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Show ting fortunes each year from the depths of the earth. In half a hundred camp there will be the greatest activity and prosperity; Utah will be the leader of all the mining section of tlio country, and Salt Lako will be, not only the fairest, but the largest and the busiest city between the Missouri river and the fucilio ocean. ,t POSSllIlLITIItS OP MIMMl. f Deep mlnliift Is the watchword in the mlnlnq j camps of the state. Nearly every mine owner has faith In what Hps bonenth and Is anxious to go to the utmost depths to demonstrate the value of bis projierty. The Interest In "deep MlnlriK" Is becoming so warned that the different dif-ferent camps aud competing manaementa In the same camps, are vlelnir with euch othor to icaln depth on their resjiectlve properties to now to the world what there Is In them. All t he old camps of the state show that the deeper the workluiis the more prolific the mines, all of which iroes to prove that mining lu this state Is yet In Its Infancy, and that our best. Kround Is only "scratched," so to spalc. Apparently there Is no such thinif as "wurklnir out" amine In Ibis slate, which fact perhaps la responsible for the curiosity of our mining men actuating them to go deeper and see what there is below. We (Irmly believe that the more mining Is run Into the ground In Colorado (he richer it will make us. 0i'uvur Mining Exchange Journal. Jour-nal. The foregoing presents some features of the ruining industry that are fully as characteristic of it in Utah as in Colorado. Colo-rado. It is true that lu all the great camps of the Centennial state the mines have increased in value as depth . has been gained upon them, and this - fact opens up wonderful possibilities for the future of the business. It has been but a few years since the advantage advant-age of deep mining in most of the (districts (dis-tricts of that state was problematical, but the faith and the energy of a few companies in each camp have demonstrated demon-strated that it will pay to go down as far as human ingenuity can continue to ink. This is equally true of the territory of Utah. We have not so many mines here that have been worked to any considerable con-siderable depth, but wherever deep mining has boon undertaken it has been found that the deposits hold out strong and rich as far as they can be followed. We are not informed of a single instance in-stance in which this has not been found to be the case. There are a number of mines which at some time in their history his-tory have been supposed to be worked out, but which have opened out larger and richer with more development. The great producers at Tintio belong in this category. They were opened years ago and produced heavily at the eurface, but were allowed to lie idle for a long period on tho supposition that they contained nothing nioro of value. Now, the world knows that the development devel-opment of the Tintic section has scarcely begun. The ore deposits grow more and more phenomenal as they are developed at greater depth, and it has been demonstrated that the most extensive plant for exploration are fully justified. Park City might be cited as an illustration of the permanency perma-nency of Utah mines, the histories of the great properties there showing that there it no limit to the possibilities that lie beneath the ground. These facts in connection with Utah mining are pointed out to show that this lield will bear deep mining. The eurface riches here eicel those of any other state or territory of the west; but development has been on a smaller scale than in any other of the old sections. sec-tions. The only conclusion that can be legitimately drawn is that the future of the mining industry in Utah, when energetic operations shall have bean inaugurated in every district, is beyond all calculation, When great tunnels shall have taken the place of the tortuous passages through which so many good properties have been worked for a generation; gen-eration; when coiornodious shafts shall have been sunk upon some hundreds of claims which are now worked in primitive prim-itive fashion; when power drills shall be tearing out the walls that enclose scores of treasure vaults; when electric hoists shall be operating far below the surface to facilitate exploration when modern mining appliances shall have been introduced everywhere and when the number of energetic moneyed operators oper-ators shall have been many times multiplied, mul-tiplied, we shall see a condition of things in Utah that we but little dream of now. Where men in this day are gouging about in the outcrops of rich bodies there will be great mines employing em-ploying hundreds of men aud output- |