Show I DEEP CEEEK MINES I Councilman Karricks Opinion of Them and the Country He Says Reports Concerning the Wealth of That Region are Not Exaggerated Other Mining Items lls the greatest mining country in the world This was the enthusiastic answer made by L G Karriok to a HERALD reporter yesterday when asked what he thought of that much talked of section The council man had just arrived in town and was driving along the street in his buckboard when ho was accosted His bronzed face showed the effects of his outing and he looked the picture of rugged health I had been through the country before said Mr Karriok and the favorable impression pression gained then have only been deep ened and confirmed by this trip Tho wealth of Deep Creek has not been over es imated I am happy to say that I own a goo slice of it too Then the councilman whipped up his horses and started for home Mr Kar ricks judgment in mining matters is en titled to great weight because he is an experienced ex-perienced and successful miner Gold Mountain District George H Gillitt of the Golden Star I Mining company has just returned from I the Gold Mountain mining district in Piute county and gives a glowing account of the richness of that country The Grasshopper lode l one of the claims embraced in the Golden Star group shows great prospect vonderful developments The outcrop stands straight up out of the ground for 100 feet it is all ore and there are thousands ot tons above the surface whIch can be quarried quar-ried out The general formation is porphyry por-phyry and quartzite carrying sold only I is i free milling oro and will average from 15 to 20 per ton The company has erected substantial buildings and are fully equipped for earnest work in the development t of the mine They are driving a tunnel 300 feet below the outcrop out-crop to catch the vein below Ttiey wil ll take out ore until spring when they wil l put in a stamp mill to reduce their dump to gold bricks Mr Gillitt thinks that region will ultimately prove the richest in Utah The Sevier mine under W P Belding superintendent will bo shipping gold bricks into the city in about thirty days Their tonstamp mill will be in lull operation opera-tion about the 20th of this month and great results are expected as the oro like that of the Grasshopper is free milling gold oro and also somewhat richer as toper to-per cent They are quarrying out the ore Development work on other mines in tha vicinity is bin rapidly pushed forward and every body interested seems full of Journal confidence in the future that country Tins Itod Jacket Mr R W Sloan of the Logan Journal l is i in Salt Lake He has recently made 1 rather extended visit to La Plata in which camp bo is heavily interested Asked as to how it was that the latest hipmtmt from the Rod Jcket assayed sow o l ow he said a mistake had been made in ending down the wrong ore Ho baa great confidence that the Had Jacket would develop de-velop into a good property The olhr mines in that section of country tvero doing well and an assay of ore from the Last Dime made yesterday by McViolrer showed 837 read and 134 silver The Lust Dime has a fourfoot vein of ore which has boon traced for a considerable distance Its It-s situated about one thousand live hundred feet from the La Plata and Sundown ret A Salted Mine In laTnln ton To the Editor of THE HKKALD I noticed in a late issue of THE HERALD an item from an anonymous correspondent chastising the perpetrator of the late fraud salting a mine in Farmingtun caflon The writer also wanted to know how long mankind rtould haveto put up with suel h things As no one seems to answer I voulu like him to know my ideas upon the subject To begin with the young olfender has been educated among us and I think ibid fraud is the outcropping of hU educa Lion and not hereditary True I is sonool days have been few and his fattier nol hav ing work enough t koep his boys om pluytd it has ftiuwn on tilts good oat farmers farm-ers to rin him NJV what kind of wlat kld a mal can bu uxpeutdd of I i 0 who bus stretched his arms an inch longer than they naturally would have been carrying buckets of water to moisten tie hay which is taken to Salt Lake city 1 FumlXGTO Nov 16 Ore and Bullion McCornick Co reported yesterday Hauuuer Bullion f 5000 silver und Iud ores 8i0t Wells Fargo Co reported Bullion 3756 ore SJOG16 rice Union National bank received yesterday yes-terday Twentyone bars Alice bullion HtJ592 T H Jones Co reported Load and silver ore 3500 base bullion 3000 Concentrates Lead t 05 silver 91t Twelve tons came in from the Utah Several small shipments are reported from Nevada The force on the Vospa ian at Bingham has been reduced Work has been resumed on the Albany Consolidated at Tiutic Tie low price of lead is being felt In the mine at Umgliatn lily men have been laid off at the South Galena E H Cody mine superintendent of the Golden Star Mining company Is in the city He reports the work on the Grasshopper Grass-hopper lodo a a progressing finely and says no will have 5O tons of ore on tlio dump by the time their mill is put up in the spring Journal |