The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-20

forward during the coming summer
One can hardly mistake the signs tina
point to permanent and active improve
ment of conditions. For years state
or seeming carelessness has broode(
over this camp, and it seemed there
would never be any advancement be-
Yond certain point; but the 'Condi-
tloDs have changed lately, and the
prospects are that the summe Will set
a revolution in the order of things
Outside capital has shown disposition
to invest; several valuable discoveries
have been made. and many properties
that have been idle for some years are
being vigorously worked. Altogether
the outlook is very encouraging. and
portendS to the advancement of the
Park as one of the richest and most
prosperous mining camps in the west.
Let the boom come and it will find q
solid basis to build on.
THE old and, at one time, Lively
camp of Pioche," says party who was
recently there, sis coming out again,
and will soon be bullion producer.
Since the railroad through Lincoln
County was first spoken of, number
able changes have taken place. The
residents have pulled themselves from
the state of lethargy into which they
! had fallen, and several of the old prop
critics that were worked to some extent
years ago when the mining excitement
was at its height. are receiving atten-
! ton, and, so far, prospecting by chlor-
|
Many rich pockets of ore have been ex-
tracted from properties in that district.
but the mines were never thoroughly
worked owing to the lack of milling
facilities. ore having to be shipped to
Bullionville, twenty-four miles from
the mines. The lodges are large and
well defined, and admirably located. and
| if the much talked of railroad goes
| through, it is almost moral certainty
! that men possessed of means will take
| part in the development of this district.
| The success that has attended the work.
ing of low grade ores has done much to
| encourage mining in our declining
camps, and the industry is gradually
reviving. Those who are operating il
and around Phoebe are highly elated
over their prospects, and claim that
under favorable auspices, the old town
will once more boom as she did in the
halcyon days of her existence. Already
the farmers are putting in larger crops
in anticipation of a better time, all
firmly believing that Phoebe and Lin
coin County have seen their darkest
days."
Representatives. from various large
mining industries, if one is to believe
our exchanges, are floating around in
the neighboring territories with a view
to ascertaining just what inducements
can be held out to them to erect
sampling works and smelters. Even
desolate and poverty-stricken Nevada
has been visited, aud the residents Of
that State have been aroused to Offer
quite an inducement for an agent to
establish sampling works at Austin, the
old mining camp made famous by the
location there of the Manhattan Com
pauy. They argue correctly that no
town, village or city ever attained
prosperity Or solidlty by quietly await
ing for some one to accidentally come
along and discover what the resources
and attractions of the place are, and
with that idea in view, they realize the
necessity of offering such Inducements
as will bring the idle eastern capital
within their gates. Utah has ten re-
sources to Nevada's one, and can afford
to give any legitimate enterprise
established in the Territory far greater
inducements than any of the surround
ing Territories. Will she awake and
siezs the opportunities when offered?
The Hidden Treasure Company-why
such chestnutty name should have
been chosen is a INDEPENDENTLY
in Ogden, with a view to
prosps citing for and developing mines
on the north fork of the Ogden
River, is said to have most excellent
prospects ahead of it; persons who
have been over the ground say that it
would not be at all surprising if that
section turned out to he extremely rich
in minerals.
The Alaska gold mines are attracting
no little attention at the present time,
and the reports coming from there are
such as to almost convince one that the
author of the Arabian Nights had
taken up his abode in that vicinity, and
had been employed to boom the coun-
try. Spesking of Douglas island, one
report says; Running Iengthwise of |
the island, and located for 81 800 feet, |
lies q collaborating vein that has an
actual width of 500 feet, with an average |
of 800 feet in depth above drainage, or |
sea level; ten cubic feet of ore weighs