The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-22
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discoveries supposed to equal the Mer-
cur district
That there will large city make its
appearance in Skull valley ere long
there is no doubt in my mind. The road
from here will go northwest to Clifton
thence north and around Dutch
mountain.
WILLOW SPRINGS DISTRICT
has many claims of high-grade ore
and can load many a car each day.
Clifton, the Oldest of them all, and the
largest, is twelve miles square and
contains more than 600 claims. 1t will
be found by the time the road gets
there calling for more cars. There are
more than 100 claims that contain gold.
There is not another mining district in
Utah that equals this in number of
good prospects. The whole country is
mineralized and great future is be-
fore it. Lucky will be the road that
taps it, as we'll as the men that own
in it,
Gold Hill is in this district Here is
a great property owned by Hoodman
& CO. This has been mined for the
past two years. This company COM
pany owns about nineteen patented
claims, but are working only the AL
verado and Cain Springs mines. These
mines have produced hundreds of
thousands in gold.
The lack of water is the only draw
BAG. The company contemplates put
ting on about twenty miles of water
piping. then they can work many more
mills. These claims, as we'll as the
rest Of the claims in and around Gold
Hill, contain gold, silver, lead and cop
per. Many are gold only.
DUTCH MOUNTAIN
has an area of twenty miles, the num-
Der of claims I could not ascertain One
company owns fifty-one claims. It is
a common thing to see lodges that run
from six to twenty feet wide and can
be traced for a mile; gold, silver and
lead plenty.
The road from here will run south
west into Deep Creek valley.
Ferguson Springs has been prospect
ed but little. but shows good prospects.
Furber district is a young Leadville,
and all the ore will be taken some
where else to be treated as there is no
water there. Silver lead and iron are
in all the veins. These ores are fine for
f1uxing. To the south about twenty
five miles is Spring Greek. This con-
tains the Queen of Sheba, on which
there will be a mill built this
summer. In this camp number Of pa
tented claims-gold claims that assay
from s. to 500; silver that goes as high
as 1000 ounces. and there is still a
great opening for good prospectors.
Glencoe, another camp about forty
miles south, will be a producer as soon
as there is a road to Deep Creek.
Kingsley, to the west thirty miles,
will begin to ship as soon as a road
reaches here. This camp will have to
ship all its ores, as here they cannot
be smelted. Dolly Warden, forty-f1ve
miles west, has had a smelter, but all
hands getting drunk. it froze up and
the company went busted. This camp
has
A FINE COPPER MINE
from which copper has been shipped to
Philadelphia and worked, the ore as
saving from Is to 80 per cent copper.
What feeder for the copper plant
There are many more copper proper
ties, besides silver and lead
The cattle trade for hundreds of
miles southwest would all come to
these roads. The sheep that come to
winter here and go back to the Wa
satch range in the spring could be
shipped across the desert cheaper than
they could be driven. These two roads
would not interfere in the least with
each others carrying trade, and each
would have more to do than any road
of the same length in Utah.
Let US have the roads.
H. j. FAUST.