The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-03
MURRAY RETURNS.
He Is Jubilant Over the Success
Of the Trip.
Stories OF Wealth Of the Deep Creek Country
that Read Like Fairy Tales. bat
They Are mol

There were a goodly number of sun
Drowned Deep Greek operators in the city
yesterday, and every one of them seemed
to be laboring under some kind of sup
pressed iubilation.
Without doubt the group around which
most Interest centered was Colunel T. P.
Murray ana the eastern operators who &C
companied him in his seventeen days. pill
grimage over the blistering desert and
round about the various districts of the
coming Eldorado. The party returned
yesterday at o'clock, looking like railroad
tramps; they at once proceeded to the
Templeton ana went 10 work shedding the
attire and stains of the mining camps for
garbs more fitting the Templeton's loung-
ing rooms.
Colonel Murray was the only one who
kept on his ore coiored clothes, his grizzled
beard and his unkempt makeup generally.
He was too busy satisfying the demands OF
friends who wanted TO know ell in
breath what the prospects were
for railroad, what path had been
taken over the Stsnbury mountains, what
mines he had visited, how the capitalists
were impressed, etc., etc., ETC., to think OF
paying any attention TO his personal APP
pearance. A HERALD representative sue
eSAA
minutes.
The colonel said at once that he must be
excused from saying anything about the
opinions, impressions or conclusions ar
rived at by the others of,the party. They
could speak for themselves if they chose
to, but he rather thought policy of ST.
lence would be pursued for the present, as
1t would be natural that the gentlemen
from St. Paul aud Chicago would wish to
make their first report TO those who sent
them out to Il AXE the inspection Of the pro-
posed railroad route. While he said this
much the colonel's air was not that of a
man who had any fear as to what the re-
port would be. If ever jubilanoe sat on a
brow yet, it beamed from Colonel Muir
rays as he spoke to the reporter Of the
glories of the Deep Creek country.
s'We left here July IL, seven in our
party, with two teams" said the colonel.
I'VE travelled ola miles By team and
Jramped l07 miles on foot, inspecting MIN
ing claims and railroad passes through the
mountains. We wore out three teams. In
the party who made the round trip were
Mr.. S. b. Mcconnell Of Chicago, J. M.
Hawthorn, ST. Paul, myself and w. L.
Dykes. Mr.. Il. G. Long, the attorney from
ST. Paul, and his party only went as far as
Point Lookout 1.-THE place where it was de-
cided as most feasible to cross the STAINS
bury range), and then returned. Mr.. Long
is now in St. Paul.
NV hat is the length of the proposed
lineln
Zone hundred and eighty-two miles from
Nam street TO the Nevada line by chain.
This takes the line through the towns of
Tooele and Stockton, passes the mouths OF
Ophir and Dry cations, so that it would
only be a short down hill haul from those
camps to the railroad, and crosses the
Stan sbury range at Point Lookout, which
is on line due west from the town of Yer
nor. AS we surveyed it the road
would go over on 2 15-lO0 per cent.
grade; that would be the maximum
and it could be reduced to 1.S5 per cent. by
the time the construction was through.
The line then crosses the desert due west,
crosses the Deep Greek mountains, goes
through Clifton and Gold Hill districts,
and heads for the south in the direction OF
that grand property about forty miles on
the Nevada line, the Well Annie mine.n
The colonel waxed most enthusiastic as
he spoke of the Well Annie. This was the
coming. Ontario of the west, be said elo-
auently, and if the Salt Lake stockholders
could have heard all tht other glowing
things he said Of theproperty as q result
of his personal inspection, they would
shove even their own valuation OF the
stock up 8 good many points.
The colonel was no less enthusiastic over
the new gold mill, Just erected by Wood
man, Martin, Haven and others in Gold
Hill. I'VE arrived said the colonel, ION
| the day the mill was ready to start. They
paid our party the compliment of allowing
Mr.. Mcconnell to turn on the steam that
started her up. Mr.. Dykes blew the
wits tie and yelled When SIZE ran awhile
and showed she was in thorough trim they
| let Mr.. Hawthorne shut her of. tell you
she's beauty. They are running about
forty men. All the prospectors in the
country came to see the first min in the
country start 10 work. BY this time ex-
pect she is turning out gold bricks. She
can work fifty tons of ore day, and the
N eanest ore you can knock off the rocks il
| the whole district goes $40 gold to the ton
/ From that it runs up to S4OO.
1.-THE men owning this MILL" said Mr.
Murray. impressively, "have bonded eigh
teen locations there, and understand they
are TO pay $500, 900 in four years, but it is
my firm belief that they will take the cast
out Of the claims in four mouths. That com
pany alone" said Mr., Murray, "hesidea
working their mill, can pledge a railroad
200 tons day of carbonates to snip to Sal
Lake,
How does the route mapped out diffel
from that proposed by Mr.. Baconw
ut is forty-one miles shorter, in that i
goes over the Stansbury range direct, in
EAcdu VI SO1uk hLOuAu VIC LOAth Gu0 VI bu'
range by Grantsville. Johnson's Pass
found TO be utterly impracticable and on
Of the question"
What about the mines at Muncy creel
and Auburn!'
well, If were to say what think, yol
would say / was tel ling fairy tales
l simply can't talk TO you about them.
couldn't do them justice. But this l will
say, that you may talk about your On
tarios, Days. Anchors, Bullion Becks AM
Observation-Disclosures, but you want to ool
out for such mines as the Grand Dupont
at Muncy creek.n
"What do you think of the Rio Grand
Western extending TO Deep Creeksn
II know their men are out. and / know
this, that no road TO Deep Creek will d
any good to Salt Lake that doesn't nav
Salt Lake as starting point. II the Ri
Grande Western goes west from 1intic
the Deep Greek ores will go the Pueblo an
Denver smelters-not to any of ours"
what is the proposed terminus of you
road, Colonelsn
1.-The Pacific ocean,