Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-29
OLD LINCOLN
IS ACTIVE AGAIN
Mines in District Southeast of
Milford Contributing Ores
To Valley Shelters.
CREOLE DOING WONDERS.
Beaver County People Interested III
Dixie's OIL Boom--Other
News from South.
snecial corrasnondenee.

Special spondence
Milford July 2s,--Until with Few
months past. nearly all the ore ship-
ments from here came from the ranges
west and southwest; but now the east
ern and southeastern portion OF the
SPUR of mountains which bisects tins
great valley is fairly dividing the nom
ors. Lincoln district. which Is the plo~
neer of Utah and contains also the pio~
neer mine and which has been apso~
lutely inert for many years, has started
nm with a vigor which but few believed
possible and none could foresee-
The Creole is doing wonders. It was
located about 1870 by Ii. l.. Crou ana
his brother. W. l.. Both then lived III
Minersylle, three miles south OF the
discovery, but the former for several
years has been a resident Oh Coioiila
Jaurez. old Mexico, and the latter ives
at Eureka, Utah They still own n
majority OF the property. which is be~
ing operated under lease. The superln-
tendent recently informed the writer
that they had moresore than they could
get out and got out more than tney
could get hauled to the railroad. Ger
tain it is that not day passes without
two to six capacity laden wagons con-
taining Creole ore draws UP TO the
scales here, and after weighing, being
unloaded on the cars for Shipment
north And to think that this mine,
which is now sweating wealth at every
pore. should with few desultory ex-
ceptions have lain idle for two-score
years. Similar things can be said or
the Lincoln mine, which is the pioneer
spoken of and has been imperative
through flooding; and the reclamation
of several others in the district, JUST
as promising. is imminent.
Discoveries of mineral character
promising consequential results in tbs
range above spoken of are quite COM
mon in the northern portion at and OH
both sides near the Willard county line.
DIMES OIL BOOM.
Several Milfordites are concerned in
the newly developed land of promise III
the Dixie country, and some of them
are now on the ground prospecting for
or otherwise seeking to acquire oil
lands Whatever may be the measure
of their success, it is now a certainty
that the oil is there and that plenty
of machinery managed by experience
men and backed by abundant capital,
will soon be added to what is already
on the ground. This is situated near
Tokerville. adjacent to the Rio Virgen
river, which flows through precipit-
Gus and black looking geological cork
screw called by the natives a canyon,
but IL is for miles IN the heignpornoou
spoken of too crooked and nondescript
for any such name to At. In earlier
life the writer Travelled all over the
country. but could discern no other
signs of oleogenous substance than
such as ex,ided through the scaly hides
of ella monsters. But 1t is there, sure
enough and in such quantities as must
soon claim the attention OF the oil
trust. Fortunes are going TO he made.
beyond doubt. all going to show that
southern Utah il coming to the fore
at gratifying pace.