The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-08
DUGWAY NOW HAS
HOPE WITHIN SIGHT
Properties Are Doing Their Ut
most to Justify Building
of Railroad.
MANY COMPANIES ARE
DEVELOPING RICH ORE
Salt Lakers Operating Ground
That Is Giving Extremely
Fine Results.

That tho many Salt Lakers who have
seconded their faith in tho Dugway Min
ing district with liberal expenditures Of
funds for developing their possessions In
that region, hnve not acted entirely
without Judgment Is the opinion of Frank
Jardine, tho well-known Utah mining
man who has just returned from that In
teresting and busy region. This was the
nrst trip ever made TO tho Dugway re-
glon by MIR. Jardine. and he returned
thoroughly in sympathy with the efforts
property-oWnerS are making to establish
thelr rights to public appreciation.
Railroad Is One Hope.
For years. says Mr.. Jardine, the hope
or tho district has been that a railroad
would at some future time tap the dis
ulct WI nile men have grown old waiting
Tor THIS ife-saving event, many now SEQ
the great day OF release at hand, and 1t
IS generally thought within the district
that the Western Pacific main line Will
S9mo within thirty miles OF Dugway
mountain. Thirty miles Is not O short
distance for the haulers OF ore. but 1t
Will bo q welcome relief from the 1fty-
nFe miles now separating the heart OF
the region from the steel rails There is
an addltlonal hope In the fact that from
the main line TO Dugway Mountain q
branch line has been surveyed, but what
the outcome Of this action will be re-
mains within the dim future
Looked Over Utahna Group.
Mr. Jardlne went into the Dugway re-
9ion for tho purpose OF looking over the
Ctahna mining property owned by Salt
LaKers, who compose the company own
ing the property at Cactus Peak New. OF
which MI Jardine is the superintendent
any grass TO grow beneath their feet, ap-
plying heroic energies towards the devel-
opment of their Dugway ground Mr.
Jardine returned with several extremely
. mi Of -
best displayed comes from the tunnel
which now is In a distance of 125 feet
Tunnel Is in Ore.
orc has been encountered in this tun-
mel that runs very high In copper lead
ana silver carrying small gold values as
increase IN value as tho miners drive tho
work towards the objective point and tho
management has every reason to feel
ErStlned over the excellent showing that
Is being made In this portion OF the mine
Mr.. Jardine also brought with him sona
samples from surface groupings. secured
from another part OF the property. This
scfiace ore Is rich In lead. and It's char
octeT Is such as one would expect and be
highly pleased with should II have been
encountered several hundred feet unS rr
ground.
st. George Giving Results.
- Adjoining the Utahna group is the st
George property, also the property OF Salt
Lake people. and the energetic develop
ment Work that this company is CARRYING
on Is not without It's rewards Mr.. Jar
dine states that the st George has some
extremely hne showings. The Dugway
Cold and Copper company's properties ia
also giving Its owners some lne returns
rheso two and other properties arc com
oinlng TO establish the merits of the coun-
Try even more firmly In tho estimation OF
lts people and Its numerous friends
Patented Ground Is Idle.
There Is great lot OF patented ground
In the Dugway country Idly awaiting Inn
proved facilities for the marketing of ore
Should the region become attached 10 tho
outer world by the rails Of steel which
apparently are In sight, there would fol-
low as naturally as day follows the night
q genuine boom for the entire region.
Whilo such improved conditions would at
tract the prospector and many mining
men for the first time, 1t would be certain
TO bring In large number of owners
ready and prepared to pull their proper
ties out from under the cloud OF idleness
that the passing years OF unsatisfactory
lacllties have cast over the district
Mr. Jardlne expects to return TO tho
Cactus region within the next few days
TO assume control of the deyelopment
Upon tho properties under his charge.
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