The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-22
NEPHITES ARE IN IT
Capital the Only Requisite Needed
for a Boom.
VERY RICH MINERAL PROSPECTS
Recent Assays Rival If not Excel Those Made
OF Ore from the Camp Of
La Plata.

Nepnl, Inc county seat OF JuaD, IS very |
attractive at this season of the year. Com
ing over the mountains from either the
east or the west, it strikes the beholder as
being one of the most beautiful rural pic
lures Imaginable. The brown and yellow
harvest fields, the square green fields Of
lucerne, the many orchards loaded down
with ripe fruit. the town itself, EMPOWERED
in the dense foliage of shade and fruit
trees, all go to make up panorama of
beauty, grace and comfort not soon to be
forgotten. The town is just now, how
ever, very dull, from business stand
point, whether from local stagnation or
from sympathy with the rest of the country,
or from both causes is hard to determine.
Crops of all kinds are most abundant, while
fruit is so plentiful that it is allowed to go
to waste, hence the people here are in a
measure independent of hard times as they
can and generally do live on their own re-
sources.
The manufacturing interests of Nephi
could be greatly enhanced by the use of
capital. The water power for general
ing electricity to be used for driving
machinery Is simply superb. With dams
and reservoirs in the narrow canons east
OF town. sufficient water could be stored to
turn the wheels of a large manufacturing
city. There are now in successful opera
ton a magnificent mill for the
manufacture of plaster from gypsum,
mountains of which material are here; a
fine modern roller mill, and chop feed
mill, all operated by water power by means
of turbine wheels.
AS this is the headquarters and centre of
the sheep industry Of Utah, no better
point could be found for the establishment
OF wooden mills on an an extensive scale.
| The wool is here, the power is here, the
natural location is here, and transportation
is here. In addition to the railroads al
ready running into the toWn-the Union
Pacific and Sanpste Valley-there is a
very well grounded rumor aboat that
the Rio Grande Western will build
line from Sanpete across
the country by way of Nephi
to Tiutic. If this should be true it viii be
great boon to the town and to all of Juab
valley, as it will tend to open up the vast
mineral resources of Mount Nebo and the
hills surrounding. The one thing that
Nephi needs more than ally other is the de-
| velopment of
THE RICH MINING COUNTRY
that is known to exist at her very gates A
few days since, in company with the Hon.
w. A. G. Bryan, your correspondent visited
q prospect owned by that gentleman, stu
ated in canon on the western slope of
Mount Nebo, and about three miles east of
the town of Mona. The vein was traced
along the belt for several hundred
feet, and pieces broken from the
surface assayed 70 per cent. lead,
33 ounces silver and So in gold per ton.
Adjoining the prospect referred to is the
Queen of the Hill, owned by Alma Hague,
John Hickman and others, from which ore
has been shipped running 70 ounces silver
and 30 to 30 per cent. lead Yesterday, in
company with A. Cazier and Mr.. Bryan,
your correspondent rode around on the east
side of Nebo, to look at mining property
there. Immense deposits of copper-staned
mineral was seen in the foot hills along
the upper portion of Salt Creek canon,
, while higher up were found great lodges OF
} black quartz, interspersed with pure white,
collaborating quartz. In the canon
last referred e to, about eight miles
Nephi Salt works, owned by the
gentlemen last mentioned and Mr.. ST Man
gum, who superintends the work. The salt
is a pure white, of excellent quality and
3 unsurpassed for table and dairy. 1t is
manufactured from spring Of clear, pure
8 salt water Of sufficient capacity to produce
t from fifty to sixty tons of refined salt pei
= day. Adjacent to the salt works are found
marble, gypsum, rock salt in great abund
o ance, alabaster, gold, silver, iron and alum
g mum. An immense deposit of decomposeC
9 mineralized matter Of a greenish hue lies
4. east of the salt works, and is thought Il
contain aluminium in great abundance
Specimens have been sent to the Smith
sonian institution at Washington for an
: alysis and the result of the test is anxiously
looked for.
NOTES.
The Democrats Of Nephi are jublant ovel
the recent victory in the county and in the
council and legislative districts.
t Several cases of dlphtheria are reported
@ in town. Bessie Cole, the twelve-y ear-olt
daughter of ]. w. Cole, died from that dis
4 4 ease Tuesday and was buried yesterday.
= While absent attending the funeral O.
. his niece, Bessie Cole, Sheriff Henriot
allowed the two prisoners confined in tn,
jail here the liberty of the yard, and on hi
return found that the birds had flown
having scaled the twelve-foot board fenc,
s which surrounds the jail, Pursuit was a
. once inaugurated and the sheriff had thu
!. good fortune of overtaking his boarders
e short distance from Mona, and just as nigh
y had set in. One OF the prisoners is servin,
ninety days sentence from Eureka TO
resisting an officer. and the other wa
brought here from Mammoth and is await
ing an examination as to his sanity
IS F.B.
d NEPHI, Aug. 20. 1891