Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-11-27 | Page 6 | Longing for the Railroad

IiONGING FOE THE RAILROAD De La Mar Man from Nevada on Its Help for Mines Splro Docklestlch a prospector and minepromoter of De La Mar Nov yesterday arrived In Salt Lake the principal object of his trip being to determine as far as possible the real conditions with reference to the build Ing of the Los Angeles < Salt Lake railroad which he says when built will pass near some valuable claims In which he is Interested and give an Im petus to mining generally In that re gion The group In question consisting of ten claims Is owned by the Iowa Copper Mining company In which the principal shareholders are Mr Dock lestlch J J McGowau Richard Ewlar and Peter Samuelson and Is situated In the southern part of Lincoln county and ten miles west of the Colorado river On this property he says there is a large body of ore that will yield an average of 12 per cent copper and 3 per ton In gold and with more development work It Is believed that the body vill Increase both In size and value When assured that the road will be built the work will be energetically pushed but as the property Is now ICO miles from the railroa J In Utah and seventy miles across an almost Impassable country from a road In Arizona thc operation of the mine is prohibited by reason of the great expense of trans portation There are many other prop erties in that country he states which carry reasonable values that will sprJnff Into wealthproducing mines with the building of the line