The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-02
FISH SPRINGS
A RICH REGION
Mineral Resources Offer Splendid
Opportunities to Prospector
and Capitalist.
VALLEY FULL OF WONDERS
HOT AND COLD, FRESH AND SALT
WATER is THERE.

Writing from Fish Springs the home
of the Utah mine, one of Utah's richest
lead-silver ore producers, p. T. Noel,
an old prospector of the camp, calls
attention not only to the value of the
Utah property and the district as a
whole, but he makes reference to other
natural advantages of the camp which
borders the Deep Creek country, OF
particular interest at this time.
This place is situated eighty miles
west of Vernon on the Salt Lake, Los
Angeles & San Pedro railroad, and fifty
miles east of Deep Creek, on the Ne
vada line" says Mr.. Noel. I'VE have
here only one working mine at the
present time, and 1t is a wonderful
proposition. With a force of from fif-
teen to twenty-five men about one car
load of high-grade ore per week is pro-
duced. With ample capital and conf
dence to back it, it would be hard to
compute the possibilities of its out
put. The vein seems to be continuous
through this range of mountains for
several miles. It is held by locations
and patented claims, several of which
have produced high-grade ore in the
past, but most of them are now tied
by disagreements and litigation among
the owners To these conditions and
the fact that the present nearest rail-
road point is seventy miles away, the
outside world has not become well ac-
quainted with the district and its re-
markably fine advantages Fhe fOrma-
ton is lime, QuartZite ana pOrDhyry
with a dip to the west and strike north
and south. The formation is assured
from northeast to southwest and all of
these assures unquestiOnably connect
with the lime and pOrphyry contacts.
These lodges have been pTOspected but
very little as yet ana offer great in
ducements to the prOSpectOr and cap
ita.ist.
Fish Springs and Valley.
Fish Springs valley is largely owned
by J. j. Thomas of Lehi. He has n fine
ranch here. raising great deal of wild
hay. He has about $50 acres under
fence with a large portion of it in al
falfa and timothy hay. The Fish
springs proper cover an area about fif-
teen miles long, north and south, and
the ranch X located about in the cen
ter and on the west side of the valley.
which is from three to four miles wide
The series of springs have d flow run
ming UP into the thousands of gallons
per minute. Some of them are hot
and some cold water of fine quality.
About three miles north of here is
an extinct 9eySer that has an eleVa-
ton of about four feet above the sur
rounding flats. The opening at the
surface is about 20X25 feet, being oval
in shape. The rim is composed of lime.
iron. silica and magncsia and resembles
coral or fossil lime. deeply icOn-Stained
] have never seen as fine d bathing pool
anywhere in the country. The National
park has nothing to compare with il.
The water is very salty and just hot
enough to give splendid hot salt wa
ter bath. This pool is The property
of no one. as yet. so l cannot be ac-
cused of booming somebody's game
when I say that there is nothing like
these waters for the cure of catarrh
rheumatism, etc The pool is bottom
less. so far Is anybody knows, but some
day II is going to be recognized as ONE
of this country great SanuariumS. L
has never been located, as 7 under
stand II. because the impression pre-
walls that there is a law reserviTg al
such natural wonders to the govern.
ment-
Chance for Agriculture.
There is a great area of country tina
might be irrigated and made TO grow
almost anything and the waters of tn,
of windmills, or other pumping devices
be easily raised to an elevation tina
would permit of the water being run OF
TO most of the fine bench lands tina
line the valley With the increase o
mining activity in this region that mus
follow the building of the Western Pa
Ciflc, these lands must become vaIuabI
as the products will all find a marke
close at hand.
II don't know how you viii treat thi
correspondence, but prOSpecto
who has been all over Montana, Ida h.
and Colorado during the last thirt,
years I thought it would be of interCs
to some to have my impressions of TIT
country, particularly as no one has ap
parontly taken the trouble to say any
thing about the physical conditions an,
resources of it,