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Show j OUR BEAVEK. LETTER. I A General Description of the Mineral Min-eral Portion of Beaver Cocnty. TIu Adratiias lor Capitalists and Sous of Toil. 'Correspondence of the IIehald.) SlUL'MIE, Oct. 21. 7f. THE EOLTHElv MINEs. I have now made my circuit of Southern Vtah, as far as I shall go and my verdict is decidedly favorable. I have seen some good mines and big ones; I have not gone much into detail, de-tail, because if I did justice to all parlies par-lies it would require that I should make no omissions nor b'qow any partiality, and this would compel me to mention too many mines tor the 'space allowed in your columns, for inaUnee in j STAR DISTRICTS, north and south, there are between twenty and thirty mines that are worked to a profit, each of which to receive a detailed notice would make too long a letter. I will sum up at this time both districts together, ttiey cont lining several divisions or localities, local-ities, such as Sbauntie, the town of the county; South Camp, Mormon , Middle, Walker's and West Camn. i and Star City, or Shanandoah. These with the mines around them, cover an extent of territory about equal to the mining or mineral portions of tho Oquirrh range,' including both Bins-ham Bins-ham and Gamp Floyd. The hills here are all low and present no obstacles ob-stacles to traveling on direct routes. It is not at all like the hish and rugged rug-ged mountains of Ophir or Cottonwood. Cotton-wood. The territory uf mines is about thirteen miles in length, from north to south, and about sis in width. The mines aro located in all parts of it, and are everywhere accessible ac-cessible to wagons and on horseback without the least apology for a road. Cedar and pinyon pine are everywhere every-where plentiful, but water in scarce. TliE plVpi are mostly sulphurets and carhouate of iron, at least such are the ores generally mined for at present. There are milling orej in places; in t;pt the entire ilisirict, line Ophir, was first supposed to be all milling ores. Such mines as the Shenandoah. Minnesota and Hickory were noted for their milling 'ores, but since the smelter was erected here smelting ores are all the rage. The ores are much like those of Ophir in many respects. The Hidden Treasure, Chicago Chi-cago and Mahogany HJU ores are a fair sample of what Star District produces. pro-duces. The ganguo is generally quartz, but contains iron ochre sufli-ciont sufli-ciont for fluxing. They also contain antimony and nearly alwjya some copper, many oi tho mines produce-ing produce-ing considerable. Ttiero ii also arsenic, ohloride, ainc of the cala? mine and red oxide- varieties, besides some of the more rare metals such as sellenium, tellurium, etc. THE GRADE OF QMS is just about the saine as Ophir, raugT ing on an average when sampled at the smelter at about $10 per ton, but the grade in lead is nearly always over oO per cent. There are many mines whose ores grade up to $60 and SSO, and some over $100, but the genera average will be about as I have giyen it. CONTIXCOCS VEINS is a characteristic of these mines, nearly all of which are opened in many places on the surface, and when drifted on bolow the surface show up a continuous vein of ore between be-tween walls; pipe veins and chimneys are seldom found. The veins are all strongly marked and easily traced by their out crop of iron rock, The grade of ores is also very regular and uniform from the same mine, seldom showing much variation. ROCKY DISTRICT is principally copper-not much else there that is worked for, and for copper cop-per it is far .ahead of anything iu Utah. There is but little development develop-ment anywhere in the district. There are also large veins or leads of hematite hema-tite iron, specular and red oxide. Only a few men are tliere at work, but I think the competition of Williams' Wil-liams' copper smeltiDg furnace at Riverside, only ten miles distant, will revive them. HEAVER LAKE DISTRICT, is only about fifteen miles from here and is a good country, producing both copper and silver lead ores. The principal work there at present is being done by Green Campbell, E;q., who hia a force of gotid miners employed. I will here slate that all this part of Southern Utah, including includ-ing both Stars, Rocky, Beaver Lake, San Francisco alid Lincoln districts, is a Bcope of country on an elevated altitude, covered with volcanic scoria with low mountains divided from oach other by valleys that occupy about an equal amount of territory as the mountains. SAN FRANCISCO DISTRICT is the most westerly of these districts, beyond which is the Wah Wah Valley, Val-ley, stretching out as a broad plain about as wide as Rush Valley; to the westward of which arc the Wah Wah mountains, in vhich is tlie Pine li rove- district and perhaps others, continuing on down in the direction of Pioche. S in Francisco is a good district, ar.d ha? rich ores of a higher grade llvui any others in Beaver county. It also has a fluor spar gangue, which with the iron ochres ofStar and other districts, and the limestone lime-stone matrices of some of tlie mines in Lincoln, a fiords ores from which the experienced smelter can mako elections that will run down as ly rapid ra-pid as water, and prevent any lead or silver bcin cirri d cfT in the slag in the form of si lie tf of those metals. T:ie rr.ost'Eors of the fltit.e, I think, arc extreiutly g'd for Southern Utah. Tno ci.uuiry is not one tenth prospected, and tlie future . oners rare inducements. Tue developments, devel-opments, So far, only instructs minere lo come, how to look and work fur mine. The mines that arc being worked are eo rapidly improving, both . in volume and giade, while whole factions of country are untnuchrd. The few men here have m iro than they can work, ami art- niioriug plenty of chances to work irid prospects pros-pects on share?. Proapc- "j showing , well are oifertd at very low prices, i Mines that would be worth Urge1 figures if located in Cottonwood or (Jphir can be U'-ught here at low nricca. C.'piul or its rquiviiVnt, !ilri. w,.! mnn nine in, and then Beaver county will enter upon the high road to prosperity. Tlie reasons that caue me to believe this a-e as follows: Firit, It is A SF.I.F-fl-STAINLV COCNTKY. There are from twenly to thirty mines in Star that pay hand?OTiely. 1 and mr-Tf w-,il soon come forward. Tne o.'s find a r.t.Hy market at the 'rueiu-rd and brine cash at profitable ; figures, and the demand wiil always jkeop pace with the supply. S'o fc reign aid is kcepir. c up these mine.-. They eusia n themselves and si:p:ort their owners. San F.-v.ikL-co ar.c. Beaver Like d'strhalio h:ivc a number ol payin- mines, and Kcvkv will have as soon as tiie copper furnace fur-nace is completed. These tacts provt that as the ore supply increases, v.w demand will be increased by additional addi-tional redaction works, and the more miners that come lu-re, the greater will be the need of them, and tne more room and employment will Ik? ereateo. for others to come. a:d the! more capital that comes the wider will be the field open for more. Ar.d. ! second, the REPixriox yj::k, ! consist oi Shumer A Co.'s smelt', r. at : this place, which staru-d up o:i thei oth int., after a short idle spei!, aud will now make another of its sui-ct'ss ful rues. Next, the Wah Wah smelter in Wah Wah Valley, nine miles west of S.n Francisco district, which is the one that was erected solely out of the genius of our friend Harry Holcomb, and is now idle, waiting the law's delay. Tuen Huts I is the mill erected by IXm BultVr-field, BultVr-field, also idle because the companv'i mines do not produce milling njk It is located in North Star. Tuen the furnace beiug built by Mr. Williams, Wil-liams, at Riverside, arxmt twrlvr miles from here. These several worss will not always remain idle, but will in time start up and prove an incentive to the working of mines, which in turn will create new demands de-mands for mines and labor, which again will produce new miues aud increased production of ore, and these again producing increased demands (or reduction wcrks, all working like a cat chasing iu Uil, or like the farmer in Virginia in , olden time who had niggers who rais ed corn and fed the corn to the hogs, i ar.d the niggers nte the hogs so tiiat he came out square, only in this in-j stance the Tevolving of thesa events I will create new weahh and capital, and call for more labor, and a(Wd a ' large fit 11 for the fortune- seeker in ; which to realize the fruition of his! hopes. All iu all I can recommend: Beavor as a good place for any one to ' come to who can raie a erub stake to carry him through the winter, thus enabling him to bike chances of working mines on the shares; but a poor place for a man to come to who wants to work for day wages and spend them at a hurdy. THE 0171 HFJ1E ' U to go to Provo; then take Hugh ! White's stage line to Riverside, audi ore teams or bullion wagons from there, it being only six miles distant I from North Star. The stages also run direct, on their way to Pioche,, to San Francisco station, two mile from the mines. Beaver Lake and Roeky Districts are reached by getting get-ting off the stago at Riverside for Rocky or Beaver Lake; but the stages pass within a few miles of the mines of both districts where there is no station. These stages run daily on time, offering good accommodation to the traveling public, and tho enterprise, enter-prise, liberality and attention of the owner of the line and his employes are deserving of patronage. SncER, |