Show OGDEN ONYX communicated about twenty miles north of ogden city there is an extensive onyx deposit owned by ogden men which is undoubtedly one of the finest deposits in the united states the owners have done over 2500 worth of devel ment work on the property but none of the material has ever been put on the market owing to the lack of means by the owners to procure the necessary machinery for sawing and polishing the product now however a company is being organized to develop the property and saw and polish the onyx for the market the stock of this company is being taken largely by ogden men and it is expected that a mill will be in operation by the first of may the onyx has been tested by the united states treasury department at the watertown arsenal and pronounced entirely satisfactory tests of the material have also been made by the experts of several of the eastern wholesale onyx and marble houses and their reports are unanimous to the effect that the ogden onyx is superior to the mexican onyx in texture and quality another decided advantage which the 0 ogden den onyx has is that it is quarried in sizes which saw up into slabs feet and even larger without flaws or blow holes the coloring is varied and rich and the markings and tracings delicate and beautiful many onyx experts who have seen the display which is on exhibition in the law office of A B hayes pronounce it as beautiful as any they have ever seen the onyx vein is fifty feet in width pitching into the mountain and has been ered for a distance of feet up the side of the mountain it certainly is the most wonderful deposit in the west and doubtless in the whole country |