The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25
MILLS And SHELTERS
The Wonderful Resources Of the
Deep Creek Country.
A BOOM In STORE FOR PIOCHE.
Mines Of Nevada, Idaho. and Utah in Which
Salt Lake People are Interested
SHELTERS and Samplers.

There are a great many Salt Lakers IN
terested in the Deep Creek country, which
lies $50 miles to the west of this city and
near the line dividing Utah from the state
of Nevada. The richness and extent OF
this section, however, must be left for
future historians to chronicle and they will
never be thoroughly known and appreciated
until one of the many roads now heading
this way passes through Salt Lake and the
Deep Creek country on its way to the
Pacific coast. The general expectation
that railway would long ere this have
been putting through that part of the ter
ritory, gave a stimulus to mining activities
in Deep Creek, and showed up, to a greater
extent than ever before, the wondrous
possibilities of this now isolated region
The several mining districts included in
the Deep Creek country are the Deep
Creek, the Kingsley, the Dolly Warden,
Clifton and the Thurber. In Thuroer
there are somewhere near hundred
mines and prospects, all varying IN depth
and quality of the ore extracted. Thuroer
is located on the border line between Utah
and Nevada, and with railroad facilities,
such as must come ere long, bids fair to be-
come a second Leadville. Such, at least, is
the opinion of experts and other mining men
who have made thorough inspections. The
greater proportion of the ore found, how
ever, is of low grade, and but few men are
employed. In the Dolly Warden district,
the ores generally are Of higher grade
At Cherry Creek, there are probably l5O
mining claims, many of which are first
class. One mine, the Star, has in the past
produced over two million dollars
nClifton district are located the proper
ties of the Florence Mining company.
Clifton is neatly laid out little town, con-
tanning population of about fifty. The
climate is somewhat similar to that of Salt
Lake, and uthe sno Wall is unusually
light, compared with that of the average
mining camps perched, as most of them
are, upon the hilltops and at high alti-
tude. The Florence company owns some
eighteen mines in all-in various stages of
development. The formation is granite,
and experts say the ore greatly resembles
that found at Granite Mountain, Montana
The ore taken out assays all the way from
$40 to 800 per ton, and picked specimens
go still higher, of course. Some few ship
ments have been made during the year
some by team to the Central Pacific and
thence to Salt Lake by rail, others by
wagon direct. The lodges are all clearly
defined, cropping right out on the surface,
and the direction of the veins can be easily
traced. The ore commences at the grass
roots, the veins widening gradually as
depth is attained There are thousands of
tons of low grade ores now on the dumps
awaiting a cheap method of transportation
such as can only be obtained by the ad-
vent OF the iron horse into that section
The country west of Salt Lake, through
which railway must pass on its way to
the coast, has scarcely been scratched by
the hardy miners pick. That it is full of
untold natural wealth is beyond question.
One of the resources, other than that of
mining, is the immense deposits of marble
found near Deep Greek. 1t is of two colors
one pure white, the other with soft grey
veins running through, giving it unique
and handsome appearance. The supply is
said to be almost II eXhaustible.
With railway facilities, Deep Creek must
come to the front and reward the plucky
Salt Lakers and others, who have had the
courage to stand by their convictions as to
its future.