The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-29
.SANPETE MINES
PROSPEROUS
Steady Increase of Interest
Shown in Mining.
MANY CLAIMS WORKED
CITIZENS INTERESTED ALSO IN
OUTSIDE PROPOSITIONS.

/ THE YEAR just closed has wit
/ messed greater interest in the
mining industry in Sanpete coun-
4 T. than any previous year in its his
/ tory. The interest became manifest
early last spring, and, unlike the usual
spring mining excitement, it has con-
tiDued to grow steadily, until today
the citizens of this county are not only
deeply interested in local properties,
put have holdings in nearly every min
ing camp in the state.
There are a great many promising
mineral prospects in this county that
are at present lying dormant for lack
OF capital to develop them. The own
ers, in every instance, are men who
nave not the necessary means to do
their own development, and thus far
they have been unable to interest cap
lJaI IN their propositions. All they
are able to do themselves is to keep
up the assessment work necessary to
hold the claims.
Chief among these properties are the
Viking claims, located about seven
miles west of Ephraim. This is a lead
silver proposition, assays from which
have shown as high as 50 per cent
lead and twenty-six ounces of silver
with small gold values, to the ton. A
shaft has been sunk on this property
to depth of forty feet, at the bottom
Of which is an incline extending an
other forty feet. A tunnel about thir-
ty feet in length has been driven lower
down on the property and this will be
extended several hundred feet into the
mountain to tap the vein at a depth
large quantity of low grade ore in this
property, over seventy-five tons being
piled up on the dump. The coming
year viii probably witness the devel-
opment of this property, negotiations
looking to that end being now pending.
Extending along the same belt of
country from Wales on the north to
Manti on the south are many promis-
ing prospects, which need only the
magic wand Of capital to make them
producers. In some of these claims
mineral has been found during the past
year that assayed over 800 gold, be-
sides a good percentage of copper.
In Gooseberry Valley.
In the GoOseberry valley. in the
northeast part of the county, a big
flood which came down last summer
uncovered some veins of fine looking
ore. It created quite an excitement
In FaiTvieW at the time and people |
from that town staked off the whole
country. No development work to
speak of has been done on the claims,
buC the mineral found assays well in !
gold and silver.
A group Of claims was recently 10
Gated in Manti canyon which are re-
ported TO carry good values in gold !
Men Of means have acquired an inter-
es5 in the property and its worth viii
be determined by actual development
The west slope of the Sanpete noun
tains, in Little Salt Creek canyon, has
been the scene of considerable activity
during the past season. The country
is reported TO be rich in copper and
gold. and some of Sanpete countys
leading citizens nave acquired interests
there MOrOni parties are reported to
have bonded one group of claims in
that district 10 the Snyder syndicate
for $4,000 Ephraim parties. who own
the Gold King group, in the same sec /
ton, have recently sent a force of men
over to sink a shaft on their property.
Two other Epnraim companies have
located deposits Of marble in the same
country that is pronounced by experts
TO be the finest quality of marble ever
found in the western country.
The coal mines of Morrison continue
TO turn out their usual supply of coal.
and new prospect found further up
Six Mile canyon by Sterling parties a
short time ago is now being developed (
and it is freely predicted that it will
make a valuable mine. The coal is an
excellent quality and it is exception |
ally free from rock
Coal Mines at Work.
The old Sanpete Valley mine at
Wales is being worked under a lease /
by Henry r. Thomas OF Wales, and it /
Iuel for that section of the |
county.
Two coal prospects recently discov- |
cred in the mountains east of Mt.
Pleasant are now in process of deveIop- |
ment one is in Pleasant Greek can /
yoh and the other in Twin Creek can /
yOn. Both are low down in the /
and are easily accessible in /
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