Show OLD CAMP OF OPHIR j Is another Utah camp that came IAm Into existence some thing like 1111 thirty or nr tony forty y ars a o Some Iome of Salt latt wire Lakes mo t eDt really mil made their start In life there Mathew H Walker Waller and brothers mined In canyon cott whan was w a new nw camp mp white Col er B J A Jt Wall learned hit his ft lessons 1 In mining In I till this Tooele county Although suffered tend the fat ft of nearly all II camps campa when hen the ceased cea to t all sil silver alla I ver aa a standard of ot money mOlley there ha 11 never been a time Um when the be became came totally Inactive In a mining way Someone was always alway working urn i Tor or a number of years yea however hover the Hill HIli mine owned own by b Senator ator W WA I A Clark has hall been the mainstay of the po The mine has h been a of a good deal of nf revenue to Senator Clark Clrk Tile The company operate a con concentrating i mill and Is la a constant ship par of ot or ON to the Bait tAU market The of several years litigation over apex troubles In favor avor of the company compy will probably mean Increased production tion Uon In the near nr future Senator Clark has tua secured an option on prop properties erU In Dry canyon non and Is Ia developing them Should they respond as aa It IK I believed they will th probability of a I railroad a branch of the San Ian I I Los Loe Angeles A Halt among mong th j Improvements for the future I Over thirty years P ago 0 discoveries were 1 made mad In the district which I resulted In the I for t tah mining Industry In those tho Nul days dOl when silver had reached its It and an the ur country wan WAA the Mecca for the ther I r pioneer prospectors and nd millions It IK III claimed by tho thol familiar with th tho hap hRIt happenings of 0 that time were taken from the tb not holes holA and lid surface What was 1111 then considered to be bl worth worthless j less I ore to bo be Inti In III th or i thrown over the dumps dump I today Ind a very fry proposition pro The early work n It the district only prospected the tit round In a few most favorable places for the later lal r generation and It Is I re rf remarkable I that such a promising region 1 should not have ba Invited more thorough I development than thon It has baa received Tha Tho traditions of Dry nyon and old Uon I Hill read like novels noI of the early day and yet a II visit II to the old working there will Mal beai testimony to their re remarkable reo i It N I estimated that over ha hu b n I from rom the sev av several i eral ral properties on nn Lion Ilon HIM although there were WI never KII record kept whereby wheNby the th actual figures H e made available But HUI there Is III not the th est Ht doubt that much wealth hsi hu bc n obtained from the th rich e de deposits 11 posits and nd een n to this day no deep dep mining has h been done on this famous old hill but bul there Is I some talk of driving ing Int a tun ed In from the canyon C nOn nOnIde Ide although the proposition Is la yet yetto to 10 assume aunte tangible form |