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The Waddell group of mines lie to the north of these, and 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. 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 carbon- ates.
The Hattie Mine 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 good ore, with a strong vein, the ore being galena, carbonates and ochre, that samples $160 per ton.
The Pittsburg is on a good vein of ochreous ore that runs high and has produced considerable.
The Bully is on carbonate ore, with good grade for smelting.
. The Molly has good ore, showing vein of yellow carbonates, assaying about $80.
The Gennessee; carbonate ore.
The Myra is on a vein of carbonate ore.
Kentucky; galena.
The Osceola ore samples $130; it has produced considerable.
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The Growl has produced considerable chloride ore, and even horn silver. ,
The Black Warrior, like the Growl, has produced horn silver, the pure article, in considerable quantities, and the shipments of ore have brought $600 per ton to $2. per pound; now working in quartz, with vein improving. The Good Hope and Orleans are producing considerable good carbon- ate and galena ores of good grade, with the vein improving.
The Treasure Box and Western View have both a strong vein of ore with galena and carbonates.
In the south part of the district are two groups of mines that have been considerably worked, producing ores, galena and carbonates, high in lead but low in silver.
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.
The future of this district is promising.
NEWFOUNDLAND DISTRICT.
This district was organized February 15, 1873, by miners from Stock- ton 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, Central Pacific Railroad, and about eight miles northwesterly 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 mar- ble, 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 coppar 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 60 and 70 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 occasional prospect of milling ore. 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 developement. The ore carries much black sulphurets and galena of high grade, having assayed over $2,000 per ton, and surface-rock has sampled far up in the hundreds. Only half of the district has been prospected. The records show about one hundred claims recorded.
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 character of the ores is principally free milling, and the formation quartzite and granite, carrying silver and gold.
The Piute Mining Company has 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 principal mines are: Daniel Webster, situated on the south side of Pine Creek, above Bullion City. Some of the ore has been worked by milling, yielding $106 per ton in silver and gold. The lode has been traced by the
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outcroppings for a distance of 2,000 feet; vein nearly vertical, with an occasional inclination to the west.
Homestead-In Pine Gulch; 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.
St. Lawrence-Average of several assays gives about $30 in silver per ton, and a trace of gold; foot wall, quartzite; hanging wall, granite.
Great Western-On north side of Pine Gulch, above Webster City, lode about seven feet in width; vein dips northwest; ore averages $85 in silver per ton; porphyry, trap and granite predominate in the vicinity.
Niagara-On the south side of Pine Gulch, above Webster City; 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 consist of two tun- nels, respectively twenty-five feet and thirty-five feet long; average assay of ore, $120 in silver per ton; prophyry, trap and granite in the vicinity; tim- ber abundant.
Union-South side of Pine Gulch, above Bullion City; average assay . of ore, $160 in silver per ton.
Golden Curry-Northwest of Bullion City; said to have the largest mineral vein of any mine in the district; ore assays $880 per ton in silver and gold.
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 Canyon; is one of the oldest loca- tions in the camp; considerably developed; average assay, $110 per ton in silver.
Jackson-An extension of Niagara; assays about $100 per ton, carrying $30 in gold.
Rothschilds-Shows very prominent croppings, which are traceable for 1,000 feet.
Young America-Situated east of the Homestead; which taps the vein.
OPHIR AND RUSH VALLEY DISTRICTS.
Ophir and Rush Valley Mining Districts are situated on the western slope of the Oquirrh Mountain Range, occupying a very large tract of ground of about 200 square miles. Rush Valley Mining District com- mences about thirty-four miles southerly from Salt Lake City. Ophir Mining District adjoins Rush Valley upon the south line. The formation of country rock in these districts is principally limestone, and appears every- where in strata, cliffs, reefs and ledges. These strata of limestone dip with the slope of the hills toward the valley, losing their course gradually in the great upheaval. Through this limestone break Silverado, East, Dry, Soldier, Spring, Soldier Bridge and other canyons.
Quartz and quartzite are, next to limestone, the most frequent in these districts. All the gangue and vein matter are highly silicious. Overlying the quartzite is slate, shale and schist, and last, limestone.
Dolomite, or magnesian limestone, appears in Ophir as a belt west of the Chicago and Hidden Treasure mines, and forms in Rush Valley Mining District the deposit of some of its best producing mines.
The general course of the mineral belt in Ophir and Rush Valley Min- ing Districts is northeast and southwest, and about two miles wide. All, or most, of the veins run at right angles to the belt; that is, northeast and 11
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southwest. This belt commences in Tintic and runs over Greeley Springs, Camp Floyd, Ophir, Jacob City and Soldier Canyon for about twelve miles west of Stockton. The ores are divided into smelting and milling ores. The first predominate and comprise galena, carbonates, chlorides and sulphurets; ochreous earth constitutes the majority of vein material, as a result of the oxidation of argentiferous minerals containing arsenic and antimony. The most characteristic ores are galena, cerussite (carbonate of lead), horn silver and silver glance. The components of the ore are numerous, and comprise galenite, sphalerite, pyrites, Jamesonite, argentite, stephanite, cervantite, boulangerite, minetite, limonite, anglesite, linorite, wad and kaolin.
The leading mines in Ophir. Mining District are Hidden Treasure, East Extension, Sacramento, Cedar, Summit, Western and Dupee. The ore occurs in large bodies to a depth of 600 feet on the line of contact between the slate and limestone; at a depth of 600 feet the vein cuts through the limestone, running through the great porphyry dyke, with which dyke the formation of the ore body is more or less in connection .. The vein is opened on an incline to a depth of 1,400 feet, and on the strike by thousands of feet of drifts and levels. A tunnel cuts the vein at a depth of 600 feet. Another tunnel, which is already 1,350 feet long, will tap the vein at a depth of 1, 700 feet. The vein dips at an inclination of 34° northerly. The ore averages twenty-four ounces of silver and 40 to 55 per cent. lead per ton. From the mine a tramway 1,200 feet long leads down to the wagon road. These mines have produced enormous quantities of ore. The Chicago works on the same ore body as the Hidden Treasure, and is largely developed and has produced in the past large quantities of ore. Each of the aforesaid mines own smelting works-the Wattermann and the Chicago, situate nine- teen miles distant, on the Rush Lake.
The Kearsarge vein is two to five feet wide, developed to a depth of 900 feet, and on the strike by 1, 800 feet of drifts and levels. Vein dips at an inclination of 25°. The character of the ore is chloride of silver, tellur- ium and horn silver, assaying from ninety dollars to thousands of dollars in silver per ton. The mine is developed by an incline, and has produced large quantities of excellent ore.
The Mono is developed by an incline from which runs an east and west branch incline to a depth of 800 feet. This mine has produced in the past horn silver and other rich ores in great quantities and is a valuable property.
Queen of the Hills, Flavilla and Herschel, are developed by an incline, and thousands of feet in length of drifts and levels to a depth of over 1, 300 feet. Vein, two to eight feet wide; assay value of the ore sold, forty to 130 ounces in silver and 40 to 54 per cent. in lead. Has produced large paving quanti- ties of ore of excellent quality.
The Deseret, Shoo Fly, Thad. Stevens, Eureka, Miners' Delight, Gray Rock, California Bay, Mahogany, Sunny Side, Mountain Tiger, Monarch, Silver Chief, Zella, Struck-it, San Joaquin, Green Chloride, Great Western, Crisophalis, Fourth of July, Magnolia, Jim Fisk, Green-eyed Monster, Chloride Gem, 'Mountain Gem and Miami are all mines largely developed, prominent as having produced good ore in paying quantities. Among the other prominent mines deserve to be noticed the Shamrock, Boston Pet, Hattie Evans, Aristotle, Saint Lewis, Converse, Utah Queen, Rockwell, Tiger, Elgin, Brooklyn, Grey Eagle, Vesta, Noyes, Henrietta, Trafalgar, Sevier, Cooley, Wandering Jew, Crusader, Red Pine, Pocahontas, Poor Man, Last Chance, Wild Delirium, Plymouth Rock, Burnett, Bannock, Indicator, Silver Treasure, German, I. X. L., Home Stake, Bechtel, Lily Rose, Roland, Blue Rock, Rattler, Galena, Buckhorn, Stephen A. Doug- las, Grecian Bend, Atna, Monument, Swansea, Northern Light, Accident, American Flag, Ivanhoe, Ira, Jennie, Azure Queen, Emilie, Pine Grove,
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Belfast, Empire, Trave, Banner, Russian, Arabella, Selah, Dixie, Maylan and Gas Light.
The principal mines in Rush Valley Mining District are: First National, Honerine, Great Basin, Quandary and Quandary No. 2, developed to a depth of 900 feet, and on the strike for a distance of over 2,000 feet by drifts, levels, inclines and shafts, in the aggregate about 28,000 feet long. These mines are on two parallel true fissure veins, bearing east and west. with a dip at an angle of inclination of from 60° to 80° northerly. These two veins unite in one large mother lode at a depth of from 350 to 400 feet. Large quantities of ore have been and soon will be again extracted from these valuable mines. The assay value of the ore is eighteen to sixty-nine ounces in silver, 30 to 70 per cent. lead, with a trace in gold. Attached to the above mines are concentrating, leaching and smelting works of a large capacity.
Silver King No. I and No. 2, developed to a depth of over 500 feet by numerous shafts, inclines, drifts and levels, disclosing large quantities of ore. These mines have been and are producing well.
Lion No. 2 and Extension Mines. Vein three to five feet wide. ' Assay value of the ore, twenty-nine to seventy ounces of silver, 50 to 70 per cent. lead per ton. Developed to a depth of over 500 feet on an incline by numerous extensive inclines, slopes, tunnels and drifts. Have been and are producing well.
The King of Stockton, Muscatine, Centennial, New Year, Atkins, Iro- quis, Hannah, Calumet and Sentinel work on three parallel veins, two to five feet wide. They are well developed, have been and are producing good ore in paying quantities.
Prominent in development and ore production among the other mines of Rush Valley are: Southport, Vulcan, Hecla, Alps, St. Patrick, Defiance, Silver Crown, Silver Queen, Minerva, Katherina, Mervin, Manzanilla, Globe, Montezuma, Bullion, No You Can't, Argenta, Protector, Metropolitan, Clara, Elizabeth, Emerald, Emelie, Melia, Teresa, Leonore, Argenta No. 2, Daniel Webster, Legal Tender, War Eagle, Commodore, Chaos, Oscar Von Sweden and Wade Hampton mines.
PIUTE COUNTY.
Marysvale is the supply town of Ohio and Mount Baldy Districts, on the higher tributaries of the Sevier River, in Piute County, one of the best endowed parts of Utah; fine water, timber and grass, high up, cool and pleasant, and good air. The Deer Trail, Green-Eyed Monster and Cliff locations, generally known as the Deer Trail, constitute a valuable property, requiring only adequate reduction works to become dividend-paying. The ore in general carries about an ounce of gold per ton, and as much value in silver, and there are 100,000 tons blocked out by winzes and galleries. The Copper Belt is the name of a group of valuable locations incorporated in Connecticut. The mine is opened to a depth of 300 feet, and on the strike about 150. They have a ten stamp mill just started, and beginning to run out bullion. The ore is rich and is continuous so far, the vein being twelve to twenty feet wide. Hoisting is done by a whim. Adjoining the Copper Belt are the Mammoth, Copper Chief, Senora and several others, mere prospects as yet. In Bullion Canyon there are the Bully Boy and Webster. a strong vein of $40 ore, two shafts 100 feet deep; Chattanooga, Sunday. Red Jacket, Ferris, Giles, Star, Estella, Mohawk, Belle of the Vale, Senor O'Flannigan, Beecher, Sierra Nevada, Pluto, I'Mmore, Homestake, Clyde. Crystal, Governor Murray, Grant, Moose, Occid Silver Hill, Silver Fleece, and twice as many more. On many of the siderable work has been done, rich ore taken out, and they stand - w to make mines. The
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district needs capital badly. It is about ninety miles from the Utah Central at Juab to Marysvale.
SAN FRANCISCO AND PINE GROVE DISTRICTS.
On the high dividing ridge between the Beaver Valley and the Wah Wah Valley, in Beaver County, Utah, is a short range, running north and south, called the San Francisco Mountains, having three principal summits, differing more or less in outline and appearance, and entirely distinct in their age and character. Their altitude is not great. The one farthest to the south is called Grampian; this is the lowest of the three and rises about 1,000 feet above the valley. The Grampian Mountains consist of stratified sedi- mentary rock, whichis quartzite and limestone, the middle one being granite, and the highest and northern-most of the three summits is composed of trachytes of volcanic origin. These sedimentary rocks were originally deposited under water in horizontal beds or alternating strata of sandstone and limestone, which were transformed by great heat and enormous pressure, the sandstone to vitreous sandstone or quartzite, and the limestone to dolo- mite marble. This whole formation was subsequently rent asunder, one part being raised up and tilted by powerful volcanic agencies-thus forming the mountain as we observe it at present-the eastern face presenting a cross section of these strata, 1,000 feet thick, and now dipping westward into the mountain at an angle of inclination of about 20° below the horizontal. That portion of the formation from which this mountain was detached, either remains in its original horizontal position, or sank down and was subsequently covered with the trachytes, which flowed over it and against the eastern base of the Granite Mountains and the eastern and southern base of the Gram- pian Mountains, and now forms a sort of undulating. waving plain, extend- ing for some distance eastward. The quartzite and dolomites are in contact with the granite on the north, on a line running nearly east and west, and also in contact with the trachytes on the east and south side of the mountain. The mines are in the latter contact at the eastern base of the Grampian Mountains, the foot wall being massive layers or beds of quartzite and dolomite and the hanging wall trachyte. The veins or lodes are dis- tinctly traceable over the surface and along the entire eastern base of the Grampian Mountains to the granite on the north, a distance of about one mile and a half, the course of the veins or lodes being north 10° west and south 10° east magnetic. The mines are at the very center or focus of this great upheaval, where all the geological evidences point to a continuance down to a considerable depth.
The principal mines of San Francisco District, are: The Horn Silver, which is the original location on the main lode, having several extensions north and south; Carbonate, Cave and Cave Extension, Comet, Morrison, New Haven, Cactus, Silveropolis, Rosa, Bradshaw, Woolcott, Dexter, Cyprus, Grampian, Jay Hawker, Sherman, Florida, Dolly Mack, Triangle, Antwerp, Vanderbilt, Governor, Rattler, Dives, Summit, Hoodoo, Americus, Lulu, Massachusetts, Quartzite, Bonanza, Niagara. Morning Star, Hope, Grampian, Colburn, Great Republic and Young America.
As it would take too much space and time to describe all of the above mines, a brief description is given of the Horn Silver only, the most noted in the district and inferior in point of prominence to none in the Ter- ritory.
The vein is traceable for several miles, from the southeastern end of the Grampian Mountains, to the point where the dolomite gives place to granite. The width of the vein at the Horn Silver discovery is from fifty to sixty feet, showing galena in places all through the length of the claim. The vein dips north 80° east magnetic at an angle of inclination of about 70° from the
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horizontal. The footwall of the lode consists of quartzite and limestone beds and the hanging wall of partially decomposed trachytic material. From these facts it will readily be seen, that the dip and strike must vary at points;especially where the softer parts-the dolomite-are more readily decomposed and eroded, than the quartzite. Therefore the width of the lode varies in places. Both walls are covered with a dry ferruginous clay which serves as an indicator of the lode and the walls thereof. The hang- ing wall of the lode has been penetrated for a distance of 200 feet or more. The following material is thereby disclosed: Adjoining the ore twenty to twenty-five feet of clay, stained with oxides of lime, then thirty feet of tough blue clay, merging gradually into a decomposed trachytic mass of a reddish gray color. The lode itself contains, in its enormous vein fissure, two general classes of material; the larger portion is what is termed smelting ore. This is soft and earthy, consisting of sulphate, oxide and carbonate of lead, carrying silver. The smaller portion is heavy spar (sulphate of baryta) carrying chloride of silver, sulphate of silver and ruby silver. The sparry ore is found on the side of the hanging wall in the upper part of the vein, and has resisted decomposition on account of its position in the lode and because of the refactory nature of the material composing this kind of ore. All the other ore of this immense vein has undergone oxidation and other changes. There is no doubt, but as depth is gained, the ore will be found in its original condition, that is, in the form of sulphurets. Remarkable is the absence of wall material, called "horse," in the vein filling. All is ore from wall to wall, and silver bearing. This lode will remain dry to a considerable depth. Assay value of the ore is $60 per ton. Daily production 100 to 150 tons of ore. Net profits $20 per ton. The ore body contains 280,000 tons of ore in sight, representing a value of $16,000,000. The amount of ore contracted up to date is 150,000 tons. Dividends paid annually average about $1, 200,000.
SILVER REEF.
This town is named from the sandstone reef which fronts the Wasatch for 100 miles, and contains a stratum or perhaps strata not differing much from the enclosing strata in appearance, yet impregnated with silver to the extent of $30 to the ton. It is in Harrisburg District, Washington County, 100 miles south of Milford, in the Rio Colorado Basin. The country is sandstone, bare of. vegetation; the mountains precipitous and flaming; the lower interspaces abounding in black volcanic rock; the whole sometimes likened to a vast furnace, still red-hot from the cremation of a world. Most of the mines are incorporated and consolidated.
The Christy Mill & Mining Company owns sixteen locations, about 280 acres, nearly all adjoining, forming a compact body. The principal mines are the Stormy King, Tecumseh, Silver Flat, Maggie and California. The last two are equipped with first-class steam hoisting works. The ore is sandstone between sandstone walls, and is free milling, mainly chloride. It dips from the eastern horizon 15°. In the Tecumseh, Maggie, and Cali- fornia it has been followed 900 feet west from the croppings, and at that point is but 150 feet below the surface. In four and a half years the com- pany has taken out over 50,000 tons of ore, which has produced (bullion 940 fine) about $1, 276, 355. 79; yield per ton, $27.75; cost of mining, including prospecting and hauling to mill, $7; cost of milling, $4-35. There is a five-stamp mill, which for many months crushed forty-eight tons of ore per . day-nine and a half tons per stamp. The product for July, 1881, was $40,000. Prospecting is far ahead, and there is ore in sight to run the mill two years. It will be seen that this is a fine property. It is incorporated in S. Fran- cisco; capital $6,000,000, in 60,000 shares. It is a close corpor ten gentlemen owning all the stock. It has never been listed on y Inge,
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and from the start has kept clear of debt and earned handsome dividends. The enterprise has been exceedingly well conducted, both in San Francisco and in Silver Reef.
The Stormont Silver Mining Company is a New York incorporation, and owns the Stormont, Thompson, McNally, Last Chance, Buckeye and Savage locations. They are worked through two shafts, which are well equipped with steam pumps and hoist and with safety cages. One shaft, 245 feet deep, strikes the vein 560 feet (on its dip) from the outcrop. There are four levels, each 1,500 feet long, connected by winzes, and sinking for the fifth level is well advanced. Much stoping ground above the fourth level is yet untouched. The ore is found anywhere within a certain zone, from ten to 100 feet thick, limited by red sandstone above and white below, often in association with fossil remains and petrifactions of reeds and rushes. The deposits vary from a few inches to several feet in thickness, are fifty to 200 feet long, and 100 to 300 feet deep, sometimes connected with other bodies by stringers, sometimes not at all. The common grade of workable ore bodies is about $30 a ton. It crushes easily (seven to nine tons per day to the stamp) and mills up to 80 or 85 per cent. in bullion 950 to 980 fine. The Stormont mill is on the Rio Virgin, a few miles from the mines, is run by water, and has ten stamps, thirteen pans and seven settlers. The cost of mining is extremely variable, between $8 and $15; of hauling to mill, $2.08; of milling, $3.50. In three years the mill has reduced 44,675 tons of ore, which has produced 976,934 ounces fine silver-21.87 ounces to the ton. Dividends paid, $150,000. The records of the company show a steady pro- duction with moderate profit, and the prospect is good for long-continued success in the future.
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