The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-27
BOOM FOR DEEP CREEK.
Another Rich Strike Is Reported and
Previous Ones Verified.

With news of another rich strike and
a, verificatiOn of the reports that have
been coming in during the last few
days, j. NJ. Hamilton, manager of the
Dewey company's properties near Iba-
pah, has just returned from the Deep
Creek country. He left here on the
18th, but the weather was so stormy
for a greater portion of the time that
he has been away that he did not get
around as much as he would otherwise
have done. He declares that he saw
and heard enough or his trip, however,
to convince him that the region is at
last on the verge of a boom, such a
boom as the naturalization of the
country has justified and which ought
to have occurred years ago.
When I reached Fish Springs" said
Mr.. Hamilton yesterday, Il was told
by reliable parties that a great strike
Of lead-silver ore had been made in the
south end Of the Fish Springs range
which is a spur of the Deep Creek
range of mountains. I was given the
names Of the parties who had made
the strike but I have forgotten them.
The men are local prospectors who live
IT the vicinity of where the ore was
encountered I was informed that the
ere was very similar to that being
mined by the Utah company and
which. as is generally known, averages
90 per cent lead and over 100 ounces
silver per ton. I was also told of the
johnson strike, mentioned in The Her
aid Of this morning, and the news is
undoubtedly correct.
While at Fish Springs ] found time
TO visit the Utah mine, and 1 want to
say that never, since the first pick was
struck in the ground, has the mine
shown the ore that it does today. 1t
Is no longer a question of developing
and searching for Gre there; it is now
SIMPLY matter of extraction and
shipment
'At the end of a three hours ride
west I reached Carney's ranch, the one
place above all others on the road be-
tween here and Deep Creek where the
traveller is made at home, where every
body vies with everybody else in being
hospitable. While there 1 met NJ. r.
Evans, who is engaged in developing
his properties on Dutch Mountain He
told me that he was getting most en-
couraging results from his work; that
shipping ore was coming in from sew
eral directions.
Midas and Young Strikes.
THE Midas property is being devel-
oped by George Vanetta under lease
and bond, and during the winter he has
encountered good gold ore in the ledge
he has been prospecting That he will
make a good run at the cor1pany's mill
during the season is assured. 1 did not
have a chance to visit the property in
which Brigham II. Young and his as
Sociates have made a phenomenal
strike, but I had it from the most
trustworthy sources that they have
uncovered and are developing a ledge
that for richness will excel many of the /
best finds made in the great Nevada. /
gold camps Everybody in the country
is awakening to the fact that the rich |
est mineral country IN the west is all /
around them and the word has been
passed to the outside A boom for
Deep Creek is due-nothing can head
il off,
Mr. Hamilton went out with supplies 1
to see the seasons operations started /
at the Dewey property of which he is
and which is owned by a |
close corporation. While going through
Clifton he learned that the properties |
Of the Gold Hill company, under bond 1
to Captain Duncan MacVichfe. were
looking fine, as was also the properties
Of the Lucy l., Clifton Copper Belt
and Western Pacific companies. The
same was true of the New York Giant.
he Gardner properties and others
which, for the moment, he failed to
recall.
The Dewey mine is located within
,hree and one-half miles of Ibarjah
and the richest kind of silver, copper
md gold ore is being developed in If.
During the time that the property has
'een under development FIVE shipments
AVE been made in order to keep track
II the real worth of the ore. These
shipments have given in returns in sill
yer OF 500 to 1,742 ounces per ton. II
Der cent copper, $3.50 in gold and 10
'er cent lead. The ledge varies in
width from eight to twelve feet. and if
stands out boldly above the ground for
distance of more than half a mile.