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Show If) . ! . .L Liih iSALi LAKE TIMES. SATUiiDAl', Al'KIL 18, 1801 .,5 THE WONDERFUL DEEP CREEK COUNTRY. An El Dorado Inparallolled in Fal.lcrl Story or BswiMorinj; Uo-niat- ie, Having Greater Kiohes than the Fabled Mines of Kinjj Solomon or tho Treasures of (Joleonda. Dawung of the Day, When the Bun Break. Over the Mountain of Utah as it Did Over tho Battle Eioid of Autteriitis. and Idling Every Haart With the Eaidienoe of the Eeiploudent Promises. CARBOUATES A!TD COPrER, CHL0BIDE3 AND HOEH SILVER. An Kxpanso of Mineral Territory I arjrer than Half n Iozen Euro-pean Kingdoms, Possessing: Kvcry Variety of Geological Formations Which Make Astounding Kevelations. Hi3tory of the Disoovory of the Realm Whose Treasure is so Joalously Guarded by Battling Mountains Which Keep a Watchful Sontinol Over the Vaults of Silver and Gold Hid;lou at Their Feet. A MAP SHOWING THE LOCATION OF EVERY CAMP !N THE DISTRICT. Thouaands of Adventurous Mlnera and Uroapactors Are Wendlac Their Way Towarda tha Weato:n Mar Which I reckoning Thaw to Com and Wreet tha Klohee From Ilia Cold and Silver Mneil Ctm AmiiUt tha Green Crowuad Moun:lm of Utah and Nevada 3000 Tom a Day. I GEOLOGICAL FEATURES. Tho mineral beariug rocks In which tho paying ores ore discovered iu the Doep Creok district comprise every variety and are ot every age known to iho science of geology; but porphyry, granite, syeuite, 'quartzite, and lime stouo prtdoniiunte. In these formations are found the mines in all kinds of veins, both contacts, as well asiu deposits, chimuoys and pipes. So varied are there conditions of geology and min-eralogy, that it is utterly impossible to give them anything like a general classification. What Cauaed tUa Rueh. The knowledge of the existence of these deposits of ore is not of recent date. They have been known and prospected for twenty years or moro; but nearly everybody believed there was little if anything but low grade ore in them, which of course would ueed the advantages of cheap transportation before they would become available or protitablo to work. Two or three efforts have been made in this city to orgauize a company composed of local capitalists to take up the matter and try to push a railroad through thoso mountains and valleys to a distance beyond tho line of Nevada. All of these efforts were frus-trated by tho intervention of other trans continental railroads already es-tablished. Hut (luring this winter James A. Bacon, on behalf of himself and associates, purchased and acquired 3omo of tho old franchises and rights of way, and potitloned tho city council of Salt Lake for the privilege of entering tho cily over some of the streets. So hopeful was everybody, and so certain were they that this grand enterprise would be carried to a successful con-clusion, that prospectors who have owuod claims in those old districts for years, started in advanco of tho antici-pated railroad and begau to recover and work their locations. Iu some of theso districts w hich had been known and prospected for years and which were supposed to contain nothing but low grade ores which would only pay a small amount with tho best of facili-ties, the most marvelous disclosures of wealth were made, which when their value and extent became known set lie spoken of later on. At Clifton Ceo. I). Shell has a ranch with numerous farm buildings, a blacksmith sliop, assay office etc., and ample accomoda-tions for evervbody. Clifton is tho terminus of the Salt Lako and Deep Creek Mail and s company's line. From this point branch lines will run westerly to all the different districts of the Deep Creek region situated in east-ern Nevada. Deep Craak Vallay. Ten miles west of Clifton, is the Deep Creek valley, which has been settled and cultivated for thirty years by in-dustrious farmers and stock raisers. Here everything can be grown like produce, grain and vegetables neces-sary to support a population of "oo.ow people in the mining camps. There is amplo room in this valley for a farm-ing community of 10,000. who cau acquire government laud at $1.25 an acre. A SAW MILL. The Deep Creek Lumber company, composing in its directory and manage-ment D. it. Rutherford, George D. Shell and T. W. Wain pier, have pur-chased a complete- saw-mil- l plant for manufacturing rough and plain lumber, flooring, tiding, shingles, etc. This machinery is now loaded on the cars and will 'leave for its destination at onco, and the company will be ready to meet all demands made upon them by May 1st, as they have two run of "sws, and a capacity of turning out 20.000 feet of lumber per day. The location of this mill will be iu the Snake (..'reck rango. GOING TO MAKE BRICK. A Leadville firm are en roulo to Deep creek now for the purpose of establish-ing brick yards in that valley, where there aro inexhaustible bods of clay of good quality for making brick, and from wliich adobe have been uiado for tho past thirty years. Illatory of tha Deep Creak Mlnaa. The history of tho disco very of these mining districts dates back to 1S03 aud commences with the location of the Gilligan mine in Kagau canyon. This mine was discovered by a Nevada miner who was a passenger ou an overland stage coach going west to his home in Austin. When the coaches stopped at Kagan station to change horses, Mich-ael Gilligan got down from tho hurri-cane deck and found some mineral lloat scattered over the ground, with which ho tilled his pockets and took it to Austin to have it assayed. The re-turns from it more than satisfied him of the existence of rich mines in those mountains. A short time afterwards he returned to liagati, traced up the iloat and located the lead from which it came. This lode afterwards became famous as the great (iilligan mine, which Is said to have recorded a pro-duction reaching into the ruiilions. lence. Hundreds and thousands and yet other thousands poured into thu district from all parts of the globe, nnx-iou- s and enger to become participators in the fortunes which were buried in those hills, so that by the spring of '00 hite l'ine district HAD A l'OlTLATION OF 200,000 IT.Ori.E. From this vast multitude and from this center, a prospecting army of 0 men was equipped and sent out to find other Treasure hills. These men, all experienced miners and prospectors, explored every foot of territory aud traversed every mountain and gulch in eastern Nevada and west-ern Utah in what is now comprehen-sively understood as the Deep Creok country. Everybody in those days had more money than most people have now. Hut those miners aud prospectors who started out with their hearts filled with grand hopes of success met with some disappointment, for while they found a great deal of mineral and rich ore iu nearly all of tho districts, they failed to lind another camp like White l'ino or another hill exactly similar to Treas-ure bill. The 'prospectors sent in to White Pino tho ore which they found for assay, which demonstrated that they containod lead and copper making it a smelting ore, utterly impossible of treatment by any process of amalgama-tion, which was tho only system used at that time, smelting being in its in-fancy, or aluiost unknown. Hut not discouraged by the finding of lend ore ou the surface, they prosecuted their developments to yet greater depths, hoping that tho ore would change from lead to that of a free milling character. This is a theory which was then very generally entertained and which had for its foundation one example in the mines of l'ioche in Ely district, notably in the Kaymond & F.ly mine that pro-duced in a few years $15,000,000 from free milling ore, the mineral having been base at the surface. But this was the solitary exception. DECLINE OF WHITE l'ISE. In 174 tho Alladin's riches of Treas-ure hill had been worked out and al-most exhausted, the population di-minished, things tamed down; the miners left White l'ino as they had come in, in droves, until the camp was almost deserted. At tne name time, there being uo market and no processes or treatment for lead ores, nearly all the camps having mines of that char-acter were abandoned, with the excep-tion of some few where owners of claims had expended large sums iu de-veloping their property under the mis-taken idea which prevailed at that time in Nevad.i that the ores would change with depth. It is not entirely true that the ex-tremely high grado'minerals which ure being found today were unknown in those times, for they were; but the mo-ment any camp acquired a reputation as a producer of lead or base ores, no I matter what the gralo might be iu sil- - J grade iron fluxing ore, which was used a number of years ago by the Chicago smelter then runuing at Stockton. Thousands of tons of this ore was trans-ported on the old steamer Garfield, then running on Salt Lake, to Lake l'oiut; thence It was hauled by teams to the Chicago works. There are also some high grade silver and lead mines in Lakeside, but the veins are small and cannot bu profitably worked without railroad transportation. A survey has been made for a switch or branch line from the main road to this point. IRON DISTRICT. This district is situated on Spring creek, facing Skull valley. Here are lo-cated some of the most' extensive and rich deposits of specular and hematite iron, some of w hich gives au average assay of 70 per cent, having little if any phosphorus or titanio acid. The ore from these mines used to be hauled by ox teams to the smelters, situated in Kusli valley and Stockton, until those works were either abandoned or re-moved to Salt Lake. Iron district will be within a few miles of thu contem-plated railroad. C'F.DAH DISTRICT. Across Skull valley to Cedar district from Iron district is about eight miles. Here are some cup-per mines producing ore carrying from 15 to 47 per cent in that metal and HO ounces in silver to the ton. These veins are found in a granite formation having a width of four feet and upwards of ore that will assay fully as high as stated; but these mines are largely un-developed. The leading silver-lea- mine is M feet wide between walls Jand is a true fissure vein, tho ore averaging 20 ounces iu silver, 55J per cent lead and $3 in gold to the tou. COLUMHIA DISTRICT. This district affords a system of ex-tremely high grade lead-silve- mines in fissure veins, the leading properties be-ing fairly well developed and giving the greatest promise of a large pioduction when accorded the advautages of cheap railroad communication. INDIAN CRKEK DISTRICT. Here are found some high grade sil-ver ores of a chlorido character having no lead and being free milling. The mines ofj this district are found in con-tact veins between limestone and quartzite. DUGWAY DISTRICT. With one exception, this district is the best known of all the Deep Creek camps and has recently acquired great prominence by the discovery of won-- d lo ii sly rich ore in the Buekhorn mine owned' by Saiu Gilson. This property cau no longer be classed as a prospect but must bo termed a bonanza mine which paid from the moment the first Idow was struck with a pick. In writ-ing of the riches which this property discloses it would be unnecessary to draw on the imagination or make any statements not possible of ample veriti- - that will average Into the thousands of dollars to the too; one selected sample assaying 13,000 ounces in silver and 14 ounces in geld. These specimens are great nodules of horn silver that are as malleable as so much melted lead. It is idle to speak of these districts as hav-ing only low grade ore when such il lustrations aro given to the contrary. Who ever heard of a prospect hole pro ducing such astonishing values? Ex-aggeration is impossible in tho face of such disclosures. The most phlegmatio temperaments are no- - boiling with enthusiasm. Mr. Gilson gives the information that some startling disclosures of ore hava been made three miles south of his mine, the mineral being of the sama rich born silver character. From all appearances now it seems assured that the mineral area is really ten miles long, in any portion of which splendid mines may be found. Throe more big mines have been found this week, onoof them, named the Cousin Jack, is already producing ore running 800 ounces in silver. The Hall & Cleghorn claim, called tho Cobalt, has a large body of a ore. There are hundreds of prospectors on the road to this lan 1 of mineral mir icles. Hotels and saloons, and grocery and supply stores will bs running within two weeks. Mr. Gilson has ordered Mason & Co. of this oily to frame him a building at once, (OxNO feet in size, which is to bs taken to the mine as soon as possible and erected as a boarding house for tha miners ho will soon have employed. The Spar mine is an extension of tha Buekhorn, belonging to George W. ('line. Judge Blair and others, having the same character of croppings, giving the assurance that developments will make it a very valuable property. GRANITE DISTRICT. This district is about twelve miles north of Dugway, ami lias an entirely dissimilar character of niiues and class of minerals, being a very high grade of chloride ore carrying no lead. Tha veius of this camp are true fissures in granite, but they have not been snffl-cient- ly developed to determine what hopes of their production can be reason-ably entertained. HSII SPRINGS" DISTRICT. The earliest discoveries of any con-siderable bodies of ore in Fish Springs began two mouths ago. since which ti lie the developments have been almost astounding, and the mines aro demon-strated to be of the richest character. The mineral is fouuil in contact veins between carboniferous limestone and porphyry and carry galena, hard and soft carbonates, chlorides, and in one instance, in the Galonamine, a streak of horn silver ore eighteen inches wide has been found assaying up into tha thousands of ounces. Thu Galena is perhaps the best developed property in that district. Even on this mine tha work is of the most superficial chara the magic touch of the miner's pick. This is the last chance, for it is the only uuexplored and unclaimed mineral region in the west which beck-ons invitingly to the fortune seekers of the wholo world. It is the only remain-ing section of any considerable sizo in the west which is untraverscd by a rail-road. It is in this vast expanse of min-eral territory and iu this grand circlet of mining camps that the transforma-tion is working that will soon meta-morphose them from droning and slum-brous inactivity to bustling hives of in-dustry. Though long delayed beyond its rcg-ula- r schedule time, thoro seems no roa- - son to doubt that tho mining boom so Anxiously anticipated a::d so hopefully expected has arrived. Tho nnitterings and rumblings of this great whirlwind 'of excitement have been heard in the air for some time, and the electric currents have been only giitlierintj force for the final ami set-tled ihriil which will break all over the western and middle states as the news begins to spread of tiie marvelous min-eral discoveries which are being made in thu mines of the Deep Creek coun-try. Grizzled old miners, patriarchal old Argonauts, who have gone through a hundred mining excitements and a thousand ephemeral ami evanescent mining booms have been waiting for this time to como for the last three . years, looking in vain for a spot on the map that gave promise of becoming an F.I Dorado. But that such a land of promise has been found none who have heard of the gold, silver and lead mines which have been found and opened up within the past two mouths in the mountains of western Utah and eastern Nevada can doubt. everybody wild with excitement. This is the causo of the fever that is now burniug and throbbing in every western vein, aud which is making the present furore which is likely to culmi-nate in a veritable storm which will traverse the entire United States. Tha Koad to tha lit Dorado. Prospectors and fortune hunters who go to the new promised land and Mecca of mineral wealth will take the following route: Leaving Salt Lake over the Union Pacific to tho terminus near Stockton, where by tho first of May trains will be met by four and six horse stages of the Salt Lako and Deep Creek Mail and Impress company, wliich by that time will bays stations What la Meant by Heap Creek. "The mines of Deep creek," as local-ly understood is a very vague and poor-ly descriptive term with which to con-vey an intelligent idea of tho exact lo-cation of the mines. The Deep Creek mountains are a range on the border land of Utah and Nevada, extending from north to south or a distance of 200 miles. In this range there are sev-eral rich districts but it does not em-brace all of the camps which are gen-erally understood as being a part of tho country from which the mountains take their name. The DeepCreeK mines, as understood in Utah, are all of those camps between the Onaquia mountains Qlovd S'Wiles to rxoroszo ' V - J WSvS Wfh nTfrL u Wmcn j;st. sitew w-- , siIf 5: : Ji-tf- B Co. A i Historical Kicitrmente. This groat mining excitement, which is attracting the nttenlion of all tho western world, to have preserved the symmetry of history, should have put iu an appearance in 1MJ; but perverse and capricious fortune is always fickle. Miners expect these great discoveries every ten years the numerals of which end with nine. Not a decade has passed iu noarly half a century, when there was not ouch a craze. In JS4!) brave-hearte- manhood dared the ' terrors of an inhospitable and unknown desert, as well as the savage foe am-bushed behind everything affording concealment, to reach tho treasure troves hidden in the golden sands of California. In came the excitement of Colo-rado, when the familiar legion of "Pike's Peak or Uust" was seen on thousands of canopiud wagons, in one long continual caravan, stringing across tho plains with faces turned toward tho Kockics, vhero untold treasures in gold and silver were buried. Then cainu the first real silver excite-meu- t ever experienced in the United States. Tho mines of Nevada were opened and disclosed a wealth beyond the avariciouaness of the imagination. Men in those times inado fortunes in a week. The Comstock lodo and White l'ino mines ail help to swell the vol-ume-. Tho mine3 of golden Dakota did not wait for the doctide to roll around be-fore being discovered; but were rather thrown in as a divertisement for the overwhelming stampede which was inaugurated to the carbonate deposit of Leadville in '78 and '70. A Mineral Emplrs. P.ut although the Deep Creek boom has been delayed two years, there is no reason to believe that it will be less feverish or loss substantial than any of tho others; or that mines of equal merit will not bo found. Those wliich have already been discovered are of almost fabulous richness, and have such bodies of ore as to overwhelm the mind in au attempt to make a reasonable aproxi-rnatio- n of their extent. Think of it! A mineral constellation of thirty-tw- rich districts, in all of whih ore is found running into the thousands in silver aad gold. The area comprised iu this realm of richness em-braces more territory than a number of Ficropenti kingdoms. Commencing at tho northernmost corners of Nevada and Utah and extending to the south along tho east lino of ono state and the west line of tho other, there is a suc-cession of mineral districts having great vaults of silver and gold, which now only wait to La awakened by on the cast and the Eagan range in Ne-vada on the west, an extent of territory-equa-l to fifty by one hundred and fifty miles and having almost every variety of mineral and geology. ToroGKAi'iir. The section embraced by the Wasatch on the east and the Sierra Nevada on the west has always been designated as the Utah basin. This basin comprises all of the western half of Utah and all of Nevada. Trending north and south through this basin, are mountains and valleys, best represented by the fingers of the hand, tho spaces Iietween the members being valleys. All of this country is what once was believed to be a desert, barren of all vegetation and water. The incorrectness of these theories is proven by the facts, as all tho main ranges like Shell. Deep Creek and ICgan are as well watered and timbered as are the Rockies or the Wasatch, having tho most beautiful streams trickling down through tho gulches, all of which are filled with trout; and in the forests which garland the mountains are all kiuds of game, like deer, antelope and bear. Minor ranges like Codar, Dugway, Tonano and Antelope aro less favorably endowed with water aud timber.having no running streams and no trees fit to saw into lumber; but the mountains are well covered with juniper and piuon which makes the very best of cord wood and answers all ordinary purposes of mining; but tho water is all confined to springs and wells. Where there are no springs, good arte-sian wells can be obtained almost any-where in the valleys by Binking. Twelve miles west of Fish Springs F. J. Con-nors has no fewer than half a dozen such wells, all of which are flowing, and from the water so obtained ho irri-gates his ranch. DUGWAY, FISH STRINGS AND GRANTS-VILI.- MOUNTAINS. These are nil minor ranges, which only have a limited extent and in which some of the moBt wonderful of the re-cently discovered mines are located. These are right in the heart of and rise up from the verdureless plains of the desert like grim old monuments keep-ing a wakeful sentinel over the treas-ures which lie htiried in the rock-boun-vaults. W hat is now the desert was once a part of the great Salt Lake and the white sands which once crystaled its depths now glisten in the sun like so much frosted silver. The mountains which are now surrounded only by the bright and sparkling sand once bathed their feet in and were kissed by the waves rolling in from the far distant shores 'of the Sierra Nevada and Wasatch ranges. established and everything in readiness to receivo passengers. ALONG THE ROUTE. The route as laid out by the company will be to St. John's, which is the lirst station ten miles from the terminus of the railroad; thence across the Onaquia range, through Johnston's pass, which is named in honor of the great confed-erate General Albert Sidney Johnston, who was killed at the battle of Shiloii and who once commanded what was known as the "Itucbanan army in Utah." It was Johnston who established Camp Floyd, called after John L. Floyd, secretary of war under President Bu-chanan. Johnston's pass is on the di-vide between Salt Lake and Skull val-ley, where was wintered hundreds of head of mules of the army during its first winter in this territory, before Skull and other western valleys had been made the pasture ground of thou-sands of head of sheep the grass to a hight of two feet used to blow and toss before the summer's wind. F'ifteon miles west of Johnston's pass is tho station in Skull valley; fifteen miles more and tho sink of Government creek is reached, whore another change of horses will bo made. The stage company will sink a well there to sup-ply passengers and stock with water. Twenty miles further will be Bullion-ville- , the station in Lbigway district, which is the homo of 8AM OILSON'S BUCKHOUN MINE, and a dozen other properties which have attained "bonanza" reputation. Here, where there was onco supposed to bo nothing but low grade aud almost valueless minerals there is now found horn silver and the richest of carbonates and chlorides iu the most generous profusion. Continuing on the Btage line for twenty miles more, and tired passen-gers will have their senses regaled by a vision as beautiful as a mirage. This is Kearney's Willow Spriug ranch, a veritable garden spot, an oasis like a gem set in the rough and rugged fringes of tne mountains and deserts, inS nake Creek valley. Here in tho spring and summer, flowers fill tho air with their intoxicating fragrance; here gamey trout spring from the cool waters to laugh and bathe iu the yel-low sunshine; here birds gather from hundreds of miles of desolateness, aud make the canyous echo with the music of their praises; here artesian wells gush like fountains from the earth and make green the growing grasses. Another change of horses, and another drive of twenty miles and the dusty coaches and passengers are landed at Clifton district were there are some very rich mines, which will WIRE GIM.ICAN. M:ka Gilligan was one of the silver Argonauts of the Pacilic coast. He was a prince among Irishmen, spent money like water, was one day rich and the next flat broke. Like many others of those western heroes who took fortune by the throat bidding her stand and de-liver, he has wrapped the drapories of a dreamless sleep about him aud is rest-ing in a louelv aud unmarked grave, beneath tho hills he loved aud over which he watched the lights and shad-ows fall, until his tired eyes were dimmed and glazed. Would it be un-reasonable to suppose that when the moment came for him to bid "Adios" to the scenes of his defeats and victor-ies, his vision was dazzled by the anti-cipations of the gold and silver waiting forbira in the unknown and unpros-pecte- d beyond? The narrative of Gilligan's life is so filled with romance and adventure, as to make au irris-istibl- e and fascinating story. Such men as ho were never daunted by ad-versity, never discouraged by circum-stances; ho was a grand specimen of manhood whoso memory is spoken of in terms of greatest tenderness by those who knew him. HE SOLD THE MINE. After Gilligan found this wonderful property ana developed its fabulous richness he went to San F'rancisco and organized a company with which to build a mill and more systematically work the mine. The company pur-chased machinery for a live stamp mill wliich was shipped by water from San Francisco to Sacramento, from whence it was hauled across the plains by ox teams to Kagau canyon. The livo stamp mill was found inadequate to the enor-mous production of the mine and was supplemented two years afterward by twenty slumps more. It. was of a very high grade ami milled on an average over $250 a ton in silver and gold, pro-ducing during its active life millions of dollars in dividends. General Kosencrantx, who is now register of the treasury, was oqce sup-erintendent and manager of the Gilli-gu- u mines and mills; tint rather unfor-tunately for tho company and his own reputation as a minining engineer, he knew much more of military tactics than ho did of working a mine profit-ably to its stockholders. THE WHITE VINE CRAZE. In the autumn of 18IS7 cr mmenced an era of the wildest excitement aud an universal stampede to tho horn silver aud chlorido deposits on Treasure hill in White Pine county, Nevada. As compared with other mining booms this was a "dandy" par excel- - ver, it was immediately damned and shunned. This, then, was the cause of the decline in prosperity of While Pine and aluiost all of eastern Nevada. As early as '71 a smelting plant was erect-ed at Clifton by George D. Shell, to work ore from what is now known as the Shell & Wampler group. At that time a skilled chemist who understood lead-silve- r smelting was not procura-ble, while if there had been, and smelt-ing could have been made successful, there was no market for lead bullion and no refinery of any kind west of the Atlantic slates. The smelting project was, therefore, abandoned because it proved to be a losing game; but not, however, before hundreds of tons of bullion was produced, (exact figures not being obtainable.) and some ten thousand tons of ore was smelted from those mines.. From this statoment, the possibility and productiveness of on'y one of the camps in the Deep Creek mountain, when railroad facilities have been sup-plied, can be appreciated. The exodus from the mines, which commenced in 1871, left all that portion of tho country almost wholly de-serted, except by a few of the bravest-hearte- d of the prospectors who held on to their locations with a grim determi-nation to wait for railroad facilities to be accorded them. The Mining Dlatrlcta. Commencing at the most easterly limits of the territory known as Deep Creek, the first camp reached on tho line of the Deep Creek railroad is GKANTSVIU.E. Tho general formation of this district is limestone and quartzite. the ores be-ing a very heavy lead, not high grade in silver.but carrying a large percentage of iron, making them very desirable for smelting and the prices of treatment merely nominal. In this district is lo- - cated the Third Term mine, which is now working and has something of a local reputation as a large producer of load ores from which it is making al-most daily shipments. There are hun-dreds of other claims in the district of almost equal merit ami having similar ore, which aro only partially devebped. ' Grantsville will be approximately ten miles from the line of the Salt Lake, Los Angeles ec Nevada railroad, which is now assured and will be built within the next year. LAKESIDE DISTRICT. This is the, next camp on the liue of the new road, which will he built about eighteen miles distant from it. The same mineral an d geological character-istics are f ound in Lakeside which exist in Grantsville, with this difference, that here are located vast deposits of high cation by existing and well known facts. It is nearly a mouth since it became noised abroad that some very rich ore had been found in this mine, but even its most sanguine owners had no con-ception of the results which would be secured from the first shipment. On April (!th the first consignment of Buck-hor-ore, amounting to eight tons, was received and sampled in this city. Tha analysis and assays of this ore, made by local chemists and assayers and up-on which it wis paid for by the smelt-ers are given below: FOCK ANI A HALF TOSS FIRST CASS CBE. Silver eoj'j ounces. iold. 4.8 ounct--t- . I.bmI 10.4 per ct. Silica 3y.4- In " Iron fl.4 II) " Zinc B.'J 10 " TOI1KB ANO A HALF TONS SECOND CI.AS 1 OUR. Stiver 13 5 ounces. (Juki 910 Lead I. percent. Nothing that could be written would carry a more convincing demonstra-tion of the richness of this mine than these plain figures. Just think of it! Eight tons of ore taken from juBt under-neath the surface debris giving such marvelous returns! Tha excavation from which this shipment was obtained is only niue feet high, twelve feet in length aud a few feet wido. Every-body who has seen this prospect, and there are many, pronounce it one of the richest properties they have ever seen and declare that with sixty days devel-opment it will be capable of producing from 50 to 100 tons of ore per day. This is only one opening of the many which are on the Buekhorn mine. Iu the ether shafts which have been sunk there are large veins and deposits of ore from which no shipments have been attempted but which will run from 50 to 100 ounces in silver. On the dumps of many of the other mines in this district there is already thousands of tons of ore giving average assays of from 20 to 60 ounces in silver. Among these can be named the Silver King, Yellow Jacket, Frances and Har-ris mines all of these having bodies of ore ranging from two feet in width up-wards. Parallel and almost a mile distant from the Buekhorn mine there is an immense contach between limestone and quartzite carrying bodies of lead ore in an iron gangue that will run 15 ounces in silver and 20 or 30 per cent lead, tne remainder being nearly all iron. The report received yesterday from Dugway district of the developments which have been made in tha Buekhorn mine are even more astonishing than tho previous ones. The mine as a pres-ent development shows a soltd breast of ore measuring twenty feet in height tor, but enough has been done to pov that the deposits a .ju.o ..iuu ordi-narily extensive and . valuable. From the Galena two shipments of ore hava been received, ono amounting to threa tons and the other to fifteen, which at the time of this writing has not been sampled or settled for. The first ship-ment of three tons was purchased by the smelters from rhe owners, Chipman & Grant, and paid for on the basis ot 173 otiuces in silver, 58 per cent lead and J3 in gold. This ore was oithor shoveled from the surface of the ground or was dug from a depth in no place exceeding seven feet. The fifteen tona which is now here and which is now unsettled for is believed to be still richer than the first on account of the admixture it contains of the horn silver which the mine has disclosed since tha first consignment was made. There are other mines in the district believed to be of equal or greater extant and hav-ing as large bodies of ore astheGalona, among them being the Emma, Last Chance, and several others which show-vein-s of both carbonate and galena of very high grade. Sam Gilson who was seen yesterday by a representative of The Times, said: "that he had talked with a num-ber of miners who had como from Fish Springs, all of whom had more than verified tha most extravagant reports that have been published. Everyona with whom he had conversed said that it would be almost impossible to over-estimate the amount of wealth already discovered." Ore has been shown on the streets in the past few days, which came from the Galena mine, that is flaked all over with horn silver. Miners are at work, taking out this class of mineral from almost immediately under the surface and piling it on the dumps waiting a better condition of the roads and tha arrival of more teams to transport it. The owners of the mine are engaging every teamster possible to freight the production from Fish Springs to tha railroad at American F"ork . WILLOW CREEK DISTRICT. Correctly, this is the first district in the Deep Creek country, the others be-ing east of the divide. The veins hera are large and occur in contacts of lime-stone and porphyry carrying ore bigt grade iu silver, gold and lead, in bodies five or six feet thick. Miners who hava examined this camp believe it to hava great promise when more developments have been made. TROUT CREEK DISTRICT. ' Trout Creek is south of Willow about thirty miles and is in the same range of mountains. Kich ore bas been found, some of which assays as high as 1500) |