The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-01

E r. Field and w. Q. Norrell, who
left for Dugway mining district two
weeks ago in the interest Of a syndi-
cate composed of fifteen Salt Lakers,
including themselves, returned home
yesterday and report having located
four promising claims in the very heart
of the minera! zone of this rich district
Three of these claims are siiver-lead
propositions, showing strong Lodges,
from twelve to eighteen inches of good
pay ore being found at the very grass
roots TIE cthe- claim is believed 10
be gold bearing, but 1t will require an
assay to determine this
Dugway is the home OF the Buck
horn mine discovered by Sam ellison a
aIted great excitement in mining circles
on account of the richness of its ore.
In a very short time the Buckhorn
produced over $50, OO0 the ore often rum
ming as high as $4,000 to $4,000 to the
ton 1T was a surface proposition, how
ever, and the hole from which this
small fortune was taken is now an OBJ
ject of interest to prospectors and min
ers, comprising, as it does, an eXcava-
tion fifty feet long by forty feet wide,
and being only from eight to ten feet
deep.
It is believed, however. that there are
many other bonanzas in the district
and even now considerable work is be-
ing done on the yellow Jacket mine,
owned by Remington & Johnson, S.
w. Eccles e. al. At the present time
there are about a dozen men at work
in Dugway. but in coming home
Messrs. Field an6 Norrell met twenty
two parties en- route for this camp with
the intention of sticking their stakes
there.
For those who desire to make a quick
"trip TO Dugway, Mr.. Field advises that
Interested parties should take the U.
K n. road to the terminus. BY sending
word ahead to Frank St. Joer at St.
John this gentleman will meet them at
the end Of the road With team and con-
veyance. From there he can take his
passengers to any place in Skull valley
in one day and to Dugway in two.
Mr.. Field reports an inconvenient
condition of affairs in Dugway in rela-
tion to the district records. These, he
says. were removed from the district
TO this city a short time ago by the
recorder, Daniel Egan Later they
were surrendered by him upon an or
der from the cour. and taken to Tooele,
where they now ara in the hands of the
county recorder. In making their loca-
tions Messrs. Field and Norrell were
Obliged. on account of the disappear
ance Of the recorder with the records
of the district, to file their location no
tices with the county recorder of Too
sla county. But for this condition of
affairs, these gentlemen would have
made several more locations, as on &C
count of the absence of the records it
was hard to ascertain just what prop
critics were open for relocation, and
what were not. They therefore advise
prospectors to remain away from the
district until a new district is organ
lied, and another recorder elected,
which will be done soon, as claim own
ers have been notified and 1t is expect
ed that a meeting and an election will
be held on the 9Th or 9th of May.
In coming home Field and Norrell
encountered the camp of the engineer
ing corps of the Utah Midland com
pany at Whiterocks. while they saw
the camp of the Utah & Pacific engin-
GERS in Rush valley beyond the ter
minus. They both were working west;
the Utah Midland in as straight line
as possible as 1T is heading for the
coast; while the Utah & Pacific, which
is making for Muncy, in White. Pine
county. Nevada, is me- king its survey
so as to take in all the mining camps
possible On its route.
According to our informant, the peo-
pie in the Deep Creek country, which
includes Dugway mining district, are
highly elated over the present rail-
road prospects, and they are unani-
NOUS in stating that with railroad and
shipping facilities more paying mines
would be opened up in that locality
than are tc be found in all the rest of
Utah combined