| Show DEEP CREEK Map of the Great Minj ing Country NEW STAGE ROUTE The Location of the Various Districts Dis-tricts Clearly Shown SOME OF THE ASSAYS MADE Tho First Comprehensive View or the Section of Utah Now Attracting So Much Attention The Deep Creek boom is on There is a mighty rush of prospectors into the western mountains The roads leading into the Dugway mountains are thronged with covered wagons and tho haste and hurry to reach I the vicinity of the great strikes to stake li I pector returned without finding valuable I If r ore and thatthey no sooner made their re It I port to their associates than they immedi I Stely returned to further prosecute their I explorations If r It has be en known for twenty years that I this country was li 1I 1 I TILLED WITH UNCOVERED WEALTH li but it was believed that it was of too low li i trade to overcome the expense of hauling I it a hundred miles on wagons I The recent discoveries have set at naught I this belief and demonstrated that it can be I hauled over unbroken roads and made to I yield 63 < to SlOOa ton nrofit m This great mineral belt has never been I located by a railroad the Central Pacific going to the north leaving the greatest I System of mining districts on this conti H I tinent a hundred miles from transportation R and buried in the sands of the desert Five years ago the Salt Cake Los Angeles railroad was proposed causing a rush to the Deep Creek country and the fever ran so high that men in this city gave R up lucrative salaried positions to locate I claims in that country But the railroad I was never built and the prospectors returned re-turned disappointed and disheartened I During all this time new exploring parties would occasionally BREAK ACROSS TIp DESERT and penetrate the mountains but the difll cult to secure water and transportation were so great that none but the most in I < trepid remained B When Mr Bacon proposed to build a railway to Deep Creek last fall the old fires were rekindled and more explorers went out than had visited that country for years Their reports were invariably too good to believe and were set aside as incredible in-credible and not until they were verified by the actual bringing in of large quanti ties of ore and assayed were they accepted The Gilson strike in the Buckhorn mine was the signal for a stampede to Dugway and Deep Creek and for the past two weeks the western mountains have been alive with prospectors Yet the I country is so extensive and the spring so backward that it will probably be six months before It can be even meagerly prospected Tha fact that ore is being hauled to this city by wagons will stimulate the railroads and it would not be surprising if within the present year at least two lines will be built DDGWAT Sam Gilsons recent strike in tho Buck horn has turned attention to Dugway and for the last few weeks that camp has largely monopolized tho attention of the mining men and attracted thither a large share of the prospectors that have set out to the Deep Creek country This wonderful find in the Buckhorn Is no chimera but an authenticated fact The carload of ore that was sampled at the Conklin sampling works and as assayed as-sayed by McVicker lately went 9K percent per-cent lead 60375 ounces In silver and 379L ounces in gold to the ton Several specimens speci-mens from the mine gave an assay of 14 percent per-cent lead 237504 ounces silver and 2 ounces in gold The secondclass ore yielded 275 ounces of silver and 1M ounces in gold Its richness is also verified by a half a dozen prospectors who have since returned to the city and who saw the body of ore with their own eyes THE SILVER KING mine at the north end of Dugway owned by William L Mills is a big low grade property with a vein that spreads out as far as fifty feet wide The first class ore from this vein was ten ounces of silver and 35 per cent in lead The vein has been opened 1500 feet in which there are twelve shafts from twelve to forty feet deep Several tons of this ore has been hauled by wagon nearly one hundred miles and was sold at 51 a ton A M Cannon is running a tunnel to tap the vein in the Rattler mineat a depth of 500 feet and we are waiting anxiously to see the results He has five men working The Rattler is situated about three miles westerly from where Gilsons camp is established tablished and the lead and other veins can be traced from one camp to the other Its It-s too bad that we cannot ship 30 per cent cad and 12 ounces with an iron gauge Such ore in Bingham would be considered fair shipping ore Should a railroad ever come here this will probably bA the great lead camp in Utah There is plenty of unexplored explored ground here but parties that have been here should they fail to strike it rich the first day or so go on with the flood for Deep Creek TilE BOBTAIL has had 1000 worth of work done on the claim and William L Mills owns a half interest erest in the mine Onehalf a mile west of the Bobtail is the Francis and Ben Harrison Harri-son mines MONO xo 2 is located southwest of the Silver King distant three miles and displays galena ore at the grass roots for a long distance It runs about fifteen ounces in silver and from 50 to CO per cent in lead Among the now discoveries the Monarch mine is in the same locality considerable more has been done considering its youth Tho product runs 25 per cent lead and thirteen ounces in silver BEN HARRISON Diertly Giison have acquired the ownership own-ership of this valuable property and the ore body is so large that the walls havo not been reached It is a low grade mine the assays showing IS per per cent lead five ounces in silverand a good showing of copper cop-per perThe The Minnie Moore owned by Stebbins and Phelps Assays show 51 lead 102 ounces silver 4 gold The gange is copper cop-per and iron in quartz formation The Cobalt operated by J Cleghorn and L Allen Hall of Bingham Junction is an iron Lore L-ore carrying 86 per cent iron and 31 ounces alive a very desirable flux THE VIRGINIA was the first patented claim in Dugway and is owned by J L Hardin which has assayed as high as 500 ouuces in silver Plan SPRINGS DISTRICT The most notable prospects in the district dis-trict are the Gatena and Emma The former for-mer claim is owned by Messrs Chipman Grant Par and van Alstine Chipman and Grant owning 1050 feet of the lode and Parr and Van Alstino 450 feet Messrs Chipman and Grant own feet and James Preston and L Kilkowsky own 500 feet each of the Emma lode Thirty thousand pounds of the Galena ore were lately shipped and there are about ten tons more on the dump The Emma has also about ten tons on tho dump but no shipments have as yet been made from it The Galena shaft is fifteen feat deep and has a four foot vein of ore with six inches of horn silver ore next to talc on foot wall The Emma shaft is six feet down on the vein which is about two feet in width The ore bodies lie between lime and porphyry por-phyry the hanging wall is lime If the vein holds out and the present indications in-dications are that it will the owners of the Galena will be able to employ from fifty to one hundred teams steadily hauling ore Messrs Chipman and Grant are also interested in-terested in many other claims which show equally as well as the Galena and Emma and will push development work on them as rapidly as possible Ore has been taken from some of these claims which can make Sam Gilson ashamed of his much talked of bonanza Any person doubting tho value of the ore can convinced of its worth by calling at Mr James Chipmans office American Fork where he will be shown the silver as it is taken from the mines SOME OLD MINES The Gilligan mine in Eagan canon min ing district was discovered in 1863 It was milling ore and the mine has produced mi lions of dollars since that date and was worked up to a few years ago when It was shut down Of course the building of a railroad will revive It The Gilligan mine is 1000 feet deep now North of Eagan Caflon district is Cherry Creek district containing number of well developed mines This is an old district The Star mine in Cherry Creek is 1200 feet 1 I deep and there are stamp mills there the same as at Eagan There some deep mines in Shell district and there are deep mines In Hunter district dis-trict The McCurdy mine in Antelope district dis-trict is an old mine and has several hundred feet of developments There are several 1 well developed mines in Kern district The Star mine in Kingsley district is a well developed mine The stock of this mine is held in Salt Lake There are several mines in the Clifton district developed several hundred feet The Dutch Mountain district dis-trict and Furber district contain a number of deep holes In tho Dugway district the oldest and best developed mine is the Virginia Vir-ginia mine which has several hundred thousand thou-sand tons of ore in sight FURBER AND CLIFTON Take the Clifton district and Messrs Woodman Martin Dunyon Shell Brown and hundreds of otherst have the fat of that country The district comprises over five hundred claims My opinion of Fur ber is that it will prove a new Leadville Kingsley is noted for its copper silver and lead marble and the finest granite that a man ever saw on earth Dolly Varden has one of the largest copper mines in the great west and it is patented and owned by a company of Pennsylvanians This too is noted for its high grade silver ore All the mines of that western country will be found equal to or richer than anything any-thing heretofore found in Utah KIND OF AN OUTFIT Dr H J Fausts advise to people going out now is to get as light wagons as they can take all tho provisions except potatoes and beef which can be bought cheaper out there than here flour is only the transportation higher Take I I 1 K d q tl I f k 1 I of L r r I 4 I fr lj IlL r T h i f I iz IJ fi J J hD L F I 1 A ii 1 IV N I J 1 h1Dazzr 5 rt N M 1 ruarda LIV r J f IC l t i = V uJm cRw Cit U st 1 izrk 271S i s o maFf s o I tt l1Q3ctn ji av > V > 5a CZif f n = = = OO WiVcO lfi J E1t V TE 1 s let s Of J1 i AX A T wfs < tf i r f iii J > m I l LYEt IJ 0 tD of ntTi 01 5 5 J lW Of tt 1i Ca 1c an1I p J S fe0 T t ¼ Ic1J I ii ° > vT 4J 5 0K ftnAtC ii 4i gj v s I l1J I r oe sr c 5r W > Jlit m xC l I L j L it WW 7N 0 JvFa V XF t A tftimnd r I d11s i c l fITL fI jIN L0 7JCE w ttfffiim f L rt WRt r 1 1 S Jutf CPBEK ours t 1 rLQ i i tUvOy L k MAEOITItE DEEP CEEII COUNrRYo out claims gives the desolate country the appearance of a race course on which emigrant emi-grant trains are the participants The excitement is not confined to Salt I Lake and Utah but is even more intense in the mining camps of Colorado and the cities of the west THE HERALD appreciating the great demand de-mand for reliable information is first to present to tho public a map outlining the various mining districts the surveyed route of the new railroad and the i stage line The different mountain moun-tain ranges and valleys and the location the thirty different mining districts dis-tricts are shown and TUE HERALD readers will be the first to secure the advantage of a typographical photograph of the great Deep Creek country The Giant of the Rockies was first in the field with a series of articles on the wonderful wonder-ful riches of the Deep Creek country years ago and its predictions are rapidly being fulfilled The miner from Colorado who has not yet penetrated the serried mountain ranges that I rise out of the aridsands like an omnipotent omnipo-tent hand upon the face of the earth predicts pre-dicts no more for Deep Creek thau that it promises to become another Leadville and that Salt Lake will be a second Denver Yet the succession of mountain ranges I that break the horizon for a hundred miles cave within them the evidences of a greater I output of ore than is at the present time mined from tho camps of Colorado and Utah combined WHEN THE WOULD WENT WILD over the discovery of Leadville the return of a single prospect with a few samples of rich ore was sufficient to cause a stampede I to tho new camp and fill the mountains with prospectors A mining fever Is not now so easily produced and something more than the unauthenticated statements of a few prospectors is required to create a I mining boom Tho excitement over the i DeepCreek country has been slow In maturing ma-turing and this is tbs strongest evidence that it is based on substantial facts At least a dozen parties havo been out and each returning prospector not only substantiated sub-stantiated prior discoveries but brought ores richer and more promising than any previously discovered Neither would the public satisfied with a few picked specimens speci-mens but demanded that a large quantity of the ore be brought in bulk to the city The first large consignment assayed over BIX hundred ounces to the ten in silver I end some choice samples yielded over 2000 ounces This was followed in I puick succession by other discoveries But the most astonishing fact of the recent explorations ex-plorations has been that not a single pros I I plenty of water barrels and kegs as the distance between watering places is far Pickles and acids are very essential on account count of the bad vater of Fish Springs THE ROUTE The route I would take said Dr bust would be through Rush valley by the old Faust station Point Lookout Simpson Simp-son springs then you can go to Dugway or Fish Springs The distance from here to Stockton Was by > the old mail route 40 miles Faust sta tion is 22 miles further Point Lookout 9 miles Simpson Springs 18 miles Dugway 20 miles Fish Springs 30 miles Willow Springs 35 miles and Deep Creek or Clifton Clif-ton 30 miles JUDGE WAMPLERS pPiNION The most ora will come from Dugway and Clifton said Judge Wamplcr The average in Clifton is thirty ounces of slier sli-er 40 per cent lead and 7 in gold That is the medium of a thousand assays The ores in Clifton do not vary much from those in Dugway The Harriet and American Ameri-can mines have their shafts down 100 feet The vein in the American is from three to five feet wide and the ore grows richer every time you strike the pick The assays of ore at the 100foot level run thirtysix ounces silver and 30 per cent lead RESOURCES Or TUB COUNTRY J W Moffat chief engineerof Salt Lake Wyoming railway in speaking of the resources ot this country said There are rich agricultural lands in Tooele and Skull valleys and well calculated for raising stock which industry is now carried on to a small extent The first mining country reached is that of Grantsville where tho Jennings Third Term is located and this mine alone has over 80000 tons of ore In sight Further on is tbe Dugway district which will be reached by a branch This section will develop into another Tintic with tho advent of a railroadAcross the desert is the Deep Creek country on the Nevada line with which many people are familiar and which contains the Clifton and Furber districts the former being on I the Utah side and the latter in Nevada Then in close proximity and on the line of the road when continued on to Nevada are the Kingsley district where is situated the famous Morning Star mine the Dolly Vurden Spruce Mountain etc TUB STAGE ROUTE The stage route as indicated on the map will be adhered to though certain changes may be made where the route can be shortened by allttle expense in grading a cut off Colonel Lett who is at tho head of the stage line said last evening that tho exact location of the stations would not be deUnltely known until the return of Mr Wallace who is now on the route arrang ing for their location All that is known at the present time is that the route will begin be-gin at Stockton the terminus of the railway rail-way and the first station will be at St Johns He did not know whether Scrib ners or somo other point would be se lected One of the principal stops will boat bo-at Dugway and the present terminus for a few days will bo at Fish Springs As soon as the line can bo supplied with I additional horses it will be extended to the Deep Creek country |
