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Show OX TO, DEEP CREEK. PLAN FOR BUILDING A RAILROAD TO THOSE MINING DISTRICTS. A Square-toed Proposition Tliat is Made by Harvey Hardy Wind is all Kight for Sailing rhips but Money Talks How it Can be Done. Since Harvey Hardy returned trom his last visit to the mines of Deep creek, he is more sanguine over the bril.'iaut prospects in store for that country than h i has ever been before. be-fore. He is also determined, if Uio own money and influence will aid the enterprise, that -4 railruad shall be built there and shall controlled exclusively by home interests. His proposition is, that he will be one of a hundred men to contribute $1000 each, which amount shall be expended at once in the grading of the rood. As a matter of coue, Mr. Hardy does not think that $10.0:)0 will build more than a small portion of a railroad of KVi miles in length; but he does think that when that much money has been expended, confidence will be inspired both at home and abroad. It would then be comparatively easy to raise another Sl.VUHW) in this city, and when that amount ha!l be spent in grading there would Lp something to mortgage so as to secure fhe sum necessary to push the road through to its present contemplated destination. destina-tion. "Two hundred and llifty thousand dollars," dol-lars," Mr. Hardy says, "will grade at least seventy-live miles of that road, and that would insure that the rest would be built beyond a prcadventitre." Ceutennial tureka Developments. Soirie rather heavy developments have been made on the Centennial Eureka mine during the past summer, but the mining world has heard little or anything of them, raall lots of ore are shipped regularly from the mine, from the sale of which the company com-pany is able to declare large dividends; but the public seldom hears "anything of the properly. Within the past few months the shaft has been sunk from the No. f to the No. 7 level, which is something like T80 feet below the surface. A station is being cut ot this point, and work will soon be commenced in driving the drift 1o the southeast to reach the paying zones, which ore'knowu to exist from the fact that they extend down from the levels above. Nearly all the production of the mine at the present time, is coming from Levels No-. 2 and 3, where the ore bodies arc large and unusually rich. However, How-ever, none bui the medium grade ores are shipped, the highest grade being held iu an-tieination an-tieination of heltpr rr ; ?).!71 was received in the city yesterday by i the different hunk., which was a rather sutls-faclory sutls-faclory showing. Matt Morrisscy has been down to Beaver county to see "the Blue Jay mine, w Inch he chaructcri.es as being the best prospect iu all foiithcrii Utah. A shipment was received yesterday from the Horn Silver; the mine is pioducing about as much as Usual, but only a small part of it is being marketed. Harvey Hardy says; there is no longer any douid in his mind but what the Deep (.'reek mines are hummers, in fact there was a doubt since he tirst saw them. A man who came down from Park City l.i.-t night said the reports on the Greets when ; lie left were that the water in the Anchor shaft was within a few feet of the bottom. Consignments of bullion from the. new smelting works at Fiodie, Nevada are being received every few days. The smelter is apparently meeting tip- most sanguine expectations ex-pectations of lis projectors. A mining man who came down from Logan yesterday said the. general opinion in that town is that the Ked Jacket iu La Plata district dis-trict is a dandy. The men working on the mine call it a second Robert E. Lee. Col. E A. Wail,, w ho is recognised as one of the hardest rustlers amoug the Utah miners i? in the city. The. colonel stated that his concentrator at Ophir, was runn;ng on ore from the Bonanza, and that everything was working satisfactory. Some very good ore has been found twenty miles west of "West Tintie in Black Crook district. The find-; have been made rn contact con-tact veins between fiuartizite and granite, and the assays go o0 minces in silver, 5 per cent copper and $4 or 5 gold. Sinking on the Daly West, is being crowded crowd-ed with themost aggressive energy, the shaft at present being 2U0 feet deep, the surface improvements such as shaft and engine houses are nearly completed and workmen arc now engaged in setting up the new machinery. "Mr. A. 11. Boyd of Leadville, Colo., is in the city trying to introduce his "Giant-Cap ln-iil;i'or Ffistenin?." which is a most in- gr nious and y et simple device for making iiiimii'g cartridges water-proof without the use of miners so,!p. Kis invention consists of a piece of adhesive and insulated tape which can be wound around a cap and fuse in an instimt. Preparing for Winter. The Park Record says: Matters up about the. Daly West, the Meears and the Daly No. are still rushing, it being the desire of the various superintendents to 4,'et their improvements im-provements so far along before snow flies that the men will have ample protection from the weather when it docs turn severe. The Daly No. 2 is now ready for her new ! engine which is expected every day. The Meears hoist is assuming definite shape, while at the Daly West the' new works are enclosed and some of the machinery is being be-ing set. The. development in that section of the district has been wonderful this teason and next summer will see a large addition to tii output of the camp in consequence. The Park City Record says- The Marsac rcHuery started up to make a lest run, all the machinery haviug arrived some days ago and placed in position. A start was made last week, but the larjrc lead tank collapsed and had to lie repaired and somewhat remodeled. re-modeled. Everything is now in ship-shape and the value of the plant will soon be determined. de-termined. Mr. Stedcfelt is superintending everything in person and as the process is principally his own invention, he is greatly interested in makiii"- it a complete success. It will be impossible to get any definite data concerning the results of the test run for several days, as everything is new and practically prac-tically untested, though nothing but complete com-plete and entire success is anticipated. The Park Record says: Matters at the Roaring Lion are progressing nicely and the leasers, Messrs. W. V. Rice, C. H. (iitseh and Pat Sullivan, think that under their system sys-tem of developments the mine is going to prove a bonanza. They are sinking an incline in-cline shaft on the vein, and are making splendid progress. A raise was made from the old tunnel level to the surface, a steajn hoist erected and an incline on the vein started from a point immediately under the saise, and is now down on the vein about. UMY feet. It will be sunk to a depth of -JOO feet before any drifting is done on the vein at all. The mine looks splendid, numerous bunches of first-class ore being encountered encoun-tered at regular intervals, as well as large quantities of low grade rock. Several shipments ship-ments of ore have already been made, which iiAcraged, with one exception, over $100 per ton. A force of men is kept constantly at wxrk in the old slopes taking out good "ore, and on the whole the property bids fair to make a brilliant record in tho hands of its present lessees. Kroin Tnscarora, val. J. M. Mateer, one of the old timers in Tus-carora, Tus-carora, Ncv., arrived in the city last night, lie says Tnscarora has been very dull all slimmer, the mills have been closed down, i little ore was being shipped, and only a few i men were being employed as compared wi.h the number at work when that camp was oue of the hurrah districts of the west. But there has been a slight improvement within the past month, and all of the idle men in camp have found employment, 250 or 300 being now at work. The Grand Prize concentrator con-centrator will start up iu a few days, and some of the amalgamating mills are preparing prepar-ing to do likewise. All of the ore shipped, which is uot much, goes to Carlin, New, where new smelting works have been established. estab-lished. One or two nciv mines have been ! opened lately which are making quite favor- j able showings. Work in Oeep Creek. Mr. L. C. Karrick who returned last Thursday from a two weeks' tour of the l)ee creek districts, irives the information that some very important and most encoifr-airing encoifr-airing developments have, been rimde. there !hc past few months. In Spring Creek canon particularly, the mines are making a splendid showing, several of the prospects being able at Ibis time to make fair sized shipments at a considerable profit. Mr. Karrick. is of the opinion that there are many opportunities to make money out of mining in that country, notwithstanding its remoteness from a railroad. Today's Ore Receipts. MiiKf. ' Tod. Sp.-mi-li 15 Whirlwind 3 Hoadlv Caroline 1 tali tnen 1st I fnh - .. . 1 Miami l Total .". . .loi Mines And Alining Ien. Mike Kirby is up from Frisco. lolin Beck's Caroline yielded him 753 tons of ore last month. Dan McDonald of Park City came down to hear the election returns. A production of something ovcra thousand tons was made by the Mammoth in October. It will only be a few days now before the La Plata mine will be equipped with a steam hoist. E. V. Ferry has gone to Cleveland O., to attend a meeting of the board of directors of tho Anchor. .Tohn H. Berryman, William Hoolcy and T. D. Piper, Biagham mining men, arc at the White house. Hank Smith intends doing some active rustling to bring the Bullion-Beck output for 1 .November up to 3000 tons. The production of the Buiiion-Bcck during dur-ing October waf 'JS4S tons, which was the largest ever made by the mine. Judge Aurelius Miner left the city today for Ketchum, Idaho, near which place he ia interested in the Trapper mine. H. B. Westover, one of the owners and the manager of the Red Jacket, the- newest 1 bonanza in La Plata district, was in the city yesterday. - ... - . ..." . . Au amount of ore and bullion, ciual to |