The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-22

least one hundred gold claims-clainns
that have gold in them only-gold in
quantity enough so that you can pan
any Of it and get gold. All of them
Will assay from s. up; some will go
into the hundreds. This district Is
fifteen miles long by from six to eight
miles wide. There are about six hun
4 dred claims besides the gold claims.
AND all carry more or less gold In
: hort. it Is a gold camp. Silver, lead
and copper in large quantities ara
everywhere to be seen. All the coun-
try is mineralized. Wherever one goes
or looks, there are the unniiStakablR
mineral stains, besides large quantities
of iron and quartztte lodges.
The AIverta.
The day before I left I examined the
AAlverta mine that is owned by the
Game Springs Mining and Milling
company. This mine is only down two
hundred feet. They started down on
two feet of ore At the fifty foot level
IT had widened to six feet. AT one
hundred feet the vein had widened TO
twenty feet. At $50 feet it was at least
thirty feet. At 200 feet, everywhere
you look you see ore, and it is richer
than anywhere above. There has been
found free gold.
The mine is being well worked, and
think only prospectad. Wherever you
look there is ore. In every drift you
go you see it sticking out. I have been
in many a mine but none that shows
as good as this one at the same
depth. This company has five Craw-
ford mills, which reduce about forty
IONS OF ore in twenty-four hours.
If they had water they could run
ten mills easy, as there is plenty of
ore. This company has eighteen pat
ented mines, and all of them sample
we'll in gold. One copper claim is at
least one hundred feet wide and would
load a train a day if there was a, rail
road. Tintic has Two railroads, Bing-
ham one and Stockton one. I know
them all, and viii here say without
{ IT of contradiction by anyone that
knows, that Clifton district will fur
niSh more work for a railroad than all
three of them together. Start the
road, and by the time it gets across
the desert there will be ore enough out
TO keep it running night and day for
years.
Look After the Mines.
SSsnes in that country TO at once look
AIfter them. The gold that is being
found in the new finds as we'll as in
many of the old prospects, will war
rant you in prospecting your claim.
Who knows but what you, too, may
have an AlVertai would advise
everybody that owns prospect in
Clifton TO go to work on it at once.
You know not what you have until
you do.
Let US look what railroad means
10 the west. Say, let the Los An
geles people build on to Saltair, when
they get to Z. T. city, commence as
.cending the bench, come in and pass
just west Of that city. You have all
their trade. Keep on the bench 10
Stockton You will not alone have all
their immense ore hauling trade, but
you will have Opher and Dry Canyon;
they will ship much they cannot ship
.pow In south Rush valley, the
branches will double, say nothing Of
the mines that will be opened. The
road will pass Saint Johns and over
to Skull valley. In the south end Of
Skull valley and Simpson Spring,
there are mines that can be worked
with a railroad, but are too far away
TO be worked without.
DugNay and Fish Springs.
This road will pass near enough to
the Dugway district TO tap all these
large bodies of low grade ores. A
few miles or. you take in the Fish
Spring district, which would increase
their capacity ten times. The other
side OF the desert reached, and you
will take in the Trout Creek district
and the Willow district. The two ex-
tend along the east side of the Deep
Creek mountains for twenty miles
with plenty of ore.
The next is Clifton, already des-
cribed. The road viii run around the
Dutch mountain that has plenty Of
lodges Of low grade ores twenty feet
4sde that would load a train day
rJust around this mountain, and you
are in Deep Creek valley. Should
Won go no further than here you will
have the trade of all the farms and
cattle ranches for hundred miles
west and south. This is the great
winter sheep country. Spring Creek
district. fifteen miles; Pleasant Valley
district with its mines, onyx beds, It's
cattle and farming, is only twenty
five niles.
Clenco district has many claims
with its well equipped Well Annie
mine. with ali of the latest machinery,
which had to suspend on account OF
being. too far away from railroad
This camp is thirty miles from Deep
Drum district is fifty miles south
west. with its many well-dehned
lodges of silver, lead and large cop
ner ores. I was in one mine that has
q vein of mineral $50 feet wide. Also
one of the largest copper properties
lave ever. seen. All could be shipped
Ia Deep Greek, as the roads are fine.
Ruby Hill, also fifty miles from
Deep Greek would ship as much as
Bingham does now if they had rall-
road. Muncy district is one OF the
largest in the west with plenty OF
ore. This camp alone would furnish
a trim load a day.
The Antelope mountains are full OF
mineral, but as they are low grade
.fFaev cannot be worked until we get
4ailraad. Shelbern district has had
farge camp in days past, but 1t being
foo far from transportation 1t had
"a succunnb The ores are still there.
This camp is sixty miles wesA ana
could ship to Deep Creek.
Kingsley, Dolly Warden, White Horse,
AM! Ferguson Springs districts are all
from 30 to 40 miles and would be glad
+o ship to Deep Greek. If these mining
districts were in Colorado there would
have been a railroad to each of them
long ago.
sheep Shipments.
Sheep men will ship their 1oc1s in
fta fall west to their winter ground,
and back east in the spring to these
summer grounds by rail in preference
10 driving through the settlements
and across the desert. The number OF
sheep saved by shipping would pay the
bin.
-ota could be built so cheaply as this