| Show BICH LA ia SAL SAi DISTRICT Railroads and Seduction Plants to toGo toGo toGo Go in This TiIs Spring What Whitt surprises me said A Mc loIc McLean McLean Lean the gentleman who is MS at present devoting his bis energies to the opening k of 1 La Sal mining region in Gram Gra county is that Salt Lake business businessmen businesSmen 1 men and mine operators should stand around with their hands in their pock pockets pockets I ets eta and allow the trade and the great greato opportunities o for profitable investment t tin in m the La Sal mountains to slip through I their fingers and go to Denver when I this city is miles nearer Such I however is the true condition of af affairs affairs affairs fairs as an they relate to what is destined within the next year or two to be one of the liveliest mining miffing camps camp in this state The whole hole country is being in inv investigated Investigated estimated v and money is going in rapid rapidly ly from rom the Colorado side but you can count the number of Salt Lakers who are interested int rested or who show a tion tron to become acquainted with the merits of ot the country on the fingers 1 I of one hand The gentleman quoted is at UK Knutsford and h he be Is here for tor the pur purpose purpose purpose pose of ot conducting business bu news matt matters rs pertaining to the new railroad which is to be constructed from a point near Richardson on the Grand river riv r to the foot of at Miners basin a distance of twenty twe ty miles this spring The corn com company pany he said had already been financed were now at work and ana grading would begin as soon as the line had Of bf ben en mapped out by the engineers en rs T The he line lint is designed d to afford trans transportation transportation transportation for the ores of Miners basin basill properties four of which the Iowa Tornado Indiana and Corsair Cor air are capable right now of producing GO OO tons toes of ore per d day It is also calculated calculated calculated later to extend the line Jine miles farther to the Paradox section and eventually another fifteen mMes mMe to the point where Senator Kearns and C E Looses Big Bia Indian copper coppermine miner mine m is s located In the Beaver Beever basin section on the eastern side of the range the Interim International International company in which Sam A King Hatch Judge Burton and a afew afew few lew others are the chief stockholders has a very fine property which car carries carries carries ries a ledge that in n adjoining ground slows shows a width of three feet f et carrying ounces gold end and n 9 per cent copper on thorough mill tests The International International International company will wI get the same thing in the tunnel no now being driven and is in feet leet now All the th thee portions of the La gals are ae accessible and every month is a long stride forward in the direction of es establishing s their claims to rich pro PlO producers producers of gold copper and silver Another nother company Mr McLean says saY has been organized and financed to t build mills and smelters on OL the river at the railroad terminal as well as de develop elop the necessary electrical energy to supply the electric railroad end and mines power and these enterprises i will all be launched within a very I short time timeS Castleton is to become the natural S distributing d point on tte the Miners ba basin basin basin I sin side and that it will grow into quite a mining metropolis In the near future Mr McLean has no doubt in m the II least Jast ast The visitor says hE ht is not here look looking looking looking ing for money as th the different enter enterprises enterprises I he has been promoting are all provided for but he could not no help but marvel at the lack Jack of energy and push displayed by those who in his estima estimation estimation tion ought to have been first to scent the greatness of the field which is rap rapIdly rapIdly rapidly Idly being corral by Colorado and other outside out talent I |
