The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-05
DAYS on a Blackboard. I"

Twelve Days on a Blackboard.
Colonel S. B. Miner of this city
might write a very interesting article
on the above topic, were he as prof.
cient in writing for the press as he is
! in writing his name on checks, as he
| has Just returned from long trip
! into the much-talked-of Deep Creek
! country, nearly 400 miles Of the jour-
ney being made on vehicle of this
description, while nearly every night
| ne slept oct in his ola-.-ets.
In describing his perambulations to
a representative of The Herald, Colo
mel Miner stated that his first stop
was made at Fish Springs, where he
made an examination of the famed
Utah and Galena mines, concerning
which so much has been said of late
in mining circles and in the press of
this city and he says that he was
much pleased with the showing in
these two producers, which, with their
new hoiStS and other improvements,
are now in condition to make great
records for themselves in the near fu
ture, and especially so as several
places in their workings fine bodies
of very high grade ore are exposed,
shipments of which are regularly
finding their way to the Salt Lake
market.
From Fish Springs the colonel went
on to Dry canyon, in the Clifton range
of mountains, where he made an in
spection of a number of prospects, of
which there are several with bright
future in store among the number be-
ing the Lion and Pride of the Hills,
the latter being owned by a Salt Lake
company In this section, according
to the colonel, the ground is profusely
embellished with rich float, and there
is no doubt but that in time several
big producers will make this locality
famous.
In Spring Creek district the colonel
and his brother. Charles, were taken
under the wing of S. K. Kinney, and
during their stay in this camp they
were the guests of this veteran miner.
1t is in Spring Greek that the Queen
of Sheba mine and mill are located,
and the colonel spent some time in
making an examination of this NINE
which, he states, is a valuable piece of
property, with fine showing of good
gold quartz in several places in its
workings.
The company is giving employment
to Is men in the operation and devel-
Opment of the Queen of Sheba, and is
running quartz through its three. Craw-
ford mills. the plant being operated by
NdlCI pOWCI, NIIllc SotN Illill dlldCll-
ment is worked by the same power.
This mill, the colonel states, is one
of the most complete little plants he
ever saw, and would be a perfect sue
cess if stamps were employed in the
reduction of ore in place of the Craw-
ford mills, which, in his opinion, are
not at all suited for this kind of work
or character of ore.
From Spring Creek the colonel and
his companions went over into Clifton,
and he describes this as, being one of
the best mineralized sections he ever
had the pleasure of seeing and he be-
lieves that there would soon be over
100 paying mines in Sthe district if it
were favored with railroad and trans
pOrtation facilities, as the mineralized
zone embraces an area of at least by
Y miles, and within, this limit there
are hundreds of promising prospects
and mines. which could begin heavy
and regular ore shipments almost at
days notice. In fact, as much as
the colonel thinks of the "Old Reliable
camp of Bingham, he is of the opinion
that with railroad facilities Clifton dis
trict would be greater than Bingham,
and he spoke in the highest terms of
the possibilities in store for the nu-
merOus camps in the Deep Creek
country