The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-02
SALT LAKERS ARE
MAKING HISTORY
Local Mining Talent Succeed in
Setting Swift Pace at
FairvieW.
COMPOSE THE PIONEERS
OF THAT DISTRICT
Liberal Rewards Follow Efforts
to Convert Desert Into
Producing Region.

Nothing strikes the visitor to the MI
ming camp of Fairview, especially those
from Salt Lake. so forcibly as the num-
Der of Salt Lakers one can see on oil
sides. Practically all the successes up
to the present time have been regis
tered by citizens of Zion. the new
corners turning UP values on properties
which originally we're owned by Utah
people. When tho days In GolAheld
were assuming a brightness that has
never dimmed, IL was matter OF COM
mon comment that Utah had permitted
Pennsylvania, Colorado and California
to fairly tramp over the mining talent
within the limits OF the State. and that
Utah talent had never fully appre-
cated the opportunities presented In
Nevada was readily conceded.
Utah Talent Was First.
At the beginning of the present year
when John T. Hodson of Salt Lake and
William H. Webber OF Denver drove
into what is now known as FairYiew,
they saw only three tents and as many
prospectors as this number OF canvas
homes would comfortably house. Mr..
Hodson narrowly escaped being the
first citizen OF Utah to land at this
point. Frank Virtue having that dis
tinction. a hasty examination OF the
property now known 8 the Nevada
Hills ground convinced Messrs. Hodson
and Webber of the future of that prop
erty and the district, and after tieing
UP the same they joined hands with
several others and laid out the townsite
Of Falrview,
This townsite company holds the dis
tlnction of being the first dividend-pay-
ing proposition in the camp. The shar-
ing of profits still continues and this
is adding no small amount TO the
spending money OF several Salt Lakers
operating there. 1t is n matter OF gen.
eral knowledge how we'll the Nevada
Hills ground has turned out. enriching
Messrs. Hodson, Kirby, Clark. Rice and
Farrell of this city. Mr.. Virtue reaped
the great benefits attending the early
possession of considerable ground in a
booming mining camp, and his more
recent additions in surrounding por-
tions of that excitement zone have add |
ed greatly to his profits.
Own Valuable Interests.
Among those who were successful In
corralling property of great merit and |
at an early stage OF the game were
Ben D. Luce and D. II. Peery of Salt
Lake who, In addition to having dis
posed OF the control of q very promis- |
ing property. still retain interests OF |
much value. With the beginning of the !
Bullfrog district dates season of un- |
paralleled success in mining operations |
for Messrs. Brown, Terry and Wood |
ruff of this city, whose representatives |
took advantage OF being oIs the ground |
early at Fairview. These gentlemen |
are counted among the most fortunate |
of Falrview operators.
Harry S. Joseph, with his associates, |
Messrs. Peet and Russell, have estab- |
lished their monuments around several |
groups Of claims both in the Fairview |
district and the Wonder region. Being |
in the advance guard to the latter |
camp, as was also Charles Higgins Of |
Salt Lake, they have secured some ex-
cellent properties. The camp Of Won |
der also furnished the stage for a sea-
son OF tremendous activity and pecuni- |
ary profits for the surveying firm OF |
Collier & Blossom. the former having |
left Salt Lake only a short time ago |
for Fairview.
McCarricli to the Front.
the Fairview district would be COM
plete without mentioning the name and |
achievements of Edward McCarrlck, |
whose successes there have served to |
emphasize the wide awake character !
of Utah hustle and judgment. From |
his acquisitions Mr.. McCarrick has dis |
posed of sufficient TO establish him
comfortably In life, but there Will be
still more to tell after he has explored |
and developed the properties which he
has retained for himself and associates.
These are only few of the citizens of
Salt Lake who have made history for
that district up to date and these with
others VIII contribute much to the fu-
ture development Of that region. One
can hardly turn In any direction within
the mineralized hills of Nevada today |
without running into Salt Lakers AL !
though late In getting IN, they are los
ing no time In making good In silencing
the claim that Utah people are letting
golden opportunities pass in the State |
OF Nevada.
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