Show THAT TAYLORS CANYON GOLD STRIKE d four weeks ago when don maguire 6 E M of ogden b butah utah answered a call to look into the merits of a reported egold jd strike on the eastern outskirts of ogden he stated S aliat bat if developments justified lie he would send additional information a little later Thou though 6 cyll he reports being very busy since he first visited the discovery lie he has found time if to visit the prospect again according to a letter received tuesday on my second visit mr maguire says 1 I was accompanied compa nied by three other parties we met the engineer Z in in charge just as lie he was leaving b camp and he was in good enough to go back with us and to take us down the shaft chic which h had then attained a depth of over sixty feet the lump dump has acquired quite respectable proportions and its contents are representative of the ledge from which it has been een mined just previous to our arrival a round of shots had been tired in the bottom of the shaft and it was necessary to wait wait lor for smoke to clear before we could go 0 o down I 1 found the vein im to be clearing itself of the dead ma material aerial common to most veins near the surf surface ace the vein matter at f fifty if ty f feet beet below the surface carried that lively appearance which is usual in a sulphide vein carrying gold and silver the ore is is shown in vertical streaks lying between other streaks of brittle dark quartz pink feldsine feld site and white or yellow talc pyrite is abundant and what looks like tellurium is mixed through the pyrite t 1 I was very much interested on my first visit to this taylor canyon property on the second visit I 1 was interested still more for the reason that at the greater depth showed stronger indications of metallic value we ve were shown a column of assay returns that certainly talk beautifully for this new property and if tile the values lues disclosed in the assay sheets continue to feet elow below the surface I 1 am confident that a most important dis avery for utah has been 1 nade made and if this telluride vein in taylors canyon develops into a gold mine there is little c or r no doubt that some of the other fissures in the older rocks that exist alon along tile the base of the wasatch range from 17 eber canyon to willard killard will show conditions similar to the e taylors canyon discovery 1 I L do not ca call 11 to mind at any time in my experience ith 1 h actual or reported gold and silver discoveries where such ecy y has prevailed as in this taylor canyon affair it il calls is to mind the spirit that is found on the old mother lode belt in california ornia where any strike or find of importance he ne signal for extreme reticence 6 on n the part of the owners an air air of fear and suspicion that the knowledge would each h their neighbors 1 I find that much more ground has been located since mif Y first arst visit it both of the to the north and south discovery id diat that some prospecting work has been done in n the meantime e many well to do looking strangers corn new n 0 to n ogden aden by y train and auto inquiring Z the way to the llucy gold discovery y at the ta mouth of taylors canyon they the thet remah about half a day there and returning leave an town wn phout making public their business or of offering ferincz za these hese opinion 10 as to what they Y think of what they the saw there people carry away with tl thema aein small specimen to not jr y po ands of the ore found on the dump of the mine and a few w of those make second and third hird se visiting the property a porta tance trip as though ugh so something methin g of great and absorbing im r exists at the discover discovery y letch ketch 1 may here be asked why has not the writer of this he ore re person ally invests estimated esti gated abed the question of tile the values in acell abent t taken n from the w workings or kings or at the workings of ad properties simply because he was requested to keep in confidence the information imparted to hirn him and because lie he has known for a long time that the men inen who are working b there are men of sane minds and in other respects at least truthful and upright b for these reasons he has seen fit to take no undue liberties with the privileges extended to him in being permitted to go over the ground owned d by these lucky citizens in a short time I 1 expect to be able to write a letter that will be of greater interest than anything heretofore related but dont crowd me |