The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-18

out claims, gives the desolste country the
appearance of race course, on which emf
grant trains are the participants.
The excitement is not confined to Salt
Lake, and Utah, but is even more intense
in the mining camps of Colorado and the
cities of the west.
THE HERALD, approaching the great de-
mand for reliable information, is first to
present to the public map outlining the
various mining districts. the surveyed
route of the new railroad and the
stage line. The different noun
tain ranges and valleys and the
location of the thirty different mining dis
tricts are shown and Tue HERALD readers
Will be the first to secure the advantage of
typographical photograph of the great
Deep Greek country.
The Giant of the Rockies was first in the
field with a series of articles on the wonder
full riches of the Deep Greek country, years
ago, and its predictions are rapidly being
fulfilled.
The miner from Colorado who has not yet
penetrated the serried mountain ranges that
rise out of the aridssands like an ompipo-
tent hand upon the face of the earth, pre-
diets no more for Deep Creek than that it
promises to become another Leadville and
\ that Salt Lake will be second Denver.
Yet the succession of mountain ranges
that break the horizon for hundred miles,
have within them the evidences of greater
output of ore than is, at the present time,
mined from the camps of Colorado and
Utah combined.
WHEN THE WORLD WENT WILD
over the discovery of Leadville, the return
of a single prospect with few samples of
rich ore was sufficient to cause a stampede
TO the new camp and I'LL the mountains
with prospectors. A mining fever is not
now so easily produced and something
more than the unauthenticated statements
of few prospectors is required to create
/ mining boom. The excitement over the
Deep Greek country has been slow in ma
Z turing and this is tbe strongest evidence
that il is based on substantial facts. At
least dozen parties have been out and
each returning prospector not only sub
stantieted prior discoveries, but brought
ores richer and more promising than any
previously discovered. Neither would the
public be satisfied with few picked speci-
| MEMS but demanded that large quantity
/ of the ore be brought IN bulk to the city
h The first large consignment assayed over
I ak hundred ounces to the ten in silver
and some choice samples yielded
over 9 900 ounces This was followed in
\ puick succession by other discoveries But
| the most astonishing fact OF the recent ex-
plorations has been that not single pros
h hector returned without finding valuable
II ore, and that they no sooner made their re-
4 mort TO their associates than they immedi
ately returned to further prosecute their
u explorations.
IL has be en- known for twenty years that
this country was
FILLED WITH UNCOVERED WEALTH,
hut il was believed that it was of too low
grade 10 overcome the expense of hauling
II hundred miles on wagons.
THE recent discoveries have set at naught
this belief, and demonstrated that it can be
hauled over unbroken roads and made to
yield $50 to sle0 a ton profit.
This great mineral belt has never been
located by railroad, the Central Pacific
| going to the north, leaving the creates,
Svstem of mining districts on this cont
tinent hundred miles from transportation
and buried in the sands of the desert.
Five years ago the Salt FAKE & Los
Angeles railroad was proposed, causing a
rush to the Deep Creek country, and the
fever ran so high that men in this city gave
4 M lucrative salaried positions to locate
\ claims in that country, But the railroad
\ was never built, and the prospectors re
turned disappointed and disheartened
/ During all this time new exploring parties
would occasionally
BREAK ACROSS THE DESERT
and penetrate the mountains, but the diff.
guilty 10 secure water and transportation
were SO great that none but the most in
trepid remained.
When Mr. Bacon proposed to build 6
! railway to Deep Creek last fall the old