Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-07-24

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the town OF Stockton, and prospect
| ing became one OF the first and most
assiduou5iy followed employments.
They soon organized as a part f
I West Mountain mining district (this
being the second | believe in the
| Territory, covering an enormous
scope Of country which embraced
Bingham canyon the miners on the
west side of the Oquirrh range sub.
scqucntly, however, mot and gan.
lied separately AS Rush luke Naarv
district Many locations we're made,
some Of which proved to be very
( rich but the vast majority as in most
other cases, not amounting to much
on the average. The fortunes Of
this region have iuctuatcd consider
ably and at this writing seem to be
on the up grade with somewhat
more of a promise OF stable prosper
ity.
THE MINES OF BINGHAM
were discovered the same year as,
perhaps a little earlier than, those OF
the west side Of the range, but there
is less dehniteness regarding the
event or events, since, from all ac-
counts there appears to have been a
series OF them with nothing definite
OF record as to the first location. 1t
seems to have been regarded at first
as a silvcr.lead district, but subse-
quently developed gold and copper
in large quantities. Its sluicing OPP
crations tor line gold and nuggets
have been marked feature for years
and are still going on with more or
less profit to those Engaged in them.
The Old Reliable, as it is called,
thus affords many dollar to those
who otherwise would be unable to
get 1t.
A Shady BEGINNING,
The first mine to bring Utah into
close communion with the outside
world .but not the first discovery, as
many falsely imagine, nor anywhere
near it, was the notorious Emma Of
ID
Little Cottonwood With It's advent
upon the field OF commerce came al
50 oIheF5 IN the same neIghborhood'
ana inc camp winch grew up IN the
SUBMITS oil the mountains at the head
/ OF that canyon was appropriately
!athcu ana. 1t was very lively
niue place Tor a time containing at
"'''eIeh' PERIODS as many as 1000
persons, ohieIly men, although there
were a iew families. 1t was a nSot-
Gus pace 10 I'VE III curing the WIN
,-' se'Soh' the snow sometimes pc
my twenty IIct or more IN depth
''u scNeta' l'EeS were lost there by
te"sol o' "V"Ianchcs' II must also
DC s"'u Tl inc Emma 'h"t 1t did not
S'oP WIN making Tor US a new COM
"cI[''' ch,'n win the great centers
VI 'i,e caI ''' out came near destroy
my i's oIISi'''nS oy pteclPliauhS up
u" ''e INNING INDUSTRY sPecihCa!'y
ana upon inc "n'le Territory incI-
"-u"'''y one Oh me most sluPehlou5
'''~' "'Ss uS''"s FRAUDS ever worked
upon an uh9uSpect'hS world, OF
WIN" ~, Ir''I'
l I'e Emma was discovered IN 1905
by couple OF prosPectors who
s'e'i'eI 10 nave no particular OBJECT
III we" OUT were disposed to keep
5Hc,I eyes open and be ever on the
lookout IoI lne mann chance Inc
uoPP'hES or top rock projecting
from " ieuS e above the surface OF the
Po"i' "'''ch was afterwards chrstened
"s ABOVE attracted tlelr attention and
"''Gr examination 1t was decided to
' i d location, MOI mueh was
conc IN tne way oil development ana
me WORK went slowly along only
'pou' one hundred tons OF ore beng
'Ahei. out the ii[st year SuoSe-
iIeh'y some Otah Parues, the