Show its attractions resources and harly early history BY J P MIMS GIBBS PART X awong the characters that in in from silver reef the sil ver sandstone region in washington ashington r a sh ington county utah was jolin john solomon forr fer ris educated according to his verbal autobiography in the high schools of Wilkes barre Darre pa of medium height john sol as lie he was locally known was celebrated for his fluency dency and verbosity verbe sity of his pennsylvania vocabulary and his tireless energy in li plastering tho the mining districts ohio and mt Baldy with location notices the contacts were the especial prey of john sol and in a few weeks lie he had nea neary ry every exposed contact within a radius of fifteen miles from Marys Mary valo avale located and staked he described the boundaries of df the respective districts in the following vivid and distinctively john solomon on words A line of action meandering down the beaver bullion divid from mt belknap to a point cast of webster basin thence with sinuosity to sierra nevada peak thence down to base of deer tr trail ail mountain thence along the sevier fault to the mouth of ton ten mile canyon thence west to 0 the tushar divide thence with regate meanderings along the tushar aar beivide divide to the place of bagi beginning nning together i with ih all its dips spurs angles and variations A FREAK CONTACT among john sols achievements was I 1 the chrystal location a surface deposit of high grade ore carrying free gold silver glance and some galena on south side of cottonwood creek and john sol and his grub cleaned up the munificent sum of hilly fully ROO for fully six six months and fully one thousand miles of t travel ravel and john sol wat waa just that amount of cash ahead of scores of 0 ther other prospectors prospect ois who tagged hart over the hills and spen most of the time using profanity when on an nearly hearly every outcrop of quartz they discovered that john sol had mh been thera more before thiril geoage ah M scott of salt sail lake and charles converse became the owners of the chrystal A carload of ore was w aa packed down to the mouth oi of cottonwood ton wood thence by teams to york then terminus of the utah southern in juab county a hundred and fifty miles from marysvale Marys vale in a desultory way the chrystal liry stal was worked during several years then after patent a 25 ton mill was va e erected r e c ted during the winter of after the mill was completed the mill began n a search for ore over the first feet oi of tu iu the quartzite floor was vas nearly horizontal then began a d descent c ent to io the south of about botsis six degrees I 1 the pockets of or ore e began thinning down and at a feet the ore and limestone limestone roof yielded elded to a kind of pudding bone of beautifully e v ar ted ju 1 4 wave washer cemented aih 8 I 1 solution tha the ores orce promising A s M abona bonanza aza i hd 4 become came a fiwel bed there lsuis alls just t va one the theory org i that will re cot r si spend ca to ame mental demand de rn for an answer ta how cairs e that singular condition condit t 10 and v ach may ae stated as follows the be zite rite I 1 floor of i f the crystal toc fa i closely and deeply ed ly i fissured I 1 i r ed and there ekno ta no doubt that the ilia ore bearing solutions ascended filon alone t those ll 11 s e fissures klisures flis ures from a second contact many hundred feet beneath and depo deposited s cited the crystal ore bodies th that at such contacts exist in every part of the district to tho the wes west t and southwest of marysvale Marys MaTys vale is is abundantly antly proved by horizontal exposures of quartzite limestone contacts and by in indubitable dubitable evidence evari c lq that oia in those contacts in places slightly or profoundly tau faulty ity aa ap wh wherever irever intrusive eruptions are plezent pre present zent and other conditions wre were i favorable rab legreat grea bedded avci veins ns like th 6 11 ec trai 11 exial ex Is t S tan and d are aYa ilg comegno or reo W who h 0 lias aas the moans means tad coir a keo y tl t l i A i 1 the truth of that to whick shied all evidences point with the ho most unerring certainty af after ter the crystal are pre bodies were deposited that thal t section of the dis brict settled to a point below below arid and near the surface of t the he ocean ocean then followed the action of waves on the thin bed of limestone which formed arned the roof of the 0 ore re beds with the result that the south portion of the hanging wall and ore were worn away and anc tho the quartzite swept clean and wave marked was covered Is now a ebore line of sand and bea beautifully dutifully uti fully polished and varicolored beach pebbles subsequently a deep fissure was formed a half nille mile or so to the south and melted rock mater ial several kinds of porphyry emerged from great depths and deeply buried the shore line then the present cottonwood tenni tensile tenmile lle divide up to its present altitude suet such is ia the easily deciphered red story of the tha rocks regarding gardi ng the crystal mine |