The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-28
NOW FOR A BOOM
IN DEEP CREEK
Capt. MaCVichie Wires West
ern Utah Has Money and
Will Cut Loose.

dispatch from Captain Duncan Mac
Vichie to his associates here brings the
news that the financing of the Western
Utah Copper company has been accom-
plished and that, Immediately after his
return from the east, Wlde-open cam
paign will be inaugurated at the com
pany's magnificent properties at Gold
Hill, in the Deep Creek country This
is the best piece Of mining news that mas
been released in this city for some time
and it means more to the state and the
industry than anything that has hap
pened in a year.
Powerful eastern operators have been
taking the measure Of the Western Ctah
company's proposition for good while.
and the message states that they are now
ready to back it and have authorized
General Manager MacVichie to cut loose
with the least possible delay Inc news
means that one of the biggest copper
gold propositions ever discovered IN this
western country will now receive the at
tention it merits. 1t means that power
full machinery and equipment will replace
the prospecting plant that has been made
10 do splendid work in the development
of the mine and means. at the same time,
that real boom for the Deep Creek sec
ton is to be launched this spring
For thirty years mining engineers and
writer's have been reporting on dnO
preaching the merits of that magnificent
~ endowed mineral-bearing region, but;
owing to its remoteness from ralHoao
transportation, and the fact that 100
miles of desert has interviewed between
this city and the ranges IN winch the
mines exist, has caused capital TO Tlght
shy of it. The building OF the western
Pacific railroad. which skirts the north
ern fringe of the region, and the SUD
stantial assurance that an Independent
line of railroad will commence oulloing
in there during the next sixty DAYS, mas
had the effect of removing capitals TIM
idity, so the main performance can now
begin.
hos
developed its mine to depth of 1eq feet,
and conservative estimates show that
more. than 100000 tons of splendid smeit-
ing ore, ore carrying fine values In ooth
copper and gold, is now available The
company owns smelter and mill sites, but
whether these will be utilized or not viii
depend in a large measure, most likely
on the attitude of the railroads. Some
thing like thirty-five miles of a branch
line would carry the tracks of the West
ern Pacific right down to the mines OF the
Gold Hill section while its extension Tor
a like distance farther south Will make
a half-dozen other rich districts tribu-
tary and cause such a boom in mining
along the line dividing Utah from Ne
vada as might seem unbelievable at this
time.
ont in that country there are great
lodges of gold of copper. of silver, lead
and iron. while bismuth and number Of
the still rarer metals are found in close
association with baseT metals to an eX-
tent that will give a new face to mining
when things get into full swing there.
With the move of the Western Utah COM
pany the ice is broken, and the way Is
navsd for the campaign of big operators
TO begin. Properties of inestimable value
have been opened to an extent that the
men who have the money can make in
vestments without risk and get more for
their dollars than would be possible in
anv of the less remote camps. Now is
the time to move. The pioneer prospector
has bazed the trail. and he has spent
his time and money in demonstrating that
he has the goods; it Is now up to the
class that is capable of making divi-
dend-paying mines of these properties to
get busy. Deep Creek has been awaiting
its turn with patience, and its turn has
come.