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Show WILL CONSTRUCT TWO HILLSJ LA SALS Writing to the Deseret News at Salt Lake, from Mesa, Joseph H. Webb says of the La Sals: While the Grand river country Is having its oil and gas boom. Moab 16 organizing Its board of trade, with good prospecte of a boat line In the near future, Just keep an eye on the old La Sals and especially the mesa. We have no big oil or gas wells, nor big transportation schemes; but there will be something doing next season Just the same. For we have plenty of the yellow metal and arrangements aro now perfected whereby some of it will be extracted next year. Two mills here next spring aro now assured and Indications an good for more. The prospecting stago has been passed on tho mesa ami from now on mining will be doue The work of tho past season thoroughly demonstrated that the ore and gold here are of geyser origin, following the faults of porphyrltic shale and conglomerate! sandstone. It has also been dlscov ered that the amyrhlst quartz is not the only rock here that carries good, values. Nearly all of the altered eruptive erup-tive rocks that fill the throat of tho geysers, sudh as green hornblende, feld spar, porphyry and dolerlte, all carry' pood values in gold and the largo bodies of talc and kaolin havo values that will pay to mill. When the fact Is taken Into consld eratlon that there are numerous places, here, where the faulting is plainly traceable and the outcropping of the now extinct geysers show, and that at all of these places good values la gold are found on the surfaco, one can readily seo what will happen wQu?n the dopplng of the stamps demonstrates dem-onstrates to the mining world what wo have here. Heretofore tho work on the mesa has boon confined to placer mlulng. and good results have been obtained. obtain-ed. The operators, toworer, early learned that they were losing a large per cent of the values In the fine gravel that wa only partly disintegrated. disinte-grated. By a more thorough test made In last season's operations tho rather startling discovery was made that for every ounce of free gold sav ed, 10 ounces were lost In the gravel and rock. All this could have been saved by milling. Three other factors tend to work against, the economical operation of placer mining here. These are, that the trend of the gnel soon dips below be-low the level at which hydraulic mining min-ing can profitably be done; the scar city of water for extensive hydraullo mining; and a large amount of big rock encountered, which requires blasting. The coarse rock would bo no detriment detri-ment to the milling process as neari all of the coarse rock as well as the fine gTavel carries values that would pay to mill. Wilson Mesa doe not stand alone as a prospective producer for 1910. The neighboring camps of Beaver ana Miner's basin bid fair to soon take their places among the best camps In tbe West Few camps have larger bodies of medium grade ore and none : hav a more determined resolute class of miners. In spite of all obstacles, ob-stacles, they have persistently pounded pound-ed away until today they have many good mines, lacking machinery only to treat the ore. As the machinery is forthcoming. The writer recently received a let ter from tho Denver Quartz Mill company, com-pany, wherein they stated that a party of Beaver bayiu. Grand county, bad Just ordered) a 53-ton mill to bo installed early In the gprlng of 1910. While there Is an immen?e amount ' of medium grade ore In Minor's and Beaver basins, there Is also some I ore ot very high grade, Tho wrltor j was shown numerous samples last, year, takeu from the Tornado and other mines of that district, that would class as high grad, even in Cripple Creek or Goldfleld. |