The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-08
MINES OF SANPETE
Some of the Brightest Prospects
in the West.
A Land of Healthy Boys, Lovely Girls, Long
Lived Chickens and Very
Rich Mineral.

am in receipt Of advices from sunny
Sanpete going to show that the long ex-
pected boom in mining circles there, and
whose advent has been spoken Of with
bated breath different kinds OF bait being
used for the purpose) for year or SO, is
at last still looked for and spoken of.
presume it will be so until things change,
and that when the boom does come it will
stay till 1t leaves; let US hope so, at least
Just what valid reason IL is that noun
tains within hailing distance Of two able
bodied railroads and which contain nothing
but mineral OF some sort-every sort-are
SO neglected while there are enough men
and money lying idle to burst rudely into
old Pluto's vaults and drag his guarded
treasures into the light OF day, is too much
of a problem for those who know; it will
have TO go to a subcommittee OF
strong western men Tor solution.
/ know one thing, however, without
the aid of q sub or any other committee,
or any aid st all except such as is derived
by the proper use Of unglassed eyes and
unplugged ears, that when men lie in idle
ness too much they almost invariably lie
in other respects in order to get along, and
thus become menace TO good society.
necessarily. mesn by this the kind OF so
ciety that finds expression through the
press by means of descriptions of ladies'
dresses, girls gifts and mems mashes;
but the kind principally that don't gen.
orally have anything on worth describing,
eat only what they can enjoy and vote Gas
q rulel the Democratic ticket-such as the
better class Of OR editors and lawyers and
those who depend upon them for what
they ought TO, but not in every instance
get. The kind spoken Of at first may be
just as good in these particulars, and such
win please consider themselves en-
braced. Thoses however, TO repeat) who
have nothing to do and no place but the
open street 20 do it in not only get into the
bad habit previously spoken OF, but go
from bad to worse until their reputation is
as shady as that of any policeman, and this
is all wrong.
Let's see-where did / leave otf9 Oh,
yes.
THE RESOURCES OF sANPEEE,
theme on which have written much and
spoken more. l have in my possession q
piece Of ore worth at least 81, 600 ton
from down there, and If / could only get
the remainder of the ton would be happy
as long as it lasted. So would two or
three other people could name but won't.
Now, coming 10 the exordium at once, all
that is necessary for several Of us to get
that and more, Is for somebody who has ore
already refined and coined TO stand in and
take share. There are assures in San
pete whose adamantine jaws are hermeti-
cally closed upon countless wealth, but it
requires expenditure TO get at 1t; those
who own property there-and they are
quite numerous now-would cheerfully di-
vide in order to be enabled to get at what
is presently beyond their reach for the rea-
son named; and that such an arrangement
would be mutually beneficial has been de-
termined by actual results in q small way,
of course, but indicative OF what would
follow. There is as much ore in Sanpete
and Of as good quality as there is in Deep
Creek, with this decided distinction in
Ssnpete's favor-it is not waiting for some
enterprl sing capitalists TO
BUILD IT RAILROAD
and being humbugged every week with che
two. Because, however, it is Sanpete, and
in many respects is as Sgnpete as IL ever
was, but few OF our enterprising
citizens seem to take any stock
IN it or anything il has. This is all wrong,
TOO, and as Christian let me contribute
my mite toward setting it right There
have been some slight investments there,
and because these have been unproductive
have fallen on II not ceased altogether. It
that In deep mining country, particularly,
small investments are SO much thrown
away; by small, l mean less than enough
TO carry the work TO the point at which
rock OF sufficient richness and quantity to
yield returns can be got at. I know all
about It's never being got at oftener than
otherwise-have been there myself O few
times; il losing time and money on mines
10 an experience which begets proficiency
in the business, certainly I ought to be an
expert by this time, especially as re-
lates TO the "time'' feature of the
case. But when certain amount Of de-
velopment has taken place on an actual
vein OF great width showing mineral all
through, increasing steadily In value. with
the downward opening and out OF which
pieces Of unusual value are frequently
taken-this being the case with some of
those down there--I insist upon it that
there should be some other reason for neg
lecting such fields than that they are in
Sanpete.
have on one or two occasions, IN THE
HERALD and otherwise, spoken of Sanpete
as the land of healthy boys, lovely girls
and longslived chickens; in respects 1t
hasn't changed much, bat il Is going to
change more than ever in respect to max
ing available 20 mankind some Of the nat
ural resources which s kind Providence
has placed within the bowels OF the ever
lasting bills, doing no good to anybody at
present, either as an article OF use or orna-
ment. but destined to do both some day.
When that day comes Sanpeie will soar
and some Of US will soar with it, il the rail-
roads connecting US Herewith are not too
exacting. Yours as much ss usual,
ESSAY CAIGH.