Show the snake creek tunnel RECORD PARK CITY UTAH the points of vantage possessed by the snake creek tunnel company greatly transcend the importance commonly placed to the credit of this herculean enterprise such however is but natural inasmuch as but comparatively few of the people of this section are possessed of the necessary information to qualify them to form a well grounded opinion on the many and favorable phases surrounding rounding ur this splendid undertaking to thoroughly digest the opportunities which the driving of this tunnel will 0 open pen up it is necessary for one to have a pretty complete knowledge of all the ore deposits worked in this district and in particular about the great ontario ore trough otherwise one cannot fully appreciate the mighty bilies billes which are contingent upon the advancement of this tunnel perhaps it may not be amiss for us to mete but briefly go over a portion of the ground which directly concerns us in the summing up of this enterprise taking up the finding of the ontario vein just east of no 2 shaft let us follow this trough so far as it has been worked this takes us westerly through the ontario ground into the daly thence through the daly into the daly west and thence through these into the daly judge in this latter this ore trough is being followed with astounding toun ding success ore finds along its strike are following thick and fast upon each other the sensation made by the find of today is eclipsed by the find which fol follows fellowson lowson on the morrow or the ahe day following that the mineral bearing properties itri striking king southwesterly beyond the well proven or more easterly portions of this ore trough are apt to excel the easterly section of this ore trough is now beginning to be realized although the first two miles along the strike of this zone have already given up more than eighty millions and it is not now unreasonable to predict that many millions more will be extracted from this same two miles of territory before its mineral stores become exhausted take notice that the portion along the strike of this lead that has been worked does not cover all the heavily mineral zed ground embraced in this ore trough as the workings are very narrow at many points and doubtless there is much very rich ground on either side yet unworked while much of the daly judge holdings along the continuation of this same lead is yet practically untouched other properties favorably situated along the strike of the great ore belt are numerous and extensive to enumerate them all would be to impose upon the read ers patience we will therefore content ourselves by briefly alluding to a few of the groups which seemingly are of the very center of the great ontario daly mineral zone the thompson west quincy bonanza con snake creek con newell consolidated boulder basin and utah stars per haps constitute an area which just at present occupy the most desirable position immediately adjacent to the proved ground and all these are from showings made at various points quite the equal of any ground lying along this great mineral zone the daly fissure Is known to traverse the southwesterly holdings of the daly judge just where the precise point is that it passes from out this companas comp anys ground would probably be disputed if stated but certain it is that it continues along southwesterly with little deviation from its general strike passing through the agathos and thor groups on its course to cottonwood that it was equally generous in mineralizing mineral izing along its course as it bended vended its way southwesterly permit us to show the two sedimentary formations in which nearly all the ores of park city district have been found i e the carboniferous limestone and the carboniferous sub quartzite ore found here in place while the sheets and dykes of porphyry are found intruded here and there with the same frequency which obtains in the section which has been explored here too the outcrops of mineralized matter may be found as frequently strong regular and vigorous as along the more thoroughly explored part of this great trough that undeveloped ore bodies exist in large numbers that these ore bodies are apt to be as large rich and extensive as any yet uncovered within this zone impresses itself upon one more forcibly every time he views this very interesting and attractive section this feeling is emphasized when the ore outcroppings outcrop pings and other favorable conditions are noted for nowhere else in this matchless district are all round favorable indications more often met or more robust in appearance commencing with the northerly ridge which borders bonanza flat and go in any direction across or beyond the flat and you cannot miss the attractive mineral evidence the thompson Thom lson shows ore in lime outcrop so does the west quincy the bonanza con and golden head each have good ore outcrops the boulder basin utah stars and a nd blue birds all have ore of high grade while their formations are right and in place the st louis vassar and southern tier have both shipped high grade ores wm logan bogan has high grade ore in his property the bee hives have good ore so have the agathos and thor groups as well as many of the groups on the continuation of this same lead over the divide on the cottonwood side last but not least as a good omen the first fissure cut in the snake creek tunnel had some ore in it add to this showing the very reasonable hypothesis of this tunnel encountering the extension of 0 the silver king coalition ore bodies on their southwesterly strike and you certainly centa have in this enterprise combinations of possibilities seductive enough to cause a miser to put money into the undertaking |