Show THE DEEP CREEK excitement IT has 1188 become an established trait of the population of this intermountain inter mountain region to go flo to extremes conservatism to is disdained disdain ed enthusiasm and excitement are conspicuous elements elemente in most moves especially of a financial nature that affect any considerable portion of the community real estate if operated in at alymust all must be boomed if a railroad is in projected there must be an excitement raised and continued in regard to it long before any work is done of real estate and railroad booms the people of this section have seen so much during recent years beati that it might be supposed they would become less lea mercurial in regard to them but there to is an element in our population that delights in if it does not subsist upon these abnormal conditions of enthusiasm and excitement and it is ie ever ready to seize upon the slightest opportunity or most moat slender material for creating a boom it is an element that lives largely by its wits and flouris flourishes bes best when other people lose theirs the real estate excitement in this city has been baen declining for over a year jd so that at the present time there is only about a normal amount of business being done in that line lifie and the tendency of the market la Is steadily downward shutting off opportunity for speculation though the drops in prices are not as sudden nor noir as great as might have been expected from the bight at which the excitement ran MD a year and a half ago 40 A new subject for a boom was wanted and deep creek was soiled seized upon and to Is being be ng utilized for all it is worth even though its wealth be as great as reported now the deep creek country may be and probably la Is rich in mineral wealth but it is a long distance from a bass base of supplies and lies in the midst of a forbidding desert subsistence will therefore be very expensive the lack of water is an especially serious drawback men who go there to make their fortunes will need capital to start with in view of these thaw facts and others of a moral rather than a financial nature it may be well for men who have comfortable homes farms or reasonably lucrative employment to inquire before abandoning the same for deep creek which is in likely to pay best in the long run to stay whom where they are or go off on on an uncertain hunt for a sudden fortune our view is that men who have homes families and employment or who are settled in life with reasonable comfort and a fair prospect of perman enoy ency would do well to let those who are ina in a better position to do so develop the mines while they stay at home and cultivate the social and do virtues and share in the gen eral prosperity which flows flown to the community at large from the opening up of any source of wealth |