The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-26

lions when justice is done to silver
has distributed the wealth of a Monte
Cristo to its stockholders; while in the
DAILY, the Daily West and the Anchor
have made most creditable showing in
this direction, to say nothing of the
Silver King, which, although a more
recent producer, is now enriching it's
stockholders monthly to the extent of
S37, 500, largely owing to its immense
deposits of galena,- ore; but should the
White metal be re-instated as a money
metal, as the equal Of gold at a proper
ratio,
THE SUN OF PROSPERITY
for Park City would rise once again
and the cloud now hanging over the
camp would be dispersed.
In the way of new gold camps there
are several which give promise of
springing into considerable prominence
at an early day. One of these is Go d
Mountain, in Piute county, and this
camp, although Boosting of but a brief
existence, has already developed sew
eral gold producers, and the mineral
ization of the district, according to we'll
posted mining men, is greater than at
Cripple Creek or of Angels Camp.
State Lire is also one of The new god
camps which is now attracting the at
tentlon of mining men and capitalists
The formation Of the district is very
favorable to mineral deposits and the
strong Lodges of gold bearing rock
which cut through the country from
north to SOUTH parallel each other but
a short distance apart. While still in
its infancy State Line will soon be able
to give it out that it has its first mill
in operation, and it is believed that
within another year the district will
make for itself a name as well as
fame.
Newton district, in Beaver county,
also has all the earmarks of developing
into a productive gold camp, and the
expenditure of money and labor there
is all that is required, seemingly, to
front.
This review would be incomplete
without mention being made of
Frisco, with its famed Horn
Silver mine, which has paid
over $5,00O,O0O in dividends, and
which, today, is steadily increasing its
surplus account. Frisco although a
surrounded with some OF the best min
eralized country to be found in the
state, and it is believed that the tide
of mining enterprise and investigation
will soon turn towards this section of
the state, in which there are numerous
camps and properties of good promise
Deep Creek, too, under which title
a large number of promising camps are
included, is destined at no distant day
to cause the greatest excitement in the
mining world because Of it's
PROLIFIC AND WONDERFUL
naturalization; but this period will not
arrive until the iron horse brings this
wide stretch of country into close and
speedy communication with the COM
mercial centers of the west, and when
this long-hoped for time arrives, Deep
Creek will be to Salt Lake what Grip
pie Greek has been to Colorado towns.
There are other camps and districts
in Utah that are worthy OF special men
ton, such as La Plata, the silver, lead
and copper camp a few miles northeast
of Ogden; while in almost every can
yon, on almost every mountain side,
there are little mining camps which are
constantly adding their mite to the en-
riching of the world and these, in the
aggregate. often count for more than
the individual contribution of big pro-
positions whose praises are so often
sung in the columns of the daily press.
1t would be difficult to give the pro-
auction of the mines of Utah from the
time the first pick was struck into the
ground in the way of mining develop
ment, and it would be more difficult
still to give in detail the amounts paid
in dividends or in the way of clear pro-
fits, but from the few sources from
which data in this direction is obtain
able it is learned that % companies out
of the hundreds engaged in mining in
the state have paid out the handsome
sum of $34, 465, 500 among their stock
holders.
This is an excellent showing for the
young state of Utah, where mining is
still in its infancy. The mining camps
of the commonwealth have made ex-
cellent records in the past, and in the
future it is expected that the output
will be doubled if not quadrupled