| Show DOLLY VARDEN IS PROMISING BEL BELT BELTS Smelters S Have Overlooked There Source of Fluxing Ore Says Expert Exper The Importance of ot the tho Dolly Doly Varden Varen district or of Nevada as aB a source souro of flux fluxIng tux fluXIng Ing ores ore has hns apparently been over overlooked overlooked overlooked looked by the smelting Interests of Salt Sl Lake City In the opinion of George Georgo A AHenry A AHenry Henry a ft l mining man of ot largo large experience experience once ence who ho has been making a close ence study of a largo large portion porton of the Deep Creek CrecK region relon Tho The iron deposits from which fluxing ores have been beon drawn In the tho past are aro becoming exhausted he ho points out out and it wilt will wi bo be only a n matter mator of ot time until other localities must bo be called cled upon to supply the de do demand demand domand mand He Ho knows of no better beter deposits In Utah or Nevada than are those tho le of ot the Dolly Doly Varden Vardon district Dolly Doly Vardon district Is about eighty miles milos mies north of Ely IY with wih the Ne Nevada Nevada vada Northern railroad passing along Its I westerly limits and with lh Currie Currle the tile supply station he continued The Tho ho mountain range II is about eighteen miles mie long hong north and anc south couth with an south average width of about twelve miles mie except at the northern end where it I tapers taper to a narrow point boint where It I re recedes recede cedes cede to the level of Antelope valley a 1 e Tho The western side of ot the range is rimmed with lh massive ma lve gray granite granie blue and dolomite lime in gAY places with wih frequent changes to porphyry dikes I Copper With AVIth lh Iron These conditions alternate as al one ono I passes from one zone to another until after passing the Moore McAuley di divide divide divido vide vido over which Is IB one of ot the tho best boat wagon roads in the state In descend ing the tho eastern slope a n marked markell change chango of contour and of rook formation is ismet Ismet Ismet met first by b the ho lime formation and then evidences of or Increased ld disturb disturbance ance larger and more numerous up of Iron occur and with the iron Is Invariably copper In all aU Its Is shades hados and attractive colorings native copper being found In places This ThIB feature of interchange exists in several groups on the east eMt side Ido of OX the range mango Here Hero the tile lime Hmo shows a 0 greatly grot altered alered condition in a car cr feature feature the porphyry is ismore Ismore ismore more massive and the bands of dolo dolomite dolomite mite mie are better beter defined Through tho middle part of the range a belt bel of ot volcanic rook rock reaches from one end ond to the tho other and ad In places along Us its ls course courso many large largo boulders of magnetic m Iron strew the tile surface Adjoining this formation on the east are larger bodies of dolomite and blue lime Interlaced with quartz quartz quartzite Porphyry halo and por granite ganie In places while as al a dividing line lino between Dolly Varden Doly and Kinsley districts is a second belt I of volcanic rock with wih a showing of more Intense heat het action than is pre pro by either of the tho two to first named the rock having been burned until a glass glau coating covers COo the thc surface and in weight it Is twice an as heavy as aB the tile other This formation constitutes the eastern easter rim of the district where It dips alps under the tho level surface distrct of the val I ley Icy Between these volcanic stretches is where the tho mineral zones occur and anil It Is from these long lines of deposits that future fortunes will 11 be made mado The ore oro veins eins are large largo and in many man places place are as plainly defined as aB an ordinary wagon agon road and equally as wide Throughout the district is there ther no lack of surface exhibits Ore Dumps Dump Tell Story Stol Shafts tunnels Inclines and open cuts aro to be found everywhere Upon the tho dumps of dozens of properties are aro gold silver f copper and lead lend ores oreB w which i toil tell tel their own story ston Some of the properties have hae shipping records will wi tell tel of the tho charcoal smelter built bUit at Dolly Doly Vardon Varden springs years ear ago to which hundreds of tons of ore oro JK were ere hauled Some Som of the tho ore oro was half smelted and hAt the remainder on account of the op having been Ignorant of the tho process required to save sae the copper contents treated 21 WS was left Idt In great reat piles Pes pies un Many carloads of ore oro have bae since pince those days been beon shipped to mar marTho hot ket Tho The northern part of tho TAnge range known knon as the tho MIzpah district has soy sev t oral eral excellent ent showings of 18 gold and td copper r deposits JeP tB There much prospect work has been done during the last laRt three years ears but on account of d depressed conditions In the tile Jn mining world orld nothing more than ordinary as aB labor has been beon performed |
