Show A WORN OUT CAMP we doubt if anyone has ever seen a worn out mining camp we have often heard of the expression that such and such a camp has been worn out and we have known of cases where the assertion seemed at the moment to be fully justified but subsequent development and operation have proven that the statement was untrue and unwarranted once a mine mine always a mines mine s has s since i ince been accepted as a truism in the anin m long lo 10 8 ing camps of the west and the same plies to a mining camp that has had ap its it s season of production and prosperity I 1 we have heard of big producing mines i which have been declared to have been be worked out and many of these today are a still productive new and important strikes having been made in their workings in new and formerly unexplored grounds ground the most recent of these discoveries having be been en made 1 in the old mammoth mine at mammoth utah and in the bamberger delamar mine at delamar nevada these discoveries being of such a nature as to lead to the belief that these old time and famous bonanzas will in time more than duplicate their marvelous records of the past it is often that an old and practically abandoned mining camp presents a better and more promising field for investment and operation than do the newly discovered districts that are coming into such prolific existence almost at every hand and these old camps rejuvenated and infused with new blood are giving strength to the assertion ser tion so often made that mining is legitimate and profitable it is but a f few ew years ago that the old camp of bingham utah was looked upon as a dead one at one time it was almost abandoned but look at it today in the past it produced its million in gold silver and lead reawakened awakened re it is now producing its millions in the red metal is still prolific in in its output of the precious metals and its mines mines and stocks are now more popular in boston and in the eastern market than are the mines and stocks of any of the new mining camps throughout this intermountain region and bingham has now greater promise for the future than at any other time in its history alta utah is another 41 abandoned camp that is it was practically deserted and abandoned for a number of years because it was 64 worn out now it is a heavy producer of silver lead and copper ores and when the numerous enterprises there are well in hand and further production shall have followed the extensive exploitation to which this ancient camp is now being subjected there is hardly a district in the west which will be turning out a greater tonnage of good pay ore and the end is not yet f for or another year or two will place the worn out camp of alta in the list as a large and regular payer of dividends referring to another utah camp that was a famous producer in ye olden days but which for several y years ears was virtually abandoned as worn out but we might mention stockton which under the quickening influence of capital modem methods in mine development and operation is rapidly coming to the front again with new and wonderful producers whose foundations are built upon the remains of old an andoorn dwOrn and worn out mines and these mines in their irn in and number will be in their value men sity more to this old camp than were the magnificent effice ent nt wealth producers of its younger days and it is safe e to say that what the future has in store for old stockton is beyond calculation beyond the conception of the most experienced and optimistic mining man Arne american rican fork canyon utah is another instance of the resurrection of a once active and prolific camp and similar instances are to be found in almost every mining state and territory in the west nature is limitless but man has his environments and guided by his blinded judgment his prejudices and lack of real knowledge he is prone to condemn and declare as valueless that which is better far notwithstanding barren walls and worked out ore bodies than new bonanzas found in new and virgin territory it is well to talk about a worn out mining camp that is several hundred years from now to do so in this day and age exposes one to an accusation of ignorance for in the west no camp of this character is truly known to exist |