Show I I ORE BODIES OF I ITAH UTAH TAH AND A D NEVADA I Brief Bri f Topographic and Geologic De Dc Description I UNTOLD WEALTH WEAL T IS SHOWN t r t r e ef I fi ri riTO f i v 1 1 TONOPAH TO O AH COUNTRY COUNTR AND ITS MINES M I N ES ESIn In Camp Southern Nevada Aug AuS Au St 31 3 It Is Ifa believed that a brief comparative description de of the respective ore bodies their etc of Utah and south southern ern em Nevada will not prove uninteresting to many of or The Heralds Herad readers The Tho l h discussion will necessarily Involve a brief description d of the topographic and seo geo geologic logic features feature of the r l regions The principal uplift in ht LUH is ill the i Wasatch range H with Ith its ha northern pro I I into Inlo Idaho and its ita southern nl ex cx i tension to the Colorado rive to I 1 u various a i tenuous t 01 ot the ran ranu o u have havn been given local names but the lie uplift is III continuous Another An important t im hu an au i abrupt termination on tn tat tue southeasterly southeast riy shore hore of tf f J Great ret Salt l lake Jake ke Locally Loca I I It is III known as the Oquirrh but bt excepting tn toe tIN vm pits Pans s between r and toe tn Oquirrh range is continuous to the sources of the Virgin irIn river rier in southern L Ian 1 inose nOti two unItt u parallel each other over a of more inure than 5 miles and are rarely larely more Ulan than twenty I miles apart Occasionally great arms reach out from ore towards the othor other In silent and mutual n greeting I IThe The Sevier Fault I Between those two ranges and tra the entire distance over which they extend ext nJ is what is 18 known as the I Sevier bevier fault and Is i one ODe of the most mO lt remarkable earth fractures in the i region fh the meat eat fault and its lit tras lent IB in nan tvan it rie 1 erupt lye ive arms or spurs lAatt once oace nano ed the two to and formed a pathway for tor the tue th Seler river from of cC Pan flan to where It enters i t val lev in III Millard Miliard count Visible monts ments or ot l 1 Aj J to i J a J fOOt feet or ut tnt ana anu n nurl the cn en the tue tu e family 01 ut eru lh n Piu gak ak k its itJi course cours along at its Ita entile nth an Ju those thulie e two wo l ui often orten ris im ing Into the region of eternal snow and in lii that thit treat great eaith WOD named the Sevier f faun ut the reader re er wll 11 strati HUtt the operation Oller lion ot or forces ji extending through an immeasurable lauze lause of 01 time It may not nOl have h ve occurred to tu the l he al loader leader ader that reat teat i bodies of o ore are l v associated with the worlds wo uplifts or with closely allied forces The und undeveloped velo ed d perhaps not completed ed ore Orp books bodIe east ea t and west vest of Cache Cacho valley valle are the most northerly outcrops of the Wasatch uplift North of Ogden Osden O den is the Sierra Madre district To ro the east of or O Ogden den and Farmington lin ton are found round nu numerous numerous numerous other outcrops Park City District Then following the range some ome thirty miles southward we enter the lefty and magnificent plateau n as ali the Park City district In structure it Is a vast domelike uplift from the center of ot which the beds of limestone quartzite and dykes of eruptive emotive rocks racks dl di downward at all points of or the compass The Je was wasI comparatively Quiet and extended over I an enormous number 1 ot of centuries There were no subsequent earth movements or 8 to obstruct or 01 divert the large and heated streams of ot solutions that dur ing lug the centuries were collecting coll from profound depths tue atoms atoma of ot lead Iad sliver silver and gold and depositing them in Jn those great fissures or contacts contact nor DO known as liS the Silver Sliver King Ontario and other world famed bodies of ore The mines t the two Cottonwoods and American Fork Pork can canyon canyon canyon yon mark the west and southerly bounda boundaries boundaries ries of the Park as aa it is l i known kilO 11 In hi tOe tile ungraceful jargon of the professional professional atonal geologist g With the exception h of the probably outcrop east tit ot Provo and those practically unexplored d I outcrops outcrop alor the line between Wayne Vayne and Mute Hute counties no ore is known to toI ex ext exIst st between 1 tween American Fork l rk canyon and the antimony deposits d epo l hi ot to Lu o II I creek cr k in the tho northeast corner of Garfield county The Va and anti up u lift lifts merge Into the Buckskin Buek klu plateau pateau in Amend Arbona where miNions millions of ot tons of ot cop rou roul copper copper l per er await r transportation Uin Uh tah tab and other possible n may laity 1011 yet et be credited to the Wasatch uplift Oquirrh Uplift Along the Oquirrh there Is Bingham with wHit its Inexhaustible wealth of COPper I lead le d silver sHyer and gold Ophir with its ita great deposits of sulphide and Mercur with its millions in gold old and byproduct of mercury mercur Along the same uplift is the I famous Tintic Tin tic from frum which the wealth of an empire has been drawn A few miles south of or untie there are probably su superficial lead outcrops of the tho locally beau known Canyon range rance and the tha great si s f licious iron veins and dykes wes wea of or Scipio his Ine I he pay PY I ore outcrops of the I Oquirrh uplift are fittingly ended so 50 far faras faran as an known by ly that magnificently miner muter mineralized mineralized region of which Ml Mt It Baldy HaIti is the tho axis and from which the th Annie Laurie is drawing a t golden colden stream Some day da when the lunar lima I blindness and frenzy that now trouble the mining world shall have bave passed the great dykes dyken of porphyry and phonolite that radiate from the giant Baldy Bald will receive intelligent and cat earnest nest attention and another world tamed din dis will have been added a d to the that th the h great it Oquirrh nu uplift L so BO 0 U justly wears Did space a permit a close clOtie interrelation of uplift and faulting could be pointed I out between the great r o itI uplift and end those thOMe tho minor ore belts belt lying to t the north gorth In iii the foregoing the easeful reader will have discerned dl the important truth that the ore bodies of the tho and Oquirrh uplifts are arc interrelated that an uninterrupted line of or causation more than titan miles long and marked by that great reat sear scar known as all the fault tuU links link together in an en unbroken chain the major portion of inconceivable hoard of or mineral wealth Southern Nevada The mountain mount system of oC southern Ne No Nevada e euI rails vada uI is peculiarly its own the he Utah and eastern Nevada systems the I majority of at the mountains mountain in southern Nevada N vada are by b low Jow ridges and hills lulls that rise abruptly from alkali flats flata plains or mesas composed of ce co contented cemented cemented pebbles boulders boulder and anI sand sard the remains of ancient sea floors Many of the ranges could be from bf bees se e to base by tunnels no longer longet many of those thaw at Park City Bins Binsham ham and Mercur Necessarily theIr alti aiti altitude altitude tude is III low rarely exceeding or feet teet above sea level From Prom a nearby elm not more than feet above sot sop level one Olle can look lank over the th summits of n ft majority of southern Nevada mountains As H It rule there e la Is little regularity or of f occurrence fourd found in there segregated and isolated uplifts instead of their having h been the effects of longitudinal thrusts extending t over large areas and nd continuing ing during aa at as in Itah these thea e southern Bou Nevada hills and Imd ridges bear every even evidence of having been the of or explosive t seismic forces fOleo the ro of numerous num volcanic foci feel With few the mountains are I formed of sharply tilted tilled lower carbon carbonI ferons I limestone tone occasionally o highly hl al altered altered but generally marked bv by b seams of lava liva forced up along the planes of or stratification cr the upward lI ward movement of volcanic solutions along lines of or ease eu easement c ment Those belts bt of oC tilted limestone tone an art generally with belts belt of Dc De Devonian vonian sandstone Except in the plateau like Uke elevations one rarely encounters eruptive rocks roea roc other than lava etc ate True irue granite is Iii generally generaU conspicuous ous Otis by bv Its absence but id J occasionally oc represented in the condition of pegmatite containing well defined fIn fis fissures auras and high values in gold Schist in its original and end conditions Is I abundant in some somo localities Porphyry massive mahe or in dykes is in not so frequent tr as uninitiated pro generally in ln infer InI fer from the published reports Recent Volcanic Origin That the greater portion of volcanic phenomena so widely represented in fn southern Nevada was wall of recent origin is proved by many interesting features in intimately associated d therewith Sheets of or I lava are often otten found capping beds of ot deposit In some instances I those beds of conglomerate con ure are faulted and the fissures filled with lava hwa or veins I I of barren quartz At several points the great suit stilt deposit near noar St Thomas was ivan subjected to the intrusion of ot lava From the foregoing description of oC this country the reader will readily discern the fact that aside from the im un important uplifts great and continuous belts of ore are here impossible of ot exist once Also In those so I tt of lg b tJ tip lX cx jj rI man lush mn gig causas for the limited ar 0 of rich Ich gold ore ori re that IB tI dally adding d dI I J fame to this region Instead of great fissures ly filled by b moderately hot solutions as ut in Utah conditions here bere were favorable to hot springs and gey geysers ge geers rem sers ers whose waters were Intensely active and the heat maintained by rapid recur of volcanic activity In fact it was ivas the concentration of forces forcas at nt favorable points geysers and liol springs ofton otton in groups A man standing in the center of ot one of those then tho f justly celebrated groups of extinct hot Springs can n throw a stone to the ab abo o u barren rim that surrounds the mar marvelous marvelous deposit of gold and he need not nottIe Ue tIe an expert Expect Too Much The remarkable concentration of values found at nt Goldfield ami an other discovered and undiscovered foci of gold concentration have astonished the min mitt mining minIng ing world and caused many ninny of ot the usual usually usually ly hy and conservative class to become temporarily blind to the condi condl conditions that are Inseparable from the Uie Uw that govern the depositing of ot the precious metals Many of them seem to believe that the troas roas over which those high values alues extend should be as large as tou tn great 01 ore Ole e bodies of ot Utah and other places where nature worked on a more gigantic plan The same misconception on the part of the general public has hils encouraged con conditions conditions that If It not checked will retard the legitimate development of or southern Nevadas s really rea 11 magnificent resources In Iii Inthe Inthe the dazzling brilliancy 1 of the opportunity for Cor investment In southern Nevada mines is also found the opportunity of the min mining minIng ing lag shark and promoter of f ground As before pointed out the pru nrc ground areas arc small often covering but two or three thre acres each aid ud it nt necessarily follow that be because because because cause the Mirage or ignus Gold GOl Mining company has hus ground adjoining a famed bonanza that it has more than one chance in a thousand of becoming a producer Yet thousands of pf f acres ot absolutely hopeless ground has been In Incorporated incorporated incorporated on a basis of all nil the traffic will bear b nr and In the form of ot finely lithographed certificates of shares is be being being being ing ted to the gullible public Cooperative tive mining is indispensable but the in investor investor vestor will do well to investigate the reputations of the men behind southern Nevada companies and subject those fas fan fascinatingly I indefinite prospectuses to crit critical ical examination ned ind n in nine tune CUBes citron out of ot ten there will be found round a Ii large luge fund fundor of or Information carefully secreted be between between between j tween the lines linen Not Fully Prospected The general impression that southern Nevada is being heing diligently and exhaust exhaustively ively prospected Is an error There are thousands of square miles awaiting the advent adent of Industrious and discriminating prospectors The fact Is that the large largo majority of prospectors converge to the boom lOom camps and an are ure kept pretty busy bus chasIng chafing th the golden mat loat are ever eve r flitting rUtting on the tha horizon or beckoning from the crests of distant ranges The llie winter season here is ideal for pros pos Snow is rarely encountered ex except capt on the highest peaks The deserts desert I and Iud desert ranges cease to be infernos i from rein which during the summer sane SaitO I i men s I hr as from the fires and torments I i of the old fashioned hell The flies files I mosquitoes and gnats will then be dead have sought t i the persevering ants will their theil burrows the centipedes c scorpions tal Gila monsters monster sidewinders and rattlers will have tempo temporarily tardy abandoned aban their search for ton toil tenderfoot victims all that and more when the summer Inferno shall have been trans transformed tranSformed transI I I I formed into the winter paradise of or south southern ern em Nevada Neada J F GIBBS IBBS I |