Show territorial MINES some general w concerning Conc ernins the minis if itah outside of park citi 1 brief resume of all import aaa ani other improvements new from alie arl out tle irom captain hugo Dep rezin alo went out to I 1 letle bait creek early 1 week and returned on we se cured some information relative to tl 0 new district V hile 1 ere attending the recent session 0 alie county court captain Dep rezin secured asami leof ore aroca the new district took it to 1 Is home in L ireka and had it tested with the following results Copper 50 per cent silver ounces and a trace lo 10 gold by 4 0 clock the next morning the captain was on bis return to the new Ll dorado the country rock is a coarse and fine conglomerate the mineral zone lies be tween quartzite and granite walls or dikes about one mile apart fhe anin arala are found as far as present de indicate in blanket veins without walls or any definite line oade mar catlon it looks as if the miner als said captain hid come up through a fissure and then spread out following lines of least resistance resi stence of course tl at theory awaits demon alie fat that the minerals form a kind of precious cement ali it I 1 old the smooth cobble stones and 1 eb bles together and it at the stones are identical in aie with tl e rest of tl e country rock shows at a glance that the mineral has been deposited in one 0 two ways it capoun Dep rezin s theory of fissure origin is not correct the presence pre senie of the metals can be ac counted for only on the tl eory ot de position by infiltration ind no regu 1 arity can be hoped for is tl ere i but little or no regularity to coi formations except those lines formed by a cessation ind le commencement of the of those forces that laid the conglomerate down in its present bed and those lines of sei ration un like the bettl bearing sandstones of allver 1 beef eef are generally far apart there may however be exceptions aud well benned denned blanket veins be found is was the case in coyote creek about 10 miles south of iseppi where anti was found in pretty 11 e sime kind of a conglomerate the an was bedded and capped by dac posits of blue chiy varying from a few inches to several feet in II 11 lekness there are surprises yet in store for ge and ill one cm do more than speculate on that have I 1 ast discoveries for their warrent and the old saying of prospectors that sil ver lies in veins and gold Is where you and it may be overturned in the de in the moss district e phi blade mercur mere ry S pt 2011 ai d partners while at on their claims southwest of tie aier cur ran into a deposit of as bastos you never can tell what you will find in this country hiie rough knot group K four claims located northeast of the golden gate was bonded tl is week to the golden gate comp my for has not been operating for some days owing to the failure of the pumping plant at the to op crate propel ly ate ward expects to have things run nang smoothly again in a few days george leighton and W G adam son were over from the bunsh lne coun try tuesday george reports a large body ot pay ore in it e working tunnel althe old fred this property will probably be the next to be equipped with a mill in tl at part ol 01 the district abe ked cloud people whose pro perty Is located above the bun shine were surprised tt is week by en countering in the shaft a deposit leader not large but all the boys over etere a sample was not suppose thit there wis any lead in that vicinity eha veit on good arsenical ore has been encountered in the gold dust property when Is being operated under bond ly lenrose and street the gentleman are reticent development but it his been rumored for some time that they w ere opeal ng n p something good in ti e pro erty J U vilson own of the renowned humbug mine went out to his frorer ty saturday batur day last evening 1 e returned bringing with sonne ane specimens of quartz st owing free lie Is very highly elate 1 he returned again to the mine wednesday remark ing that they had struck free gold and he was going to st ly with it salt l ake herald at a depth of feet tie shift of the cannon gold mining and hilling company a property in the camp 1 loyd district cut into what la without doubt the old silver vein of alie district and the sinking is still in progress without the foot wall coming in sigl t anid ar able Is bung taken 0 it ai J sam I 1 lea were received iu this city lly 1 he rock loc ks very good nud Is ch r the rifel cr portion i the alil vein monib of it h is a very lie ai i ami II 11 Is Is said by tx te antimony lie discovery of alie vein at 11 e depoli stated very eliat the g ld vein Is til ve ai d tt will b to drift 0 in order to 11 d t allies s tins sh ift cut tl rough tl e gold deposit above tests were made and as the val aes ues were not tl ere clr cannon lid that he would late to consider able dedier but diac very doiy ca se liiro to change his mind and order drift ing on tl e deposit above albl 0 agh i ot at tie solicitation of any of tie lie cannon campany as says of tl e ore sent in from the shift were m ide recently out of and the refutes were a a to everybody ivery body to alia essays assays there vere v ere 10 ounces in silver and so 80 in gold contained in the ore it was anticipated that the rock would go very high in silver and i probably low in gold but such does not seem to be the case B the s are very rood some drifting may bo done on the newly dig covered vein for tl e purpose of demon its extent and also in order to whether or not here Is a change for abo bitter in tl e values 1 resident candon as out to tl e arop yesterday in order to see for I 1 just what there Is in sight salt lake erlb e it e question us to whether tl e de posits of auriferous ores in tl e mercur district are of the sedimentary or seis mic origin still conten acs ics to agitate the minds of the owners of properties in that section and tl e advocates of bogli sides of the question are ab ut eq lally divided arof J 11 I 1 ne of I 1 01 doi furlaud n mining expert of consider ible and a geologist of note recently visited tl e marcur district f r the decoi d time ai d comes b with aliory calculated lo 10 disel tl e mei tury ide ir lane first omes 0 it with tl e broad assertion eliat tl e torn atlon and lay of tl e ore bodies in kenui are the sime in their general ct hraster as tl e famous gold deposits in johannesburg africa where he has been operating and where the cyanide process is bow used lie ex pressed himself as follows ibe sedi theory it any maintain lucli a theory as I 1 have been informed is amiss in the extreme in tl e first place it such a theory should be sound it would be an easy matter for any one to secure a gold mine who magl t be fortunate enough to own a claim in alie district by simply doing work to come in contact with the ve n this would be all that t be necessary to make tl e caners bonanza lings and furthermore iu A case tl 6 vein would le mineralized beaular 11 d alike and would carry values in one place just the same as in buotler conse there would be no choice us to locations in ny part of the supposed sedimentary territory dud 11 e anch of dollars lae ben b en ex in barren locations would have been 1 reductive of as many aids and every claim would have been a mine and such a mine in bercut would be a mint no my opinion is it at tl e aiu in tl at district is ts well ed a contact as I 1 havu civi seen with tie exception that it does not lie as att be low alie surface as most veins of its cl fracter and for this many have called it a vt iti which is in itself an erroneous idea lvery 1 ill in the district 1 as at one time carried its portion of that vein and would to day 1 d it not been scoured away by ll 11 e action of tie t feature is that the vein is badly faulted and it is i possible for a claim to leave anore than one apex within Us bound arles and ibis idea has been demon stated in several of the locations some of exhibit as many as three apexes in words every fault 1 is its own ai ex ere and bev erdl of these may occur on one location I 1 have seen some useless work done where tl e vein is evidently faulted or broken and this I 1 deplore hie camp I 1 loyd district so much resembles the jol au country abere we have le arned wl ere and where not tl e vein Is and its source of values that tt e country in mercur looks very natural and familiar to me it m ay iy in terest tl ose who are interested in tier cur to know wl ere we and our source of in johannesburg we have d urge porphyry dyke cutting tie for iu from list to west aid it i from the overblow overl low or off shoots from the porphyry that we and 0 ir vil les that is in the cl andels from the porphyry these are or were tl e channels of hot suit ho saline and alco saline w iter that formerly con bained tl e gold iu solution and this accounts for alie of tl e lime in some 11 toes which may pene irate to a great depth ibis should al edyt occur on the foot wall aid the i porphyry dyke wl eie in boubli at bcd we find our 1 igl est values here we fand our values distant from the dyke always on the same feeders that ultimately lead to tl e por phyra my observations in mercur leads me to the conclusion that tl e conditions are identical with it e single exception that the values 1 ere are greater trail in jol u lie slates ai d jalcs are similar and to it e mercur yo i have the sime oxidized arsenical oris that we have iu beulh africa in the basins and near alie porphyry is w tore you may expel to our greatest grei test values and care should be to avo d the channels 1 may say that tl ese nels ai d the ore zone Is much oi geraud wider than ours in johan hie upper i art of tie vein is r ri t ary and talc tl e ore lying be low tie porphyry dad in many in being mineralized to an extent eq alli g 11 e values in the true oies II 11 ese coi dilious t ava lei some to be laivo tl it there are two but tl is is fidei tl e mineralized por plary bun accepted AS vein iu ott er words the vein and tl e ore bodies may lie distinct aiom each olar |