The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-17
DEEP CREEK ROADS
1he Rio Grande viii Be First to
Build Into That Country.
THE U. P. THE SHORTEST ROUTE
DR.. b. j. Faust Gives Some Pertinent Advice
to Greenhorns and Tenderfeet Who
Get the Fever.

DIR. II. ]. Faust, who knows the Deep
Greek country like an open book, was asked
by HERALD reporter:
When viii you start for Deep Creek!'
shall 60 out after l have seen the
President and danced with him; there is
no necessity for this excitement"
what kind Of an outfit would you ad-
wise for the people going out nows"
II would advise them to get as light
wagons as they can, take all the provisions,
except potatoes and beef, which can be
bought cheaper out there than mere; -four is
only the transportation higher. Take
plenty Of water barrels and kegs, as the
distance between watering places is far.
Pickles and acids are very essential on &C
count OF the bad water of Fish Springs.
would advise all greenhorns who know
nothing about mining to remain at home
IN their present occupations. If they want
an interest in mines they had better club
together, chip in, and send out experienced
prospectors. Prospecting in mines means
as soon as you have discovered prospect
an assessment to work the mine, as very
lew men want to buy little hole in the
ground The advice to those who are going
now would be 10 take all their tents and all
the provisions they require with them. The
route would take would be through Rush
valley by the old Faust station, Point Look
out, Simpson springs, then you can 60 to
Dugway or Fish Springs.
"Ihe distance from here to Stockton was,
by the old mail route, 40 miles; Faust sta
ton is % miles further; Point Lookout, 9
miles; Simpson Springs, Is miles; Dug way,
20 miles; Fish Springs, 80 miles: Willow
Springs, 80 miles, and Deep Greek or Cliff
ton, 30 miles.
You had better get your baled hay at
hush Valley station, as it is highly neces-
sary to have good supply"
What are the mineral resources of the
various campSgn
"As to that, l wrote the camps up in THE
HERALD last winter, and I moderated
them. In proof of that, the find of Gison' IS
at Dugway, which / think he has under
rated rather than oyerrated, from my pre-
vious experience with the man. That of
Fish Springs is something phenomenal, as
/ personally know the gentlemen who made
the ind, and they would not deceive, and
In fact are class of men incapable of de-
eeption, as there would be nothing in it to
hem. 1t is not alone the minerals in that
country, but there is marble enough to
build up new Jerusalem, fire
brick so hard that it will strike
ire with steel like flint. ire rock
aud asbestos in abundance. Rubies were
found in Pleasant valley twenty two years
ago, borax in the Fish Springs mountains
was found thirty two years ago.
II reiterate what l said in my letters tc
THE HERALD, that if a railway was built
the cry would be continually for more
cars"
How many mining districts are there?''
probably twenty-five or thirty, anG
there is not hill or mound in TIE great
desert but that produces ere of some kind
"What do you think as to the prospect Of
railroad l''
UiO WaS+ar, 1,o
first to build TO Deep Creek from Provo
They will build to Tintic and from there tc
4 East Tinuic. From East Tintic they will
ebuild down the river bed to Dugway
thence TO Fish Springs, thence to Clifton
or Deep Greek. The Union Pacific has il
in its power to build a straight line from
here to Clifton. II has had surveys of thai
route for the last twenty years. 1t is the
straightest route from here to California
and when they get to humboldt the Contra
Pacific would would run their passenger:
over this line, saving seventy-fve miles
double headers, over three mountains. Blu
what the citizens OF Salt Lake should do il
to build this road to Deep Greek them
selves, as it would not only be paying in
vestment but would bring all the traffic Il
Salt Lake. Every man in this city shoulC
be interested, and is, In this road"
''Who are the owners of some of tn
most valuable minesm
"Take the Clifton district and Messrs
Woodman, Martin, Dunyon, Shell, Brown
4 and hundreds of others, have the fat o
4 that country. The district comprises owe
five hundred claims. My opinion of Fur
4 Der is that it Will prove a new Leadville
| Kinsley is noted for its copper, silver an
lead, marble and the finest granite that
/ man ever saw on earth. Dolly Warden ma
one Of the largest copper mines in til
l great west, and it is patented and owne
by company of Pennsylvanians. This
too, is noted for its high grade silver ore
All the mines Of that western country wi
|, be found equal to or richer than anythin
heretofore found in Utah.