| Show tseraa OLD SPANISH MINES Theories and Ideas Advanced By D Marshall of Kamas Dr F Marshall of Kamas this state was in the city yesterday with a small lot of chlorides the result of experimental mental tests made in his laboratory Dr Marshall is an eccentricity and some of hiS acquaintance are of the opinion that he has wheels in his head but as it is the crank genius that has evolved and subjected to the use of man many devices and inventions Inven-tions hitherto unheard of and not even dreamed of there is a possibility that the doctorhas some theories of his own which when put into practical use may revolutionize the reduction of the precious metals in this western country coun-try and he should be accorded a certain cer-tain measure of consideration and respect re-spect at the hands of minincr men and scientists Dr Marshall claims to be authority on the subject of old Spanish mines and he certainly has given this matter a great deal of study and thought and his investigations and deductions regarding re-garding early mining in this country are certainly interesting although they may not be correct Within a short distance of Kamas the doctor is working what he claims to bean be-an old Spanish mine and he claims that the Spaniards or some prehistoric race carried on mining in this part of the country as early a the year 1313 and that the campt of Tintic Bingham Park City and the Cottonwoods were known to those early metal workers and he states that he can tell almost at a glance the site of I OLD SPANISH WORKINGS which are to b found in the camps named but always in the foothills The doctor also states that he has Ikcovered the reason why all these mines so far as revealed have been covered over At first he was of tie i opinion that it was to hide or secrete them but now he is satisfied that it was solely done for their preservation as i has been demonstrated that if amine a-mine is left in an open and unprotected unprotect-ed state the action of the elements seen cause the caving in of the under giound workings of the mine but that if the outlet or opening is closed but little change will take place in the property fo many years as was illustrated lustrated in the uncovering of his mine near Kamas the workings of which I were in a state of almost perfect preservation pres-ervation one of the tunnels nearly 1 000 feet in length being in nearly as gcod condition as when worked by a former people several hundred years a coIn co-In speaking of this property the doctor doc-tor stated that a short time ago a Mexican appeared in Kamas looking for this abandoned mine and when he found that i had been located he expressed ex-pressed regret and made the statement that when further developed the doctor doc-tor would take out ore that was MORE THAN HALF GOLD and that a few feet of it was worth more than half of the producing mines of Utah and yet the peculiar feature of the operation of this mine is the fact that as yet no one has been able to find any values of moment in the ore as yet although the doctor states that he expects to be able to prove that i will run all of 100000 to the ton in the precious metals and herein lies another of his eccentricities as he claims that the chemists and metal lurgists of the present age have lost the art of detecting the presence of the precious metals excepting only to a limited extent although the ancients although not utilizing present methods of metal extraction and reduction were still able to produce wealth galore from ores in which the millman and assayer of the present day is unable to find values In fact the doctor claims that every ledge of quartz however barren It may seem to mining men of this age contains hundreds if not thousands thou-sands of dollars to the ton in the yellow metal and he confidently expects to seethe see-the day when he will be able to show that the ores of the Mercur mine go from 40000 to 50000 in gold to the ton instead of only from 4 to 30 and he is confident that he now has a leaching leach-ing process which will demonstrate and prove all that he has advanced so fa theoretically his system treating all classes of mjneral as m nature there is no such thing as base ores the diffi culty being that so far all IS BASE INTELLIGENCE I h leaching tests Dr Marshall 1 j J f 0 > runs his solution through the pulp not only once but IS or 20 times and hs experience ha been that the chemicals do not begin to act on the metals to their full strength until the treatment has been repeaed for the fourth or fifth time and in this connection it might be well to state that fire assays have been eschewed by the doctor who obtains his results by what he terms wet assays as by the former too much of the values escape in the fumes and In volatile mater and this is one reason why ore that is really immensely immense-ly rich in its metallic contents is found to be s barren the greater percentage being lost when submitted fire The scientists geologists and experts of today would laugh in their sieves to hear Dr Marshall dilate on what he believes he has discovered in the mineral min-eral line and his talk while out of all orthodox order might cause the professor pro-fessor to smile in amusement and still there may be more in his theories than we wot of and the time may come when he will be able to prove I all that he has claimed clamed I |
