| Show what is is doing at deep creek contributed CONTRIB the entrance of a railroad into the deep creek country presages a boom according to the veterans of the district who have given the best years of their lives to the development of that section of the state at gold hill utah the terminal of the new railroad there is a feeling in the air that things are going to happen A new town has sprung out of the desert the gold hill of last summer cannot be recognized in its winter clothes two or three modest residences and stores have been multiplied many times over along the main street of the new townsite known as goodwin there are several stores lumber yards boarding houses a new post office building and several residences the camp is astir an assay office is under construction and a good hotel western utah copper the greater part of the activity at this season of the year is at the gold hill property of the western utah copper company controlled by duncan macvichie and associates As soon as accommodations are ready it is said that a force of men will be employed to get out the lead and copper ores already developed with an estimated tonnage now available of about tons the mine is being shaped for production and connections are being made to that end A tramway of about feet will take the ore from the mine to the terminus of the railroad below the company expects to begin shipping at least tons per day as soon as the railroad reaches goodwin A great deal of note is being taken of the bamberger property adjoining where some of the best ore of the camp is reported hearsay credits this property with a goodly tonnage of ore recently developed deals being consummated it is understood that a deal is underway for the woodman properties producers of gold ore in the early days the glass interests of pittsburg have taken over the hudson property for a consideration reported to ibe be in the neighborhood of 75 james dick and W H dark clark have bonded several groups at gold hill and clifton seven miles to the south new york interest are reported to have made a deal for an interest in the J P gardner properties lying between gold hill and clifton and comprising about sixty claims at clifton the wilson brothers are mining tungsten ore and some tungsten has also boon been taken out on a lease on some of the property of the western utah in this section A shipment of copper ore has just been made by frank little and 0 C young roy mack has organized and is developing the clifton hinman mining company the delmonico between gold hill and clifton N A dunyon and others are preparing to start operations for the delmonico mining company organized to take over the largest iron cropping in the district some work is also being done on other properties for the year 1916 nearly all of the assessment work in the district was completed before the snow put in its appearance north of gold hill norman needham is operating the Hud sooner property and leffler palmer has been working on a group of claims lying westerly from this considerable attention is being paid to dutch mountain where J P gardner and M R evans are heavily interested great interest in ferber A great part of the talk in deep creek centers on ferber about fifteen miles west of gold hill and about twelve miles from the new railroad the camp is just over the nevada line and has been known since the early days when ore was first found there on the surface by the ferber brothers A great part of the ground was patented in the there is considerable ore developed ve loped but not high grade enough to stand the long haul to wendover but which can be profitable worked with the new railroad sale of the sheridan duncan macvichie Mae Vichie N A dunyon and harold smoot are reported to have purchased the sheridan property of four claims they have started work W H dark clark and james dick have taken a lease on the property of the salt lake copper company and are now operating leffler palmer and swan moline are mining from their own properties george and will knowlton are developing the ground of the stateline Stat eline amalgamated metals company W 11 bradley and associates of salt lake control a large area of patented ground and it is reported that a deal is under consideration on the entire group to the casual observer it looks like deep creek will enjoy a boom there is a lot of good property which ought to be developed outside of one or two properties there is not a great tonnage available for shipment but the expenditure of money in the development of prospects ought to bring results in that as well as other sections of the state |
