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Show Frm Star- and Vicr.u'r. News I from this district acd neighborhood is , very encouraging as to its mineral wealth. We saw yesterday a variety , of ore specimens from the North Star and districts in its vicinity, which, i although of only ordinary richness, are certainly indicative of great mineral j wealth. These specimens were principally prin-cipally from the outcrops of lodes, as J was evident from a portion of their j surfaces, and came from North Star i proper, the Sin Francisco district twelve miles to the northward, and Wahwah, forty miles to the west. The samples from the first two districts mentioned are very similar to the silver ores of. Camp Floyd and Tintic districts, dis-tricts, and from Wahwah besides silver indications of the same character of ore, there were some specimens of very handsome copper ores heavily alloyed with iron when coming from the surface, sur-face, and becoming purer with depth. The silver ores also carry, as they do throughout the great basin, lead in greater or less proportion; this mineral, however, Eeldom existing in sufficient quantity to prevent the successful reduction re-duction of the ores by mill process. Wood and water arc generally convenient, conve-nient, and the mines must lie contiguous contigu-ous to the path of the U. S. R. R. Exploration proves that from Salt Lake to Pioehe district there is a regular regu-lar mineral belt, broken of course at intervals, but geologically of the same formation and yielding the same ores. As the railroad progresses the whole of this great mineral belt will be prospected pros-pected and worked, and within less than a half decade, Utah will be at the head of the silver producing States on the continent. |