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Show GREAT IS DEEP CREEK. A High Authority Gives His Opinion of the Country. A HIGHLY INTERESTING JOURNEY. A Brief and Readable Description of all the Districts, With References to the Various Mines and Prospects. A Times reporter had the pleasure of meeting, yesterday, Mr. J. C. Garvin of Leadville, Colo., who, representing a large syndicate of eastern capitalists, has just returned re-turned from the Deep Creek country, having hav-ing in their interests made a thorough inspection in-spection of the whole country. Asked for a description of his journey, Mr. Garvin (who, by the way, is a fine typs of a Scott-h-mau, a graduate of the Kensington School of Mines, London, and as such holds in his possession a certificate from Huxley aud Tyndale, of scientific fame) replied, in a brogue that would delight the heart of any and every "Scotty" that , ever lived, in substance sub-stance as follows: Dr. II. J. Faust and I left Salt Lake City, enroute for the Deep Creek country, on the 13th of April last at noon. We drove to Lehi by the famous State road, the doctor driving a pair of his own fast horses. We arrived at the creamery on the banks of the Jordan, an establishment in charge of H. J. Faust, jr. The weather there was exceedingly line, and as we passed one well cultivated farm after another, and viewed the bright green fields of lucerne, the beautiful oi-chards oi-chards with every conceivable kind of fruit trees bursting into blosom, I could not help repeating the well known line of the poet Moore, 'There is not in this wide world a va'ley so eweet. I am surprised, continued Mr. Garvin, that some "one has not introduced the delightful de-lightful sky lark from the British Isles into this pleasant land. I know they wo'iid thrive as well as the sparrow. In regard to the latter I have heard a great many complaints com-plaints against them, that ' they destroy graiu, fruits, etc., and drive away all other birds. But at the time I speak of there is ao grain or fruit to destroy. Therefore if the enemies of the sparrows will take the trouble to ttnd out what they cat from one grain and fruit season to another they would change their mind, perhaps, about them. The Netherland Fine Stock and Dairy company is the name of the creamery I referred re-ferred to. This company has about 100 of the finest bred Holsteins iu the west. The buildin-rs and everything about the place are of the most improved style. Butter can be produced five minutes after lbs milk is taken from the cows. There are twelve artesian ar-tesian wells on the land belonging to the company. Well, after spending a pleasant eveniug at this establishment we crossed the Jordan next morniug at 7 o'clock, passed through Camp Floyd and arrived at a ranch in Rush valley belonging to Mrs. Vanderbaker at 3 ?. m., a distunce of forty-two miles. Camp 'loyd is a historical piace as you know. Dr. Faust, who knows every bod v, as also every foot of the way, pointed out to me many interesting Indian liirures cut in the rocks above Camp Floyd. He also related re-lated to me some of iiis early experience when connected with the Overland stage route. When the Indians were very troublc- some, Killing every man that came In their way, , he was riding from Camp Floyd to Rush valley one dark night. While, ascending a little ridge near Rush Valley he suddenly came upon wbat he supposed a number of ludians. There was no use trying to turn as he was i too near the redskins to get away. So he took a revolver in each hand, and, shouting at the top of his voice, charted tho crowd. The colony tnrned tail and ran bellowing as they went. The supposed Indians proved to be a herd of cattle. That was one on Doc. Faust. The mining camps of Bingham and Ophir lie to the north aud Tintic to the south of our road. We passed about 40,000 head of sheep between the Jordan and Camp Floyd. The hills between the Jordan and Rush valiey are composed of limestone and quartzite. From Rush vnlley to Simpson's spring the ro' are much the same. It is twenty-nine miles from Rush valley to Simpson's spring. This spring is on the south side of ti;e Great American Desert. There is an old station there which belonged to the overland route. It is fifty miles from Simpson's spring to Fish springs over the desert. The road is both rough and tough for the most part of the year. FISH SPRING3 . district is on the south west edge of the desert. It looks as if there were a faulting and uplifting of the earth's crust here, and along the line of faultiug there is a great number of warm springs, some of them very large and others small. . But all of them are alive with small fish about the size of a roach. It is said to be a famous place for mosquitoes. THE UTAH MINE, which was discovered last year, is about five miles from Fish Springs station. The ranste that rises out of the desert at Fish Springs is a series of stratified rocks consisting of limestone lime-stone and quartzite and fine porphery dikes. Jt is along the line or one or these porphery dikes that the Utah mine is situated. This mine has produced over $"-'00,000, and has had to haul the ore seventy-six miles to Dcseret. Wonderful development ( has been done siuce the mine was discovered. There are several other mines and prospects in the neighborhood. But as I was limited to time, I cannot say anything as to their merits, only that the cond;tions here are favorable fa-vorable to getting several good mines. We crossed another arm. of the desert aud arrived ar-rived at WILLOW SPR1NG3, situated at the base of the Deep Creek range. The Rio Grande Western road is surveyed by Dugway, Fish Springs and Willow Springs. There are five families living at Willow Springs at present. Dr. Faust gave me something of the history of the pluce, as it was a station of the Overland route to California, Cal-ifornia, and iu the very heart of the Indian country. It would be surprising if there were not some interesting incidents connected con-nected with the red man's visits to this station. sta-tion. ' On one occasion four braves arrived when the station was in charge of Henry Jackson. 1 he Indians were very insolent. Jackson told them to get out. They replied with a flight of arrows. He dropped one with a shot from his rifle, the others ran. He followed and two more fell. The fourth got as.far as the foothills. Jackson followed him and finished his work by a hand to-hand contest, after which he hitched up one of the horses and hauled them to the spring and tumbled them in. Those springs are said to be deep. The water is cold and'full of fish. There is sufficient water running from the streams to irrigate several farms. Mr. Couruey has several wells of artesian water which he found at aa average depth of 100 feet. - "Five miles west of Willow Springs rises the Deep Creek range of mountains. They extend about forty miles north and south, and are about twelve miles wide. Some very rich strikes of silver and lead ore have been found between Dry canon and North pass. DEEP CREEK or Ibapah is 25 miles from Willow Springs. The pass is low and the road is all that could be desired. As we drove through the pass the doctor pointed out the place where stood an old overland station which was burned by the Indians, while at the same time the two men iD charge of the station sta-tion were shot and killed. When I got to the west side of the range I expected to see a deep creek, canyon or gulch, but none of these were to be seen, j There is no deep creek In this section of the country. The mountain ranges rise out of I the desert like rocky islands out of the sea. When we looked back over the great desert Continued on page 3. A - - - ' - ' , . f GREAT IS DEEP CREEK. Continued from page 1. from the summit of North Pass the illusion was complete, with what seemed to be water,' eveu to the waves rolling: around the shore of the lofty islands. About one-half of the Deep Creek, range, from Willow Springs south, ia composed of franite, to the north lime and quartzite, and suspect, towards Clifton them is also porphyry. por-phyry. 'there' are about ten families liJvmg along , the creek at Ibapah. All the mountains around here were covered deep with snow on the 23st of April, and what is most surprising sur-prising there is now more snow nearer the valley here than at the foot of Mount Mas-sine, Mas-sine, at Leadville, Colo., although the altitude alti-tude there is nearly twice that of Ibapah. GLENCO. Glenco is 30 miles from Tapah, or Deep - Creek. Three miles from the latter place ' J the road crosses the Utah lino which is marked by a granite pillar with Utah cut on the east side, and Nevada cut on the west. Here there are two saloons on the Nevada aide of the line to furnish refreshment to the weary traveler. Eight miles from Deep Creek the last ranch is passed on the way to Glenco. The road is excellent all the way through Antelope valley, and for 30 miles. The rock formation is volcanic. At Glenco It is granite,- lime, shale and quartzite. . The "Well Annie mine is in granite. The ein is about live feet wide. The guange is a very white hard quartz, carrying chlorid and silver sulphuretts. There are about twenty-five men employed in 'the mine. Select samples of the ore run as high as 1 10,000 per ton. It ia reported that the company is going to put up a mill here this summer. The ore is very well adapted for milling. There are several range, and is six miles distant from Aurum. ACRTJM is situated at the mouth of Silver canon. Here there is a postofflse kept by Mr. Simon Davis. There is also a store and saloon. Mr.' Davis and B. C. Sanford own several good claims in this camp. The Lucky Deposit and Argenta are two of the best. They have hipped 210 tons to Salt Lake from these claims which averaged 85 ounces silver, some gold and 4 per cent lead. There is here a ten-stamp silver mill, with engine and boil-ears, boil-ears, pans and settlers in good order, which belongs to the Ruby Hill Mining fc Milling Mill-ing company. The above company have three patented claims up Silver canyon from which they have milled considerable ore. Thers are several other prospects in this camp, but all are waiting for a railroad. SHELLBOURKE - ' " is situated on the west side of the Shell Creek range, sixteen miles from Aurum. From here, looking west across Steptoe valley, you can 6ee Cherry, Creek and Ely. The latter is the county seat of White Pine county, Nevada. Durinar the boom of '71-73 Shellbourne had at one time eighteen sal-! sal-! oons, besides several large stores. But its t glory has departed. Its present population consists of only one family, that of Mr. William Burke who has converted the deserted de-serted village into fruitful fields of fine I lucerne. You may ask why it is thus? The fact is there was very little mining done. The people rushed in like a herd of sheep, and then rushed out aain.- The mineral in the neighborhood is principally dry silver ore, some of it very high grade. But the cost of transportation and treatment the ore being silieious, was so very high that the mines would not pay. Yet if one half of the reports about this section be true, there will be another boom on the advent of a railrfead. . - , ; DUCK CREEK. About June 1st an Indian by the name of iun, jiving at. Mr. Cameron s much, agreed, for a consideration, to take J. A. Brim over to Duck Creek and show him "a heap big bullet mine." Bullet mine ia the name the Indians give to all lead mines, because be-cause they can run bullets from the ore. Mr. Brim went and got samples of the ore and had it assayed. It run satisfactorily. He told some xf his friends about the new disco very- In a few days there was a rush to the new camp from 8pfinr Creek, White Cloud and Muncy Creek. Duck Creek is situated on the west side of the Shell Creek range, twenty-five miles south of Shell-bourne, Shell-bourne, ten miles east of Ely, the county seat of White Pine county. I -went to see the new camp crossing: the range from Muncy Creek by the Kalamazoo trail. By the way, the Rio Grand Western would have a straight road west from White Cloud, across Spring Valiev, up Kalamazso Creek into Steptoe Valley" The formation of the new camp is lime and quartzite. The min- -eral, which is principally galena, is found in sefregated streaks in the white lime. Duck creek is twelve miles long, 'run north, and between it and Steptoe alley is a 6teep and narrow range of mountains. A mile and a half east of McG Ill's ranch on this range, the new camp is situated. GOLD HILT. Is fifteen miles northeast of Ibapah, at the north end of the Deep Creek ransre and immediately im-mediately upon the edge of the Great American Amer-ican desert. TJic geology of this section cousists of scynite, granite, lime and porphyry. por-phyry. If indications, ledge croppings and promising float promise any wealth beneath. Gold Hill has a great future before it. The Gold Hill Mining & Milling company are erecting a mill with 6ix machines of the Ball pulverizer pattern. The ore is said to be free milling, but I am afraid they will have to put in a combination process to treat the ore successfully. There are several strong fissure veins in the granite which carry -copper, lead, silver and gold. There are several favorable prospects here, but little or nothing noth-ing has been done on them yfet. It is hard to get into this section of the country and just as hard to get out. When a railroad renchea this nnint. linlil Hill ill other prospects in the neighborhood of the "Well Annie, both in the lime and granite, but very little work has been done ou them yet. There are no women in the camp. . The men save all the feaiale pictures they can get in the Seal of North Carolina packages pack-ages of tobacco, and paste them on the walls with, the greatest care. There are two great granite pillars standing on each side of the way to the Well Annie mine which far outrival anything to be seen in the Garden of the Gods. There is; no water between Deep Creek and Glenco for 20 miles. At Glenco there is plenty of good 6pring water. MU2TCKT CEEEK. Acto68 Antelope valley is Muneey creek, southwest twenty miles. Here there is - a good stream of water coming from the mountains. Mr. Cameron - has a fine ranch, and utilizes the water to irrigate his land. He keeps the postofflce. There are two mails per week. Mr. and Mrs. Cameron's hospitality is well known all over the Deep Creek country. Here is a good point for a smelter and also a concentrating mill. It is the center of a minerel region. There are some fine pros-pects pros-pects or I might say mines with large bodies of carbonate of lead, catena and copper ores, with plenty of iron for fluxing. The rock formation is quartzite, lime and porphyry. There are also several varieties of igneous rock snch as ryolite and trickite. In some places the ryolite has a structure like the basaltic columns of the Giants Caus-way Caus-way in the north of Ireland which is one of the seven wonders of the world. There is plenty of timber on the mountains for mining purposes, pur-poses, such as nut pine, cedar, and mahogany. mahog-any. From the size of some ofthe cedars they must be near one thousand; years old. This is called the Shell Creek range which is about 100 miles long and twelve miles wide, ' and from 13.000 to 13,000 feet high; runs due . north and south,,. Seven miles north of Muncey is Silver canyon where at present Indians from all the- surrounding country are assembled to have a big dance. The Deep Creek Indians are. called Gasouts. Although the Indians are fast decreasing in come to the front. CLIFTON - is four miles south from Gold Hill and is also on the edge of the desert. The geological geo-logical formation is syenite, granite, lime and porphyry, the same as Goldllill. There is a very large, strong vein in the contact between the lime and granite and by development devel-opment ought to become a larger-producing mining dirtrict. There are several good prospects in the neighborhood and some of the mines are shipping small quantities of ore. There is a spring liere which supplies water for domestic purposes, but not in quantities for milling purposes. The whole country is located, but there has been little or no work done on the newly located claims. Everybody is waiting for a railroad. CONCLUSION. Having spent three months in the Deep Creek country and visited most of the mines and many of the more prominent prospects, I have seen enough to convince me that it will be a large mineral producing section of the west when they get transportation transpor-tation facilities both for ores aud mining supplies. There is one thing that has kept the country considerably back besides the want of a railroad. The people living in some of the sections of this country made a law by which they could locate and hold as many claims as they could afford to pay for recording. Some individuals hold as many as 100 claims, and have never put a pick in the ground in the wayof developmentwork. But as soon as enough energetic men get into this country all this condition of affairs will be changed. They will make their own laws, which must conform with the laws of the United States, arid, those who have violated the laws. ;and done no assessment work will have to irive hd their claims. this section there seems to be enough of them yet. There were about 400 at the fandango which they kept up five days. To me there seemed no visible means of support sup-port with the exception of an occasional jackrabbit in the sage brush or a cotton tail. I did see two antelope in the Antelope alley, but deer and antelope are disappearing disappear-ing here as elsewhere. The Gasouts receive ' ' no sapport from the gevcrnment. They prefer to support themselves rather than eo on a reservation, They cultivate a little land. There is more begging than work. WHITE CLOCD. Twelve miles cast of Muncey creek is sit-viated sit-viated the new mining camp of White Cloud. There are several fine looking prospects here and some have been very recently discovered, discov-ered, '1 he geological formation consists of roicatious schists, quart.ites, lime and porphyry, por-phyry, also white marble in great quantity. Water is limited. The L. R. G. Western ba surveyed their road over a low pass here in the Deep Creek range into Spring yalley. The mineral is lead, silver and gold. AUBTJM ASD RUBY BILL. Eight miles north of Muncey creek is Aurum Au-rum and the old mission camp, . Ruby ' Hill. Like all the rest of this place, the cost of getting the ore to market has prevented pre-vented the growth and prosperity of this ection. Although this is a high grade eamp, the -mineral here is ruby silver, siler-nite siler-nite chloride, grey copper, carbonate of lead, iron and galena. There is a complete little silver mill here, also a store, postoflice and saloon. CLEVELAND. It is twenty -four miles from Muncey creek to Cleveland, due south, down Spring val-vev. val-vev. This vallev has been ris-htlv named. No person need go into that country with the prospect of locating water rights, for the water has all been taken up. There is plenty of land, but it is of no value without water. The country is nearly all located but not prospected. Let the prospecter make a note of this. He must not go into a country where stakes and monuments stare him in the face at every step. Stay away from such a country." There are thousands of springs. The valley is about ten miles wide, between two parallel ranges. Shell Creek range toward the west and the Snake Creek range east where Mount Maria and Jell Davis peaks rise white and cold to an altitude of 13,000 feet. At this time of the year (May 10th) It is a refreshing sight to see the green meadows and lucerne fields where browse thousands of cattle and horses. Cleveland Is a Mecca to every traveler throughout, all the Deep Creek country. It is a perfect paradise par-adise in the wilderness. OSCEOLA Is fifteen miles south from Cleveland. It is a small mining camp of about one hundred Inhabitants, and is situated in a gulch at the foot of Jeff Davis peak. Here Mr. Hampton Hamp-ton is running an extensive, well-emii.-meri gold placer which is paying well and has produced several large nuggets, one of them eelling for g5000. The bedrock is quartzite, and in the quartzite there are seams and veins that are rich in gold. The geological formation of the neighborhood consists of quartzite, slate schists, lime and porphyry. There is little or no porphryry nearer the camp than two or three miles. The top of Jeff Davis peak is not as reported an old crater, but is entirely composed of sedementary rocks. Mr. Hampton at present has twenty men employed. He has an electric plant which supplies both light and power, also every other convenience for the accommodation accommo-dation and entertainment of his friends, and for the most scientific manner of making a large placer. RCBT HILL was discovered in 1871 by J. II. Guebea, otherwise called the "Rattler." He was after some cattle when he found some of the famoosly rich float, and the first mining claim located on Ruby Hill was called the "Cow and Calf." The geological formation form-ation is quartzite, clay, shale, lime and ? porphery. ' The mineral is found in: an immense ledge of quartz from 20 to 300 feet wide, with lime on the east side, ond porphery on the west. There i chloride, bromide, ruby and native silver; no lead and very little iron or manganese. There was found here the largest quantity tf the richest silver float ever found in the United States. Over $100,000 worth of this rich float has been taken from the wash and shipped from the camp. One shipment of five tons ran $12,-000 $12,-000 er ton. This float was found "in a sag which crosses the quartz ledge, and in a ravino which runs down alongside the ledge to the gulch. The quartz ' " ledge runs north and south, and tan be traced fifteen miles. There has been considerable con-siderable work done outside the quartz ledge, but very little work done on it. The deepest shaft is only twenty feet deep. Forty thousand dollars worth of rich ore has been taken from the 6hafl, which is on the Lookout claim. Mr. W. B. Lawler Is at present sinking a shaft on the G izzly, which joins the Look jut. He is down seventy-live feet and getting out some very rich ore chloride, ruby and silver sulphurets. Mr. Lawler and his accomplished wife live on the property. He is recorder for the Kuby Hill district. The camp is situated in a ' basin near the summit of the Shell Creek '';.''' ", ('.'..i.''!,t;:.':".i a.,.:. ..' ,.'-.'-- |