Show DEEP CREEK DASHES How Colonel Henry Made a Fortune in a Year A Very Lucky Strike The Coleman Group Oil to Dojp p 1 reek with Supplies An example of the easo with which a man with a little snap and energy can acquire a fortune by taking to the hills is Colonel G A Henry Nine months ago Colonel Henry was tramping through the wet streets of Salt Lake picking up notes for the Tribune at the police court and doctoring up a report re-port of the doings of tho county court The colonel was nut satisfied with tho dull inanity of such an existence and though he was bound to the profession of his choice by the chains of association he determined to break away from journalistic slavery and seek a courtship court-ship with the nimble goddess in the vales of Deep Creek Without any special training as a pros pector Colonel Henry had confidence in his intelligence to pick up sufficient knowledge knowl-edge to guide him in his researches He chose for his companion Professor Wolfe and from him gained valuable information as to the character of mineral bearing rocks He next fell in witn Mr Colman an old prospector and after fortifying his natural tact with what he could worm out of the theorist and the practical miner he relied on his own judgment But he was not one of those men who pounce on the first thing they come to and on finding indications of mineral deposits was in no hurry to stake out his claim After Af-ter exploring in other parts for month he would return to verify the richness of his former findings and in this way keep a check on the natural eagerness of a tenderfoot tender-foot with a view of securing the best that came to niB inspection On St Patricks Day March Ii Colonel Henry and Mr Coleman were out with their team in the Fish Springs district and after a wearisome trail over the mountains they were about to return without finding the outcrop which they believed the geological geo-logical configurations of the mountains indicated in-dicated to exist They had about made up their minds that nature in this case was deceptive and that the mineral min-eral traces were only tantalizing displacements of the rocks But they had an hour to spare before the night would settle down on the soiitudo of the mountains moun-tains and as a parting shot made 1 sally I up a little ravine they bad not examined as i minutely as they had other places They had not been gone fifteen minutes until they struck the trail of a vein that was so much better than any they had yet encountered i en-countered and they drove their stages that night This was the origin of the Coleman group of claims five in all and which are strong in copper silver and gold Tho vein is one of the most clearly defined in the Deep Creek country and the body of ore is so largo thai in sinking the thirty foot shaft paying ore is seen on all sides Its value is indicated indi-cated by J Q Packard offering 50000 for two of the claims There is considerable freighting to the Deep Creek country and A C Miller has made as many trips across the desert as j I i any person in that country fle was in the 1 city yesterday loading up supplies for the j Muldoon mine I Dr J M Bailey leaves the latter part of I the week for his property Springfield i His partner is Mr Rookledge and this firm I Bold onefifth interest in thoir mine to W S Martin for iSOOO Mrs Erickson is the princess merchant of Deep Creek and has 1 way of catering to the demands of the mountamdeseret country coun-try that has given her the bulk of the trade Yesterday two wagons left the city iadenea with fresh supplies under the I supervision of A C Miller |