The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-28

To the Editor of The Herald:
Thinking that word or two from
this future great camp would not be
amiss at this time L take pleasure IN
sending you these few lines
As the old year IS fading away with
it's sorrows and disappointments, it
finds the miners of this region busy
at work in the performance of assess
rent work on their claims and still
hoping that at no distant day some
thing viii be done for silver.
What blessed thing hope is, for
what else could keep the prospector, the
miner and the searcher for mineral
wealth out in the inclement weather
toiling as if they were well paid and
well fed, when the contrary is the true
condition of affairs.
In Clifton district there are now
about 80 men at work doing assess
ments, and fortune has been good to
many of them as they have gold where,
hitherto we did not look for ii.
In the opinion of our best judges
there are at least 90 claims in the dis
trict that carry more or less gold;
enough to work if we only had a rail-
road and free silver; and, in this
event, great would be Deep Creek.
A few years Ego Colonel j. f. Wood
man. George d. Haven and others built
a mill at Cold Hill with capacity of
from 80 10 40 tons of ore daily. The
plant embraced five Crawford mills,
the first one coming from England, but
they were soon worn out. The next
were cast by Silver Brothers of Salt
Lake and these stood the test. After
this the water supply became exhaust
ed to a certain extent and the COM
pany could only run two or three mills
and with these only in operation 1t
was found that it did not pay to oper-
ate the plant as it took as many men
to manage these as If the whole plant
was running. The company then sunk
and drifted for water with but indlffer-
ent success so that the works had TO
be closed down While an endeavor 10
find water was made in another direc-
ton.
This has been done and now the sur
Veyors are at work on pipe line which
is TO be q miles in length with water
storage reservoirs at the head of the
system. These reservoirs VIII have a
capacity of holding millions OF gallons
of water. which is a wise precdutlon,
as they provide for an emergency,
pipes the works would not be 1nterfered
with.
The construction of the line will take
time. of course, but when the system
is completed il will mean the upbuild-
ing of this country and our mines viii
then send out d mint of wealth
The company is the owner OF ~
claims, all of which are very valuable,
one of which is a copper producer the
vein on which is all of 100 in width.
But Cold Hill must be seen to be
appreciated and no one can well de-
scribe il as it is one great mass of
mineral
So far the hill has been but little
prospected, but if this mountain OF ore
was located in Bingham or Mercur at
least two railroads would have been
built TO it a long time ago
On this hill / have seen rich ore
shipments taken from the grass roots
md some high-grade mineral has been
mined here. And yet the readers of
The Herald will say: IF the hill is
so rich in mineral wealth why is it
that the mines there are not worked?''
The answer is that the mines are too
far from the railroad and that there is
scarcity OF water.
on the Alverton mine the shaft is
down to the 250-foot level and it shows
large bodies of ore from the surface
TO the bottom, and in the ore there is
an abundance of free gold which can
easily be seen with the naked eye. so
much So in fact, that it looks almost
az if someone had taken a gun loaded
with gold shot and fired it into the
rock.
The Kane Springs claim is another
mine that has proven to be very rich
and this property has been a heavy
gold producer; and these two prop
critics already have record of an
output OF $3.50 600 in the precious metal,
not taking into account what has been
soolen from these mines and from the
mills.
When the pipe line is completed there
IS no doubt but that the Gold Hill
or some other company Will make mil
lions out of these properties, and it is
likely that the building of the line will
result in the establishment of lively
camp in the near vicinity of the work.
ings Of the company
AS it is, Midas, Hopkins, Reavy and
Overland canyons must have water for
the DEVELOPMENT of their mines and
also water for the necessities of a
lively mining cana, and as this coun-
try is heavily mineralized there is sure
to be a thrifty town in this immediate
vicinity.
Gold Hill has a beautiful townsite
and u - Del1eNSQ tildL III the near 1u-
tuse this camp win have as many in
habiIapts as Eureka.
The water line can be extended to
Dutch mountain. where another city
will spring up and flourish in the same
manner that is characteristic of the
many mining camps of the west.
So far / have said nothing regarding
the big town that will spring up in
the Deep Creek valley at the same
time that these others materialize, as
the same wa terworks that viii furnish
these places with water viii supply
the enlbrvotic cit-r in the valley; and
right here I would like to ask the
question: Where is there better op-
portunity offered to investors
than in the Deep Creek country, as at
least five CAMPS will be built along
the pipe liner"
We have Just returned from a visit
to the Queen of Sheba mine. which is
located Is miles south of IbaDah.
George d. Haven. of Little Cotton
wood and Deadwood fame has organ
lied a eorspany for the development
OF a group of seven claims in this 10
cality This ground is being opened
by means of a tunnel and open cuts