| Show DESERTED but not exhausted such a statement as this aan can truthfully be said of more than one old mining camp of note in this intermountain inter mountain region ancient history in mining matters at this time is not made a special study of among the searchers for wealth producers and great bonanza prop propositions asi and still it may well be said that there are old camps in the west which will well bear investigation fashion goes oes in the mining world as well as in society A certain camp becomes popular people rush there by the thousand just because it is popular and yet in many instances some old district which has produced its many millions and for some unexplainable cause has been abandoned is richer in its deposits of the precious metals than the new favorite it would be difficult to find a more wonderful camp in the west than is old alta at the head of little cottonwood canyon the home of such mines as the emma and the flagstaff wealth producers having national reputations and which poured out a perfect flood of silver and lead thirty years ago and yet today this camp still immeasurable rich in its mineral depositions is practically deserted and abandoned al though it is pleas pleasing irig to note that more attention is now being giver given to this locality than for many years past and that it be beins begins 11 ins to look as if this section would in the near future retrieve some of its lost prestidge pre stiege Stoc stockton kion as is another of old camps which has produced many millions while ophir is yet another and a careful invest investigation aaion would bring to to light other districts in the state which in the earl early y history of mining in utah made splendid records as ai producers of imperishable wealth and which today with systematic development work could be made to toe the mark again as paying camps |
