Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-01-19 | Page 12 | Stateline is Growing

STATELINE IS GROWING Bound to Become a Great Center for Mining Correspondence Tribune Statellne Jan Gjhul Statellne Is destined to become a great mining center cen-ter there seems lo ho no doubt as there are now cal pH springing u I and new discoveries being made in every direction The latest discovery reported report-ed is 1 a gold and copper proposition about ten miles cast of here which IB I11c5 already attracting considerable attention I lon Mr Lc Roy came In for his mal Int night and says no now has a Buffalo whim in place on the shaft and Intends to increase his force of men a I once This enterprise is hacked by Salt Lake capital About three miles south along the same range Is a group of claims recently located by I D J Huntsman and associates while about five miles to the north are Ihe old lead mines which produced considerable consid-erable ore years ago hut the owners having failed to do assessments were all relocated the first of the year About five miles further to the north and west near Basket Springs a number num-ber of locations have been made on large copper ledges from which fine samples have recently been brought In About ten miles further along the range Is the Blue Jay silver mines a large group of copper claims owned by the Knight boys of SlatHine and the Indian Peak Mining companys properties upon all of which considerable consid-erable work has been done and the Blue Jay at present is working with good results Around further lo the north is the Confidence and Perseverance I I Persever-ance These together with Deer Lodge Pikes diggings and Modonn make an unbroken chain o piospecllvc mining ramps for all of which Slatcllne Is headquarters On and after the 35th of February we arc to have a dally mall coming via Deer Lodge from Uvacla instead of Modcna Material and supplies for supples building a camp are still coming by the tralnloads and the gll up and gll there al present reminds one of the palmy days of our old neighbor 1loehe Water has been encountered at the 100 level In the Jasimlne and the ore Is so rich the miners claim they can actually pan gold from the waler In any case the oldest gold miners In the country that have seen it say there was never anything like It In the past of the country and It Is stated today that Frank Wilson principal ow nCI who Is now on the ground has about decided to erect l large l mill right at the mine as there Is more ore In sight now than the present small mill could treat In years