| Show storehouse of golden wealth progress fillmore utah A mr I 1 r S T godbe was at the cameron house last friday he and mr air william bleak of escalante were on their way to milford mr godbe has spent the last month on the colorado river inspecting the chances for safe investments in in gold raining mining in the interest of a firm of utah capitalists to a representative of the progress mr godbe godby said 1 I have spent the last month on the colorado river and I 1 never saw such a storehouse of golden wealth before it surely has never been known to the world the wealth that lies buried in that river I 1 sampled the gravel for many miles on the river and found values ranging all the way from ten cents to five dollars per yard most moat of the gravel ranges at about one dollar per yard in gold 0 old and about three dollars per yard in black i sand the th gravel can c an be worked with dredge at a cost of about five cents per yard leaving an immense profit there is some little work being done on the ri river vernow now with mitchell M itch ell machines and good results are being obtained the great mining development there however is yet to come A hundred companies could could work there for years and extract millions in gold and not exhaust that storehouse of golden wealth 1 I am satisfied that the company for which I 1 have been working will invest a great deal of money in this proposition and reap immense in profits mr ali godbe has had a great deal of experience in mining business and his hopeful outlook for the mining resources of this country is truly encouraging from all accounts the mining interests of the deep creek country are looking up at least this is the opinion of S K kinney who is just in from this land of of promise in speaking of deep creek mr kinney stated that there was unwonted activity there at the present time and that quite a number of outside mining men of experience were now looking into the merits of that section doe doc J H faust dr J al bailey george pelt felt and jack hudson were among the deep creek contingent who came in with mr kinney to attend the fair and visit friends and they were unanimous in predicting a brilliant future for this wonderfully mineralized rei gion |
