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Show U'TTfilt FH0M PARLEY'S PARK j (tii:i-i:il CurfeinniilL'nco of tho II nii.u.nl ' j TUe Wnllai' ami Wcller HIIucs VcIiih, Ore, CoitiKi-y Km li, Fnr.lH-I Fnr.lH-I Its for Woi kliig, etc. I llNTAII Dl.STBICl'. September 2i'th, 1ST I. " The Walker aud Webster mines are I situatod oii. the northern declivity of a -ridge very regular in its direction, i which leaves the - summit of the i Wasaieli range nearly on a line with the divide between Big Cottonwood ; aud Parley's canons, and extends northerly in the direction of Parley's ' park. The location of these mines is about a mile from the main Biimmit of the Wasatch, and about It, 000 feet above the sea level. The hill upon which they arc situated shows a num- j bcr of parallel vcius of good ore, close ' together, generally narrow, but some- j times swelling into large laden, and as . the two mines are located on parallel veins not more than seventy-five feet 1 perpendicularly apart, I think that ! developments willrovo that they are I but one mine, especially as the space ! between thoni exhibits a scries of ore , strata corresponding to the principal veins of the two mines. The ores arc argentiferous galenas, chlorides and i carbonates, (ho former predominating I iu quantity. The lower wall rock is ; slate, and generally the upper too, j although not so pure, and blended with quartz and lime; and the gangue is quartz. THE WliUSriill ' Is the upper of the two ininos, aud is I opened by a tunnel sixty-five feet in' length in the face of tho hill. This 1 tunnel shows throughout its length a regular vein of ore with well defined walls, dippiug northerly at an angle of ! about thirty degrees the direction of! ! the dip of all the veins and of an av- j ! erage width of eighteen inches. About 1 midway between this and the Wal- 1 ker tunnel, which is on a line with it, J is a drift, iu about twenty leet, which 1 exhibits a solid- onass of ore; and a number of shallow prpapeot.holofj show the general existence of ore from the top to the bottom of the hill. Below this tunnel about ninefy feet is THE WALKER TUNNEL Which is the principal work on tho two mines, and which has developed a large lode of fine ore larger than I have seen in any mine except the Emmaand Em-maand yet unlimited by exploration. Prom the mouth of this tunnel (which' is seventy-five ieet in length) the vein has been uncovered for '"tracing out" purposes, ibr a distance of 1 ;0 loot southerly to the Buckeye mine. This "tracing out" enterprise uncovers for a di.-tanee of lorty feet south from I he tunnel's large mass of ore. Near the 'tunnel, and just below and lotbe north of it, an incline has bcenrnn a distance of fifty feet which eat diagonally, or with the dip, several veins of ore; aud at the bottom of the hill, 2o0 feet below, be-low, a tunnel, just commcuced and in only it -few ii-rf, already '; exhibits -a showing of oie. In;tii lucfi of the deep open cut lo the main tunnel of this mine, as also in the same situation in the Pinion mine-joiniug it on the uoith, the mass of ore is very large and is found in three separate but close and converging a! rata. What I have said as to the angle at which the veins dip, must be qualified by the statement state-ment that' in the' extreme inferior workings the dip changes from thirty to litrty-five or lifiy degrees. WOOD ASH w.vm; For Mucking and milling purposes arc immediately at hand aud abundant. Ample water power to drive any amount of machinery courses the gulches gul-ches on cither side of the bill, and at ar. oilier place in l"tah have I seen so laige and den.M; a growth of timber. A wagon road is now being built up the gulch on the e.isf side id" the hill in which the mine i.s IMted. TI,U roud will Ikivo its leriniirlis :( tjn. wer (none), and luav V; rj.;c!u-d i'v a tram-w.iy tram-w.iy 2..0 foot 'ui. lu.glh from ' what i now i he principal tunnel. The roud is ofan etsy gitde, and within a distance dis-tance of three miles taps ihe main road leading mt parley's Park. Of the Pinion and other mines on Lhe uiic: led-, 1 wii! wrire you in my next. Yours, Wasatui. |
