Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-04
DEEP CREEK COUNTRY TO
USE TRACTION ENGINES
Miners at Dugway Making Arrange
Ments Ia Run ore Ereighter to
Salt Lake Route.


Ninteen years ago u. l.. Cutler Of
salt Lake. then young man, was at.
tracted by the glltterinc possibility
OF fortune being made In some
promising mining property he found at
Dugway, Tooele county. 20 miles east
Of the famous Utah mine at Fish
Springs, (Which has kept up dividend
paying for upwards OF 20 years, as
tonishng the state with a $3.50. 900 rec
ord TO It's credit In spite OF having
been twice burned OUT.
TN stu sticking to the property"
SAID Mr.. Cutler Friday because l
hate TO give up. For years we have
waited patiently for the many promls-
ed railroads 10 the Deep Creek coun-
try we've given that up for the pres
ent and now we are figuring on pur-
chasing a traction engine and hauling
our ore 20 the railroad Faust, on the
salt Lake Route, 80 miles distant. Is
our nearest point We have $4,000 la
lead-silver ore blocked out, and con-
clude that viii justify buying an en-
gine. We will get big one OF proba-
bly, 30 TO 40 tons capacity. which viii
haul a carload AT a time. These en-
gines cost new $1,000 to $4,000. but we
figure on a second hand for about $4,000.
The haul 20 the railroad Will cost
about So ton.
man are associated with me in the
Byron property. which consists of nine
claims with several rich out-croppings.
We own 5000 feet along the principal
vein a true assure in quartzite. There
il a 400 foot tunnel on the north end OF
the property which should presently
be under the vein which out-crops
prominently above. But the new work
ings where the men are now blocking
out ore are only 100 feet In depth with
quantities OF ore In sight all along the
tunnel. and in the cross-cuts. A two
foot vein gives off values OF 80 per
cent lead and ~ to 10 ounces silver.
There is a t0-foot vein which VIII run
Is per cent lead and TO 10 ounces
silver. -,
ing i'm readiness for ore hauling which
we expect to begin this fall
Years ago the adjoining old Buck
horn property created sensation py
shipping $4,000 In fabulousiy rich ore
from one pocket. Today the chief claim
shows scooped out cavity half rs
big as this cullen lobby. Some OF the
ore went 1900 ounces silver, and silver
was worth something those days Iney
had A lot OF farmers doing the work
and they were literally blowing TINS
rich ore away by the ton before Jus
richness was discovered.
To-day we occasionally md great
coated boulders OF almost solid galena
as large as a bass drum washed oomh
on the shores Of the ancient lake
whose turbulent waters must nave
washed Dugway mountains long, long
ago, disintegrating the cementing iltne
sending the boulders tumbllng DOWN
into the waves of this inland sea.
When Cutters Bryan property Jumps
into the shipping list this fall; with
the Utah Fish Springs mine s'esu1SS
simmer. the Queen OF Shelba, the COLO
Xiii and other good ones In the peep
creek district and the LETTER Palmer
Regent property at Ferber, now snlp
ping. the prospects are that another
railroad project will probably burst IN
10 welcome sunshine In upon the wes-
tern Tooele mining men, and this time
they hope the various districts VIII
show so promising that Western Pa
cIfic or Salt Lake Route men behind
the railroad guns can no longer re-
sist the temptation to be the nrst rail-
road TO get in there and secure the big
ore tonnage In sight. and the good
will OF the people.