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Show I Should Be Generally Known I SrhM I" Source of Sulphide Ore Dc. B jintlls in His Cottonwood, Alta and B American Fork, According (o Hy. B )othi"ls of Loral Operator. I While the theory of the oro desposl- I tlon of even the beBt known camps Is I even a matter of speculation and ar- gument seldom deflnately settled, yet I It Is always one of tho most intercst-I intercst-I Ing, in fact one of the moBt Import-I Import-I ant matters to tho mine operator who must be more or less a student of I gecology as well as one of miner-I miner-I alogy Holativo to the source of tho I sulphide ores found in several mines I In Dig Cottonwood, Alta and American I Fork, C H. Greene, manager of the Tar Daby Mining company, who has I just returned from having spent sev-B sev-B cral months at the property In nig B Cottonwood canyon, gave the follow-fl follow-fl Ing as his hypothesis of oro deposl-B deposl-B tlon In that section. Ho thinks the B schist Is the same. He says: B "There Is n prominent belt of schist running through Uls country B ' you can walk on nearly every K p of the distance from tho Tar Daby over to Alta and on Into Am-Bj Am-Bj erlcan Fork still farther south. From Bj my observation I find that the ores B) along the belt have been found lurgo-B lurgo-B ly In or adjacent to this sclilst Aboe this Is tho limestone, which has shown orc-bcarlug fissures in sov-B sov-B cral mines. Below Is u quartzlto and B below that a dark intrusive, probably B a dlorlte. "This bolt of schist is traceable B from the Tar Haby in nig Cottonwood, through the Kennebec, Curd I ft, Hex. IB all, Toledo and Emily. Tho sulphides BJ are found In many small prospect BJ holes on the north sido of Alta to tho BJ northwest of tho Stillwoll store. "Prof. F. P. Hiutz of the United DJ States geological survey was up there BJ three years ago making n thesis on BJ the geology of the district. He told BJ me that tho schlat goes over into BJ American Fork canyon. Tho dolo- BJ mlto limestone which 'is above the B schlct, is plnluly vlslblo in tho South iB" liecla and on toward American Fork, B ' llavo "ot been on that sldcrof Alta, however. J 1 Workings In the old ColumbuB, ?B where sulphides wero found, bear out ; this theory; also somo of tho old Al- B ta mines to tho cast of Columbus. If B the schist should prove tho source I of tho sulphide ores It is well that it ' bo gcnorally known, as it may save 1 some Useless expenditures of money ' under certain circumstances." Mr, Orccno has spent years In these 1 I districts. B1 |