Show DEEP CREEK IS SURE OF ROAD 1 Surveyors Are Now Running Line for Branch Prom From Western Pacific STRIKE I TWO FEET OF GALENA OPENED IN NEW GROUND Zero Zera a mining operator of IllinoIs who knows the camps or of thIs western country like he knows his came In from a trip to the coast Wednesday and left for home last nIght He saId yesterday that there was no longer a doubt that the Western Pacific intended to buIld into the Deep Creek country this year He was told in San Francisco by Chief H McCarthy that surveyors had been Instructed to run a line ine from the nearest and most feasible point on the main highway to Clifton and he presumed the work was wa already under way This statement has been verified within the last day or two by bythe bythe the report brought In by Frank St Jear from St John Tooele county to the effect that a corps of surveyors in the field doIng that work sev several eral cral days ago Mr Castle Catle has been interested In the Deep Creek country for several years with F W J M GarrIson and others in InThe the Garrison and Monster Mining comp companies nIes During hIs stay in inthe inthe the city the directors met and planned he le work to be carried on this season which is said to include the driving of one ne new tunnel and many hundreds of of feet of other development work This preparation for an active cam campaign campaign is due largely to the fact that Mr Castle had positive assur nce be 00 before fore coming here that the Western Pa Pacific Would give the country the aid it lad had The Western Pacific expects to have bave its line completed from this city to the Nevada state line by Sept 1 and the branch whIch Is to be run down to the Deep Creek country will willbe willbe be fifteen to miles long accordIng to the point on the main line Une from which it is decided to build Just over the Nevada line the company has hasto I Ito to run a long tunnel and this It is said will delay construction west from Utah considerably and give plenty of opportunity opportunity for building the branch south on this side of Dutch mountaIn Ed Austin is in from the Dolly DoIly Var Varden Varden den district just beyond Deep Creek on the Nevada side ot of the line ee has just given a option on five claims daims in the district to a Southern Pacific railway crowd This Is a por portion portion tion of the same ground that Frank L Sizer took a whack at a few years ago and which he surrendered after doing considerable work because the owners would not agree to an extension of time unless the price was doubled The Southern Pacific bunch got theIr option for OO It is also aIso reported that the Troy group of five claims in the Clifton die dietrict has been bonded to an eastern combination at a good figure Ore has been taken from this that has assayed as high as per ton In Ingold Ingold gold and the opinion Is expressed that the ground is going to develop into a bonanza mine Report also has it that the Gold Hill property being operated by Captain Duncan MacVichie and associates is also turnIng out well and the work be being being ing done in other portions of the coun country country try is all of a calculated to sup supply supply ply business to the road once it is con constructed constructed Dozens of properties are now ready to be equipped with machinery and this will be done during next fall falland falland and winter if the line is finished as promised |