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LUCIN DISTRICT.
This district is located six miles south of Tecoma station, on the C. P. R. R., which is 140 miles west of Corinne. The mines are in the Lucin range of mountains, just on the dividing line between Utah and Nevada, the mines, however, being all on the Utah side, in Box Elder county.
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A daily line of stages run from Tecoma to Buel City, at the foot of the hills on which are the mines. At Buel City is the Buel furnace.
The Tecoma mine has a shaft over 250 feet deep, and a tunnel of over 100, with drifts, etc. It has a good mine tram- way and other appliances. The ore is an ochre, with iron, soft carbonates and galena.
The Empire mine has an incline about 150 feet, with a shaft about 160 feet, and drifts, etc., all on a strong vein of ochraceous ore, with plenty of iron for smelting.
The Rising Sun, with the two preceding mines, belongs to the Tecoma Co .; has been extensively worked. These ores are high grade in lead but low in silver.
The Shanly, Gladstone, Ida, L'Arbra, Uncle Sam, and several other claims, belong to the Tecoma S. M. Co. of London. The Shanly has an incline over 300 feet, with cuts and drifts on a good vein of ore, and is being developed by a tunnel from the L'Arbra to strike the vein at a great depth.
The Gladstone has an incline over 200 feet on a good vein of ore of good grade, and has produced considerable. All these mines carry about fifty per cent. lead, and are valuable smelting ores.
The Yellow Jacket has a shaft about 100 feet, and good smelting ore; like nearly all others in this camp, it produces a molybdate of lead, of very beautiful yellow honeycomb crystals. Good vein.
The Bald Eagle, Central Pacific, Badger, Mary Anna and some other veins situate on Copper Hill, constitute a group, at the summit of the divide, of very valuable mines. The Central Pacific and Bald Eagle are two veins that are traced for a long distance on the surface, and divided into three sections and owned by three different companies. The Andrews & McElray party have worked it by a tunnel 180 feet, crossing a vein 100 feet wide of vein matter. Besides this they have extensive cuts and drifts, and a shaft 150 feet deep. They also own the Mary Anna and two other claims, which they have developed by shafts from twenty-five to 100 feet deep. These mines contain ochreaceous ores, with galena and carbonate, and several varieties of copper ores. Copper, native, in large lumps was found on the surface at these mines, and the ore now contains at times considerable red oxides and native copper. Henderson & Co. have a tunnel 280 feet on same vein that also crosses the 100 feet ledge.
The Waddell group of mines lie to the north of these, and
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are an extension of the same great veins, besides which are the Waddell, Iroquois, Elam, Natchez, Eureka and several other claims, all of which have been worked by shafts, cuts, tunnels and drifts from twenty to 200 feet to each mine. These have produced native copper on the surface, and several tons of rich copper ore from the shafts, that has been sold for a high price. They also contain galena and carbonates.
The Hattie mine has a shaft over 100 feet deep, and has produced considerable ore that sampled about $140 per ton.
The Hampton lode has an incline of considerable depth, producing ore like the Hattie.
The Lucy Emma has an incline over 200 feet in good ore, with a strong vein, the ore being galena, carbonates and ochre, that samples $160 per ton.
The Pittsburg has an incline over 180 feet on a good vein of ochraceous ore that runs high, and has produced considerable.
The Bully has a shaft over fifty feet on carbonate ore, with good grade for smelting.
The Molly has a shaft 150 feet in good ore, showing vein of yellow carbonates, assaying about $80.
The Gennessce has a shaft about fifty feet, and incline 100 feet. Carbonate ore.
The Myra has an incline and tunnel about 100 feet, on a vein of carbonate ore.
Kentucky has a shaft about forty feet with some galena.
The Osceola has an incline over 200 feet on ore that sam- ples $130, and has produced considerable.
The Growl has an incline eighty feet ; has produced con- siderable chloride ore, and even horn silver, but it is "quite thin" at the bottom now.
The Black Warrior, like the Growl, has produced horn silver, the pure article in considerable quantities, and the shipments of ore has brought from $600 per ton to $2 per pound ; now working in quartz, with vein improving.
The Good Hope and Orleans have both been worked by shafts and inclines to over 100 feet, producing considerable good carbonate and galena ores of good grade, with the vein improving.
The Treasure Box and Western View have both a shaft over fifty feet each with open cuts, etc., and a strong vein of ore with galena and carbonates.
In the south part of the district are two groups of mines,
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one owned by Friend & Co., and the other by Shepherd, Myers & Co., that have been considerably worked, produc- ing ores, galena and carbonates, high in lead but low in sil- ver.
In the north part of the district are the American Eagle, Overland, and other mines, carrying galena and carbonates with plenty of lead but little silver.
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NEWFOUNDLAND DISTRICT.
This district was organized February 15, 1873, by miners from Stockton and Grantsville. Utah. It is located on and embraces the whole of Desert Mountain, Box Elder county, Utah, lying about twenty miles southerly from Terrace, C. P. R. R., and about eighty miles north-westerly from Grantsville, Tooele county, Utah. Almost every description of mineral has been found here, such as copper, silver, gold, galena, iron, horn-silver, black sulphurets, carbonates, etc., as well as marble, arsenic, salt, etc. The country rock is black lime, quartzite and slate.
Five miles south of the north side of the Desert Mountain is situated a copper belt, about three miles wide, showing many very prominent veins at the surface. The ore will average from ten to twenty-five per cent. copper, carrying some silver and gold. Choice specimens have assayed up to sixty and seventy per cent. copper. Much scattering work has been done. One shaft is down eighteen feet, with a four-foot vein mixed with quartzite, and another of eight feet, with several tons of ore on the dumps.
Adjoining this belt south is a galena belt, with an occa- sional prospect of milling ore. On this belt about twenty men are working, and all seem to have mineral sufficient to encourage the continuance of work. Several inclines, shafts and tunnels are down from twenty to fifty feet.
About three miles further south some very good prospects have been found, and are undergoing development. The ore carries much black sulphurets and galena of high grade, having assayed over two thousand dollars per ton, and sur- face-rock has sampled far up in the hundreds. Only half of the district has been prospected. The records show about one hundred claims recorded.
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OHIO DISTRICT.
The Ohio mining district is situated about six miles south of west from the settlement of Marysvale, on the Sevier river, Piute county, Utah, and about 200 miles south of Salt Lake City. The district was organized in February, 1868 ; is about ten miles square, and contains over 500 locations. The names of the camps are Bullion and Webster Cities ; the former is well located in Piute Creek canon, and has lately become the county seat of Piute county. The charac- ter of the ores is principally free milling, and the formation quartzite and granite, carrying silver and gold.
The Piute Mining company have erected a stamp mill at Webster City, with a capacity for crushing thirty tons of rock per day, which has been run in the reduction of ores taken from the mines belonging to the company. The prin- cipal mines are : Daniel Webster, situated on the south side of Pine creek, above Bullion City ; shaft forty-two feet deep, at the end of a tunnel fifty feet long, an incline near the mouth of the shaft, and another tunnel thirty feet deep at a point 430 feet further south. Some of the ore has been worked by milling, yielding $106 per ton in silver and gold. The lode has been traced by the out-croppings for a distance of 2,000 feet ; vein nearly vertical, with an occasional incli- nation to the west ; owned by R. C. Chambers and others.
Homestead - In Pine Gulch ; shaft 130 feet deep, and an open cut and tunnel 150 feet deep across the vein ; average of ore, $9 in gold and $47.15 in silver per ton; vein nearly vertical ; in porphyry and trap ; is dry, and requires no pump ; very promising mine ; owned by R. C. Chambers and others.
St. Lawrence - Incline, fifty-five feet deep ; exposing the vein which shows milling ore ; average of several assays gives about $30 in silver per ton, and a trace of gold ; foot wall, quartzite ; hanging wall, granite; owned by John Pope and others.
Great Western-On north side of Pine Gulch, above Webster City, developed by an incline fifty feet deep, which shows the lode to be seven feet in width; vein dips north- west; ore averages $85 in silver per ton ; porphyry, trap and granite predominate in the vicinity ; owned by H. W. Lawrence and others ; good property.
Niagara-On the south side of Pine Gulch, above Webster
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City ; discovery stake below a high rocky cliff from where a tunnel runs 75 feet long ; lode can be traced by cropping for several hundred feet ; average assay of ore, $100 in silver per ton ; porphyry and trap in the vicinity ; mine accessible by a good trail.
Belcher-South side of Pine Gulch; improvements con- sist of two tunnels, respectively 25 feet and 35 feet long ; average assay of ore, $120 in silver per ton ; lode accessible by a good trail ; porphyry, trap and granite in the vicinity ; timber abundant; owned by W. E. Blenny and others.
Union-South side of Pine Gulch, above Bullion City ; shaft and tunnel 66 feet long ; average assay of ore, $160 in silver per ton ; owned by M. Durkee and L. Washburn.
Golden Curry-Northwest of Bullion City ; developed by a tunnel 100 feet long, said to have the largest mineral vein of any mine in the district ; ore assays $880 per ton in sil- ver and gold ; owned by Jacob Hess and others.
Miner's Relief-Situated near Webster City ; developed by shafts and drifts ; extent of works not known ; average assay, $160 in silver per ton.
Yankee Blade-Situated near Pine Cañon ; is one of the oldest locations in the camp ; considerably developed; aver- age assay, $110 per ton in silver.
Jackson-An extension of Niagara; developed by cut and tunnel, forty feet ; assays about $100 per ton, carrying $30 in gold ; owned by Dr. Dinnes.
Rothschilds-Developed by several open cuts ; shows very prominent croppings, which are traceable for 1,000 feet ; owned by August Nielson.
Young America-Situated east of the Homestead ; devel- oped by tunnel 150 feet long, which taps the vein ; owned by J. Hess & Co.
OPHIR DISTRICT.
Ophir district, comprises a portion of the western slope of the Oquirrh range of mountains, being so much as lies on both sides of East Canon, Dry Canon, and Silverado gulch, and is about four miles in extent from north to south, extending from the summit of the range to the valley. The principal point is Ophir City, 56 miles from Salt Lake City, connected by a daily line of stages, carrying the U. S. mails and Wells, Fargo & Co.'s express.
The District was first known as early as 1864, when it
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comprised a part of Rush Valley District, and locations of mines were made in 1865, among which were the old St. Louis, now the Hidden Treasure. In July, 1870, it was organized into a District. Many of the early locations were made in April, 1870; and in August 1870, the Mountain Lion, Mountain Tiger, Silveropolis, and many other of the mines with rich ores were discovered. At this time horn silver was first discovered, which created a great excite- ment, causing hundreds to flock to East Cañon, as it was then generally called. East Canon creek is a stream that supplies abundance of water for mill-power all the year around.
The leading and most prominent mines of Ophir district, classed by locality, are as follows :
On Lion Hill, the Mountain Lion, Mountain Tiger, Sunny- side, Monarch, Virginia and Homeward Bound ; on Horn Silver Hill, the Silveropolis, Occidental, Shamrock, Chloride Point, New Yorker and Little Pem ; on Chloride Hill, the Dixie, San Joaquin, Anna No. 3, Potosi, Chloride Gem ; on Ophir Hill, the Miner's Delight, General Grant and Bur- nett, Gray Rock, McCullin and Fairview ; on Treasure Hill, the Hidden Treasure, Chicago, Sacramento, and Fourth of July ; on Shoo Fly Hill, the Kearsarge; on Snow-Storm Hill, the Mono, Utah Queen, and Emporia ; on Mahogany Hill, the I. X. L., Flavilla, and Mount Savage; on the Foot Hills, the Baltic, Nabob, Rip Van Winkle, and Green Chloride.
Mountain Lion mine-Including the Blue Wing, Webster, Black Wing, and other adjoining locations, has been worked to a depth of over 300 feet ; produces from five to ten tons of ore per day that yields from $150 to $600 per ton, accord- ing to the assorted class, of a beautiful chloride, carrying antimony and arsenic, with but little lead, and mills freely. It has, up to the present time, produced from $200,000 to $300,000 in value of ore. It is the property of Joseph Woodmansee and Warren Hussey ; James Shields, Superin- tendent.
Mountain Tiger-Including the Silver Chief, Zella, Rock- well, all classed as one mine, owned by Walker Bros. & Co., with Marcus Daly, Superintendent. The great ore deposits lie under the Tiger ground, but have been intersected by tun- nels from the Chief, about 600 feet in length, and inclines from the Zella and Rockwell as well as a general opening from the Tiger. The workings on this mine are very exten-
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sive, and the ore body enormous. The average value of the ore is less than $100 per ton, but specimen assays run high. This mine, too, has produced several hundred thousand dol- lars in value of ores, and the quantity in sight is still very extensive. Milling ore much like all on this hill.
Sunnyside - Including its extensions, and the Silver Ex- change, the two now owned by Warren Hussey and John Tiernan, are under the Superintendence of P. T. Pierson ; worked to a depth of nearly 400 feet, and produces from five to ten tons of ore per day, in quantity, character and value much like the Mountain Lion. It has produced nearly as much in value of ore as the Lion, and is now in a very large body of rich ore.
Monarch -The property of H. W. Lawrence, Fred. T. Per- ris & Co., but at the present time bonded to Alex. Lothian, Fonce & Co .; has a tunnel about 200 feet, and produces very rich ore, of which large amounts have been sold. The ore differs from the ore of the Lion and Tiger by containing more black sulphurets of silver and antimonial sulphurets.
Virginia - With half a dozen surrounding claims ; a mine much like the Monarch, with the same class of ore, but differs from all others on Lion Hill by being in a straggling granite formation, all others being in limestone ; has not been worked for a year.
Homeward Bound -The property of Mills & Co .; near the Lion ; has been worked to a depth of nearly 200 feet, and produced in value a large amount of ore of the same class, character and value as the Lion ore.
Silveropolis -The first discovered wherein horn silver was found ; the property of Walker Bros., and has been worked by extensive excavations on the surface of the steep hill-side, and a shaft about 100 feet deep; ore has changed from a pure chloride, and now contains considerable galena.
Occidental - The property of Wm. Stetham, H. G. Taft, Cooley & Co .; has been worked to a depth of over 300 feet, passing through a cave ; is now in a true vein of good mil- ling rock with a quartz gangue, and is believed to be the fissure of the country.
Shamrock -The property of W. S. Godbe & Co., has a tun- nel about 200 feet along an irregular vein of ochraceous ores of the antimonial variety, occasionally producing fine speci- mens of horn silver.
Chloride Point has also a tunnel over 200 feet in the same class and character of ore. It has produced largely.
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New Yorker-Including the Illinois, Tampico and Crooked Horn, has produced large quantities of fine and rich chloride milling ores ; horn silver, and even native silver have been found in the vein; has been worked by extensive surface excavations, but has been idle for over one year.
Little Pem - Owned by C. Napper, W. S. Godbe and others has a tunnel about 150 feet, and produces rich chlor- ides and free milling ores.
Dixie-A large and well defined vein, the property of Jos. Woodmansee. It has been worked by tunnel, drifts and shafts, producing fine milling ore, specimens of which assay very high.
San Joaquin - The property of Baskin & Co., worked by a shaft nearly 200 feet, on a vein of chloride ore all the way, similar to Lion ore ; has a fine body of it in sight.
Anna (No. 3)-Owned by Lawrence & O'Neil, has been worked by a shaft and drifts over 100 feet, and produces ochraceous ore of the antimonial variety carrying chloride.
Potosi- Owned by H. C. Lincoln, W. G. Gallagher & Co., has a shaft about 150 feet deep, on a vein of milling ore.
Chloride Gem- Belonging to L. W. Clark & Co., has been worked by a shaft over 100 feet with drifts, and pro- duces chloride ores similar to the Lion ; is now in a fine body of it.
Miner's Delight -The property of the Utah S. M. Co. of England, has an incline shaft about 300 feet in length, with drifts and cuts. With this are included the Silver Shield, Velocipede, Nos. 1 and 2, Pocatello and other claims. It produces oxyd ore, called carbonates, carrying about 30 per cent. lead and fifty ozs. silver, with a large body in sight growing richer as the work proceeds.
With the Gen. Grant we include the Burnet, Wild Delir- ium, Bannock, Leo Monitor, Seymour, Harriet, and several other locations all confusedly mixed up with each other and claimed by several different parties. It is a large outcrop, worked in many places, producing oxyd ore called carbon- ates, of a low grade, both in silver and lead, but great in quantity.
Gray Rock - Recently sold to a Mr. Kelly of New York, a large vein of galena and carbonates, carrying little pyrites ; has been extensively worked in several places.
McCullin -The property of John Tiernan, Theo. Haswell & Co., has two tunnels nearly 200 feet each, shafts and drifts ;
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ore body large, but low grade in both silver and lead, called by the general term of carbonates.
Fairview-Owned by Dr. Samuel Smith & Co., of Chicago, has an ineline of about 200 feet all the way on a chimney of ore, producing galena and carbonates of low grade in silver.
Hidden Treasure - Owned by Isaac Watterman, of Phila- delphia, is the oldest location in the district. The out-crop and float of this mine was a beautiful, dark-colored, striped cerusite, which the Indians, in time past, used to melt and run in bullets. This attracted the white man to the spot, and he gobbled it all up for a mining claim, calling it the St. Louis. It was purchased by Mr. Henry Simons, the manager for Mr. Watterman, who spent about $40,000 developing it. Mr. George L. Ayers is now manager, and is shipping from the mine about fifteen tons of ore per day, that carries fifty per cent. lead and forty to fifty ounces silver to the ton. The ore is an ochraceous earth with frequent " kidneys" of galena and cerusite. It has been developed by five inclines, rach from 120 to 300 feet, with drifts, cuts and chambers, and the Granite tunnel to strike the ore-body from the north, now in nearly 200 feet. It is now in porphyry.
Chicago - An English Company ; has an incline shaft about 500 feet deep, with four side-cuts or drifts of about sixty to eighty feet each ; worked by a steam engine that raises all ore from the mine in cars on a railway, from which it is carried to an ore house and loaded in the buckets of their Hallidie tramway, and carried down to the mouth of Dry Canon, about one mile distant, where it is loaded in wagons and hauled to their furnace near Stockton ; this tramway has a capacity of fifty tons per day. The mine produces and ships twenty tons of ore per day, assaying 50 per cent. lead and sixty ozs. of silver, and sometimes con- siderable of copper.
Sacramento - Owned by Walker Bros., has an incline about 250 feet with drifts, on a strong vein of carbonate ore, of which it has produced considerable.
Fourth of July - Owned by Lilly & Leisenring, of Penn- sylvania ; has an incline tunnel 420 feet on a vein of ochra- ceous ores, carrying some galena. The ores are sent to Dry Cañon over their tramway, a distance of about 1500 feet.
Kearsarge - Owned four-fifths by Lilly & Leisenring, of Pennsylvania, and one-fifth by John Tiernan ; has an incline 380 feet all the way on a chimney of good ore, from four to sixteen feet wide ; drifting into a body of very rich ore,
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large in quantity ; the ore contains black sulphurets and car- bonates.
The Mono- Owned by Warren Heaton, O. Embody, Mat. Gisborn and W. E. Miller ; has an incline 600 feet, with as high as forty-two side-drifts; ore is being stoped down from these drifts; has produced large quantities of black sulphurets, of silver glance, and several hundred thous- and dollars worth of ore, within the last year, and is now producing ten tons per day, that will average $700 per ton ; the ore is raised by a horse whim ; Mr. Robinson is superin- tendent.
Utah Queen-Owned by Carson & Buzzo, has an incline about 200 feet in depth. The vein is somewhat broken, the ore appearing in pockets. The character of the ore is much like that of the Kearsarge.
Emporia-Owned by H. B. Brady and F. Gobin, has an incline 350 feet deep, with two side drifts about seventy feet each, on a vein of ore much like the Mono; is producing from 5 to 6 tons per day, when in full force, of ore that will average over $300 per ton ; assays run as high as $4,200 sil- ver, $75 gold, and 70 per cent. lead.
I. X. L .- Recently sold to Sam. Parker & Co., of Troy, N. Y., has a tunnel of ninety feet on a vein of ore.
Flavilla and Queen of the Hill-Has a tunnel about 100 feet on a strong vein of ore, carrying 60 ozs. silver and 40 per cent. lead.
Mount Savage-Owned by J. D. Feidt, has a tunnel eighty feet into a vein of good ore much like the I. X. L.
Baltic-Has tunnels and open cuts into a ledge of rich milling ore, of which the tunnels have recently developed a large body.
Nabob-Has considerable work on the surface, but has not yet defined the vein ; ore of good grade, and appears in large quantities.
Rip Van Winkle-Owned by John Tiernan & Co., has been worked by tunnels, shafts and open cuts producing con- siderable free milling ore of the red antimonial variety.
The Green Chloride and the group of mines adjoining, owned by Tiernan, Doolittle & Co., is considerably worked on the surface, producing embolite and other free milling ore.
Evening Star-Owned by T. R. Miller & Co .; shaft 480 feet with drifts and cuts ; vein of ore averages five feet thick and samples $185; ore, carbonates and black sulphuret of silver.
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McCall Lode - Owned by Lilly & Liesenring and John Tiernan ; open cut and incline thirty-eight feet ; strong vein of good ore.
Dexter - Owned by Converse, Kirk & Emory, incline 120 feet ; strong vein of ore, galena and ochre, producing well.
Deseret- Owned by William C. Miller & Bro. ; incline 135 feet; vein of ore three feet thick ; samples $185 silver mill- ing ore in quartz gangue ; dolomite, country rock.
Rattler - Owned by MeKendrie & Co .; shaft 120 feet deep ; three foot vein ; good ore and producing largely.
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