Show COLUMBIA MINING DISTRICT dally tribune 20 1871 1 87 1 today to day I 1 have been takina a tramp among the mines and find them looking much better than could cougil lie be expected n where here so little work is done tile the first I 1 raw wai the gold lagle eagle situate on liberty hill anil and on a spur running northeast from the main mountain this mine mind wits was located augat 20 26 1871 1 by smith boren borca and paxton the founder of the district considerable work lias his been done on this mine and a fine body of oro is in night eight the ledge is from two and a halt to three feet in w width idt a dipping ping to the west on oil an angle of forty el uve 0 degrees the ore is li carbonate and galena us assaying saying ozi 75 suver silver per ton and carrying SO 80 per cent lead on the same hill are gold exchange eclips find and alpha all showing the ile some fame cropping and as far as a deve developed aped the st same line L kind d of mineral these ledges run parallel I 1 and I 1 arc about two hundred feet apart art and can n lc be easily traced by their c droppings crop apin pings tile the whole dib distance tance a across 0 tile ali hill arriving tit at the lie top lop of liberty I 1 hill 1111 a du distance stance of quarters of a mile from camp we have one of the mot picturesque scenes it linx has ever been my fortune to vi etuess in looking to tile the north 1 ro 0 take koin in tile the whole ot of ruth rush valley to lo salt lake including stockton lake ophir mining dL strict and nd camp cloid further east cast we fee ece utah like the he licad til of american fork and gintic tintic south routh to ta the vier river and west as far as the naked eye c ye can call penetrate down don skull milley which appears ahle one vast lale laic rath tj J ir r it 11 la in situated on MOb butila idill a spur running parallel with liberty hill and is il looking mell fur for the ile amount of wor work k done upon his lull hill tile tie situated the valley tan silver cross look out and chimney Chin incy corner and all are ara looking well galena V lena and carbonate ore being found I in most latest of them the valley tan lias has been worked tho the mou most of any mine on this hill and is ill considered to be the first fint south elten extension of tho the jold capic and a fine body of high ore is ii on eipur running 21 etith v ith the allona zoma divided by a small canyon well supplied with springs pring of pure pare oft kofl water upon this till lull are situated the like utah chief washington north anil and south st louie a and p laton many others of less note late the e Washing As tona tire aro the most moat developed awl anil athow a different class clam of ore principally principally Cally carbonate intermixed wit wilia I 1 small unclick of galena and of a very the ledge is ii about five feet fecchi wide e and in an incline down ten ben feet shows hows a solid ledge of ore this is ia considered to be one of the best mines in the district and work 11 is to be COMM need immediately wit a view of shipping ore to salt aale in croaning croaa ing the ga Gul ell 4 clithe to the east we i next comi come U upon saddle ifill hill hero abo be leviathan leac it A consider considerable considerably abl C amount of work has been done here and a good body of ore exposed on st nicholas Mich olaa hill laying ewt a of saddle hill we find end the falatea Ua latea black crook left bower and right bower ledges ledge running parallel with each other and about abou L one hundred feet apart the cro what crop pinga of these appear to be what the experts call manganese but upon developing them this black substance runs run out at a depth of two or three feet and galena and carbonate carbon be ores tale iti lace chck last four mines minca rank willij tile ficq fir it in tile the diE district there are arc many mally other locations location on this hill but as ai yet vet I 1 have been unable to visit there tire aro but few men ere tr aro are 1 I oll cli pleased with their p prospects PC anil a are their mine mines as fast fl st ba their t cir acan ein will wil admit c need SOWO some enterprising capit capitalist aUst to conic fue here c and erect caces there n water anil and wood enough for to conic to TUO tile all t alic le furnaces that could ix be erected in the next six eix months the district liaa bas ono one advantage over most or of tile the hae rectal metal that of good lam I 1 ara not however an expert in in the busine A and only judge from the like opinion of othe ollic rn aror as aa noon mon as lie fini blics lis lil with 0 ita a f I 1 ill I 1 can ind find a largo large aud ad pro fire f licud eld cicro acre in columbia Colu nibia if he should chloo choo i to come wo we will furnia u all the informal information on we lill concerning the ilia nunes and would lilo 1110 v very cry much to see sec one of hia bill fu furnaca fur in with columbia Coluni Lii onnic bcd ocd II 11 moro loro anon NIR |