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Show WESTERN MINING GAZETTEER. snake creek district, utaii. This district is situated in tin centre of one of the largest mineral belts in the! Territory, though comparatively little is known thereof. It is bounded on the south bv American Fork District, on the west by Little Cottonwoood, on the north by Uintah and northwest by Blue Ledge, and to the east is Provo Valley. Midway, tin principal town in the district, has a population of 800. About 133 claims have have been recorded this year. A tunnel 000 feet in length will tap the following mines at about 2. 00 feet in depth: Eppison, Dupont, Sunbeam, Lucy, Nellie, Matilda, Shenandoah, Della, Summit, Monument ami Addie; all being parallel veins, ore above the other up the hill. The Shenandoah claim is developed by an incline to the depth of 140 feet, following the vein all the way. When struck near the surface the vein was fi inches wide, and as it goes down varies from one to two feet of ore, though the walls are five feet apart. The character of the ore is galena, and tin last assay showed .Vi per cent, lead and 100 ounces of silver per ton. Wood is close at hand and there is plenty of water within a quarter of a mile. This property is said to be inline, diately on the course between the Ontario, ami Emma mines: being four miles from the former and and two and ifhalf Irom the latter. It is owend by N. U. Springer and .1. X. Baskin. There are five tons of ore sacked on the dump which it is thought will average 100 ounces silver per ton. The Jennie Hell shows a very large outcrops from 20 to J( feet wide, and the tunnel now being driven to cut the vein at the depth of Jo feet, is in HO feet. It is claimed that assays were obtained on the surface. This property is owned Hell and others. The Lachwaxen is owned bv the New Bedford Silver Min- ing Company. Three tunnels have been run for the vein. The lower one is in 140 feet, middle in IT 3 foot ami upper 30 feet on the vein. From the face of the latter a crosscut has been run JO feet, and the vein found to be 24 feet wide, tin average assay being 10, though some selected samples have gone higher. Two shifts will work all winter on the middle tunnel. A new boarding house is also being erected. The Badger has a tunnel in 130 feet on the vein, the latter ' averaging 3.V feet in width. A ton and a half of ore shipped to Salt Lake averaged 1G0 per ton. The formation is lime and quartxite and the walls arc well defined. The B ulger is considered one of the best claims in this section, and is owned bv Havt Bro's. of Bark (Jit v. The Treasure Key is west and distant 1300 feet from the Badger. A couple of holes sunk and a vein one foot wide of good ore struck. Owned bv .Smith Ehrcnger. The Hamilton is thought to be on the course of the Jones Bonanza. A cut was made about twelve feet and a shaft sunk from tin face fifteen feet, and shows a six foot vein of vein matter and low grade ore. The Keystone shows a slmft 40 feet in a granite formation. It is situated half a mile southwest of the Utah. .The Belt Center is about tin center of the mineral belt, lienee the name. The ore is heavy out of a low grade; v green owned by Smith Ehrcnger. The Basser tunnel isin 123 feet, running for the vein, and expect to cut it 23 feet further. This vein has been traced a 13-oun- ft ft ft ft ce considerable distance on the surface, the croppings being prominent. The east extrusion of the Lachwaxen is the Edgar Raymond, which is merely hold under location notice. Assays from the croppings show from 1T to 19 per ton. The thickest timber in the district is found within its lines. Owned by J. A. Curran and .lames 1L Shupback. Tin Euranium is immediately above the Pioneer anil along the line of the ridge. The croppings are from 10 to 20 leet wide. The formation is lime and quartzite. Several cuts run Pierson and E. P. Ferry. in on the claim. Owned by t (Jeorge which shows very Near the limp' re is the prominent croppings, assays from which have gone Irom $2.o0 to 13 per ton. A few selected specimens contained horn silver. There is an open cut which shows the vein to be 10 feet the hanging wall not yet being wide, with limestone uncovered. Owned bv George Pierson. The Pioneer is situated northwest of the Utah and half a milt distant. A large vein was struck near the surface. The main tunnel is in 200 fret and it is thought tin vein will be cut in 200 feet more; at this point being nearly 400 feet below the croppings. Then has been nearly 1,100 feet of tunneling dom and some very tine on has been taken out; carbonates, horn silver and lead havt all been found on (his claim. It is owned by a Saerame ito, California, company. There has been a line of claims taken up from the Utah, through to Big Cottonwood, all which art believed to be on the ( hitariu fissure; among them are tin Mohawk, Morning Star and McLaughlin, Keystone, KingP Solomon, Great Wes- tern and Silver Bar. Tin Cara boo ami Bevelat r both show ore on the surface and a shaft has been sunk 40 feet on the former ami one JO feet on the latter. The walls are four feet apart on the Cara-boThe IJevelator shows a foot vein of ore and three feet Tin. foot wall is quartzite ami the hanging of vein matter. . ft1 Cliloro-Bromid- foot-wal- e, l, - ft- o. wall lime. THE WELCOME stranger. running the tunnel 100 feet two veins were cut, but one is supposed to be a spur of the main ledge. The vein is six feet wide and encased in good walls. The assays show from 23 to 30 per ton. There is a drift on the vein from the mouth of tin tunnel. A contract will soon be let for sinking a shaft 200 feet. Tn 100-fo- ot WOODSIDE MINE, UTAII. This is a claim of fair promise. During the season of 1810 Mr. E. P. Ferry shipped over 23,000 worth of tine smelting ore to Silt Lake, which was eagerly sought by the smelters here, as a free smelting on running about 30 ounces of silver and 40 percent, lead, with no refractory basses. All this ore was extracted in prospecting the mini. Early this season a tunnel was started at tin base of the gulch, intending to cut t ie vein at a depth of J00 feet. It is hoped to have this finished within the next thirty days, and should the vein prove of likewidth and as good quality as at the points heretofore opened, the Woodside will be one of the permanent mines of all the camp. The tunnel is in S40 feet and the way. The vein varies in width from six inches to three feet, with quartzite foot and lime hanging wall. There are 19 well-timber- men at work. ed |