The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30
Much Mining Activity in
Southwestern Part of Utah

panned from the rock in dozen DIFF
ferent places. and Stateline should, dur
ing the new year make a noise like
Bullfrog or Goldfield.
| Reports indicating the early resump-
ton of operations at the Ophir mine
appear to be verified in part by the in
/ quiries President Carharrt of the Ophir
/ Mining company is making as to the
contracting of sufficient wood for min
I ing and milling. Considerable local
work is being done on such meritorious
property as the Standard, Crown Point
and others
/ Notwithstanding the suicidal history
/ of the Johnny mine, Stateline is not
! dead by any means, and the future Is
! certain TO bring a vindication of tho
mismanaged past and force recognition
Of the true merits Of the camp.
! Over the hills west from Modena, six
to eight miles in an air line, and a Ike
distance south of Stateiine, within a "a
/ dius of five square miles, are at least
eight partially developed properties
/ that are the making of great paying
mines. Within this area is Fay, New;
/ Gold Springs, Pixies Digginss and Deer
/ Lodge.
! Such properties as the Jennie, az Gold
/ Springs; the Wild Irishman, the Anne
| thyst AMI Jumbo, at Pixies Diggfngs;
| the Snowflake and Little Buck, near
/ Fay, carrying ore from So to 500 per
! ton in gold, are all developed to a point
that leaves little room for doubt as TO
the successful outcome OF the ventures
The Horse Shoe, at Fay, and the
Homestake mine, at Deer Lodge. con-
tain splendid veins of free milling low
| grade gold ores, which, with further de-
velopment at depth, 4 is believed viii
carry as rich ore as that contained in
! the properties first mentioned.
New Camp of Indigo.
Thirty miles north Of Modena, in tho
Needle range of mountains, the new
camp Of Indigo is struggling for exist
ence. Here the Indigo group of six
claims, owned by S. A. Martenson and
brother, are being opened under bond to
j. B. Smtthson of Stateline and ]. S.
Grow of Salt Lake City.
! The disclosures of ore so far made
in prospecting the property are very
promising. A shaft down sixty feet and
another down thirty feet show several
feet of ore carrying up to 50 per cent
| lead, q per cent copper, sixty ounces In
| silver and several dollars in gold per
| ton
A deal with Boston capitalists t.
pending for this property, and should
| this be conSummated it is believed that
| the entire country for ten miles north
will be staked and prospected, as it is
known to be mineraliZed as far as In
dian Peak. where is situated the prop
erty of the Blue Jay Extension Mining
| company. Twelve miles east OF Mo-
dena, at what is known as the Point
of Mountain" is the Holt and Grant
group of four claims. recently a SUD
ject of examination by NJ. NJ. johnson
of the Newhouse staff. Here Bishop G.
o. Holt has driven a shaft to a, depth
| of lis feet on vein ten to twelve feet
in width, averaging at the bottom
! twenty-siX ounces i'm silver, some load,
copper and small gold values This IL
considered a very likely prospect, and
| the Newhouse interests are keeping an
eye on the further development of the
property.
| S. B. Miner and r. c. Garfield, lust
prior to the close of the old year, con-
cluded the necessary amount of work
and have about finished the patenting
of thirteen iron claims in Bull valley,
thirty miles southeast of Modena. This
is said to cover the greatest deposit OF
| Steel-making iron in Utah.
/ 1t has been a matter of much sur
! prise to former visitors to the various
camps reached from Modena that tho
camps should have survived the period
of depression through which they
| passed JUST prior TO recent discoveries
/ The reason for this is simple. In the
! first place, the exorbitant prices asked
for property In times past shut out rhe
wildcatteT. Now, insince they have the
goods, the wildcatter won't believe Il.
! Secondly, professed experts simply
ran through the country and measured
the formations with an eye accustomed
to a wholly dissimilar formation. The
owners confidence never wavered. and
while their geology may have been bad
~ fractured, they held &c what they be
lieYed from observation gained through
actual toll. The outcome is no longer
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