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Show i SI lii Tim Fntiro "Not-tern World In a (ilowof Unl liiisl.tsin and tlio I'ro.Nppctorsi arc Legion Colorndo Torn Assnnder Over ths Ee-purts Ee-purts Coniiug From Utah's Silver Sil-ver Empire, PBOriSSOS BLAKE OS EEEP CJtEEX liagln Iis( i'f't Draws Mio (Jrand Capital I'ri.o In the Turn of Fortune's "Wheel. Un paralleled Silver EicheJ 'Twenty-livo 'Twenty-livo Mi;i'-8 and Prospects Rid H!f a Dozaa Mill Sites Secured. 1 Nmv Haven, beneath .the very shadows of Vale college where ha graduated nearly half a century ago. Jn lH-iu ho, together willi thousands of other Argo-n Argo-n mils. followed the course of the west-rti west-rti star until it hovered over the Golden Gate. When the college of California (now the university of California! wan instituted insti-tuted Prot'esor Biake occupied the chair of minoralolugy, which he tilled until 107. when he wont to ihe Paris exposition as the representative of the mining interest of the Pacific coast. He lirst cam 3 to Utah, in since which titni) his name h;us been insep-uralily insep-uralily associated w ith Rome of tho most gigantic mining enterprises ever inaugurated inau-gurated either in this territory or any other. When asked concerning the results of his investigations of the Deep creek mines, the professor volunteered the information in-formation that anything he could say on the subject would bo entirely from memory ns hi! had nothing at hand which would enable him to give exact facts nor could he speak exhaustively of what he had seen iu the different districts. taken a suite ef offices in the Commercial Commer-cial block. Corduroy clothes, wirke brimnedhats and Deep Creek shoes are now the proper caper. Shipments are being regularly made from the York mine aggregating from ten to fifteen tons a day. A. K. Hvde, general manager of the Bullion Heck, is paying bis monthly visit of inspection to the mine in Tin-tic. Tin-tic. Three lots of Horn Silver ore were received today; the shipment aggregating aggregat-ing 430 tons. It will probably not be sold until Monday. A. J. Moore and family of Gold mountain mining district is stopping at the White housei Ha says that a twenty stamp null will be producing gold bricks in bis district before November 1st. The contemplated construction of the Northern Spy mill has been delayed in consequence of the new smelling en-terpriso en-terpriso to be inaugurated in this city by the 1. A. II. Franklin company. Judge Blair has been advised of the nhiimient of some verv larre Hamuli) Ja prospective silver senator. What Sllnlni Mag Think, of T.ntic-Kyr T.ntic-Kyr Heard nt It t'ntll Il htv a Copy of iti Tim p.. The entire western world is in a condition of excitement over the reports of the marvelous riches disclosed dis-closed in I. tab mines, especially those of the Deep ('reek country, t.eorge Arthur liioe. returned to this city a lew ago from New York, after spending about two weeks in Colorado before his return. Wheu ho reached Ne.iv York the news of the more recent discoveries were just gaining circulation and were provoking considerable comment. But in Colorado everybody was wild. Jn Grand Junction, Ouray, Aspen, Lead-villo Lead-villo andlled Clill, he was stopped every ev-ery few steps with tho inquiry, "What i do you know about Deep" Creek?" Denver was the scene of a. universal iu j terest and on Monday, when the Deep j tircuk edition of Tins Ti.mi s arrived, the iudsor hotel was the lobby where all the mining men congregated. Many were of the opinion that the second sec-ond Leadvilie was at last discovered. Mr. liice was of the opinion that thrro would soon be Irain loads of fortune i hunters coming to this territory. j "Tintio is nun of the liu.-t wonderful mining districts lever saw," was the reply given to a Timks reporter iu answer an-swer to his question ot what ho had seen at Kureka and Silver City. "1 never had an idea that thero was such a splendid country in L'tah, and what is "He had visited and examined to a fmitcd extent the mines in Ciifton. Willow. Fish and Cane Springs, Gold 1 Hill, Dcviiies ranch and Fur her districts; dis-tricts; ho had passed by Diigway, but did not look at any of the properties. Speaking generally he said: That in the immense region, around and beyond be-yond Deep creek there are numerous districts, all of which are possessed of invaluable mineral deposits, capable of contributing very largely to the support sup-port of a railroad, and alt of them being directly tributary to Salt Like as the na'ural market lor the ores produced. There is a wide diversity of formations as well us of ores in thu different dirtricts, but usually the mineral is an argentiferous lend and essentially a smelting product. To this, however, you must make e ceptions for I am speaking of the hulk; there are some free milling or amalgamating amalga-mating ores both in gold and silver For this reason, the country promise, exceedingly iargn revenues tor a rail road when it is built. Tim majority of the mines which 1 examined are found in a lime stone formation ; in thein there is an abundance of ore, of the quanliiv there can be no doubt, morn thpn enough to justify the building of a rail road In answer to the reporters tjiiestinn, "if ha had seen anv particularly larue mines anything that promised tc become be-come genuine honan.as " I'rofessor Ha.ke said: "Y?s I il'd, I saw scnra! very big properties, lut of course they lacked development, without with-out which au opinion ns to their future is verv laiY'ely sue 'ul.itivo: but for specimens of ore from the Tallisman mine in Beaver county; one of them will weigh I'oOO pounds. He does not intend in-tend to carry it for a pocket piece. Sm Levy has let a contract of 100 feet of tunnel on the South Fork consolidated con-solidated in Big Cottonwood. The mine shows a good streak of ore running run-ning over (10 ouuees iu silver and per cent lead. The l.'nion assay office has been test-tnifsome test-tnifsome ore from Metaliue in the l'en d'Oriello country, Washington. One sample assayed Kii.d ounces in silver, lead and $11 in gold. No. 2 returned re-turned 70.3 silver, '.'6.4 per cent lead and $i in gold. 'fhe regular shipments of ore from the Horn Silver, all of which are sold on the open market, excite the keenest competition of local buyers. Three lots were disposed of yesterday, the Globe works ot Denver getting ioo tons, the Germania '-.'(in, and the I'hiladciphia Smelting and Refining company of l'uehlo 100 tons. George A. Mears is confident of a successful season for the Big Hole Placer. In a letter received yesterday, h i was informed that there was eight lent of snow fin the ground along the line of the ditch, so that there will be no lack of water for hydraulic work tho coming season. The foreman anticipated being able to start work y 'sierdny. Hon. K. I. Ferry is down from the Anchor. He reports the roads as get-tine get-tine iu fair condition and that regular shipments are being made, thongh they aro not yet up to the maximum. The construction of the buildings which are to house the new plant on the Anchor are getting along finely, and should the mat liinery be shipped on time everything ev-erything will be iu working shape by Julv 1st. more strange, I had never heard of it until I saw some copies of Tiik Timks a little whilo before coming here. I expected ex-pected to see a good camp, but I was disappointed in seeing so much more than I ever anticipated. There are several big properties there, the Centennial Cen-tennial Kureka is a splendid mine, the Lagle is no slouch, but all of them aro away ahead of the ordinary. The i croppiugs on the Mammoth' ami on Kureka Hill aro the most wonderful 1 ever saw. Tho district reminds me more of Aspen than .perhaps anv other I ever saw, with this difference; the ores of Tintic are a higher grade and will average fully twenty per cent more. Talk about advantages. ad-vantages. I never saw a district with ho many good climate, no heavy snows, fuel cheap; but above all there is no water to contend with. That is a great burden of expense in some places. Silver Sil-ver City too, where I spent one or two days, impressed me most favorably. There will be some big mines opened before long in Ilioso porphyry fissures. I The striking of sulphide ores, as the shafts acquire depth, is not at all discouraging. dis-couraging. They did the same thing at Central City. Col., and almost abandoned aban-doned the mines for nearly live years until some one had the courage to sink to test the correctness of his theories that the pyrites would contain paying mineral zones. Some of those Central mines are now down 'J'jod feet, and are as rich as ever. When 1 was there a short time ago, I saw a vein in the California that was twenty-two feet wide alt solid smelting ore. Tintic needs no booming, just publish the ac count of the ore shipments and that will bo all that is neces.sary to attract attention." atten-tion." Mining Fxrhange. . This was an olT day for the exchange, and the business done was small and the trading withoutany interesting features. Apex scored au advance of a quarter of u cent a share. TOIi.W'S QCnTATIONS. surface showings they certainly looked splendid. No, I weu.it not caro to particular;;:" them or e'l w hich of the properties so in;p;e.sse an. as I have absolutely nothing ia the shape of memorandum !o refresh mv memory, but the districts of Furbc-r. Ciifton and Gold Hill sli had etich m nes and to those camps I devoted the gruattir part of my exuiniuutio-s." A Deep Creek Sale. The report of a heavy mining tran suction iu tho Deep Creek country that got into c rcuiatiou last evening caused a decided stir among mining men and increased public interest in that remarkable re-markable mining section. When the rumor was traced down it proved to be well founded, a trade having been consummated con-summated by Mr. A. 1!. Young under which he and his associates secure a large number of valuablu claims. Mr. Young went out to the Deep Creek country last ( Ictober ns the representative rep-resentative of an eastern syndicate and visited several of the more prominent districts. He was accompanied by an assayer and they made thorough tests of the ores in each section that they inspected. in-spected. The results of the assays were highiy satisfactory. Ticked specimens spec-imens wore secured that ran up into very high figures; but the important tests were on practical samples and these gave most gratifying returns". In Clifion district the ores ran from 1!) to oK per cent in lead and from 10 to 50 ounces iu silver. In Dutch Mountain district the returns were higher in lead and lower in silver. In Silver Mountain Moun-tain district the ore was found to carry a good paying quantity of sih er, with copper iu some of the low grade. The tiest returns were secured in F.agle district where there is no lead but where the silver averaged high. Half of the assays taken went abovo lull ounces, the average of twenty one samples being be-ing till ounces. Mr. Y oung was most favorably impressed im-pressed with the Kaglo district and his purchase lias been made there, einurae-o einurae-o i... if ;-,., ,i... ,,-,.,,,., i,,,i.i - K S O "'' 1 i I ci : Alice I i;5 Aniline; yfu An. hor OR-, Apex a 01 11 ll' id, M ones Shliih r. , ot lli ll.ile Pie r us 14 Cent. Kureka 5'.l tu Conuo ., to j t re scent J IM 33 :; i.oy is , IJielltite .( yi Horn Silver it an Malad (i-e- Mamtnoth , ,1 1() Northern Sjiy. ; tin out art. j )0 fi Staniev 17 C. L. .v" n. Co 8 t'tah oil Co n I Wo.i.lside (H) Sliver l ertil's lit,t;iO Wj Wt li!i Seller 10 days. SALES OK STOCK. ; SiO st ares of Aj.ev ft ll'-.c. I -1 ta " '' t reset-in ,i,-o. 1 iU -jtJ ounces of siiVer'iC IM- tv. I'rofeivor make on Deep Creek. ; Early lait winter when Mr. Bacon 1 first imbibed the idea of building a railroad rail-road into the Deep Creek country. Professor Pro-fessor Willi am 1. Biake of New Haven, Conn., was requested to visit, examine the mines and make report 011 the possible pos-sible production 01 several of the camps as well as to give an opinion on the probable extent and continuance of thoe mines to the deep. In respoi:s- to this solicitation, he did examiue .some of the. camps and made j quite a voluminous report covering ! aiioiit eight newspaper columns. In all the fraternity of mining engi- j niS . i m.untoii u.t 't..'iij by John Tipnett. who has lived in that scetion for eight years. The claims included in-cluded are the following: Antelope, Bell, Exchauge, Albany, Atlas, Dol-coath, Dol-coath, Black Metal, Union, Harrison, Pook, Well Anna, Minnie, I'uion Fag, Bonanza, Pendleton, New World, Paymaster, Pay-master, Pino Knot, Wheal Sealon, Monitor, Moni-tor, King Mine, Mint, Baltic, Independent, Indepen-dent, Giencoe. In addition twelve now locations aud six mill sites have bten secured. The price at which ihis large property changed hands is said to be J.iOO.OUO. a payment of $-."i.0OO having, it is understood, been made yesterday. This trade may be regarded as one of the most important developments of the Deep Creek situation. Mr. Young is not the kind of a man to buy on tho impulse of enthusiasm. His name gives a guaranty that the sale has been made because of the merits of the property; prop-erty; and this fact will deepen public confidence, iu the Deep Cictk country. Bfin'ng ia Kan Pet. Mining prospects are becoming bright in San Polo county, and A. 11. and Frauk Cannon, together with S. A. Ken nor are working a properly that bids fair to become a good mine The work being done is on the mountains about live miles west of Kpliiaini The hills rise up to about the samo height as those about Eureka, the loriiiatio.11 differing dif-fering from that camp somewhat, some-what, tho ore being found in contacts between lime and porphyry. por-phyry. From a prospector who has recently returned from there, tho information infor-mation is obtained that it almost im- I neers, mineralogists and geologists, 1 there is scarcely a man moro devoid of i youthful enthusiasm, or one who is ; mote careful or conservative in his statements. ; It was, therefore, a pleasure last night ! to meet the gentleman and obtain from him an expression of opinion of the i a,t and almost limitless mineral region which is now attracting so much attention, atten-tion, not only locally, but everywhere where an interest is taken in "mining operations. When Professor Illako came to this city he anticipated rinding a copy of his report in the hands of Mr. Bacon; but ! that gentieman had sent the mattereast, together with all the other data pertinent perti-nent to the subject of the mineral riches of the new silver empire located iu j Utah and Nevada. Professor Blake scarcely needs an introduction in-troduction to any one who is at ail familiar fa-miliar with the mining history of the Pacilic coast, especially does he not to any one in Utah. j ills homo at the present time is in j possible to pick up a piece ot lloat that i does not show soma ore iu nodules of j galena in the rock. j From the Cannnn-Kenncr property j au assay was made last week which j gave returns of !I(I0 ounces in silver. ! fhe vein is six feet wide tmui wall to j wall, the pay streak being only a few i inches. Asays of 500 ounces have been frequent. The mineral is a dark gray sand and is associated to some extent with talc. A contract has been let for a hundred foot tunnel in an adjoining claim to the Cannon, called the Happy Boy. This j is a contact vein which shows ore from the surface. I The district is beginning to attract ! some attention from prospectors, and '; several parties have gone in there with- j in the past week. Hereitiiore all the j work has been done by farmers. Ore Slftln, Nick Treweek is on a visit to thn Al- ' liance iu Park City. i The Petto Mining company have |