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Show BIG TIGS PlfOIGTEl OVER IH DEEP CREEK J. H. Wolcot Says Country Will Soon Astonish Mining World. J. II. Wolcot, a resident of this city, but for muny years a prominent initio owner of Deep Creole, returned from a two week's trip through that precious metal producing country Friday. In traveling west through Tooele county, ho says he never, in the numerous trips he has mado over that section, saw tho country look so prosperous as now. Not in fifteen years, if ever, has there been such crops of wheat anu other grains as has been raised this year by the dry-farming dry-farming process. The farmers of Tooelo county find themselves in a more prosperous pros-perous condition than for many years past. Tho range is in fine condition, and stock of all kinds has an abundance of winter feed before them. Tooele county winters larger flocks of sheep perhaps than any county in the State, and tne outlook for the sheep men is all that could bo desired. In his peregrinations through tho Deep Creek mining district he found much activity. The country to the eastward especially is filled with pros- Fectors. They come, many of them, rom Ely and other districts of oast-ern oast-ern Nevada. The Northern Utah railroad rail-road just completed to Ely has made Cherry Crook, Nevada, the nearest railroad rail-road point to Deep Creek, distant about seventy miles. The Western Pacific, when completed, will bring the Deep Creek district within less than forty miles of railroad transportation, and, says Mr. Wolcot, "it is all but a sure thing that a spur will bo oventually run to tap the district dis-trict from the nearest and most accessible accessi-ble point on the Western Pacific main line. This will havo a stimulating effect upon the mining industr' of that section, and in my judgment, the output out-put of ore will astonish the mining world. The developments of the mines of Deep Creok show that many of them can be made tho greatest copper, silver, gold and lead producers yet un-covereu un-covereu in western Utah or eastern No-vada. No-vada. Salt Lake will benefit largely when tho Deep Creek ores, by daily train loads, find their way to the smelters of this valley." |