Show A FORTUNE IN SILVER CREEK ogden state journal the incorporation of a big mining con cebrij ceru to be known as the siv r creek mining company capitalized for shares in salt lake city yesterday recalls the story of the wonderful luck of a young Og denite E W hulse who left here eight months ago without a cent in his pocket a and d returned with stock worth hundreds of thousands of dollars hulse with ri 0 mcfall ellhu elihu elmer and H J barrett are the incorporators of the new company the silver creek property is in the black horse mining district and is said by conservative mining men to be a property of great richness it has been divided into shares of treasury and shares of promotion stock about a year ago E W hulse who at I 1 that time was a young man about twenty one years 0 of age arrived in ogden from his home town in the east he had a few dol lars in his pocket but he had soon spent his last nickel hearing of the nevada copper fields he decided to start out for the sagebrush state he owed 2 50 to the reed hotel company tor for a room but have a cent to pay for the same going to gordon S grant who looks after the comfort of the guests hulse told him that he have any money but said that the debt was good and would be paid seven or eight months later he returned paid the and engaged one of the best rooms in the hotel paying a months rent in advance he was bronzed and tanned by exposure to the dazzling heat of the nevada deserts but he looked like a man who had succeeded after a long courtship with the goddess of fortune in winning her royal favor hulse in company with H J waller of this city and a halfbreed half breed indian formed a prospecting partnership they pursued the work of prospecting diligently in the black horse district with the result that several good pro properties pertie s were located the black horse district is about fifteen miles west of the utah line and nearly three hundred miles southwest of ogden it is about forty five miles southeast of ely it has been known for some time that rich strikes have been made in that section but the information was meager and indefinite W B wedell the well known real estate man of ogden confirms we the original rumors of the richness of the region and possesses a number of fine samples of ore to show that what he says about the region has foundation in fact speaking of the claims on silver creek mr wedel says there is one group of claims on silver creek at the north end of of the trend of the mineral bearing zone which is eight miles long and four miles wide in which there is uncovered a four foot vein of bromide silver which runs better than 2000 ounces and also carries gold per ton the locators of this property are W B hulse H J waller and clyde tilford they came into its possession through the fact that sheepherders knocked off pieces from froin the ledge and failed to recognize its value it certainly did not look like it carried anything of value but with the characteristic curiosity of the modern prospector who ov overlooks nothing they had the rock assayed and the results were most gratifying the sheepherders who did not locate it lost a fortune shortly after returning from froin nevada nev ada hulse and his partners were offered for a bond and lease of the property but the new incorporation puts the property on a better basis |