Show FISH SPRINGS A RICH REGION I Mineral Resources Offer Splendid Opportunities to Prospector and Capitalist VALLEY FULL OF WONDERS HOT AND COLD FRESH AND SALT SALTWATER SALTWATER SALTWATER WATER IS THERE Writing from Fish Springs the home of the Utah mine one of richest ore producers P T Noel Noelan an old prospector of the camp calls caUs attention not only to the value bf the Utah property and the district as a whole but he makes reference to other natural advantages ot of the camp which borders the Deep Creek country of particular interest at this time This place is situated eighty miles west of Vernon on the Salt l Lake ake Los Angeles San Pedro railroad and fifty miles east of Deep Dep Creek on the Ne Nevada Nevada Nevada vada line Une says Mr Noel We have here only one working mine at the present time and it is a wonderful proposition With a force of from fifteen fifteen teen to men about one car carload carload carload load of ort ore or per week eek is pro produced produced produced With ample capital and confidence confidence confidence dence to back it it would be hard to compute the possibilities of its out output output output put The vein seems to be continuous I through this range of mountains for several miles mUes It Is held by locations and patented claims several of which have produced ore In the past but most of them are now tied by disagreements and litigation among tho the owners To these conditions and the fact that the present nearest rail railroad railroad railroad road point is seventy miles away the outside world has not become well ac acquainted acquainted with the district and its re remarkably remarkably remarkably fine advantages The forma formation formation formation tion Is lime quartzite and porphyry with a dip to the west and strike north and south The formation is fissured from northeast to southwest and all of these fissures unquestionably connect with the lime and porphyry rY contacts These ledges have bee prospected but very little as yet offer great in inducements inducements inducements to the prospector and cap I L Fish Springs and Valley Fish Springs valley Y is largely h owned by J J Thomas of Lehi He has a fine ranch here raising a great deal of wild hay tay He has about acres under fence with a largo laig portion of it in al alfalfa alfalfa alfalfa falfa and timothy hay The Fish springs proper cover an area about hf fifteen teen miles long north and south and andt t le ranch te is i located about in the cen center centor ter tor and on the west weM side of the valley which is 15 from three to four miles wide The series of have a flow run running running ning up UJ into the thousands of gallons per p r minute Some of them are ar hot and some cold water of fine quality About three miles north of here is isan isan isan an extinct geyser that hat has un an eleva elevation elevation tion lion of about four feet above the sur surrounding surrounding rounding fiats The opening at the surface is about abou t feet being benc oval ovalin in shape The rim is composed compo ed of lime iron silica and nd magnesia and resembles i oral loral or fossil lime deeply I luve rever never seen as fine a bathing pool anywhere in the country countr The National park has nothing to compare comp with it ii The water is very salty and arid just hot enough nough to give a splendid hot salt wa wat tr t r bath This pool is the property of no one as yet so I cannot an not be ao ae used of booming s game when I say that there is nothing like liko these waters raters for the cure of catarrh rheumatism etc elc The pool is bottom bottomless less so far as anybody knows but some someday someday someday day it is going to be recognized as one of this countr s great sanitariums It has never been located as I under understand uD l r stand it because the impression pre ails aUs that there Is a law reserving r all such natural wonders to rn ment Chance for Agriculture There is a great area arca of country that might be irrigated and made to grow row almost anything and the waters of the numerous sprit s could with the th aid of If windmills or other pumping devices be easily raised to an elevation that thai would permit of the water beIng run on onto onto onto to most of the fine flue bench lands that line the tho valley With the increase 01 of mining activity in this region that must musi follow the building of the Western Vestern Pa Pacific Pacific these lands must become bc ome valuable as the he t products will all find a market close at hand handI I 1 dont know how lIow you will wm treat this correspondence but bt b t as a prospector who has been all ove over Montana Idaho and Colorado during the last thirty years I thought it would be of interest to some Borne to have my impressions of tbs country particularly as no one has ap apparently apparently taken the trouble to say any thing about the physical conditions and resources of it |