The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-13
NO RICHER REGION
THAN DEEP CREEK
Pioneer Has Increased Faith
Following Recent Visit to
This District.
FRANK L. WILSON HAS
SEVERAL FINE GROUPS
Portion of Utah is
Bound to Forge Ahead
With Railroad.

Frank L. Wilson, one of the pioneers
of Deep Creek, aud interested in the
Lucy L. Clifton Belt Copper and West
ern Pacific mining properties, is back
from several weeks visit to his in
terests In the Deep Creek country.
There are few more staunch friends
of this portion of Utah than Mr.. vii"
son, and he stated Friday that there
was not another portion of the whole
country that looked better than Deep
Creek The naturalization of this re-
gion is truly wonderful, and the com
ing of the railroad now an apparent
certainty will bring rapid advancement
Mr.. Wilson states that there are num-
erous new outfits of prospectors going
INTO this region every week, and one
runs across investors on all sides,
The Lucy L., states Mr., Wilson, re-
Gently was the scene of a very import
ant strike of gold and copper ore
The management has crosscut this new
ore body for a distance of forty two
feet, and the whole way is in ore of
splendid grade. Inasmuch as the Lucy
l.. company has found such large bodies
of sulphide ore making in the porphry,
outcroppings being as wide as two
hundred feet, there is every reason TO
expect better developments with depth,
and as depth has been gained upon this
one group the results have been ever
more favorable. The management is
sinking and drifting upon the veins
disclosed up to date. and there still
remain fully one hundred feet of the
minerahzed formation TO be crosscut
during the present year.
1t is not generally appreciated that
the richest bismuth ore ever found in
the United States has come from this
Lucy L. ground. The company has a
great vein OF this metal, some of it
running as high as 90 per cent pure,
but little effort has been made 10 thor.
oughly develop this resource owing to
the difficulties of transportation dur
ing past years. While the company in
tends TO do great deal more develop
ment work before making any definite
plans for a concentrating plant, 1T is
not improhs BILE that such a mill will
be erected bv the company in time
The coming of the railroad, however,
may solve many problems not now
fully mastered.
From the Clifton Copper Belt prop
erty, states Mr.. Wilson, the company
is taking out some remarka bly, rich ore
carrying as high as 20 per cent copper,
but an average of per cent red metal
and there are large quantities of such
ore IN this mine. The management is
running q tunnel to tap these resources
at greater depths than heretofore gain
ed, and there is every reason TO eSnect
a decided improvement In gold and
silver values. The Western Pacific
property is being developed by q long
crosscut tunnel. This working will tap
the vein from which in the earlier
days there was a considerable quantity
of ore shipped TO the Eastern markets.
This ore will run on the average, as
stated by Mr.. Wilson, 13 per cent cop
per, % per cent lead, 4 ounces silver
and trace of gold. The tunnel now
is tapping numerous seams of galena
ore, and it looks as if great ore body
would be reached by the management
at any time.
Mr.. Wilson and his associates own
another group of twelve claims adjoin-
ing the Copper Belt property, and while
none Of the workings upon this group
are down over twenty feet. there have
been some very fine values turned up
from grass roots Mr. Wilson states
that from grass roots the ground has
shown silver ore that has averaged
one hundred ounces per ton. Gold also
is found up to 81 per ton, and as much
as IL per cent copper has been en-
the surface 1t is his close intimacy with
Deep Greek properties which gives
Mr. Wilson his enthusiasm over the
possibilities of this neglected portion
of Utah, and when the era of pros.
perity is on in full blast there are
few in better shape TO reap good re-
wards than he Is himself