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Summit County .- Uintah, Blue Ledge and Sicily Mining Districts. Lead, silver and coal.
Salt Lake County .- West Mountain, Big and Little Cottonwood, Adams, Hot Springs, Draperville, Granite, Red Butte and New Eldorado Mining Districts. Gold, silver, lead, copper, iron, marble and salt.
Tooele County .- Ophir, Rush Valley, Tooele, Camp Floyd, Osceola, Spring Pass, Columbia, Desert, Granite Mountain, Deep Creek, Lake Side, Dutch Flat and Hastings Mining Districts. Silver, lead, copper, iron.
Utah County .- American Fork, Silver Lake, Pelican Point, Cedar Valley, Utah, Santaquin, Spanish Fork, Cook, Provo and Payson Mining Districts. Gold, silver, lead, copper, iron and marble.
Wasatch County .- Howland and Snake Creek Mining Districts. Silver, lead, iron and marble.
Washington County .- Harrisburg Mining District. Lead, silver and copper.
ADAMS DISTRICT.
Adams District is situated north and cast of Salt Lake City, and distant seven miles. The approach is through City Creek Canyon, over one of the best canyon roads in the Territory. Prospecting had been carried on for three or four years, but without success until May 21, 1873, when the Julia was located. Prospectors immediately flocked in, and a district was formed from the Hot Spring Mining District, on July 3, 1873 .. The district covers an area of forty-nine square miles. Nearly 100 locations have been made and about thirty claims worked to good advantage. The formation is regu- lar; general course of the strata is nearly northwest and southeast, bear- ing east and west. Principal locations are:
General Scott, on Scott Hill, located June 1, 1873; shaft 300 feet, through a four-foot vein of ledge matter containing galena and iron in a state of oxide; extensively developed. From assays made, thirty ounces silver, and from 50 to 70 per cent. lead, with a small percentage of anti- mony, were obtained.
Red Bird, the principal location on Scott Hill; several tunnels and drifts ; shaft sixty feet, through a vein averaging three feet, and containing galena of low grade, with iron averaging 15 per cent.
Summit, sister claim to the Red Bird, and much of the same character, although the Summit ore contains less iron.
Victorine, situated at the head of North Mill Creek Canyon; shaft fifty feet sunk through a four-foot ledge of burnt iron and galena.
The Henry, lying between the Scott and Victorine; shaft 100 feet; showing similar to the Scott. The North Star, Great Eastern, Snow Drift, Cerro Gordo, Chipmunk and some minor locations have nearly the same appearance.
The Beacon Ledge, the first location made of milling ore; shows traces of copper, silver, gold and lead; formation, sub-carboniferous limestone, with an overlying band of friable quartzite; highest assay made was $113. Adjoining this claim is the George Q. Cannon.
San Domingo, principal location in Cottonwood Fork; located July 6, 1873; situated on the slope leading to Scott Hill; has a vein of decomposed galena, giving oxides and carbonates of lead rich in silver, with small per- centage of gold. Assays of picked ore run $300 per ton.
AMERICAN FORK DISTRICT.
American Fork and Silver Lake Mining Districts adjoin Little Cotton- wood Mining District with the north boundary line by Wellington, Emerald and Peruvian Hills. The boundary between American Fork on the south
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and Snake Creek District on the north, is formed by Pittsburgh Hill. The principal characteristic geological formations of these districts are: dolomite, or magnesian limestone, schist, quartzite or vitreous sandstone of the lower Silurian and Devonian periods, and underlying all, the granite, just the same as they overlie the granite of the Cottonwoods on the eastern flank of the great granite ridge of Little Cottonwood, and as they overlie the granite of Uintah and Blue Ledge Mining Districts. The Silurian and Devonian limestones overlie the quartzite, from which they are separated by a thin bed of schist, ten to forty feet in thickness. These limestones appear in beds and strata, and assume the most grotesque forms, ridges, towers, spires and battlements, and represent a mass from 1,000 to 2,000 feet in thickness. Through this limestone and quartzite break American Fork, South Fork. Deer Creek, Dry Canyon, Mary Ellen, Major Evans and Porcupine Gulch as so many large, main and tributary channels formed by the great ancient water courses and upheavals, leaving the broken and twisted line of the strata on either side of the channel facing each other.
The character of the ores in American Fork and Silver Lake is as follows : galena, carbonate, chlorides, bromides, and sulphates of silver. Ochreous earth, iron, and porous quartz constitute the greater part of the gangue or vein material as a result of the oxidation of argentiferous and auriferous minerals.
The most characteristic ores are : galena, cerussite, silver glance, copper glance and free gold. The components of the ore are numerous, and comprise galena, sphalerite, pyrites, Jamesonite, argentite, wad, stephanite, cervantite, boulangerite, mimetite, limonite, bromyrite, anglesite, cotunnite, Crookesite, and kaolin.
The principal mines are : The Miller Mining and Smelting Company mines, comprising the Miller, Wyoming, Alpine, Tonto, Tom Green, Miller First West Extension, Sarchfield and Aspinwall, all of which have a United States Patent. They are developed by the Car, Lady Annie, Emmeline, Alpine, Wyoming, Sarchfield, Comet and Mormon tunnels, crossing the entire hill diagonally in an easterly and westerly direction, cutting the lodes at various depths to a depth of 400 feet vertical below the surface, and over 26,000 feet in length of drifts, levels, inclines and shafts. Value of the ore, $47 to $130 per ton. Veins from three to thirty-eight feet wide. Produced enormous quantities of the above ore. Mary Ellen, Live Yankee, Live Yankee First West Extension. Powers and Quartzite mines embrace a contact vein between quartzite and limestone. The vein is eight to fifty feet wide, developed extensively by thousands of feet in numerous tunnels, drifts, levels, shafts and inclines. Value of the ore, $20 to $130 per ton as sold. All the mines have United States Patents. Silver Bell, Mona, Eudora, First Chance, Henrietta and Red Cloud have a contact vein between quartzite and limestone, one to eight feet wide, containing galena, chlorides and bromides, valued at from $80 to $300 per ton as sold. Devel- oped by a main incline to a depth of 400 feet, numerous drifts, adits and levels, and a tunnel over 1,300 feet long, which tunnel at a length of 2, 200 feet will tap the lodes on the strike at a depth of from 1, 200 to 1, 600 feet. Work continues vigorously by contract. Thousands of tons of good ore are on the dumps ready for shipment. All the mines have United States Patents. Russler, Germania and Excelsior are fissure veins in the quartzite, three to five feet wide, containing galena, carbonate of lead, and free gold. Lead ores sell readily at $47 to $130 per ton. Gold ore assays from $130 to $21,000 per ton. Developed by one shaft 200 feet deep, two other shafts, each about 100 feet deep, and several drifts and adits. Russler and Excelsior have United States Patents. Lady Annie, La Belle, Bredemeyer No. 2. Wacht am Rhein, Meacoque, Sparrow Hawk, Borussia and Cologne, work on true fissure veins in
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the quartzite; veins from three to eight feet wide, containing galena, carbon- ate of lead and free gold; lead ores sold at from $47 to $87 per ton. They are developed by numerous tunnels, drifts, inclines and shafts; one main tunnel, now 340 feet long, will tap all the lodes on Miller Hill at a depth of from 300 to 2,000 feet. The mines have already produced over $40,000 worth of ore. Most of the mines have United States Patents.
Lady Katherina and Rudolph are true fissure veins in quartzite and embrace the extension of the Live Yankee, Mary Ellen, Milkmaid and Silver Bell lodes. Veins are six inches to three feet wide.
.Sunday, true fissure vein in quartzite, one to three feet wide, containing galena and free gold. Average value, $230 per ton ; developed by two tunnels and one shaft.
Treasure group, vein six to eighteen inches wide, rich in lead and silver ore and profitably worked. Developed extensively by a long main tunnel and several drifts and inclines on the vein.
Little Cloud, Comstock and Mountain Lion group; vein of good, valu- able smelting ore; well developed.
Amaryllis and New Compromise, situated between the Siver Bell, Cari- boo and Russler groups; vein three feet wide, containing galena and carbon- ate of lead; sold at from $25 to $87 per ton. Extensively developed by several shafts, inclines, tunnels and drifts. The mines have United States Patents.
Silver Dipper, vein three feet wide, containing galena and carbonate of lead, sold at from $47 to $87 per ton. Developed by many shafts and tun- nels. The mine has a United States Patent.
Wild Dutchman group, vein three to five feet wide, containing galena and carbonate of lead, sold at from $30 to $67 per ton. Developed by over 16,000 feet in length of tunnels, drifts, shafts and inclines, from which great fortunes in ore have been extracted. The property has a United States Patent.
Lost Maid and Wild Dutchman Extension; vein is the extension of Bredemeyer's No. 2, and is three feet wide, containing galena and carbonate of lead, sold at from $47 to $87 per ton ; well developed.
Austin, vein of milling ore, three to five feet wide; extensively devel- oped. Austin has a United States Patent.
Cloud Burst group, vein three to five feet wide; valuable ore; developed by and through a main tunnel.
Knights of Pythias and Oquirrh Encampment; vein three feet wide, has been traced for 3,000 feet; developed by a main incline. Millsites are attached to the mines.
Sierra, vein in limestone, three feet wide, containing galena and carbon- ate of lead, sold at from $47 to $67 per ton. The mine has a United States Patent and is extensively developed.
Echo, Plum, Patrick Henry, Silver Wave and Fraction, veins two to five feet wide, contain galena and carbonate of lead; considerable devel- opment done. The property has United States Patents.
Bellerophon, vein three to five feet wide, containing galena and car- honate of lead: extensively developed. The mine has a United States Patent.
The Atlas Company's mines, situated on Pittsburgh Hill; gash veins in limestone; developments consist in several tunnels.
Missouri, vein of galena and carbonate of lead, three feet wide; well developed. The mine has a United States Patent.
Orphan, Cariboo, Utah, Sunshine, Anna, Hattie and Diehl, contact vein three feet wide, containing galena valued at from $30 to $130 per ton. Considerable work has been done on the Utah, which shows a good vein that has yielded already considerable fair grade galena. The Orphan shows
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considerable work in shafts and tunnels, demonstrating clearly the existence of a strong mother lode; but here the trouble is with surface water, and to overcome this difficulty, the company have, in the past year, concluded to run a tunnel through the quartzite. This tunnel will first tap the Diehl lode at a distance of about 140 feet, and at a depth of from 400 to 500 feet below the surface. This tunnel is over 111 feet long. A shaft in the Anna shows a strong vein of good galena. All in all it is easy to pronounce a prosper- ous future for the Cariboo Company's mining property. Most of the prop- erties have United States Patents.
Great Western, situated in Dry Gulch; vein one to five feet wide, con- taining galena and carbonate of lead. Value of ore, $30 to $130 per ton. 1 Comet, on Miller Hill, well developed by a tunnel over 200 feet long, and several shafts, cuts and adits.
Rosebud, Tidy, Modoc and Swiftsure are very promising mines on Silver Glance Hill, with considerable development done.
Pittsburgh, Hudson and Pioneer. These mines work on bed and con- tact veins in the limestone and between the limestone and quartzite. The veins are three to eight feet wide, contain galena and carbonate of lead, sold at from $18 to $30 per ton. Developments consist of tunnels, drifts, levels, shafts and inclines to an aggregate length of 15,000 feet, from which large quantities of ore have been and will yet be extracted. The property is secured by United States Patents.
War Eagle A and B, secured by United States Patent, bed in limestone three feet wide; character of ore the same as in the Pittsburgh. The prop- erty is well developed.
Deer Creek Company's mines, comprising the Happy Boy, Ruthven, Bertie, Governor Murray and Silver. Value of the ore, $47 to $70 per ton, developed by several tunnels, drifts, shafts and cuts. The property is secured by United States Patents.
Milkmaid; vein is the continuation of the Lady Katharina; contains galena and carbonate of lead, sold at from $30 to $80 per ton. Shipments of ore regular, with fair profits.
Wasatch King, character and value of the ore same as in the Milkmaid; well developed; ore shipments regular and steady.
Elizabeth Boyd Kelsey, Jane, Kate B. Kelsey, Louisa and McCall; the first is a fissure vein between porphyry as hanging, and granite as foot-wall; average ore value, $30 to $50 per ton; vein is two feet wide. The others work upon veins in the quartz containing rich ore.
Knight Templar and Royal Arch mines and millsites; vein six inches to five feet wide, containing galena, carbonate of lead and chloride of silver. Ores sold readily at from $47 to $130 per ton. Developments consist of a main tunnel over 300 feet long and several shafts, drifts, inclines and cuts. The tunnel at a length of 750 feet will be over 1,000 feet below the surface and apex of the vein.
Other prominent mines of these districts, more or less extensively developed, with good pay ore in sight, are: The Conqueror, Queen of Sheba, Sultana, Grand View, Fair View, Sarah, May, and many others.
The foregoing mines of American Fork and Silver Lake have pro- duced in the past immense quantities of rich ore, and are beyond doubt or dispute capable of producing immense quantities of the best quality again.
BEAVER AND GARFIELD COUNTIES.
Beaver County contains, in addition to the Stars and Rocky Mining Districts, the Bradshaw, Lincoln, Galena, Gordon, Granite, Beaver, Ohio and Warsaw. The nearest principal business places to these districts are Frisco, Milford, Minersville and Beaver City. The veins or lodes in these
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districts are from two to six feet wide, carrying from 40 to 54 per cent. lead, and from 20 to 130 ounces of silver per ton. There are also other lodes which carry from 10 to 27 per cent. copper (mostly as oxides and carbonates, and some copper glance) and some gold and silver. Most of these lodes lie at and along the base of the mountains, and are easily traced along the surface for a considerable distance. Near by Beaver Lake Dis- trict immense deposits of sulphurets and oxides average over 40 per cent. of pure metal. Copper stain is frequently visible on the hillsides, and there is not the least doubt, that many more valuable lodes and mineral deposits would be discovered, were proper search made and numerous indi- cations followed up as they should be. There seems no doubt that some sections of Beaver County will become very important for copper smelting in the near future. One of the reasons that hitherto so little attention has been paid to this important mineral-bearing section of Utah was the former great distance from the railroad, and in some places a scarcity of water.
Twelve miles west of Beaver City several veins of bismuth ore have been found. These lie near together, in a magnesian limestone of Silurian age, and vary from one to nine feet in thickness. The gangue is of a ser- pentinous character, and carries lime garnets, iron oxides, tremolite and other minerals. The ore, a sulphide and oxide, free from arsenic and anti- mony, varies from 1 to 6 per cent. of the total vein matter, but is easily con- centrated. In the concentrated product, which gave 30 per cent. of bismuth, molybdenum was found, which, in view of the high price of that metal and its general use, may prove an important discovery.
Several shafts sunk upon these properties show strong and well defined veins, and on account of the high price of bismuth, and the rarity of its being found thus free from arsenic and antimony (a fact that has been amply proved), they bid fair to become of very much value.
In this same county are veins of graphite and deposits ot sulphur, which will, at no distant day, be utilized to their full extent. Indeed, few places offer such inducements to capital or have such good prospects of a golden future as does Beaver County, or, more correctly, as the mining districts of Beaver County.
About eighteen to twenty miles southeast of Warsaw Mining District commences Antimony Mining District, extending twenty-one miles east and twenty miles south, situated formerly in Iron County, now Garfield County.
The leading mines in the Bradshaw Mining District are: The Cave, Houdoo, Cypress, Sherman, Triangle, Governor and Summit mines. In Lincoln Mining District, the Creole, December, Donnerberg, Delaware, Forest Queen, Galena, Quincy, Rollins, Rattler and Stampede. In Gordon Mining District, the Albert, Boston Sulphur, Conqueror, Sulphur Excelsior, Mammoth, Mariposa, Prince Albert, Philadelphia, Sulphur, Sulphur King, Utah and New York sulphur mines. In Granite Mining District, the Bis- muth, King Bismuth, Star and San Francisco bismuth mines. In Beaver Mining District, the Beaver Lake, No. 2, Big Mountain, Belcher, Copper Belt, Fillmore, Monarch and Niagara mines. . In Ohio Mining District, the Belcher, Daniel Webster, Great Western, St. Lawrence, Union and other mines.
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The mines of the American Antimony Company consist of twenty-five claims, covering about 430 acres of antimony mineral-bearing ground, situ- ated in Coyote Mining District on a tributary of the east fork of the Sevier River, at the south end of Grass Valley in Garfield County. While there is in the aggregate a considerable quantity of oxidized ore present, assaying upwards of 70 per cent. antimony, the great mass of ore is stibnite or sulphide of antimony, carrying about 72 per cent. of antimony and 28 per cent. 'of sulphur. Professor Newbury, of Columbia College, New York,
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speaking of these mines, says: "The antimony deposits proved to be unique in kind, of great geological interest, and of much economic importance, and the quality of the ore is equal to any known." The American Antimony Company was organized in 1881 by Anthony Godbe, of Salt Lake City, for the purpose of acquiring and working this very valuable property, since which time it has been engaged in making extensive developments and in erecting works for the reduction of the ore into star metal. These develop- ments have resulted in uncovering and opening large bodies of ore sufficient for many years' supply for smelting works. The ore lies in almost horizontal beds, and is easily and cheaply mined and extracted. At an experimental trial of the works lately made, several tons of regulus or star metal were pro- duced and shipped to New York, and the quality is said to be superior to the best imported metal. This is accounted for by the phenomenal purity of the ore, containing, as it does, not even a trace of those objectionable features so common in all hitherto known antimony ores. Indeed, as will be seen by analysis below, the natural unrefined ores from these Grass Valley mines are more free from such ingredients as arsenic, copper, lead and zinc, than the admittedly best imported refined metal (Cookson's). The analysis was made by Messrs. Booth, Blair and Garrett, of Philadelphia, and that of the Grass Valley ores by Professor Lehman, of Baltimore.
Analysis of Cookson's refined star metal (regulus): Arsenic, 1.008; copper, 0.021; lead, 0.410; iron, 0.144; cobalt and nickel, 0.013.
Analysis of American Antimony Company's sulphide ore: Metallic antimony, 71.320; sulphur, 28.130; iron, 00.005; arsenic, none; copper and lead, none; quartz, 00.038; total, 90.493.
The sulphur being eliminated in the process of smelting, this Grass Valley antimony ore is necessarily absolutely pure, and will, it would seem, take the place of the imported article when its merits become known to con- sumers. As soon as railroad facilities, now in contemplation, shall be pro- vided, the owners expect to ship the ore in large quantities to the antimony smelters in England and other parts of Europe. The reduction works, now completed, are perfect of their kind, and were erected under the direction of skilled smelters, whose experience was obtained in the business in England and Hungary. The present capacity of these works is about two tons of metal per day, but they are so arranged that this amount can be increased to any required capacity.
The Star, North Star and Rocky Mining Districts are situated in Beaver County, Utah, in the Picacho Mountains. These mountains are a low range in the southeastern edge of the Utah and Nevada Desert. This range is somewhat isolated in its position. The nearest principal business places are Minersville, Milford and Frisco, on the Utah Central Railway. The geological structure of the Picacho Range consists of belts of metamorphic shale, quartzite and limestone, flanked on both sides by igneous rock, such as porphyry, lava and trap, common to the interior ranges of the Great Basin and desert between the Sierra Nevada and Wasatch Mountains. The metamorphic action on the shale, quartzite and limestone beds was very intense, and is distinctly marked along the flanks ot the range, and, in point of fact, much more than in the center. The general course of the strata is north and south, dipping east to an angle of inclination of from 40° to 60°. North Camp, or Shenandoah, is situated on the east flank of the mountain facing Beaver Valley.
This dolomite or magnesian limestone is the chief mineral-bearing rock on the east side of the mountain. The veins, lodes and ore deposits are more numerous and richer here than in the schists, quartzites and porphy- ries. In this limestone belt the ore deposits appear, first, as fissure veins, crossing the beds northeast and southwest; second, as bed or strata veins conforming entirely to the strike and to the dip of the strata in general. The
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bed or strata veins appear only in the center of this limestone belt, running north and south with a dip toward the east. The fissure veins run north- east and southwest, with a dip of an angle of inclination of from 50° to 70° northwest. This shows that they cross the bed obliquely in a horizontal plane, and at right angles on their line of dip as shown in the sections formed by nature. The gash or cross veins here continue through the lime beds from the quartzite on the north to the slaty schist on the east. The Merri- mac is a vein fissure, plainly traceable for several hundred feet in the cal- careous, slaty schist east of the limestone belt. There is every evidence that the vein fissures do penetrate into the quartzite east of. the lime belt. The gash veins appear at intervals from twenty to 350 feet, parallel in curves and dip all along the course of the limestone beds, which proves that they belong to one family of fissures of contemporaneous ages. These veins are from three to five feet wide. At such points where they cross the bed veins they form rich chambers of ore, which the Shenandoah, Hickory and many others verify.
The deposits are conformable to the course and the dip of the strata bed or strata veins, but they are not so defined as to justify the name well. It is possible that they are only spurs and branches from the fissure veins. The ores in both are the same, and it seems that the filling of both occurred at the same time. The gangue or vein matter is true quartz; some of this is compact and hard, and other portions spongy and porous, called by the miners honey-comb quartz.
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The ores are silver, lead, copper and antimony, combined with sulphur. Some of the surface ores show carbonate of lead, chlorides of silver, and copper in combination with the sulphur of these metals. The larger part of the ore can be milled by dry crushing, and passing it through a Stetefeldt furnace; also they contain a great deal of base metal. The assays range from $37 to $350 per ton. The average assay is $75 per ton. Owing to the silicious character of the limestone, mining here is more expensive than in some other places; the veins are small, and a part of the wall rocks must be consequently removed to give space for working. The average cost of mining is, at present, $10 per ton, and can be reduced if mining and management are done with more care and system. Hauling, milling, roasting and amalgamating will cost, under the best management, $20 per ton. Allow- ing 20 per cent. less in reduction, this would leave a net profit of $30 per ton.
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