Show DISTANCE LENDS enchantment for years the mining review has bas be lieveld that in time to come some cemarka rich mines would be discovered aud wot in the near vicinity of salt lake city where in the west can be found a inore and extensively mineralized section ww abal the country a few miles south and east of 0 tb city in the past the vicinity 0 f the big I 1 5 little cottonwoods cotton wood woods s within plain big sight lit T I 1 zion and easily accessible had its big m aloes 01 lix 1 and they produced their thousands thousand beer Vs not lot their millions these mines have exhausted by any means in fact they were hardly worked below the grassroots grass roots and yet this section for years has been neglected by R mining men afi who 0 have joined the race in li every mining I 1 boom that has occurred for the 1 last quarter of a century at the head bead of both sig big and little cottonwood canyons there is an extensive mineral belt that tha is bei lieveld to be on the extension of the great ore zone which has made park city so famous as a peerless dividend payer in the localities mentioned are to be found the old emma mine which in the past was without a peer as producer of mineral miner al wealth the reed goodspeed is in the same belt also the old flagstaff and other properties which made splendid records in lye ye olden days as wealth producers in the little cottonwood district a number of promising properties are now being worked and they will make fine records this season in the production and shipment of a fine grade of ore still this region is not appreciated although the time will come when big and little cottonwoods Cotton woods w will ill be as popular with the mining world as gintic tintic asTin tic park city bingham or any other camp in the west now so attractive to the capitalists and investors in big cottonwood opportunities in the mining line are offered which would attract thousands if emanating from tonopah To thunder mountain or other localities in the west which are now on the boom this section is rich in its deposits of silver lead gold and copper bearing ores the maxfield mine above the lodge in big cottonwood canyon one of the old timers has been worked for many years since the early producers were closed down and even yet it is a big mine near the head of the canyon some of the largest deposits of copper in the west are found and even a tenderfoot were he to invade the precincts of this old time district would note evidences of mineral wealth on every hand band at the mouth of the canyon great led ledges ledes es of low grade gold ore exist and so large are these deposits that were they located in some colorado or montana camp mining men would go wild about them at the mouth of little cottonwood float has been found galore that was more than half gold the white quartz carrying the royal metal being almost identical with that which has made the mother lode of california so worldwide world wide famous A little systematic and intelligent prospecting would doubtless disclose the ledge from which this marvelously rich float came and yet people will stampede to inaccessible points many miles distant from civilization and railroad communication upon the reported discoveries in such localities of big deposits of low lov grade milling ore it is all a mistake and a ing illustration of the truth of the old adage that distance lends enchantment to the view the great mountain ranges imme 7 east of salt lake city are mineral bearing but these majestic hills have not been half prospected as yet and there is i reason to believe that many rort portions ions of them have never yet been visited by man here are opportunities that can bi investigated j without the expenditure of hundreds or thou sands of dollars and some soine day some humble prospector too poor or too wise to join in the rush to preen green and verdant fields always beyond them will make a discovery in the rugged fastness ses of the eternal hills bills which stand as sentinels to our beautiful city that will give to salt lake a bonanza dividend payer equal in size and value to any of which the leading mining camps of the west vrest so justly boast in the midst of plenty we look with longing eyes to the Eldo rados to the east north and south couth c all the time failing to realize that with determined and persistent effort we might find almost within our own door yards that dame nature has been as prolific here in her deposits of mineral wealth as elsewhere |