The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
DEEP CREEKS GREAT MINES.
Mountains Of Mineral That Will Make This Section
Famous In the Future

Well known men who have been
Larman OF Chicago, James Berry OF
New York John W. Harker OF st.
Louis and j. F. Woodman of Salt Lake
City, but generally speaking those who
have operated there may be divided
into two classes-poor men. who have
barely managed TO hold their claims by
surface scratching assessment work.
and those who were able TO patent
their ground, then allowing it to lie
Idle, awaiting the advent of a railroad
This, coupled with the distance from
a market, is responsible for the slow
growth of Clifton, where are forty-nine
patented claims and where 1850 loca-
tons and relocationS have been re-
corded
Clifton is pre- eminently a gold camp,
although silver and lead ores are there
in quantity and values. recent develop
mentS also proving the presence of
high-grade copper. One popularity is
that almost invariably auriferous
lodges strike northwest. silver and lead
due east and west.
For surface showing few regions can
be likened to Clifton. For miles the
contacts, true assures and dykes, can
be easily traced along the general
formation of granite, lime, quartzite
anu pOIpuyIN. III llIllC ore OCCuTS III
chutes and deposits. Great groupings
of iron and carbonate of copper lead
the way to true veins of silver below
and almost pure galena is sometimes
found just under the Groupings. In
many cases the lodes are cased with
tale. One OF the largest contact veins
on the Gold Hill group is between
quartzite and porphyry.
Some Salt Lake mining men owning
interests in Clifton are Allan G.. Camp
bell, James Chapman, John Dern, DIR.
H. j. Faust. ]. p. Gardner, H H.
Green. Colonel George A. Henry, S. K.
Kinney, F. c. Little. Louis Martin,
Duncan Mcvichie, John Meter. ]. H
Stratton. Pat Ryan. ]. B. Weimer, ].
F. Woodman and B. II. Young.
The Polar Star. belonging to S. K.
Kinney of Clifton, boasts of vein of
considerable size, which produces gold
ore of shipping variety.
Colonel ]. F. Woodman is the largest
owner of Gold Hill stock. The Gold
Hill group is an immense grade
gold and silver milling proposition 1t
has made money in the past, treating
the ore by a mill on the premises. and
promises to increase rapidly in pro-
ducing and dividend-paying capacity
because of improvements to be made
at once by Colonel Woodinan.
The St Louis group, over whose des-
TIMES G. w. Brown of Clifton presides.
is big silver and lead prospect.
One of the future famous copper and
lead properties of Clifton is the Silver
King, the favorite of B. III. Young and
Frank C. Little.
Colonel George A Henry and Senator
Joseph Robinson are the proud posses
sorS of the Coleman. Windy and I'm
mense. three groups of enormous bodies
of silver, lead and copper ore. prom
iSn of great fOpDapa whom fba i1rnaN
reaches Deep Creek.
One of Deep Creeks merchants,
James Hendry. is pushing along the
Red Jacket, which he and others con-
slider a good thing.
The biggest thing in Dutch mountain,
the north section of Clifton district, is
the Monster and Colossus, silver, lead
and copper, owned by John Garrison
and bonded to the Jessie Weimer Min
ing company of Salt Lake City. The
same company is also sinking shafts
and driving tunnels on the Copper
Gulch and Manganese groups, where
they have fair showing of gold. COD
per, silver and lead.
]. P. Gardner, the clothing man, is
happy in possession of the Greenback
and other high-grade copper producers
in Clifton.
Near the Silver King is the Monacca.
a silver and lead prospect, the property
OF george w. 1ndIcnSr-
Charles Voigt, the we'll known Gold
Mountain mine owner, holds the Ben
Hur, Lew Wallace and some other gold
claims of dazzling appearance.
Names of some properties belonging
to Duncan McVichie and II. II. Green
are the Senator, Albany, Kaffir and
Cyclone.
The Midas mine is owned chiefly by
Salt Lake parties, among whom are
John Dern and State Treasurer Chip
man. The property is being actively
good ore have been blocked out to be
treated by the cyanide process of gold
extraction.
SPRING CREEK DISTRICT.
Overlooking a village of Goshoot In
dians, just south of Ibapah. are three
great snow-capped mountain peaks,
known to the aborigines as the Neswe
Mujjemuhnedo which. translated, is
Three Devils. They tower far above
even all the other sublime heights of
the majestic chain Of mountains, tend
ing north and south. Each is thanked
on either side by deep gorge in the
bottom of which roars a rivulet the
year round. These three mountains
are in the center of the Spring Creek
mining district in Utah.
The Queen of Sheba and Jumbo,
among the best known mines in Deep
Greek, are located here. They are
owned by the Jessie Weimer Mining
company of Salt Lake. Most of the
operations in the Jumbo have been con-
fined to shallow shafts and short in
clines and tunnels about the surface.
Near the Queen OF Sheba are some
promising prospects owned by NJ Mer-
rill and w. P. Richards Of Salt Lake.