The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-07
In the Deep Creek Country.

Writing from the Deep Creek country,
under date Of November %, DR.. Faust con
tinues his experiences as follows: Dolly
Warden district is thirty miles from Deep
Creek, with good wagon road all the way.
The are and silver, lead and copper; the
silver ore goes high, showing as much as
500 silver and 20 per cent. lead to the ton.
The copper ore goes from 10 to 30 per cent
per ton, and carries a little gold. Here is
located one of the largest copper mines in
the west. In the early '70s the then owners
put in d smelter that cost 100000. II ran
out tons of copper matte, but for some
reason was not the success il should have
been. and was attached by creditors. The
mine is now bonded to a PENNSYLVANIA
company and il is understood the com
pany Will commence work just as soon
as railway facilities are provided. These
oaes viii all pay to freight to Deep Creek
Work can be prosecuted twelve months in
the year in any of the camps in the Deep
Creek country. There is but little snow.
and cedar and pinyon pine in abundance
Just the camp for poor man. The mines
are easily accessible, the ores are easily
mined. Transportation is the only diff
Guilty. Many of the claims are patented,
the owners having thus secured their prop
erty and gone elsewhere to await tue
coming of the railroad, which is sure to be
built sometime.
Cherry Greek Is ninety miles from the
wells on the Central Pacific, and fifty five
miles from DeeD Creek. 1t is tributary
country to Salt Lake, or will be as
soon as railway facilities are secured. 1t
is one Of the oest camps in Nevada. The
mines shut down in the '10s
because the miners refused to
work for $3.50 per day. Considerable
litigation has also done much to hold back
the camp. Louis Martin, of Salt Lake,
owns some very fine mines here. He is
down 600 feet on one of them, and the ores
continue to increase in richness, He also
has three quartz mills-one 5-stamp, one
S stamp, and one 20-stamp. The Star Just
sold 10 Mr. Cleveland. of Nevada, with
Charles kearney as superintendent will
make great showing. a new quartz mill
is now being erected. To give you some
IDEA of the difficulties of transportation, 1t
is but necessary to say that fifty-two
houses have made three trips to and from
the railway to get the machinery here.
Egan canon is four miles further on. In
the past it has been a great camp. With
railway facilities it viii again come to the
front.
Shellburn has mines and prospects that
will furnish thousands of tons Of ore TO the
railroad first to push its nose this
side the great Sahara OF America.
Muncie has large bodies of low-grade
ores, but they can never be handled until
the advent Of cheaper transportation.
These mines lie west and south of, and
within sixty miles of Deep Creek To the
north, and just where the iron horse vii
make its appearance on this side of the des
ert, is the Dutch Mountain district The
mines have large quantities of ores ready
on the dumps.
Ferguson Spring, three miles distant
will prove a valuable adjunct.
The White Horse mountains are covered
with prospects, end these will be developed
Just as soon as there is encouragement t.
40 so.