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Show DEEP CREEK AND MINING. In a partial statement of the designs of the j San Pedro Railroad company the other morning, (f it was stated that the plan contemplated a brancn i to Deep Creek. This is a reminder that Professor ' Marcus Jones has recently put out a booklet on the Deep Creek Country, with descriptions of the mines, drawings of their present workings, I views of that region, distances, geology and estl- j mates of its possibilities which is a most instruc- n tive and interesting contribution to the mining lit- I eraturo of this region. A strange fatality has seemed to hedge the Deep Creek region around. Lying only about ninety miles from either of two railroads, with ores a little too low grade to haul by wagon and not rich enough to divert a railroad to them those districts have waited. The owners of the mines have grown gray in expectation of relief and though each of several efforts to fill the gap has almost succeeded, all have finally been baffled. baf-fled. Our belief is that the branch road there will pay better interest on the investment than any other part of the line of the same distance on I local traffic alone. Speaking of mines this same booklet on its last page gives a list of the dividends thus far declared on Utah mines and the remarkable feature fea-ture is that only three properties have paid higher dividends than the Mercur Con. though the ore of that mine is perhaps the lowest grade ore being be-ing worked in the state. It supplies a wonderful object lesson of the possibilities of this region. It is fair to state that up to three or four years ago, no one began to realize the matchless probabilities of Utah as a mining state. Learned men-had hinted of them, but not until those old experts, the pick and drill, began to send up their reports from the deeps was the possible magnitude magni-tude of the mines and the splendor of their future showing fully realized. Of course mining is not like any other work. Us product is a new creation; crea-tion; it interferes with no other man's business; rather it helps every other industry. Its product enters directly into the world's money aggregate and that aggregate measures civilization. As it increases or decreases the .intelligence and power of a nation Increases or decreases and In that way money is at present the world's absolute ruler, and will be so until the final distribution shall come and mankind shall decide that the world's wealth and its productive elements are the common inheritance of humanity and must Tje estimated froin that Standpoint. Not until then will money cease to be omnipptent and the coming com-ing of that day is yet a good way off. Still this is the twentieth century and things are moving fast. Astronomers and astrologers divide the cycles of time and the life of great nations into periods of about 2200 years. It is nineteen hundred years since the Master came. That cycle will be fin-! ished in three hundred years more and three hundred years does not count for much in the lives of nations and worlds. Still it is a period long enough in which to transform a world. So the men of this generation should hurry and get their money for in three hundred years more the getting of it will not bo the chiefest anxiety of the human race. |