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Show mm VOL. L WASHINGTON COUNTY UTAH, JULY 20, 1895. ST. GEORGE, The "Adams Lobs" In "Benfir M'nlnt mittee on this industry have chief- District Is eltnsted about AS miles from ly considered the matter in the Bt Q.one and Is owned by the "Grand This property haa Mlniag Co light of toe exports, giving their Gnlch tons oi been worked ; abont DIXIE RESOURCES. A WARM the Greatest Variety. which South eastern Nevada would furnish freight to a line THE GREAT MINERAL WEALTH passing through St George. The 1894 estimate of export by It. R. being thirty thousand steers, Ttat UwWfdden in Our Mountains , ,j five-thousa- Await litfCljSiaJ and Transportat ities to Forward Develi Facii-lopme- sheep aod horses, fifty-thousa- nd 1,200,000 wool. ' , Manifest desire for direct and definite information relative to Southern Utah has for some past been shown by Railroad companies Chamber of Commerce and leas public parties. NotrJbly among these wemaynajou the Nevada Southern Bailway Company and Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce. This desire W been expressed by letters ami otherwise to county officers, to tb e Major of St George city to Messrs. Woolley, land A Judd and otiher leading men. These public ret resentatives deemed it best to call mass meet, ings with a view to elicit .the general information sotight Such meetings have been lield in St George, the. county sea Washington county, and haveboen productive of the organization of a committee on statistics, wiiih subcommittees on Agriculture. Horticulture, Stock raisbg, Nlin ing, and on Merchandizing, aid freight business, tiio subcanuai'Jtees to report to the corumitteo 02 Statistics. The result of; the labors of the several committees, and o f the mass meetings, so far, is in substance os follows: t of pounds . mining. The subcommittee Mining : on thi divison state .that the advent of a railroad toor tributary to, Bt George, would make Southern- Utah one of toe richest section in this country. There is; an .'abundance of CoaJ, Iron, Copper, Gold,Silver and Lead ores; Sulphur, Ochre, Gypsum, Alum, Mineral Wax, in fact almost every mineral known toMincralogy has been found, but the lack of cheap transportation' makes it almost impossible to develope these prospects. '. Valuable properties that would yield millions of dollar if they could be. properly worked are now lying idle. Washington county records show that 4W mining locations have been . Silver Reef in the Harrisburg Mining District, the great Southern Camp, has been one of the mining agents in the greatest molding up of Southern Utah, but bis been quiet for' a few years and has little prospect of improving until silver becomes more valuable and easy transportation reached. All the work done there now is by chloriders. There aro millions V yet lying in toe white sandstone AGRICULTURE. of that region. The Old Buckeye, On the route between the 2k luddy Thompson," Last Chance, - . , St. George,!' tail, June 25. Miss May-- 1S95 de-pls- Salt L.-vk-e City. My Dear May; 1 am I bull I will stay, so either answer by return mail or wale till I phone you from my next etopplug place, If I succeed in stopping, which la at the Present doubful. I expast to re-main here If I can control ctrcnm stances, but at the fearful rata at whia';: I am running off, in perspir atlon, I sli ill soon begone In spite of myself, and ohall be obliged to send my next communication toy from the ahad.v sldo of aheol, for which place I shall soon he prepared as I am becoming fast but dear aodlnratizcd; Ma , dont feel too bad over inv situa-for the old tion, in know not how long haul baa Killed the energies of uie Grand Gnlch Co, they each being abont the same distance from a railroad. About 20 miles east of the QrscJ Gulch sroperty is situated the "Copper Mountain Mining District." from which have een obtained near fifty tons ol copper bn'llon, but some complaint of Wg heals and n deciles in the pries 0. the product, caused abandonment ol tue effort. There are lament; a bodies of ore ie the "Red Bud" and "Red Clond claims Distance from 8t. George shout the same as the three last named nines. Thera is another floe prospect 10 miles nearer In the Bentley D'strict called the "Lynx, or "Hoot Owl," This has been worked bnt little, yellda ore 1ft per cen-t40 per cent copper. Upon the same road and from U to SO miles Item Bt. George, Is sltukted some of the largest bodies of Gypsum known 60 feet end upward in thickness wd miles in length. Ills of the clearest knd finest quality aod ao sound that It can be used lor alabaster. 20 to 86 miles N. W. from 8t. George Is a ledge of Iron ore SO feet thick and g for miles. BItnated near this are a number of Antimony ledgeaol Immense ' qnentlty and excellent quality. W With cheap freight rates, Washington county can supply he entire Wctand North with fine rock for bnlldlng purposes either red or grey Sandstone; Limestones of various kinds and Basaltic or B'ack Volcanic rock In biockaas large as desired the supply Doing inexhanstable Now In conclusion of tnla report we state notwithstanding the dtfllca ties of transportation, the "Dixie Mining and Smelting Co." niya shipped three and twenty seven thousand-onhundred soil eleven pounds of Copper orft to cnse.ltla 5ff winTtbrln td by any means. Another thing 1 mutt tell yon my dear May.is that there are more beautif uf yourg ladies 10 the t qua re rod in 8. Georio-ihananplace m Utah. 1 here heaid tourists praise the beauty of Halt Lake ladles, tut let me tell you May, when compared with tue ladles of St. George, our Salt Lake girls arc "not la It" at all. Now dont get Jealous,dcar one, for I am t the ?inB 0 1 ui awsy with a: y 8t. George brantirs. end if tno climate doesnt get away with ms you will surely nut lose me. There are many things I rruM say lx favor of St. George but 1 w'.ll not try to bow, 1 will only tell you this: Ho. George tuu besides the pratusst girls In Ctat , of tie very bt at people in eurtern-m- y ao) metropo.is. There Is Rome of the beet noeond ftwirr can accnetom myself the material tor roclelacd literary organix-r- o ine neat sufncently to secure he aiionstobe foutd anywhere, and it I position ofhead stock we, or something of live till fall I hope to lie v 3 a good tim, the kind I nhall at leut as good atims as I cau, tnl bo pro!hly be gainer in away fiom yon. the end. Enjsy yoursvlf all you cm duiiug the Oh, darling, how I do sigh for a home bollaaj s as I Inend to do the same. on the top of some Mg ice berg.or to lw U.ve my lot's to Emma, Maty, andlhi pot into an freezer and gently rest of tne girls, turned by your soft fair hand until I waj You: Own El congealed into a solict block of pure Aro-ti- o W 11 is a street lunior that the: a crystals. How 1 v rould enjoy a dip in F. 8. our beautiful Inland ;sea,or evena plunge are two tons of Ice stored awsy som where In the main pool of tfcie sanitarium would round St. George for uie o t Incliptm-ence- " and Pioneer liays, I have been tend to cool my heaped system. The next to find the location of tbla Polar time you visit the Be autiful Saltair take trying bnt to no effect, the fivored l. w an extra shower for me, and I will try luxury oar lccil Ice company seem t composing and console myself w ith the idea tills be tue only ones on the inside track In one time. this ease. Jest think, May, tno whole, great big tone to be used np on those two ice-cre- am ran-n'n- use do not send it otherwise, I expect to get up a grand coasting party this winter, if 1 1 can persuade the hnsa of tho weather to send tu enough of tb""beantifnl,to cover the crest of Mount Hope, and npread a suffleent quantity on the side to make a decent elide for fifteen minutes. Why darling May yen ahenld sa me now, yon know when I left the city I was rather "bleached out, and iny akin was as soft and white as a womans, well bnn-re- d it Isn't so now, for I am aa dark as any Borbeo & Walker, Tecumseh, one of the Turks who were with the Belle 'California and other valuable tue Railroad at Milford 1U miles from Bayo Company In Salt Like City, and my is as dry anl rriao as the tough side 8t. George, also eighty-tnthousand, skin m.bies are shut down. of the 'crust on a hud baked biscuit, It nine handled end forty-foof petnds The Bull Valley Mining District copper matt end one millioa five --1 hundred and twenty-thre- o thousard, e x conhuna vast homes of low-grahundred and sixty-si- x pounds Copper and Cop- Bullion, smelted at 8t. George pi Gold, Silver, Lead, Iron, w.y. Coke worked from be cannot which aatfw.udad, , yretd on s ahljppen e o ar ' this la all true, and yon may never see me again for I am .Iftble to meit entirely awsy some of these fine sunny days, still this le not such a very disagreeable place after all . The spot In which I am willing Is a beautiful shaded law n. The birds are singing la the trees and ihs aweet blossoms of a tropical clime lend to the place the appear nee and comfort of en:Oilcntal bower; ob, ro, our Dlxh is not to be eis verbatim: Valley, Lincoln county, Igevac la,and Cedar City, in Iron oormty, Utah, there arc twenty-on- e settdemen te on of line or the travel, iipmcdh itely adjacent thereto, havin g a poi filiation of 6 to 7,000 with a sho .10,390 acres under ctdtival per with 8,230 acres being of The coppe as woil as ihs Alil-L?t- d twithni)t.flt-e3e- iit, under cultivation Theand A on of this section ere principally carhauls. xates sndjdng 'freight bonate, and In greet demand at all smelhas cultivation makes a showing large amount of prospecting been ters for fluxing purposes. less than twenty bushels of has work but been dons; MECAXTILE Bl'IUNtia. average per acre inaome of ti le set- tern wrarily. abandoned because of Mercantile as as and Badness. In the event of high averrige tlements, such, difficulties.. In the event of pissing through St. George bushels in one t iefie-men- t, HwJlmad end cheap transport- aiheRailroad thirty-eigfollowing cities, towns and villages but most of the settiei be nts ation, this ..Bnll Valley country wonld recleve and e shin freight by it, in show an. average grain yield of would be one of the largest min- addition to St. Gco-g- : Washirgton, Price. bushels per acre m d of twenty-fiv- e comps in the west. annow Alfalfa five tons por acre. 3 fhis ing Kan b, Onlwvilfc, vj", Mouse Carmel, (JlsmlsUc, Mining District burg, Jobnion. and hedonist. Kuiab, Upper land include not tha : report does 18 miles from St. George city, con- a careful estimate rlpwS that die merclmste of have (hipped by the U. P. and I). K. those under prospective roservoim, w lich tains a about twelve million pounds, large number of mining Q. for the yr idol when constructed, will bring tl ton paid thereon abont one hundred and Chief Among them is and have prospects. thousand doll twenty are; buide which they have sands of acres under cnltivaoon. team freight to and front the termnnia at the group of twelve mimes, owned paid Milford a1 out an equal amount. H0BTICULTUBE. and operated by the Dixie Mining This does not include the short hauls bet v cen The climate and soil south of town very much of which weuld be upon a line and Smelting Co. through this section. Him of the basin" is admirably U is put a fair presumption to slate that freight The Apex and Mossing passing of all kh toe DQMne&s W99I1I be immense!) Increitsd by mU production aptod to Stab"- - two of this group are best road facilities and flip eo isequent dcveiopmsnt Almon da, Nectarines, 6f Peaches, & quotation from a of the resources cf this region. described Plums, Prunes, Apples, Pea rs, Report made by Mr T. C. William?. an Tne following Preamble axd Buolutton-- I sent out by an English Cwupary Grapes, Figs, .Pomegranates k ad for the purchase ol were passed other fruits..' X large per cent of who were negotiating unsmlnously in kw Meeting' of the ThU expert spent one citlaens of St George: what is now produced, howevt r, aid vawlnlne and meunrinx said leading Wmekeas, SL George city, the County rest of I consider, clafma Mr. Williams says; "ah Terrimry, was settled tbgoos to waste for lock of transpa xamlnatlonof tun mines, and is yet mv facilities. 3 yean, n S miles from the nearest We Iq IflWO3 Probity im on foe Miifwd Union Pacific present that Hie country is also well adapts d 000' Ti?ld0ini. ' proflolaceat tPD whiskas. This distsucr, which has w ot by wagon, and the like, haa seriously retarded the to the growth of all kinds of early will Hevfelopmtnt of mot of the industries wlif'h a present speedy and economical means of transpq tation garden stuff. Radishes, Lettuce , wlng.the would cauta to flourish to the inoresse of wealth Tomatoes, Celery, fee mum. I Asparagus, and all its advantages, Melons, AKp Wkcrus. The result of the pp'sific Cucumbers, Beans, Hes iu our of and Hort'calture Ipdas Agriculture Onions, Irish and sweet Potatoes, In shape to pnt out ft JffiwIlffSld Wild and fruitful d'nptta, thus dwarfed, can scarer-lbeovereriistated. , f per Axd peI di?of of and flowers of the choicest varitian thmmi66 t0M named WuauEAt, the mineral deposits of r Id, profit k now (De- ton aro . which of silver, copoer, iron, I ad and other ores with thf many bo1ies of gypsum are prurtially 8naed shoot one mile wes, ed be anseof the absentee of more cember) in bloom. "D xie group, and In the asms ehln of faeili.eit. raiimsd The season for out door garden- mountains, is the Mammoth b Axd Wusskas, The Nevada Railway Janwhich wav let. of care struck a !an Company la now, and hs been for some time past ,1,, ing begins the latter part tw the of ove line from railroad northward grade carbonate carrying sf. constructing a of bigs 1 twenty fire ounces of allver. '1 , At'autin and Pacific read ou the Sonfi, with the uary or Bt least the beginning ' will take more glycerine than then lain 8t George tu make my hands soft agalr, and more powdered chalk than there la tu be found In both barber shops, to whiten SUBJECT. We happened to tumble onto the following letter which we give to our read -- toter-mounta- in . 1 ht nd 1. W. N. Writing to frit Salt Lake Girl Has a any face. Good Word to Say for St. Now dear One. while Gieorge. three-hundr- ed per cen flee copper has been made end hipped; bo; the long haul by tAiem to the Kallroia has killed the enterprise. Thie mine la an immense deposit two 'undred end thirteen paces East and Vest end thirty-thre- e paces North end South, with ore all over this surface, e baft ninety-eigfeet deep, allows ore allaronndand on the bottom. Its ores tverag 40 per cent copper with SS ounces f Slyer to the ton of copper. Man; housands of tons of ore can be mined j open worke, like flurrying trope for sliding purposes. Five miles east of this claim Is the " Sevan lc Mine," another arm body of the finest of copper ore. Neer to this property la the Cennlng bam" mine, which resembles the other twa claims, and will be n greet yielder when transportation la established. Any of tbeee last named mines would bear a ft) miles wagon haul. It was con dered useless to put np works, hr pend much means on the "Haf'mjq" and Cunningham mines, sa the long wagon 90 NO. any- - Ice Co. will be here before you can say "Jsck Robinson" and they will bring u.t eufficent ice to freeze out our lccti company. Nuw we are all Democrats here, but we believe in protecting i.ome indnatiy, to we dons want any big moroply to ccnia'n here and take away the business from nnr own Willie. people. 1 in Halt Lake aud the northern towns Bt George Is looked upon aa a right bright lively little cltr, with an intelligent and wide awake community, the Southern metropolis of Utah, and as far as our ohaer-nonh- as extended the city and com- inanity are nut overated cither. I de - -A - . ht 1 Tut-se-gav-- iJ PHOTOGRAPHER Km-- It . 0 . exo-er- GENFRAL MERCHANDISE t, -- - iisi'S That he is Still on the Top Side of the Eorth and is Just as DETERMINED Now as When He First Commenced Business Five Years Ago to see that Every one dealing with Him Gets the Full Value of Their Money. First Store East Tabernacle, St. Gearge .- le:-th- in cafcuKtS y couv-ni-e- ntL.-wi.- 11 -- Case in , Feburary.this is toe Rio nt St. wal's asd floor are covered with or. expectation of continuing their line bv wav of and "tsiorge, or Pine tie, to connect with the iron which or-- he shoveled up in great quin Iron beds of titles. It la onlv a qu-- a' ion of time when V tl wsWnaacAa, county. It U understood tint said Con,- this mine will become one of the great when it raschec the Muddy, will hnre to la Turrito the ry ' rhetner St Ge rge or Pioche shall be on the prod"(yr Ten Mountain Chief Mcrura Co., 2y in its northward course. m n soma years ago, ran a mmol over RRAS, Said Rsllway Company will, as bui'd it main line throngh tiie feet in Mine, .iMwarco'ln'i . will he "nstactive struck a large hodr of carbonate of ml Amb WtKVEAii Toe route by St utivn tin lead and ailrer. The Company erected conwicted line of He Has Just a Ul-lt- er Received A Large CONSIGNMENT of BOOTS and on the 8enta Clara, but high questionable contain ' the most towns and vtUaCi populated wh active, dtta. banls prothe and eat long, up freight oreBkMrresolMd that we citizens of St ceeds This property la not being worked SHOES From the East, and Believofi it will Pay You toCull nnf adjacent sMiementa, In Mass meeting dabUiated by age or .previous at11 George, a assembled,andinvite the Ksvada Southern Kailway Co Gxobox 8t. Mimxa. Tnn hut d its mainline tiirough WaOuig-topi wk n AML Inspect His stock Before Pnrchrsing. corporation formed In Omaha whoa Company to Utah, and pledge mild of by way of St George, and the County, reason in are same the thewealthiest among Wdora Por patronsupport heartiest our oeperatiun, owns sevara! fine nmipects to it winters and pure atmosphere, St Country, er the "D'xle1 gronpe a id "Mammoth Tnd Further evolved : That it Is the sense of The MATCHLESS CARPET WARP 1 Vkkh is Sccoit.l lo Ron 0 apportu-nitiesclaims bnt np to date, t are dons bat this meeting of the Ciaizens of St. Geor.'e In mass 'George offers the finest lof free foraish said with these that tad assembled, work. Assoda City centra meeting an educational in the Market at 1.21 Per Unnrk. m'nel are a large numher of claims charge luitable Depot ground to said Bailway STOCK RAISING. or to any oth r Bailway Company ftt- -t con- one rs the lonbless of e?nal value ,'io -f ' line rfrrc.:.its Geirgr. through ft j 3took Raising- :- The ?ub?9S- - (red lo by Mr. w illiawa. Virgen and meats along the While the Clara. Santa Slower and of vicinity St George climate witoits delightful winters, often without a flake of snow except what can be seen on the distant mountains, is unsxceptionolly igood for consumptives aud the u n-- nt. n - i-- ss f Com-nan- r. . bt ,y.;' . V'- ;- ' ;V r. ' ' 3" - h L r ro r U. " I e ti I if t, . . |