Show i mynes MIXES IN YIN tiie THE OF SEVIER VALLEY ili Jil lermit hermit grows enthusiastic on the subject december 1884 editor deseret mews news e allow me in the close out of 1884 to still hold up to view through your columns a country of real worth to any unprejudiced prejudiced minds that have the natural of common reason the portion of tit s wasatch range known as mount baldy baidy in one of iffy my former letters to the deseret NEWS I 1 stated that the mineral belt of the carbonates showed up oil on the head bead of deer creek on the tile northwest and wound its ser course through webster and bullion from the head bead of the cottonwood creek running southeast to the head of the ten mile creek I 1 am now prepared repaired to state that the henry mini 1119 iiii district in sevier county north of oi marysvale Marys vale six miles and south of joseph city about eight miles has a heavy mineral belt running for the head ol 01 deer cre creek ek in an easterly and westerly direction and its free milling ores bres have been and find are arc being shipped to salt lake there is a itne line prospect et of a business camp on the sevier MI river ver neven seven miles south of joseph cit city there ig is a heavy belt of grey cark cart carbonate carbonate onate of lead also running in this mineral line of deposit as well yell as many hnativ discoveries of free milling ore on the surface the assays essays are liht leht V but as s depth is attained the tac ores improve in quality and lacre increase se in quantity so there is no mistake in it that in the 11 ear sear f future sevier county will have a LIVELY MINING DISTRICT with all the surrounding facilities of a rich farming country such as the sevier valley ann aff affords easy ansy communication with the thu mines in in the low foot bills of the sevier sevien river thousands of acres of cedar and scrub pine for fuel and the close proximity of flour mills that are now telling selling nour hour at per cwt cat with all classes of vegetables at the s ame same low rate with the these advantages ta es and the ores of tie tle district running from loo sj to soo per ton by the car load why in the naine nape of the light of the suh sun should we vve not s ay to the mining men of utah and others that think cf of investing in the tho mining enterprise of this territory instead ot of stock blown railroads a and broken bond past credit that we have a new opportunity for investment I 1 if utah cannot onner offer a field of enterprise in her many mining interests preferable to railroads with an inflated capital stock she has but little to offer exee except t the daily dally toll of the farm and herding herdin of tock mock on the range of her wl lff iff zd and arid pasture lands 13 hut nut 11 t we trust that more will bo be done in the f future than has been done in the pat and that men in search of the various minerals of this territory may be rewarded with the success of a plentiful harvest of the tyle precious met tais the prospectors has not been considered a polite or honorable calling in I 1 some ome localities but perhaps in the course of all an other other hundred years a good prospector understanding how now to make discoveries of mineral wealth mav may be respected re we again repeat that this Is d bood mining reglo region nand and when properly developed will inake make one of the best ino luo inot most t productive fields of utah the Val vai eltes artall i OUT ON OX A hop lioi nop in the copper belt mining company store and kicking out the old year ear in real hrone broncho I 1 io fashion while your cor car respondent enjo s a good rood pi pine log fire in the shades of of the evening and the quiet looking booling out at the future of a rising country we can see sec in the not very dim dist distance altce attee mills smelters shelters sm elters a railroad a city in the mouth of sevier caron cahon teams beims and freight I 1 men and mom all ali activity and busine ra W will III lil it come about through a few sheep and dairy cows rows grazing lazily on the hill sides of the sevier river rivel no the minest tile the mines let lt it echo lou iou loud lond d enough to he remembered by the tile thinking lubie lubic pubic auble HERMIT P S one of the legal liberals of this this new nelv dist IA let has restricted us f from rom using his fits name namu in any communication relative to the mines here we pre simie sune the intent is not to let the cat out ot of tile the bag until this fabers u suppressor oppressor stakes out the whole country borhi for himi in self seif eif elf lie he will no doubt navo have some lively pedestrian work to do b before lie he heads head off the hermit nermit in this regard the tho hermit does not care for such liberal patriots |