| Show TIU THE LA L SAL D I Expert Says It t Is I Utah s Coming Coining Wonder Vonder WILL v ILL JET GET L A c IT WILL BU Bi U OPENED BY COLO COLORADO COLORADO RADO PADO CAPITAL 1 I Prank Frank Earle Karle has ha returned from an In ex examination of If La Sal 81 mining district in fiah Viah say ay the Denver Republican Mr MrEa i Karle Earle Ea is i more m re than ever of the belief that one of o mining countries of the th orld has baa b been n discovered d in the th Utah mountains He has brought tai balk bak k samples of quartz copper s or and uranium ore later Hf it marble and coat coal which be he found foun In large quantities Ip In the district distrct Beside the mineral ral wealth of oC the region Imme in the vicinity of La Sal Si moun there is hi lea a ich Ilch agricultural and fruit country The Rio Ri Grande Western which Is I th nearest ra railroad to A he ne nee mining I If heMs f I has already made wade preliminary sur Surveys eys fo for a 8 branch into the new dis and the th company has promised that tha t as won v n as two carloads of ot ore a da day are taken out work on op building the branch w will 11 begin The line tine as 88 sur Burey ey eyt t ed l will be lw about ab ut thirty mite miles mi start starting ing from iso isco Several of the pros pec pets peets ts In m t he the district are now able to the amount of ore that the thera railroad ra people ask for as a guarantee and the belief is that the road will iII soon be begun beJ n there re is no for tor I transporting tramp stores during durin the winter wint several f t the t families which f pent 1 la last t summer in the district are leav leaN leaving leaNing I ing but many men have remained be hind to tc t work on the claims that they I have hiie staked or to make new ne locations Tw tais mill is 18 about r ready arty to o begin the treatment of ore i and amt tit a uge quantity of ore from the High t r mine which has from twenty ne th tu to t ft horses employed constantly In packing the product of tle tl ti mine to th miH is piled up in the bins The mill n was as started last w k But tut the th wooden w flumes for con ting w water ater burst b Iron pipes or order ordered der dered d from fr Denver han haA have e are ready already dy been and will ill replace r lae the wooden flumes A As 18 soon as are in place the th mill null will resume The mill ie built b by Mr Dillon of or Lea lille who is deeply unvested illi in the new district It has plat plate and a I concentrating table Mr lr alle says that on one side of oC Hund Mountain the he enter center of La Sal district is is riff lous copper Opper ore and andon andon andon on the thee other Ida aids id por per hyry The T T rots weigh elgh from a few J d ti to to several se at tons The miners nu rely hr hrak ak k these rocks ks and by pan panning panning ning Bing or other tests t ste find that they have large quantities r of f ore ott ready rady r mined mi ed by nature 11 ture on the surface A quartz por per porphyry that is found alwa always s pays One hing thing t I that strikes the Colorado mining man said aid Mr Earle is the Indifferent method of or o mining that is pursued purs d The rs thus far tar have made ao n attempt to develop l velo any of their lo locations They will win work a short time sinking one o Of fifteen feet in a and u d finding that the lead they 11 Ye beet w 01 kins on continues move on 01 for fr a short distance and sink an ait another another other shallow shallo hole hll apparently only onto to satisfy their curiosity to know whether the lead is s But you may depend on this It is a district that the tb Colorado mining men will not overlook It will wilt be developed by Denver Dener capital and alid will be he essen essentially essentially a Colorado camp although it is across ross the border boner in another state said Mr r Earle Already several Den Denver Denver ver vei men melt are interested in the district Tn riley y o own on n the Lucille an ant i the Josephine mines copper propositions and the Bodie a gold mine min The uranium deposits d of the district which huh have already been mentioned ned by bythe bythe bythe the lican n are greater ater gr in extent as proved rov dl d t Mr Earle Lane than anyone had bad thought The vein Is Js followed for five fue miles between IA La Sal and Richard Richardson sun son and sixty miles to the Paradox valley ailey Hey Not anywhere has it been worked to greater than a Ii depth of twenty feet feN A mill milt for tor the treatment tre of this metal Is ia under u der construction The deposits found in the and of which Mr Earle has bi brought ought home specimens he thinks can canIK IK be m Td valuable alua But greater than them a the tho coal deposits Only over i the chain of m mo within easy reach of the vaHey valte IB which the tb gold and copper capper dep found are large deposits of oC coal of 04 so line a s grade that outcroppings of It are collected by the prospectors and burned in their fires tires and forges There are re large areas of ol coal lands lying between La Sal and andI I Dewey Oil shale is also In evidence The peo people pie Jle of ot the district gather guther they call can burning burI ng stone he oil shale which is so saturated sa with oil bil 11 that when hen a match is it burn burns like a torch That Grand drand county Utah Uth is 18 to be the future futura neat great mineral minerai producing region r of the th state Mr Earle is confident Its mineral resources he says say Have Hae i t not M been half uncovered The Vallejo mine minel l Is now nOS no shipping pinc ore to the smelters fwd arid others that are being systematically cally worked will iII be In condition soon to ship But ther must roust be a more care careful careful careful ful regard paid to the business of min mining mm lag ing ng is the opinion of f mining men m m I |
