent copper and 40 ounces in silver per ton with an iron streak 10 feet wide carrying 10 ounces in silver I has been estimated there are f O tons of ore In sight In the mine and 1000 tons on the dump and the deeper wo go tto richer the ore Crossing Cross-ing over the ridge we come to the Defiance No 2 in Copper canyon This mine seems to be a whole mountain of copper carrying some sit ve Five hundred tons of ore have been eshipped from this mine averaging 25 percent per-cent copper and 20 ounces of silver and there is now on the dump 503 tons that will assay 20 percent per-cent copper and 15 ounces silver with 5000 tons in sight in the mine From the Defiance we go up Copper canon about one halt a mile to the Keystone and 76 No 2 The former has a shaft thirtyfive feet deep and at the bottom there is eight feet of ore assaying 3 pm cent lead and as high as 150 ounces of silver with forty tons of ore on the dump The 76 No 2 has a tunnel 100 feet long running in on the vein with ore all the way averaging eight feet wide and assaying 40 per cent lead and 100 ounces in silver with seventyfive tons of ore on the dump From hero we follow the mineral belt to the top of the mountain and come to the Lono Pine the largest lead mine in this section This mine i near the contact of lime and porphry and crops out for a distance of 5 feet under a huge lime bluff and seems to be pitch ing l into the hill toward the contact From here there has been 5 tons of ore shipped to Nord that assayed 47 per cent lead and 35 ounces in silver and there are over 300 tons on the dump with thousands of tons In sight in ho mine The mines here at Muncy which I have attempted to briefly describe are owned by Messrs Cameron Noo and Basset and Mr A D Young of your city has a three years bond on the same together with all others owned by the abovenamed gentlemen in this district spring Valley extends twentyfive miles north from here and fortytwo miles south I contains con-tains large springs of the finest water to be found in any country The water bursts forth from tho mountains and has formed a lake four miles wide by several miles long Eagle and Muncy districts can supply a railway with 1000 tons of ore per day within three months after the last tie has been laid and it is strange to those who have seen the immense deposits of ore here that a railway should be so long coming com-ing ngOn On the south side of THE HEARS RANGE there are Immense deposits of ore carrying gold silver and lead The mother lode is owned Dy Boston capitalists and there are thousands of tons of ore in sight carrying J5 gold 25 ounces silver and 2 per cent lead In Pleasant valley where Eagle district is located is Dooly White S companys ranch on which is found abundance of grass and springs There is considerable timber in the adjacent mountains In Antelope and Hunter districts mills and mines are lyin Idle only because the ore cannot can-not be gotten to market at a reasonable cost and the same may be said of Piedmont which has been quite a heavy producer Then there is Robinson Furber Eagle Sacramento Sac-ramento Silver Cloud Indian Springs Cherry Creek Shell Creek Granite Duck Creek and other districts which will do to tie to THE RAILWAY PROJECT Under the terms of the franchise for a right of way through the city for a road to Deep creek work on construction must be commenced within thirty days from date Col Murray is confident ho will build the road and says lie will have no difficulty complying with the terms of the contract On the other hand there is good reason to believe that both the Union Pacific and Rio oI Grande Western are looking towards the Deep I Creek country So at present writing there Is a fair prospect of a very pretty race for the tonnage of that great and rich country That one out of the three roads will be built during the coming year there would appear to bo no reason to doubt And this is all that is needed to convert the present quiet camps and districts of Deep Creek into flourishing mining towns and villages to Increase the ore tonnage of Utah from 2 > t 0 5 per cent Of course it is not to be expected that any road entering the Deep Creek country will reach all the districts I will go much closer to some than to others but It will re duce the wagon haul in all cases to a minimum and make profitable ores that are now absolutely abso-lutely worthless while representing many millions lions in value With all that has been done theDeep Creek country has been little more than scratched The real amount of wealth stored there is yet to be learned That a Deep Creek railway will pay from the first one hundred miles there is no doubt and all will be glad when the hopes of the hardy miners and others Interested in the Deep Creel country are realized real-ized The building of the railway and the opening up of this rich section of the territory means much for Utah but it means more for Salt Lake and Salt takers |