| Show mining at wilson mis mesa sa JOHN JOHNH H WEBB IN UTAH butak mesa utah january 12 while the grand river country is having its oil and gas boom moab is organizing its board of trade with good prospects of a boat line in the near future just keep an eye on the old la and especially the mesa we have no big oil or gas wells nor big transportation por tation schemes but there will be something doing next season just the same for we have plenty of the yellow metal and arrangements are now perfected whereby some of irwill be extracted next year two mills here next spring are now assured and indications are good for more the prospecting stage has been passed on the mesa and from now on mining will be done the work of the past season thoroughly demonstrated that the ore and gold here are of geyser origin following the faults of shale and conglomerate sandstone it has also been discovered that the amythist quartz is not the only rock here that carries good values nearly all of the altered eruptive rocks ahat fill the throat of the geysers such as green hornblende field spar porphyry and all carry good values in gold and the large bodies of tale talc and kaolin have values that will pay to mill when the fact is taken into consideration that there are numerous places here where the faulting is plainly traceable and the outcropping cropping out of the now extinct geysers show and that at all of these places good values in gold are found on the surface one can readily see what will happen when the dropping of the stamps demonstrate to the mining world what we have here heretofore the work on the mesa has been confined to placer mining and good results have been obtained the operators however early learned that they were losing a large per cent of the values in the fine gravel that was only partly disintegrated by a more thorough test made in last seasons operations the rather startling discovery was made that for every ounce of free gold saved ten ounces were lost in the gravel and rock all AH this could have been saved by milling three other factors tend to work against the economical operation of placer mining here these are that the trend of the gravel soon dips below the level at which hydraulic mining can profitably be done the scarcity of water for extensive hydraulic 1111 mining ning and a large amount of big rock encountered which requires blasting the coarse rock would be no detriment to the milling process as nearly all of the coarse rock as well as the fine gravel carries values that would pay to mill wilson mesa does not stand alone as a prospective producer for 1910 the neighboring camps of beaver and miners basin bid fair to soon take their places among the best camps in the west few camps have larger bodies of medium grade ore and none has a more determined resolute class of miners in spite of all obstacles they have persistently pounded away until today they have made good mines lacking machinery only to treat the ore and the machinery is forth forthcoming doming the writer recently received a letter from the denver quartz mill company wherein they stated that a party at beaver basin grand county had just ordered a fifty ton mill to be installed early in the spring of 1910 while there is an immense amount of medium grade ore in miners and beaver basins there is also some ore of very high grade the writer was shown numerous samples last year taken from the tornado and other mines of that district that would class as high grade even in cripple creek or goldfield |
