The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-10

This promises to be a great year in
Utah in the active and systematic
search for gold, as well as in the out
put of the yellow metal, while the in
dications are that 1t viii not be many
years before the different districts of
the state viii give Colorado and other
gold-producing sections of the west
lively race for supremacy in this direc-
ton. Ten years ago Utah was unable
to boast of the possession of single
purely gold camp within its environ
ments. Now, however, it can lay claim
to several, besides which number OF
the old silver-lead camps are making
showings of deposits of gold-bearing
ores which are surely encouraging, 20
say the least, and which will certainly
lead TO an increased production OF this
metal during the year 1898.
OF Utah's new gold camps, Mercur,
of course, takes the lead. Its principal
mine, so far, has already paid in the
neighborhood OF 81, 600 000 in dividends
during its brief existence, and the
property is still but barely scratched.
What the year has in store for the
camp of Mercur, is hard TO foretell,
Jbut the Indications are that before the
>-nd of 1898 at least three or four more
mines in the district VIII find a place
on the dividend-payi list, with quite
a number of others to hear from in the
very near future-producer on the
west dip and the east dip, and the Sun
shine portion of the camp, as well as
Mercur; while Lion hill, with its mag
nificent naturalization, should report
three or four big paying propositions
before the new year begins to totter
beneath its load of days.
Gold Mountain, on the Sewer, is
younger district. and its geological and
lnetallurgical structure is different
from the camp Of Mercur, its ore de-
posts being between Well-defined and
on the average, being of higher grade
and generally free milling, and the
number Of promising prospects and
mines in the camp lead to the belief
that this great gold-bearing zone will
tdrn out at least a dozen heavy and
regular producers this summer.
Stateline also, an infant in age and
development, but a prodigy in the way
of surface showings, is now able to
boast OF its new mill, which is grind
ing away on good grade of gold ore,
while in the various prospects through
out the district the showing is so en-
cOuraging as to strengthen the belief
that this promises to open out into one
of the bonanza districts of the state.
MAI ySkGlt also mas us SOlQ mines,
which some day will be heard from in
no uncertain tone; while in Beaver
county, in Newton district, gold has
been found and the surface groupings
are so strong that it is certainly only a
question of time, persistent and intelli-
gent labor, and the expenditure of a
limited amount of money, before the
mines of the camp will be listed as reg
ular shippers or will be milling their
own ores.
The outlook for Utah's future as a.
gold producer is certainly very cheer
ing, and the state has made rapid adj
vances n this direction during the past
two years.
The fact remains, however, and time
Will prove the truth of the assertion,
that but little is known as yet regard
ing the gold resources of the state. and
ii is believed in mining circles that the
hills and mountains of the common
wealth have been but little prOspected
as yet; that they have hardly been
scratched; that the regions abound
within its environments where the foot
of the prOspectOr has never trod, and
that the result Of this seasons search
for the precious metals Will result in
the discovery Of several new gold
whose riches in the yellow metal
viii cause the widest excitement
the entire west, and even
the world, and that within q few years
tc come, the magnificent state of Utah
VIII lead the other states of the Union
in its yield OF gold.