Show ORE IS WHERE YOU FIND IT it matters not how ancient a mining camp may be nor if the precious metals are sought for in virgin soil ore is where you find it one is almost as likely to find a good vein of mineral bearing rock in hi an old camp as he is to find a bonanza in a new district if it is looked for intelligently and this assertion is corroborated and verified by a recent find at alta at the head of little cottonwood canyon one of the oldest mining camps in the state of utah and a district that has been productive of its thousands of its millions in the past a camp that has been prospected tor for years and its ledges so well established that almost any old veteran of the district could draw a map of its vein system with his eyes shut well alta has a now new discovery that is putting still more more life into this old wealth producing section and the disclosure came about through the habit of noticing little things of keeping a lookout for indications of a blind deposit whose existence might be indicated by only a small cropping croppi n g and as a result alta is apt to chronicle the ad vent of a new producer to its already fine string of bonanzas tony jacobson manager of the columbus consolidated of altu alta one day quite recently noticed a small ore outcrop on one of the banks of little cottonwood creek near the possessions of his company seeing that the trend of the fissure was evidently towards and under the creek bed he diverted the course 0 of f the stream exposing a five foot body of ore in the bed of this miniature river the ledge crossing the creek diagonally for a distance of seventy five feet before it was lost in the opposite bank the find according to the mining reviews informant was on ground owned by that veteran miner fritz who put a price on his group acceptable to mr jacobson who is now in possession of a new proposition for the camp that is of unusual merit in the way of future possibilities as the ore carries paying values in gold silver vei copper and lead the moral of this story is that in other old camps similar finds may yet be recorded we hear of them in park city bingham Bingha ih tintic gintic stockton ophir american fork canyon and in other ancient districts in utah and throughout the great mining west because a camp is old there is no reason to believe that all of its treasure vaults have been robbed by the treasure seeker or that its mineral wealth has become exhausted |