The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-08
LABOR DAY CELEBRATION
Eight Hundred Men Join the Salt Lake
Procession Business in the Courts
and Elsewhere.

La Plata is all right. are the words
spoken by almost every man who returns
from the new mining regions to the north
east. And as everywhere development IS
being made the future prospects of the new
camp are each day being Frightened.
One notable fact is that the large num-
Der Of men who never saw an ore bearing
rock SO to speak have in great measure
returned to their usual everyday walks and
left men of experience 20 remain and dis
cover and develop the hills that no doubt
are .illed with good paying ore which only
awaits capital aud labor to bring 1t 10 the
surface.
The camp is being conducted in a more
Dusinesslike manner now than IL has been
heretofore. The capitalists have already
arrived onthe ground mean business the old
timers that have gone there are spending
their time for the same purpose, and with
the two combined they are Fast deter
mining the worth of the camp.
II is estimated oy men who 10 not care 70
overreach the truth, that today there are
somewhere between TWO hundred ana three
hundred men prospecting in the hills sur
rounding the center of the frs discoveries
and bat very few of them are classed among
With 1ais course Of proceedings it is safe TO
say thai within the next sixty days, the
real area and extent of The new mineral
region will be known.
Git is said that fully fifteen prospects are
being operated, and the gratifying feature
OF IL is that not one of them shows lessen
ing N the quality of the ore extracted from
the earth; in fact everywhere marked i'm
proverGsnt is noticeable.
it Is believed by some the report that
has been sent abroad 10 the effect that La
Plata Is nothing nut a fake camp, was con-
Cocted for the sole purpose of filing the
pocksts OF those that are most heavily in :
terested there. That it was done to keep
outsiders possessed of capital out for
the present and until they had secured a
firm hold On the most valuable properties in
the camp. There may be some truth in the
belief, but nevertheless number of Colo
rado men, as well as others from Nevada.
Idaho and Montana, have, in the language
of the miner, stayed with it," and have
secured hold on what has the appearance
of being valuable properties.
j. c. Edwards has been in the camp in
the interest of a large mining company of
Denver for several weeks. Saturday last
he received an assay on piece of ore from
prospect which he has secured that went
$4,000 in silver to the ton. Mr.. Edwards,
after receiving the assay, saddled a horse
at o'clock Sunday morning and left for
the location of his prospect staked il ont
properly according to law, and returned to
Ogden and barely in time to get his grip
packed in time to catch the train for Dem
yer yesterday morning.
NOTES
Major w. H. Turner was at La Plata
over Sunday.
The shaft is being put down rapidly in
the Shutdown mine.
A fine lot of specimens from the La Plata
regions arrived in Ogden yesterday.
In short time a mail route will be es.
tablished between Ogden and La Plata.
The ore found thus far is considered of a
low grade, but it lies there imbedded in
paying quantities.
The La Plata Mining company is at work
erecting commodious lodging houses and is
preparing to keep the work going on in
Its mine during the winter.
The new road through Middle Fork will
be completed in few days, and then the
distance between Ogden ana La Plata can
be called twenty three miles.
II. G. Lett & Son have started the stages
which were formerly run to Deep Creek
between Ogden and the mines. The stage
leaves each morning at S o'clock.
The La Plata company owns and controls
ten claims. Besides this it has a LAND
grant comprising "a, 900 acres which has
recently been purchased from the railroad
company.
Some of the principal prospects, bes ides
the La Plata and Shutdown, being devel
oped, are the Heller, Blue Bird, Shasta
Jay Bird, La Belle, Mountain View, Dead
Pine Ben Hur, North Star and Murph