The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31

The Deep Creek country covers vast
area Of territory on the western Dor
ders of Utah. covering portions OF
Tooele. Juab and Willard counties and
extending on into Nevada. 1t is a
thoroughly mineralized section Its
lodges of ore are immense, in some
cases fabulously large, but being iso-
lated as it is beyond the Great Salt
Lake desert, without the advantages of
railroad facilities, its development has
been retarded and progress has been
held in allegiance until the future.
when the present disadvantages are
overcome.
until capital becomes interested in the
district by the building of line of
railroad into il, very little can be done
in the way of movement of ores to the
market. The expense of hauling the
ore by teams, with few exceptions, is
too great TO make it profitable But
Deep Creek will be a great camp soon
er or later. Few people realize its i'm
portance or have any conception of it's
great bodies of gold, silver. lead. cop
per and iron ores, which are the pre-
dominating metals Whenever trans
portation facilities are afforded the dis
trict, there seems little doubt that the
mines of that section will make a rec
ord of production that will be simply
astonishing.
Attempts have been made to interest
capital in the construction of rail-
road. A line was projected several
years ago, but the promoters of the
enterprise were unable to carry out the
project and the movement collapsed.
In the meantime. owners of property
there have worked their claims; they
have uncovered great bodies of ore.
and are now offering to enter into
traffic agreements with any corporation
which will build a railroad into the
country, guaranteeing TO furnish no
less than 800 tons of ore per day the
very moment the line is completed. The
cost of constructing the road, it is fig
ured, would be comparatively small,
while the tonnage assured in the traf-
fic of ore alone would make the road
a splendid paying proposition from the
start. The railroad project is being
revived and it is not at all improbable
that before another year rolls around
the road will be under construction and
the mining districts. known as Dug
way, Fish Springs. White Cloud, Glen
coe, Warm Springs, Kinsley, Willow
Springs. Clifton, Spring Creek and sew
eral othersni. comprising what is COM
monty knoirn. as the Deep Creek coun-
try, will enter prosperous era and
the hills will be awakened by the
clang of hosting works and the rattle
of ponderous machinery in the mills
that would certainly then come into
existence.
THE UTAH MINE.
A record of s16S, 900 in dividends has
been made by the Utah mine, at Fish
Springs. in the past nine years. The
ores of this property are very rich,
hence it has been made possible to give
to shareholders that amount of profits,
although the ore was hauled by teams
seventy-five miles TO the railroad at
Oasis for shipment to Salt Lake, a dis
lance of 159 miles. One dividend of
$1,000 was paid during the year 1899.
and that was distributed on the 24th
of January. During the year many
improvements have been made at the
mine, involving an expenditure of about
$4,000, which has been put into new
machinery and equipment and in doing
exploration work. A new shaft has
been put down to depth of 400 feet
and will be carried to the 500 level,
when the main ore body will be inter
cepted. The mine will then be worked
through the new shaft, which will ma
terially lessen the cost of moving the
ores to the surface
The old shaft, through which the
property has been worked heretofore,
and which is down to a depth of 500
feet, will be abandoned. The shipments
of ore the past year aggregated $50
tons, averaging in values about 50 per
cent lead and 125 ounces silver. A
force of about twenty men is employed
at the mine the year round. while
teams are kept on the road to haul
out ore and go back with supplies. The
mine is owned by Salt Lake parties.
Very little stock is said to be held out
side the state.
THE GALENA MINE.
This property is also located at Fish
Springs and like the Utah is a divi-
dend payer, but it has been nearly two
years since shareholders were the re-
cipients of a distribution. 1t has paid
in dividends all told over 81 900. Since
the last distribution the company has
carried on a large amount of explora-
ton work and the assertion is made
by officials of the corporation that con-
ditions will be ripe for the resumption
of dividends again in 1900. During the
past year the mine has reported in the
market with ore, but the proceeds have
gone into further developments and
ore to go from ~ to % per cent lead
and 70 to $50 ounces silver, with some
gold.
CLIFTON DISTRICT.
Clifton, little town twelve miles
northeast of Ibapah, the Deep Creek
possoffice, is in the heart of Clifton
district, which is eighteen miles long.
extending west to the Nevada line, and
fourteen miles wide, reaching to the
north extreme of Dutch mountain,
bounded on the south by the old Over
land stage road. and on the east by
the desert. 1t is all in Tooele county.