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Show TIBUS TiiiJ DATfiY THE DEEP GREEK COUNTRY. Great Need of a .Railroad to Hani Oat . the Riches There. UR.GILSON'S GREAT STRIKE AT OUSVAY The Dlt Plih Spring Yield Sir. Cannon's Operations Tbe Sale or the Gold Hill Property to an En Syndicate which Will Work jr-l- lh It Kxtenatvely A. ltunnlng; of a Great Region. Ie-criptl- on low-gra- The past year was prolific In talk of the Deep Creek country to our west, and considering Its Isolatsd condition and tbe distances to be traveled through a deserst country to get there, the progress ha been good to say the least, and the output of mineral far greater than one could one year ago have anticipated. Prospecting bad but just begun when Thb Tbibune'S last annual come from the press. Since then Dugway and Fish Springs have sprung into good oanps, and considering that sixty to seventy sslles of bad country lies between them and the railroad, tbe output has been large In rich ores, while great quantities of low grade ores have been uncovered. 'Enough prospectors went to tbe country to run the locations made up into the hundreds, part of which have been partiallydeveloped, but the greater number are be: Ing held under title of location. Upon most of tbera assessment work at least will be done during 1802. Just here it Is well to tell what the. popular term "Deep Greek Country" really paeans. It does not mean simply the valley of Deep Creek and lis Immediate locality, but it means a country commencing i" and extending westward far Into , Utah Nevada; a country 100 miles wide north and south, and BOO miles east and west. Deep Creek is but a small stream rising in the Ibapah or Deep Creek range, and' flowing northward some fifty or sixty l miles, sinks Into the great salt desert on the west side of Great Salt Lake. This stream Is partly in Nevada, but mostly In Utah, and Its valley is a very fertile one, with a ; few good ranches cultivated to the extent of home consumption, there being no market possible to reach with products of which can be the soil, except In driven out, and It Is good stock country. The Deep Greek country comprises a large cumber of mining districts, somewhere about forty having been organized, most of which have for years been lying dormant by. reason of lack of transportation of and the consequent hardships '. country so remote from railways and where the absence of water Is so general as there. ' But the country will in the future become a great mining region through the aid of railroads. It Is too rich in 'minerals to much Jonger be left without a road coni necting It with this city, and it seems as If one must be built soon. The Tribune has for years been picturing the wealth of that . country, showing what great good would, come to this olty by the building of a rall- road through it, until there is no doubt in the minds of the people regarding the neoes- 4 slty and Importance of such a road, or of the capacity of tbe country to produce Immense pres. while there are quantities of many rich grade lodes whloh will be worked whether a road Is built or not. But the groat thlng needed Is a railroad, and that will a certainly soon come. The road proposed Is to run west from the city past Garfield Beach, G'rantavllle, the north end of Onaqua or tbe Grantsvllle range, thence across the north end of Skull Valley, over tho low pass into the Great Desert, thence southwest to ltO miles from this olty; after A Dugway, which It would in the next 100 miles tap district after district, either directly on Its line or oft a few miles on the right or lsffe side of tbe track. This country lies nearly midway between ' tbe Wasatch and Sierra Nevada ranges a country known as the Great Basin la which tbe valleys are level plains' while the moun J tains are ranges running chiefly north and south, arising abruptly out of tho plains. ..if: Nowhere else do we find such parallel ranges so closely crowded together as here, and nowhere do we find a wider range of minerals than bore, since all tbe minerals of Utah and Utah has all of them are found la this big Deep Creek, country. Without going into minuto detail 4 of the various mining districts, the follow- " Ing are mentioned, in connection with their peculiarities, without speolal reference to locations as to routes. Rockwell's mine, fifteen miles northwest of his ranch on tte desert. Is oh Detroit mountain; be has three feet of copper. Iron and manganese, with 1000 tons on the dump taken out through an Jncllue 150 feet down. This Is the only mine there, and it earries enough silver and copper to pay, with cheap - - live-stoc- k, ( . I - low-gra- casional green and pinkish hues which fade "" away on exposure. T r West of Detroit Springs is Antelope range, where at the south end Is probably the greatest trilobite deposit known, and which is tbe most famous in the world. It has been visited so much that it is becoming worked out. This range carries much good timber, but no mineral veins have been, found in that part of the mountain. Thirty miles north of Desert Springs Is Dugway. Cannon's Peak group of mines at Dugway is having much work done, and ' at considerable cost. Angus M. Cannon of this city, is the moving and guiding spirit in this enterprise. The group consists of tea claims, named In honor of tbe mineral monument which Mr. Cannon caused to be erected on the peak, and marked as Cannon's Peak Monument No. 2. lie has spent about twenty '"thousand dollars on this group in opening It up. There ''are large deposits of ore. and to get at these and mine cheaply and easily, he decided to ran a cross-c- ut tunnel to tap tbe vein. This tunnel is In 330 feet through hard rock. He has three shafts respectively 105. 55 and 50 feet deep, and has run levels 135 and 00 feet long, and then has another tunnel In the same distance, all in bard quartzlte. lie has a 12x18 house and a finely fitted up assay office; has built a wagon road at a cost of 1500; built two tanks each holding 8000 gallons of water, making 16.000 gallons, and has hauled water fifteen miles to keep these full. He has worked from ten to fifteen men the entire year, during which time he shipped four carloads of , ore running 4 to 9 ounces silver. 55 to 73.5 per cent lead and $4 in gold. He is making more road, and in cutting tbe vein by the tunnel he will gain a depth of 1800 feet on tbe dip below tbe apex of the Rattler, and get ore out where It will not have to be carried down on burros. This tunnel will soon be In to the vein, since it should tap it 400 feet in from the mouth. On tbe vein where they took out ore on tbe Gypsy, Black Dragon and Rattler ground, they bad a width of over eight feet. They are sinking 300 feet for an air channel. Mr. Cannon, In telling TnE Tiiibcne man of this property said he was not Interested in booming the country. "I want no boom, but I want a place where I can keep men at work, and I don't expect to ship any ore until a railroad gets out there, because It won't pay to haul It to a market; but give us a railroad and 1 will ship lots of ore.' de ' , ' de - THE DEEP CKESK MOUNTAINS rise" out of the 12,400 feet at the desert, to an elevation of summit of Mount Ibapah, the highest peak la Utah except the Uintahs and La Sal. Tbf range Is abrupt and well watered and timbered. The core Is gran lte. with quartrite flanking porta and south with ore veins on the quartzlte contact with limestone. None ef these have been developed. Twenty miles north of Mount Ibapah mineralization begins and runs north ten miles, apparently covered With . porphyry dykes there. This Is a promising field for prospecting, i; It Is near Clifton, where for several years a number of mines have been in process of development. This is a most Interesting region, in having veins In granand well defined ite with walls as clean-cas the walls of a house, while the mineralization is quite uniform In value. These veins are iu size one to four feet, and carry silver, lead and gold ores. There are hundreds of locations In Clifton district wblch have ore running from a few ounces In stiver up to over 200 ounces. Considerable work was done there during the past year, and quite an amount of ore was piled on thedumps. Some of these claims have been la progress of development for years, notably the claims owned by G. D. Shell. " The older claims have been snnk on to various depths up to nearly 200 feet, and the ledgos appeur to hold good in depth. Near Clifton there Is a mica mine, where small sheets have been taken out, but the mine has not been explored as yet into where there is a permanent ledge, but it is believed a good article will be obYellow The Hammer mine tained. has a vein of magnetic iron carrying a little gold. silver and lead. The Monaco mine is on the south side of the mountain, near the top. in granite, and has a vein of carbonates of lead and iron, and gold, and has carrying copper, stiver been sunk on by an ' Incline 175 feet, from which ore was shipped and considerable plied' on the dump. This ore runs about 27 per cent Iron, 32 ounces silver and $5 in gold. The Copperopolls is down 110 feet, with levels and stopes on ore running 30 per cent lead, 52 ounces silver, $3 in gold and 8 per cent Iron as an average. The Pocahontas is down 75 feet with ore a foot wide 45 ounces silver, 12 per averaging cent lead and $7 in gold. The Success, on the edge of tbe desert, has 200 tons of ore on the Odump. has been exploited down 250 foot by Incline on Its two foetof ore in granite. The Christmas; mine, near there, has a vein fifteen feet wide of high grade ore, and there are many more good properties that might be mentioned. Gold Hill, four miles north of Clifton, is in Granite with porphyry dykes. There is enough water for u small mill. Tbe veins can be traced two miles and tbe ore runs as high as 8 ounces gold and 30 ounces sliver. There is a group of several mines recently belonging to Martin, Woodman &Dunyan, which is an Immense gold property and on which much development has been done for a number of years, This will become a great property when machinery is put in. On the east side of the hill there are large veins In porphyry wilch carry gold f rom 1 to 30 ounces, all free milling,' and these are so well developed as to warrant the employment of many stamps. Dutch Mountain, seven miles north, has large veins of ore running high In iron and fairly well In silver. These are located In lime adjoining porphyry. Eagle district is eighteen miles over the line in Nevada. It is also known as Black Mountain. Hardy, Hinman & Karrlok of this city have a group of twelve claims, located a year ago, on which they have done $500 assessment work and will do more in tbe spring. They have had assays all the ounces silver, tbe way from twenty-fiv- e lowest, up to 1800. and a few dollars In gold. Tbe veins are well developed and can be traoed a long distance on the surface. The ore runs from a few inches up to three feet wide, all In lime fissures running into grant lte. Young & Tlbbetts own a large group o'f claims In granite, which are showing well, and they are putting In a mill to reduce their tores. Ores of this district are from low grade up to thousands of dollars la i value. The Deep Creek railroad must run within a few miles of this district. There is plenty of wood and water for carrying on mining. Going westward there are the districts of Willow Creek. Eight Mile. Furbex. Devil Canon. South Mountain, Kinsley, Dolly Var-de- n. Pleasant Valley, Kern, Antelope. Silver Canon. Muney Creek, Shell Creek. Pier m on t, Saoramento and several other, all In Nevada, and all of which are In condition to become large contributors to a railway. Several of these districts have mines which have been worked, fpr years some the past twenty years by selecting' the high grade ores to ship and piling the second-clas- s on the dump, till there are thousands of tons of such ore awaiting transportation facilities. ut , . SALT LAJOJ The district was organised on May There are two main veins running through I the country, . known as the Boston and the Mahogany. Both. are. in dolomite and black lime, and are fissure veins. The Mahogany mine is owned by Karrlck, McNamaro and W, I. Dooly. , It carries ore, with native and wire silver. It has a cropping ten feet wide, but at a depth of eighteen feet Its walls are five feet apart, and tbe ore, as shown by three assays, went 500, 800 and 1300 ounces of silver. That is ill the deso but tbe far, velopment ledges promise unusually well. Tbe Boston belongs to tbe same parties, and has a vela two feet wide carrying ore that assays 20 to 25 per cent lead, and 100 to 1000 ounces silver. On this a depth of thirty-fiv- e feet has been reached. . Harvey Hardy owns an extension of the Boston, which he calls the Big Muldoon, has- from two to six in Which Jb feet width at a depth of fifteen feet. Tbe ore shows ruby, native and brittle silver.and has given assays as high as 1800 ounces silver and 3 ounces gold. Dr. Bailey A Co. have an extension of tbe same grade, on which several openings have ' , - - well-defin- ed j " r 1 dllii. 123 .' free-milli- ng ' riJVT-JT-nJTJT-nJxruTJOi- HAlvrUOK - - ' fJW . XYA in eh f? '. . ., & GO., v. 7-- TIT s w a TV a Taterial5. I MUNSEV CREEK. 20 5omAereial Its ores must: come here. The Grand Deposit and "76" are the chief mines. They have been worked for years; both are so well developed that either one of them can send out a hundred tons of ore per day, or, both combined, 200 tons daily. The Grand Deposit is down 180 feet, where the vein has been crosscut twenty-fou- r feet without reaching the walls. The "76" is not much developed, but it can turn out the V.! a Ijtfyoraplic; 50I?es a9 Manser Creek is in Nevada, and yet it is & district properly belonging to Utah, since ore. 5 Grades of r s mi Martin owns five claims in the district, aff of .. which show well, and on which he has four men developing. " Raleigh and Parker of Salt Lake City and Duke Harry also have some good claims which they are working. John Devlne Is also working a claim. In the district there are some forty or more men. at work. There is plenty of water and good timber. Karrick, Martin, Dooly and McNamara have taken up a townslte and located a water claim. W. S. ; . . Alctkrors of All been made. Pat Rice and Dooly own the Pleasant Valley on tbe east side of tbe range, on which they have gone down forty feet in one place and got eighteen inches of ore which runs 100 to 150 ounces silver, of which they have shipped a ' carload of twenty tons. . . xJ. ;.. 5treet apd 525 Qay Sap prapeiseo, (ala 5treet, THE INK USEE ON THE ' TRIBUNE" IS MADE BY ITS. .ruTJTJTJTJTJTTijTrLrajx ?i The ore runs about 20 per cent copper. 25 per cent lead and 75 to 125 ounces silver, and some gold. These two mines are on the same vein and are similar in quality of ore. At Aurum, Davis Sc Sanford have 15,000 tons of ore iri sight In their property, besides five or six hundred tons on the dump, which will run 75 to 180 ounces sliver and 12 to 20 per cent lead. Tbe vein varies in width froth six inches to four feet, and is opened by half a dozen shafts and one tunnel. Ore has been shipped to Salt Lake City from ths property for years at a cost Of fully $30 per ton for tranportatlon. . I IKDIAN. SPRINGS. Indian Springs Range is a new district opened tbe past year, ft is located twenty-fiv- e miles east of Dugway, near the Deep Creek wagon road. It is some eight or nine miles south of Government Creek Station, and fifty miles southwest of Stockton. Last spring Con Drisooll and associates located a group of claims on a gold ledge, and now' have six claims extending in.the vein nearly nine thousand feet. Not much work has been done on these, because as soon as tbe locations were made there was a rush to the district, and the largo number of locations made brought about conflicts which took time to settle. These having been untangled lately, worki will be prosecuted rigorously hereafter. Tbe vein is traceable tbe whole length of these claims, it being a clean, white quartz, carrying yellow chloride, green chloride, bromide, stedefeldt, horn silver, gold and a trace of copper. It Is free from lead. ; The samples assayed showed from a few ounces silver up to 1600, and $5 to $20 in gold. In one place a shaft was sunk fifteen feet, and several boles from three to five feet were dug out, this being the extent of work done &o far. The owners, all of this olty, are C. Con Hall ,W. and Drlscoll, Dobbs Messrs. and Sappe, Abbott, and the claims are designated as the Morning Star, O. K. & Rex, Rpllo, Burt. Old Dick, Laura and Last Chance. On the west side there is a belt of low (trade lead Veins.carrying considerable Iron, running parallel with the gold, which have been located clear down Into the valley. The gold lode is encased between black or blue lime for hanging-wa- ll and quartilte foot, and is fro" m two to five feet wide, cutting across the vein. In the load district the Brooklyn has been sunk on thirty feet, the Yellow Jacket forty feet,, American thirty feet, getting low grade ore in each. None has been shipped in the district, wblch is well supplied with timber, water and grass; and the mountain can be easily climoed. FISH SPRINGS. ktnd-Iookl- ore-produc- ers al 75-fo- post-offic- JTJLN UAMYv 1 lat. 25tb, . ' UTAH, gFErD AY? ZOBOTGr, ranche. The Fish Springs mines are situated about e miles west of the Dugway twenty-fivtransportation. '."'. DETHQIT niSTBlCT in the Deep Creek country, the range v Is thirty-fiv- e nearest railway point being Dsseret on the miles west of West Tlntlc, In Utah Southern, distant seventy-fiv- e Millard aud Jua"b counties, ou tbe west side miles of Old Utver Bed. The district, three miles by wagon road. These mines are situated on the western slope near the north point of square, is highly mineralized close to the The locacoutaot of quartzlte with lime. tbe Fish Springs range, and were discovered a little more than a year ago. By reason of tion is only about 6000 feet above sea level, the high grade ore they contain, profitable and, the mineral is chiefly Iron and copper; With bismuth. The Ibex has a vein eight shipments to Salt Lake were possible, and were commenced early In the summer and r ten feet of ore, carrying copper, iron, have been kept up with more or less regugold and silver, and in a depth of twenty- .five or thirty feet; considerable ore was larity during tbe remainder of the season. The formation In which thesa mines occur once taken out and shipped. The Juno Is a fissure in porphyry, two feet wide, with a two is lime. the. stratification of which has a seam of bismuth. This has or three-ino- h southwest dip of about twenty degrees, with the cleavage north and south. Where the been sunk on sixty feet, and ten tons of bismines occur there, is an east and west muth ore shipped to Swansea, Wales, betted 1225 per ton some years ago. The E. P. II. break, with a porphyry dyke carcourse ried up along the of the mine In lime has been sunk on 200 feet, and 1000 tons of copper ore taken out. This is break. The Galeua, Utah and : Miners In line with the usual character in1 llme- Dream cover the outorop of this dyke, atone caves where the ore is deposited. to tbe south side of which dyke the ore bodies, are found. Paralleling these The average ore is about 17 ounces silver. -claims on the south are the Moorhouse, Last $J la gold, and 22 per cent ead. ,, The Ohio Chance and Ogden claims, and paralleling has a vein four to ton feet wide, showing these again on the south are the Emma.' .large bodies of ore running about 48 per Vulcan ami Wild Cat. But; the ore seams cent iron and 3 per cent copper. These are on the south side of the range, and are In these lateral claims are erratic and small, East of though the Ore Is very high-grad- e. easily reached by wagons. These mines owns whloh Ohio an to Vulcan in a saddle, is the Fish Springs a the company, belong smelter ten miles away that was once claim, at a contact between the lime on tbe north and a quartzlte dyke on tho south, operated, but closed because of high cost of fuel and dear transportation. with a strong vein of Iron ore. No ore has been discovered outside of the north side of the range , On are . quite a number - of iron lodes the area covered by the claims mentioned. are These of the camp are the a The real little copper. carrying veins In lime.. Captain Mayne Galena and Utah. Near the west end of the Galena a tunnel and Incline shaft have has one ten feet wide, with one to two feet of ore low in silver and carrying lead and produced the ore shipped from that claim', while on the east end a fifty-fo- ot shaft has Iron." There, are a number of these iron Veen sunk near the porphyry dyke, and mines at that place. Some two or three miles north of Detroit drifting towards . the dyke Is now In progress, but no ore has yet been encountered. Springs are some Interesting deposits of On the Utah ground three shafts nave been iematite iron, 04 per cent pure, with only . 2 or 3 per oent silica. feet In put down, each about seventy-fiv- e ' Six miles farther north Is the famous depth. From the west and middle shafts the Utah has produced all Its ore, which ocTopas mountain an escarpment In the SPaiNO CREEK DISTRICT. curs in large bodies that seem to dip south range 2000 feet above the valley. It is A Spring Creek Is a inew district, added to and trend west. These two shafts have been friable material and carries large banded the Deep Creek country this year. It is In connected by a drift about 150 feet long in seams of an exceedingly nard semi-crystof cavities Goshoat range. "seventeen miles south- the fall flee the of level, which shows no ore. From carrying finja of topas. e, oc or De of with east of John vine's tbe middle shaft bottom the white, topax, generally Ibapah crystals ' CIT, ot ng driven a north drift , Is k beinn or Little the porphyry. through. no stoping has been done, and yet In sinking 50 to 60 feet the ore has yielded about rock, while that re$60,000 of maining in sight is estimated ofat20 about to 0- inn nno. hAsidea lame Quantities ouace ore that must await the construction of a railway to Deep Creek to render It merchantable. These two properties, the Utah and Galena, give promise of becoming, with proper development, great ore producers. The Miner's Dream, in the east end of the dyke, has a shaft drove 75 feet, but no ore developed. The Emma has ten holes sunk ou it, the deepest being some 30 feet, and all of them being within a few- feet of bne another. It has produced from small ore, but tbe seams considerable bisrh-graground needs some systematic development to prove tbe value of It. The Wild Cat is under lease to the Brimm Bros., who have been scraping the gravel from the apex of tbe ledge, and have been making wages by small boulders of high-grad- e plcking-u- p gravel! It has also a tunnel some 40 feet long and an incline shaft 25 feet sunk on the foot wall. The Last Chance has a number of holes sunk, each a few feet In depth, but without apparent design. The Moor-80 house has an incline shaft down about feet, and shows some good ore in spots. There are about 75 people in the camp, but the Utah Company alone are fixed for systematic development work. The Utah mine has made a big record for Itself already. The first ore shipped was sold on July 1st last, and the books of the company show that there had been brought to this city and sold, up to December 17thr 439 tons and 1277 pounds of ore which sold for $86,208.98. Two more carloads since the latter date were brought to tbe city and disposed of. the returns of 'which have not lots been' reckoned, making thirty-tw- o in all. These two lots should add about tons more, making the aggrethirty-thre- e gate about 472 tons, bringing the cash pro-du- ct for the first six months of shipping by the mine up to about $92,000. The average value per ton at which this ore sold was about $196. The owners of this fine propertye, are Elizabeth C!rismon, Charles Van Peter J. Reed, W. S. Crismon. George Crlsmon, E. M. Weiler, Fabnie L. Crismon and William Mclntyre. About $5000 was expended in buildings, etc. on the property and thirty men are employed. 157-oun- de Al-stin- SCr. Dykes on Seap Crtsk. Dykes of this city was but In the Creek country, and on the desert this Deep side, last summer. He had quite an experience In sinking artesian wells to supply the country with water. His experience in that line, and what ha says regarding tbe mining properties and prospects there will be' of Interest. . His first well was sunk at Government Sink, eighteen miles west of water on the road to Dugway. He drove this well down 432 feet and secured a small flow jof good water. Nearly all this distance down was through sand, there being here and there a small seam of clay. At one place feet jof the pipe went through sixty-tw- o quicksands, and stratas of salt water were passed through. This depth of sands shows W. L. .' co - to what extent tbe ancient river flowing from Sevier lake to Great Salt lake. or rather the washings of the streams when this whole valley was a great sea, did its work, in depositing so great an amount of sand, with a TTew small pebbles, but (no boulders. This desert is many- miles wide at this point. In fact Government Sink; is only part of the great desert, from which mountain ranges rise as Islands from the sea, and "Old River Bed" is one of the land marks left to show that a big river once ; j - XCXNJBB OF BEAVER COTJJTTY. the winter, while his men are sinking a well mine owners, Galena the at Front,croek for The Horn Silver' Operations for the who. in hauling ore to market, sSnd it to Year Talisman Uonte Crlsto. over the Oasis, a distance of "eighty miles Horn Silver mine made a good record The road which has to be traveled now because the year and would have done much past havof having water, ou a route which, by more had tbe company been able to get cars ing wells, can be shortened by another and the ore market had been better. As It route to sixty miles. He has contracts to was, 157 lots of ore, as follows: 5 Sink eleven wells, and wrll keep his machinery busy, since he is offered enough work to keep him employed tbe next two years. Regarding the country, Mr. Dykes is its importance as a greatly impressed with S. II. Gilson Alt Dugway country. mining a" a boarding and bunk-hoiis- e, dug well, built and an assay office, etc., costing about $S000. He kept a good force of men at work on bis Buckhorn mine, from which ore. The he has shipped much high-grad- e on has been he which ore vein or chimney of are 8 which in there feet is wide, working seams of horn silver, while all the ore between the walls pays! to ship. Besides this work he has had about fifteen men working on fome five or six claims he owns, to do the assessment work. On the Buckhorn he Is downj forty feet aud has run g tho in a tunnel sixty feet, vein. Over 150 tons of ore was hauled to miles, and shipped to Stockton, sixty-fiv- e this city. Gold Hill Is a whole mountain of mineral, said Mr. Dykes. The owners of the group of mines there. Messrs. Martin, Woodman & Sllvera, have sold their property to an English syndicate for $300,000. The option ran out on December 1st. and was taken up, and already they have shipped in twelve sets of rolls from England to Loano, the nearest railway station, eighty miles north. These, rolls are something similar to the Wall rolls, and were sent by water to San Francisoo. The option was on condition that water was obtained, so Louis Martin went there and feet and drifted sank a shaft thirty-Ov- e a small to under feet spring and got forty mill. euough water to supply a teu-staMr. said "that "I think," Spring Dykes, Creek, not known until last July. Is one of the richest In tbe West. It has ores running all the way up to 2200 ounces silver. In the Chester there are chlorides and foot of sliver In a two and one-ha- lf vein in gray quartzlte that run up to 7000 j ounces silver." At Aurum. Sanford and Davidson drifted in and found six feet of rotten iron carrying silver and gold up to $300 per ton. They ore on have piled 15,000 tons of the dump to await the coming of a railroad, while they ship rich; ore to this city to keep up with expenses. ; Muncy is a good camp and has lots of ore on the dumps. Artie Young has bonds on a big group - of iron carbonates silver which can't be carrying lead and; shipped without a railroad, and there is lots of ore ready and in sight. Shelbourne is a splendid district also; so" In Burke, which yields mostly lead ojres. f At Ely there are fine'pro per ties, one mine workedfby Johana being one of the l.irgest in the West, but It Is tied up by litigation. Glencoe. just on the west side of tbe Deep Creek range, over the Utah line into Nevada, is a fine district running well In silver with a small amount of gold. Ferguson, north of Glencoe, gives some gold along with copper up to 44 per cent. In closing. Mr. Dykes said that tbe Deep Creek country Is, in his opinion, the best In tbe West, and with railroad facilities It .will become the greatest producer, furnishing enough business for the road to make It a paying-- Institution, and that almost from the time It enters, the country. The mines are well enough developed to warrant this belief In the country, while without a railroad but little progress can be made In developing cross-cuttin- :; sul-pbur- ets low-gra- de . ; ltjl ; Sevier northward, connecting Violating lis Own Kale. that I tbe Great Salt Lake. and lake doctor, you said, you ;know, "Bat, Mr. From this well Dykes took bis must avoid all excitement." he Fish to where Springs, machinery It hurts you. I have always Certainly; sank a well for Crismon and associates 197 told so." you feet deep, getting a large supply of slightly "Why, then, did you send me your bill brackish water, which stock: relish. This The Comic. yesterday?" well went down through olay and beds of dead quicksands without finding water Had Saved Hotnettilne. until getting down to the stream or basin "One shirt to our back, said the editor, tapped. This water rises within eight feet j "We had when wo struck this sod;" of tho surface. Another .well was sunk "And what have you now?" asked hlai creditor? ... there to a depth of 231 feet, in which the , ; water rises to within three feet of the sur- ' 'The back by the grace of god." Atlanta Constitution. face. Further work was stopped there for flowed . j , they shipped Tons. ore lots of silver-lea20,534 lots of ooppor ere l,m5 Total 21,739 All the Copper ore and about one-tenof oro was reduced within the the silver-lea- d 150 7 d th safes, etc The. company own this vein for two miles. It belnK traced on the surface that distance. They also own a vein, similar every way, 30 lnohes wide, some miles south, whloh they also mine.. thirty That portion of country Is very rich in minerals, and would become a prospector's If the Indian reservation were once paradise thrown ; The Salt Lake Gilsonite which Company, owns part of the smaller vein of. did some mining tbe past year, andspoken shipped or six carloads, say 100 tons of gilsonite. five THB 8T02TE Territory; all the remainder found a market and was reduced outside, thus furnishing Superiority of th Utah Product Quanabout 17,500 tons of ore from this one mine tities Shipped. --! to foreign reduction works, against 3200 tons The extensive progress In Utah smelted here. These ores came from tbe has called for so building much stone as to cause the various levels down to 1100 feet. Tbe ore Is opening of numerous The quality improving In value in tbe upper stopes, but of Utah building stonequarries. is so superior and so it is getting baser below. The sixth, seventh varied as to create for it a large demand, and eighth levels have better ores than for both at home and abroad. This city preyears, and there Is more ore exposed In.the sents some as pleasing and Imposing stone mine than at any time during the past four fronts as are found There is anywhere. years. nothlntr more solid and cleanly in appearDuring 1891 the company paid four diviance than the of which the Mormon dends of $50,000 each, making $200,000, and Temple is built,granite while there are gray, red, it now has a surplus In the treasury of about blue and cream-colore- d stones, in $300,000. Tho Increase of tbe. surplus was which are very beautiful. ' A numbuilding $70,000 for tho year. About lflO men are ber of new quarries were opened during the employed at the mine, which Is located at past year and others are being developed, Frisco, Beaver county. The business of these are partially shown by reports of shipments of stone, muob of Star District. Tbe Talisman mine was worked during which was used in this city in erecting tbe year by a small force,; and thirty tons of buildings. The Diamond, Kyune & Castle Stone Comhigh-graore was sent to market. It is pany shipped during 1891 the following cars proposed to put machinery on the Talisman of stone: 1. soon and work the property more vigorously, Month. since It Is promising to make a fine mine. Diamond or Iteti, Jflfun4or Cray. 10 y January... ... 6 - 1 Xhe Hons Crlsto Btining- - 3s BXllllnjr Co. February .. March 39 9 13 During tbe year 1891 alow progress was April 43 J 44 SO made. Some dead work bks been done in May 54 June TO running the tunnel in 100 feet on tbe Monte July 2 e& 14 Crlsto mine, and on the Amelia mine, where August 40 40 73 September.. .'. ore was extracted to October sixty tons of 24 room for tbe better quality, wblch assays November .. 29 get s J .. 6 on an average jfrom 50 to CO ounces sliver December and some $3 In gold. In August last tbe 904 Total, 7vo cars. properties went Into a close incorporation under the name of the Monte Crlsto Mining Tbe Metropolitan 8 tone Company own & Milling Company. J. G. Jacobs, president; quarries near Park City, which opened J. U. Dupalx and N. Pitt, directors; O. R. the past year and shipped 150 they carloads to Zipf, treasurer;! J. P. Bacbe, secretary. Salt Lake City and to Park City, Their Since that time a fine large stone dam has stone is In layers from one inch to seven feet been built by the company on Beaver river; thick, lying nearly level, and it; is being mill overused for ourblng, flagging and for various repairs were made; tbe five-stahauled and repaired and the ore on tbe purposes in building. Tbe company pat in dump worked successfully up to 95 or 90 per steam derricks, built a spur to the railroad cent. Owing to tbe early freezing tbe comone aud a half miles, the latter at a Cost of pany decided to close the mill until next $9000, and made other Improvements In tbe spring and ship the ores to .market. , Tbe way of building, making their Improvecompany employed ten men at the mill and ments for tbe' year, foot up a boat $15,000. mine, doing development work at the mine, About fifty men are employed I In th in running tunnels, upraises, airshafts, etc., quarries.-to get to tbe rich ore found previously, asTbe Mountain Stone Company began saying 625 ounces silver, 83 ounces silver and operating quarries at Snyderville last 17 Jg ounces gold, 104 ounces silver and f 12 March, since which time they have exgold, averaging some $250 per ton. . This pended $20,000 In development, machinery class of ore Is now being sacked for shipand plant. They have two red stone quarment. Besides this vein there are six others ries and one gray, which furnish good . dimension. curbing, guttering and! flagging paying to mill which will b extracted durstones. They have room and facilities for ing tbe winter for use at bbII. J. H. DtJraxz, Superintendent. employing 150 men. bat the average number so far employed has been about fifty. OXX.SOBTTS FJtOOUCTXOjr. They have been shipping about forty carthe past four months, makTwo Companies Op- -; loads per week Shipments! by th lm five hundred carloads in all. ing nearly eratin; Uintah. for Yards and dressing have been ' storing' Tbe Gilson Aspbaltum Company, of which In tbe city, and a heavy stock Is in C. O. Baxter of St. Xoula.'is president and opened reserve for the opening of the building seaBert Seyboldt of 'Fort Duchesne general son in the spring. The company report superintendent, own and operate a mine of large contracts ahead, especially for paving gilsonite or pure aspbaltum, In Uintah and sidewalks. county." This Is a very interesting deposit, Tbe Pacific Paving Company of Utah did being a fissure vein 3 feet wide, standing a large business In making paving blocks sandperpendicular in a fissure through at the month of Little out of the stone, tbe cleavage being so well defined as Cottonwoodgranite canon. They made the past to leave smooth walls on each side, the top few months about two thousand In flat lay- blocks and shipped themhundred portions of tbe sandstone being to this city for ers. A depth of 100 feet has been reached This makes well on to street. State paving on this vein, and there is no change in the 150 carloads of stone thai this structure or quality of either the walls or turned out. giving employment to company a large the asphaltum. men.i of force During, the year some three thousand tons of; gilsonite was mined and hauled to the Comparative Worth.: "What are you crying for, my daughter?" railway at Price, a distance of ninety miles, and then shipped to St. Louis, where it Is That Jones girl next door got a fan for disposed of for various purposes, tbe great her Christmas present." bulk being used in the manufacture of var"Bat didn't we present you with a nstr nishes. These varnishes are being shipped piano?" "Yes: bat ber gift etms ttrt!;U 1 7 , everywhere, and is used for coating harness buckles (.and other similar articles. 'Paris." Judge. i . ; de '. '. ' low-gra- ' de ( : , ' : ; : j |