Show p A DEEP CREEK PIONEER i I 4 Gives Some Information Regarding Regard-ing the Projected Railway h DR H J FAUSTS VIEWS THE MOST PRACTICABLE ROUTE I TO BE SELECTED Brief Description of the Various 1 Districts and Camps and the r Tonnage that they Would Contribute Con-tribute Cost of the Line Stock f Raising and Agriculture To the Editor of The Herald There have been plenty of railroads built to Deep Crock inthe newspapers and some ofthe companies have gone so far as to do a little engineering I What is wanted is a railroad The Utah Nevada should be taken up to Black Rock and the present Saltair railroad should be built westward from Saltair connecting with the railroad now passing Black Rock and Garfield thence westerly by way of Grantsville The rails and ties west from the city tp Garfield on the Utah Nevada should be taken up thus furnishing J supplies to extend the road southerly from Terminus into Rush Valley thereby I there-by curing the tonnage of that section I sec-tion In times past the smelters were treating ores from the Stockton country coun-try besides furnishing ores for shipment ship-ment to Salt Lake City and elsewhere There are thousands of tons of ore still there the values being as good as ever millions have been taken out I and the developments show that millions lions yet remain for future use Soldier canyon has plenty of ore that can be shipped by rail Dry canyon with its history of the Mono will as it has done Jn the past produce its millions Ophir never did quit and never will as long as time lasts Take all the Mercur and Rush Valley mines that lay on the west side of the mountains together with the south end of Rush Valley and there will be tonnage enough to supply this branch of the proposed new road L I t J S J I < t t < V I d X < o g h D L 0 D U 1 1 t0h S > t I 3 j 0 c 1 0 I < 0 t Jl t t x I f oih 1 L Tlr t c l f r t 4sPfllNc c i t GJFLL REEG bGLENL D F LE c C J R 0 M JT QFCTNOft r eiUl L p c c 0 ry1 m S 5 r r Fl o A 1wV cL DR FAUSTS IDEA OF THE LINE THAT SHOULD BE FOLLOWED B 1 The plat herewith showing the proposed 1 pro-posed route to Deep Creek will pass within reaching distance to 20 odd mining camps and districts The first shipping point west from Garfield will be Grantsville where there are now some properties working and others will follow upon building of the proposed pro-posed road The lake shore at this point is well adapted to the salt industry indus-try the land being low and very level Also there are springs that in time will be used as bathing resorts and in I time both the spring and lake waters will be here utilized for the medicinal properties which they contain With the proposed road built Grantsville would increase in population and industries in-dustries Lake Side district situated on western 4 west-ern side of the lake will supply lead silver ores from properties now lying idle These properties were producers and shippers under former values of lead and silver and again would be producers by the building of the proposed pro-posed road Skull Valley has many aluable claims and within the past IS months a bigger portion of the entire valley has been staked under mineral locations A similar ore to the Mercur deposits have here been discovered and cyanide plants are now being erected to treat the ores Somewhere in the valley there will be soon a town to supply the needs of the valley and its surroundings Johnson Pass Point Lookout Simpson Simp-son Springs and Six Mile will look to 4 Skull Valley as their shipping point and haul their ore to the railroad Dugway must be seen to be appreciated appre-ciated There are mines in the Dugway district and mountain that each woula load s train daily by the building of the proposed road The properties of this district cannot now be worked profitably owing to high transportation and scarcity of water At present the water supply is furnished by teaming from Granite Rock a distance of 15 miles From these mountains tonnage sufficient can be furnished to keep a daily train tinder way Granite Rock will be another source of supply but at present but little development I de-velopment has been made Fish Springs can boast of a record which but few if any of the camps I can duplicate This camp has properties proper-ties which have paid from the grassroots t grass-roots and development to a depth of I 500 feet has both improved the values and quantities of the ore The principal prin-cipal mine of the district is the Utah The output of this property has been a wonder The leadsilver ores already shipped ha proven i to be the best grade of ores produced in the state Great quantities of low grade ores are on the dump awaiting the coming of a railroad I this camp was on the other side of the desert railroad communication communi-cation would have been established some time since Trout Creek Granite Creek Willow Sprigs wH be able to supply a large tonnage for the proposed road Now we are come to the greater camp that of Clifton The Clifton district dis-trict comprises all that country lying north of the old stage road to the north 1 end of Dutch mountain a distance of 12 miles and is in width about the same J Fully 800 mineral claims are on record These claims are showing either V gold silver lead or copper and new I discoveries are daily being made The best mineral judge here an assayer I proClaims that there are at least 100 good claims now discovered and under location that show values enough to be paying properties Dry canyon Hopkins and Barney Revy gulches and Overland canyon are tributaries of the Clifton district and are the sources from which much tonnage ton-nage would be furnished the proposed road At or near Gold Hill would be another city or town I the road should pass to the north of Dutch mountain it would necessitate the plac ing of switches at that point with station sta-tion DEEP CREEK AND H NEVADA STATE LINE This will be the last point or station c J 1 Xi4 r t 2 c in Utah in Which the proposed road would build on its way westward through Nevada and California to the coast At this point all the traffic for 100 miles westerly and southerly would seek railroad transportation From this point within a radius of from ten to 50 miles the following camps will be found Spring Creek Pleasant Valley Glencoe White Cloud Muncey Mikes Springs Ruby Hill Aurum Shelburn Antelope Kingsley Dolly Varden White Horse Furber Ferguson Springs and others Say that each of the camps that this proposed road would pass through or near would poduce five producing mines we here have a total of from 100 to 125 producing properties Surely an inducement enough for the building of the proposed road LIVE STOCK The cattle industry the sheep industry I indus-try and the farming industry would be a great feeder to the propbsed road The sage the greasewood and the rabbit rab-bit brush would disappear and farms and towns would be dotted along the proposed road forming an entirely new country for many home seekers all of which would contribute wealth to western west-ern Utah and the building of the proposed pro-posed road The proposed line from Salt I Lake City to Deep Creek would not be to exceed 150 miles and there is nowhere no-where In the United States where a road could be so cheaply built The country through which i passes being the entire distance very level with the exception of Cedar mountains which have several low passes There is no grade to build on the desert All that is necessary is to lay double ties run a gravel train takeout take-out one set of ties and the road will be balasted The desert is so wide and level that the rainfall does not concen trate the snow melts as it falls consequently I conse-quently there is no wash or drain the rains and snows disappear both by sinking and evaporation Grades and culverts will only be necessary along the hiS east and west of the desert The ties will never rot The butt end of a telegraph pole which I recently raised from its bed in the desert was in every way as perfect a when set 33 years or more agoTHE THE COST OF IT The proposed road can be built and equipped for 8000 per mile provided there is not too much stealing SMELTING The Jordan copper smelter will come in handy to smelt the copper ores from this country Other smelters will be built on the Jordan to work the gold silver and lead gres that will pass over I this road all of which will contribute I wealth and population to the beautiful I i city of Salt Lake This proposed road from Salt Lake City to California will pass through Utahs best belt of mineral as well a I Nevadas richest mineral country Through Walkers Pass in the Sierra Nevadas which is 1500 feet lower that I the Central Pacific pass The Walker pass ha been surveyed by Professor Negus C E who reports that snow sheds will not be necesasry excepting in few places and for short distances From the west side of Walker Pass branches can spread out to San Francisco Fran-cisco and to Los Angeles traversing a wellsettled mineral and agricultural section With your eastern connections at Salt Lake City this proposed road would be a shorter and pleasanter route than any now opened from ocean to ocean Who will build the road H J FAUST Deep Creek Feb 1 1897 I R A S L IfY Ci 7i C 7 l ID t G F R l I q N1 Vll 1 iI Jl l I J I 0 VR 1 J I LL NtS J i J T II 7 oe1 I c 1 1 J e a f I I 1 II 0 N i f v R Kb L bR R i cII e Il i I i I O l I I Ll b 1 r f ID I Lt u tL t n 1 < CT f1 < < l 1 s p b < r j p P y S < I NIc 4r tN L 1 Y THE DEEP CREEK RAILROAD |