The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-09

ter on the ground almost everything
that is taken out could be worked at
a profit, and there is now enough low
grade ore in the various dumps of
the district to keep a smelter of
limited capacity going night and day
for long time, independent OF the
great supplies down in the depths.
The Lone Brothers are patented
ground, but are not Incorporated. They
the many comparatively low hills lying
abreast Of the great serrated range
beginning at the Beaver river on the
south and running away northward
many miles till it loses its identity in
another and. greater range whose
northern limit is the Sewer river. There
is nothing that approaches regularity
in these mountains, and they are al
most devoid of DictureSqueness; but
wherever they have been proSpected
mineral or traces thereof have been
found. 1t is a common belief that al
most any part of the range to the north
is a fertile field for the prospector, but
it is such a hard formation to get into
or out of that the smiles of fortune
supposed TO be concealed behind those
jutting crags have not been much of
a temptation so far. All the work of
any considerable consequence that has
been carried on in this range has been,
with the exception of the great Cave
mine abou. three miles to the north,
within stones throw of this particu-
lar neighborhood.
The town of Milford, previously
spoken of, is the shipping and princi-
pal supply point of the southern cOun-
try. When first established. on the
completion of the Short Line (then
the Utah Southern railway TO that
point, it all at once became a place of
considerable Importance. Not far from
1000 people pulled I'D stakes" else
where and hied them to what at that
time promised to be the liveliest and
fastest place in the territory. A great
smelter had been nut up and was in
full blast A big hotel was built by
John H. Latey of Salt Lake. the late
w. II. Sherman, and Mr.. Williams, of
Milford. the latter having remained
with the property all along: other no
tells were also constructed. The newt
able boom town paper was soon estab-
lished, the ineXtinguishable Joseph
Field of Beaver being it's head and
front. There were six or eight stores,
at least dozen saloons and things
sailed on the high tide for awhile.
Buildings were put up as fast as lum-
Der could be obtained, and there was
very little attention paid to regularity
or appearance, so that none of the
InOIOuSnIdTGS
where near straight. If the traveller
takes direct course and keeps it he
is morally certain to run up against a
structure Of some sort, occupied or
empty, before long. IT is the para
disc of the porcine family, which roams
at large on every hand. At the zenith
of its prosperity the shadow of the
blighting hand all at once appeared.
followed in rapid succession by the
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downward more rapidly even than it
had gone upward. The newspaper
which, by the by, had come to stay
let go before , ii had fairly got hold;
one by one the saloons succumbed to
cruel fortune till but two were left; the
stores thinned out proportionately; the
smelter has long been a towering ruin,
each year adding somewhat TO the
work of the destroyer until now it is u |
disjointed. decayed. crumbling old
skeleton of a thing ready on the slight
est provocation TO crumble into an in
distinguishable heap of kindiing wood
and old iron. The hotels seem to have
suffered least of all, for there are as
many as ever and they do fairly we'll
for these times. This is because they
are, as a rule, exceedingly we'll kept,
the fare is good the beds are clean
and the rate is moderate; also because
the transient traffic is considerable.
Business men of all kinds, farmers
with their produce, stock men. freight
ers and more than all at this time of
the year. sheep owners and herders,
one or the other of these and some
times all together, are at Milford in
greater or less numbers. and as a con-
sequence the hotels enjoy a reasonably
steady run of patronage. The weary
but patient shepherd-who in no case
even remotely resembles the stage ar
with alkali and en-
veloped with many coats of vari-col-
ored dust. makes things interesting for
the dispenser of fluid consolation by
till sleepy and then sleeping
till thirsty again. The train comes in
from the north early in the morning,
leaves late in the evening, and there
we are So much for Milford, which.
permit me to say, contains some de-
cidedly enterprising and go-ahead peo-
pie, who have by no means lost hone |
in the towns prosperous future. Not /
only do they expect to see it in its
former estate but superior to that. and
with an abundance of water it is /
conclusion that they would I
not be disappointed. Perhaps the diff
Guilty referred to may be overcome be- /
fore long; if so it will have to be by |
the artesian system. If the Milfordites /
could only have the living spring in /
the bottom of the Lincoln here, it /
would be a most excellent arrange /
ment; both parties would then be bene- /
flied, whereas both are now discom- +
NODDED Such is the contrariness of |
nature.
Quite a little activity in mining has
recently sprung up in the vicinity of I
Milford. of which you have already |
heard something. If 1 can find any |
thing there that will be new to you or /
otherwise worth having, will place it |
before you in good time. The present |
locality had better be disposed of first, |