Show DEEP CREEKS FRIENDS Men Interested in District Plan Association to Assist in the Development of Properties Prop-erties There Meeting at Commercial Club Addressed by Prof M E Jones and Committee Appointed to Prepare Articles of Association Associa-tion Pamphlet Setting Forth Claims of District Discussed Prof Jones Says Some of States Camps Show Decline Fifty of the people Interested the development of the Deep Creek mining distrIct met In one of the parlors of the Commercial club last night and after listening to various expressions IIH to the inost feasible means of developing this immense mining district and getting get-ting the ores on the market It waa agreed to form a permanent aHsocIa lion with John Dorn us chairman ii rid Hnl J P Gardner as secretary Prof Marcus E I Jones gave an interesting discourse on the Deep Creek region TO FORM r ASSOCIATION A comtnltlco of three was appointed by the chairman of the meeting John o ll IccLng Dorn to draw up a set of articles of association I and arrange for monthly meetings ot the association This section i sec-tion van decided on In Conformity with I l resolution Introduced by R M Johnson John-son of Chicago who Is Interested with Attorney 1 M Hamilton I In the Dcwcy group of mines at Ibapah The chair appolhtcd T E Bird I r D Wlhdsor and George Crlsmon to draw up the articles of association arlcl f odaton TO PUBLISH RESOURCES J P Gardner moved that n commit tee of three be appointed to prepare It pamphlet setting forth the resources of Deep Creek and the chair appointed ap-pointed William Babcock J P Gardner nd J L Moats lo get out the pamphlet pamph-let Mr Gardner subscribed 100 towards to-wards they publishing of the circular George Moats said he would bo willing to give from 150 lo SJM Cabcock promised 5100 and the Garrison Gold Mining company 30 SCOPE OF WORK Mr Babcock submitted figures on the pamphlet which It Is proposed lo have published I for distribution In the Ensj His proposition was that It should contain sixtyfour pages twenty of which should be taken up with Illustrations and the balance with descriptive de-scriptive matter by Prof Jones He jj Jd JJuu he had prepared estimates on two grades of pappr und Hint Iho pamphlet would cost 27 and 2S cents each respectively In 0000 Jots or as low as 6i and 7V cents In 20oV > 0 lots Ho proposed that tIme work should 0 thorough and comprehensive and such that Ihe books could he used for reference refer-ence five or ten years hence His f J views on the subject might be expressed In a lthe Eastern people had the money and the people here had the property They asked for a report on the property by a reliable mining expert ex-pert and they ought to have It TO INFORM PEOPLE Prof Jones gave a very interesting discourse on the Deep Creek mining district He said the object of the mectng was to ascertain whether suffi dent interest could be aroused In he matter to get together and gather Information regarding the Deep Creek region for distribution among people in the East He said he had first gone through time district In ISfll for the Rio Grande Ho went with the expectation of mindIng if worthless country which md been boomed by the newspapcis Since then he had been through thc region a dozen or llftccn times DESCRIPTION OF DISTRICT The professor then gave u description of each of the mining camps eommenc Ins with the Dugwuy range fifty or sixty miles west o the Oiiulrrh mountains moun-tains Ho said that twenty live years ago they began to put up smelters In that ocallty > They were a i failure however for luck of experience They succeeded In molting the ore to about the consistency con-sistency of moliiBgeT The slag I could K found In that country yet silent ostlmony to lack of experience The professor then went on to describe Fish Springs the great Deep Creek 100 lilies loner and honeycombed with mi ling campH the Thurbir Antelope Spruce mountain Cherry Creek Slull Creek mountains mineralised for fifty nllcB the Munsey nail Grlxsly Flat onnlry the Occola and White Cloud 00 miles long by Io wide TO SECtRli RAILROAD I The Eastern people would natu ally ask why this Immense ml ilug region had not been de elopcd and they would have to be shoVMi why As soon us the I peo tle could show a paying tonnage he believed that one of the railroads would consent to build Into Deep Creek At resent > It was a case of tIme miners on ono side and the railroads on time other They were locking horns and had heel iou the last fifteen years Tho professor dvised the preparation of a general cconnt of the lay of the land Its ugrl cttt rural and 1 lumber resources Its riiifiportntjon fiuHltles I I and water supply ft dcscrlptloiNBhouIdribcr jjlvei iclv of each of 1he mining campa CAJUPS ARE DECLINIXG lie said that the larger camps ofTJtalr were already fully half worked out Pork City ant Tlnllc are already on tire decline nnd Blngham wui beginning be-ginning to show slgnn of dtollne Thy Deep Creek region was practically l un ijcralched I would not be long before rallroulH and smelters would seek It If I It were properly advertised In tho 12ast The pamphlet should alFo setforth the nature 01 the on and give illufllm tions of the principal mlne and mills the character of the ore and the fluxes and an accurate map or the region showing1 thl mines etc the water supply and so forth OolherH who addressed tho meeting were John Dcrn Angus M Cannon11 Johnson T3 Windsor of Chicago J D Hamilton and IC TL |