Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-10

honor next to the seat of the driver in
the camp wagon. In due time they
reached the game district. but for
some reason their patent appliances
failed to carry carnage among the
wild animals,a and they soon found their
commissary reduced to beans. berries
and whisky.
The chief then showed his ingenu-
ity by cooking the beans in whisky,
the berries In whisky and beans and
berries together in whisky. This
whisky menu began In the spot now
known as WHISKY Park. When an
old trapper discovered the party and
procured some fresh meat with his
unpatented gun the young huntera
We're as rabid prohibitionists as ever
graduated from a Kelley institute.
At present Whisky Park is town
of tents. although work has been COM
menced upon several big houses In an
ticipatlon of the coming winter. There
are about sixty people I'm camp. all
busy in prospecting, mining and home
building.
rhe pride of Whisky Park is tile Elk
horn. Although hut 80 feet in depth 1t
is already Il mine and would be "A bO-
nanzl but for the low price of silver.
1t was discovered last October by Mr..
Coffin. one of the present owners. while
on hunting trip with atew friends
He found a piece of ote on the ground
which he roasted in the camp FIRE II
proved to b. very rich in silver ana the
party returned 10 the ground and be-
gan digging as hest they could with
sticks and the prongs of an elk horn
which they found ON the spot. In this
crude way they took out over one
hundred pounds of ore, which was sent
to various assayers, and proved TO be
very rich.
Last spring Nfessrs. Colin, Mcbride,
FNNna oil u
TO Whisky Park and began sinking the
shaft and saving ore at the same time.
Six inches of solid mineral between
walls pf gnelss descend perpendicular
". There is rot 10 per cent of gangue
in the lead. and the mineral consists on
plack suiphurets, horn silver, gray cop
Fer and ordinary galena. No one who
has seen the vein will dispute that It
Is strictly in place and the truest kind
Of true fissure. The same lead has
been opened In several other places and
parallel leads have also been discover
cd. In fact the primary formation OF
the country seems to be thoroughly in
tersected with veins of mineral, prln-
cipally galena autl silver
Last month the first shipment was
made from the EllShorn to Denver and
the returns are expected daily. The
owners have completed a log shaft
house and are preparing to put on a
whinn. They will remain during the
winter and stope up from the drift at
the 50-foot level.
In one respect Whisky Park Is an
ideal place for the prospector, as the
solid formation comes clear to the
surface and no wash is encountered,
but the dense vegetation is a draw
back that causes much additional la
Dor.
The great need of the IIahn's Peak
mining district is a shelter. Further
more u smelter Of 200 or 800 tons ca
pacity per day would be paying in
vestment unless there should be Il
further decline in the price Of silver.
Mr.. Martin Of the Tom Thumb mine
on Hahns peak, states that he could
Furnish nifty tons Of ore worth over
$50 per ton Tor an indefinite period,
and unless other reports are very
quantity Of $50 ore in the district. A
smelter would nnd every essential
needed I'm the smelling of these ores
within u few miles. There is lead. cop
per- lime, wood, coal, and water
TO satisfy every shelter in the state
In Routt county. If a few more Elk
horns are opened the smelter Will
surely come and Colorado VIII have
another Klondike.
This IL primarily n gold country. as
Is shown by the placers, and the fact
that gold can be panned on any of the
rivers and creeks in the country, but
In order to find 1t In the mother veins
1T will he necessary to sink through
the eruptiVe matter ON the surface
and the sedimentary deposit. This will
take lots Of energy and some capital,
but when the Iilondike fever is broken,
itg laN NAV come.