| Show plans as mineral resources are barely scratched asis aa Newfound lands districts history and Pos possibility fowe 38 by don maguire E INT L ogden utah u way back in 1857 what wha t was then supposed to be lead oreid othas IP was found in the hills A ase to where minersville Miners ville beaver c nt utah now st s stands tea ds subtracting 1857 from 1924 div e s a difference f 7 so it is now sixty seven years office s ace olt the fir firt first t si silver er lead ore was discovered within the present state of utah As stated state the discovery was supposed to be simply 1 16 idore lead ore and it was a very welcome find for about that time ime ac f the people of utah were making ready as they sup for a great war with the federal government and the he finding filing of to gracious lead mine was looked upon asa real favor from the almighty tradition has it that I 1 considerable was mined during the summer and autumn months of 1857 taken from this first discovery and smelted smelter b by utah tah pioneers in in a very crude furnace erected somewhere near earthe the disco ery thoa thoad d yet ye t i living who were then in that part of utah say that the lad had bullion then produced was sent to salt exe 01 r much of it was cast into one in u ake a art of it distributed into different settlements N ift auth of salt lake city to be melted bec ri of the miles classed as mineral land not mo morea e than square miles has been fairly prospected the surface and an area of about square miles has leair bew thoroughly prospected to the depth of a few hundred less than fifty square miles has been prospected tomb botke depth of 1000 feet and about 10 square miles a depth of 1500 feet at the same time the deep devil develops ape I 1 ment in metal mines has proved that in e every very mini mining ng district so far opened to depth metal go deeper than man has yet penetrated in their deve development and no mining district to date has ever reach reached edits ar a I 1 greatness re atness until a depth of from to 1000 feet hofmo of mor r e as been gained old and little known newfoundland district above I 1 have stated that a great part of utah is still undeveloped a very large part of it yet am writing this article in a locality which is one of 14 v most promising as regards surface indications that be found anywhere j I 1 am sitting by a campfire camp fire near a cedar tree in ina northern part of newfoundland district in boxelder Box elder coup colht utah p I 1 t rai P co 8 SADDLE iff 1 l sri A YES Ss ito 1 y 0 t hp 0 r LIM capter PLAY 0 OR 0 rw N Z P S constitutes constitute newfoundland mining district almost is 15 miles in length from fo west this mountain liu in looking Ijo oking 0 o desert situated lit in the western part of box elder county couett utah rth to ses ex distinct and alone from the flats of the great aw sr A As s records johnsons army came into utah lail but there vas no war peace was made before the var w ar started ithe the leaden balls cast from utah silver lead ore did not enter nto into the mission of shooting united states soldiers but we weimar may safely assert that the supposed lead oredas fist ore find and the ore was really a silver lead kadi I 1 i ore of high grade rade as all or ores es from that part of utah have proved to b for the last fifty years r the silver lid ore discovery of 1857 antedated anti dated the bia biggham engham cantori and little cottonwood discoveries by about abdia six years nd md since that time utah has produced several t hundred billions nil lions of dollars worth of gold silver lead copper and from the mines discovered up to daid only sm mineral area prospected d but ut elarge state and only a really small I 1 pa art rt of its n lt area has been prospected some of what ap ar ts very richest mineral ground is practically L our own citizen this is not to wonderer wonder eq I 1 is called to mind that p put ut of the sq the surface area 0 of f utah gioi not more thi lar emiles is agricultural land the rii air miles i it mineral W hw Se Wiring and con roii that largen lar geo r af Utah utahna no 97 v aich we find a w wealth of d md ms s valuable v a 1 l u a bi el gold to io ir iron on jand and fr ar C 1 fo oil H and gg gag I 1 have been here now for two weeks never worked harder to learn a mineral bearing locality than here daml never have I 1 seen a country promising more if ri icil developed than this 15 VT to give an idea of what newfoundland district chis I 1 tori cally is its situation and make up let me state th district is made up tip of one great mountain uplift ayi lying lout r in a monumental sort of way in the most sterile and d desol part of the great american desert or what may alt truthfully be designated as the very heart of the G salt lake desert eipl i this mountain like most of the mountains of U utah hl and nevada courses lengthwise from nor north th to south KE is about fifteen miles in length and at its widest whick wh chichis ici chis f f in the north part it is about four and one half miles W wide ida I 1 at this widest point the altitude is about feet aad in id mountain lowers lower s andai ic t t from this point the altitude of the width narrows until at a point about fifteen miles ta southward the mountain is is no not t more than a half a mv wide and the altitude not more than one hundred aundre d W above the level of the land of desolation from w 4 f it rises CS f districts rock For formation matio n r the rock formation of this solitary solita mountain n is igneous anicic at its fortig dfora d foya foy for a distance of abou pr aad andone onee half mil miles s to the so southward ih w a rd A against g a n s t t 1 61 6 1 i flirt par aft lof the M etain ou tain there rises a measure of Camb cambrian quartette ite cutting east cast and west across the mountain this i his quartzite measure is about one mile in thickness from north to aurli I 1 against this body of cambrian quartzite quart zite is is am measure Ef ensure of schistose slate and still to the southward a measure of weber we ber quartzite about a quarter quarte of a mile in m width wid i followed follow ed by a region of limestone varying in its 4 s character from black silurian to every alteration fould in an a n equal area of limestone anywhere 4 but this vast bod body y of limestone does not completely completely constitute the rock measure from the south line of the i W weber ar quartzite A feature of this island like mountain is th e tremendous bodies of barite barile that exists in some places place s as over r sheets resting on the granite or adjoining measures of apatite and again protruding itself from the measures of quartzite again showing as alternate lamination between ave efi the bodies of limestone in the central and southern parts of newfoundland mountains and almost invariably bably wh where ae we find more or less of this barite we find also the arege presence lice of metallic values in copper lead silver and gold to be explanatory that part of newfoundland south from frd inthe the east and west body of weber quartzite measure is divided into three parts its center north and south thoda measure sure being bein 6 a core of quartzite and the area west of the th e quartzite core being an area of limestone while the north and south area east of the quartzite core is a vast measure mea metamorphic ok of rh dimorphic da slate the north south quartzite measure is is about feet in width I 1 rising like a comb and form inythe inga the spine or backbone of the south half of newfoundland mountain it may be added here that i the slate flanking the quartzite projection of this locality is is as yet we believe beli dire of undetermined age the ithe above gives a pretty accurate idea of newfound lands land rock formation but we now come to the most inter i anter esting phase of this mountains surface showing which is that tha from the north base wherein igneous rock measures ava abound aund to the south end where we find the declining declining measures of slate quartzite and limestone the mountain is cutup by a system of dykes some of which are diorite others of phonolite yet others of barite and the greater number of porphyry they show in the porphyries ries and granite of the north en end brending 6 rending the mountain from summit to base in the same way they rift and divide the cambrian quartzite into next the schistose and slate then in a like manner the weber quartzite and follow into the limestone measures continuing in strong evidence until we r reach each the south end of this mountain uplift entire country shows up mineral veins As might be expected with such a system sy item of dykes cef find the entire country showing up mineral veins beginning at tile the south end of newfoundland the exposed eap exp used at the surface and carry lead silver and veins area with a little copper gold there are two systems of veins which one of breaks from east to west and the other from north i to td south such veins vary in width from perhaps ten inches inches in in one vein as it shows along the surface to three or four feet in others the character of the ore shown in the limestone ii im estone is is very much the same as the ores found in the ore outcrops in the quartzite and slate nowhere i in the entire P region do we find zinc any up to this time 4 the rhe feature most striking to the prospector when he comes into this wonderful locality is the prominence and the the abundance of barite and number of dikes such dikes strong as we almost invariably find where we discover strong metal bearing veins that go to great depth usually the veins here are quite siliceous loot foot wall and much quartz quaita ain lying 9 a against hanging wall indicating that wor work k of sink Is T y t foft comra KA sv s ay W nt c TS ing or tunnelling tun nelling to depth will have to be carried 6 until a horizon is reached where the silica will lessens lessan t the ore bodies make in wide vein space as we find is rule in i most no st of the older utah mining camps where wo W dij sla 41 has been successfully carried on for the last fifty years w more probably readers of this sketch will ask what a the metal values found in these veins and the reply at that the iron found in this ore will run from ten to f efte g per cent lead from fifteen to fiat fifty y percent silver fro f thirty to ounces and gold from one half to ten pen JW weights per ton but bear in mind am now no w referring ferrini re wk the ores from the north line of the wel uk r quartzite nuart zite all four the course of the slate quartzite comb west side gimesi li t des measures down to the south end of newfoundland aft W in this same area we find values in copper of from ont one tel wa fifteen percent usually associated with the silver an and d ae li uy ores but at times distinct and alone as C cut U wit rite native copper and malachite where these dykes and veins are found tile the nimesio na has undergone an alteration adjacent to each vein bap beag or thrown from a mack black carlso body into a dolomite and where such vins and dykes ils pa show in the slates and quartzite there is great altera alteration tion axi jn th A the country rocks showing the effects of hat land and 9 at a time when these veins and dykes were being croo created atea in this most interesting and wonderful country xi pr to in the same areas where aher e we find i itera ons 61 the country rock adjacent t to dykes and d HS ar t fo to pr the rock measures not so affected shown show si of fossils both in the slates and li meston rd the entire locality is a paradise for the stud 9 0 y arid T tt mineralogy and the paleontologist cou ail to lino d here a field amongst the richest in the wj gold veins and placers in N f ic passing from the slate quartzite a e tone 10 0 of this unusually rich territory in en d of ci C this island mountain there is an arez are sixteen li i square miles that appears without d a jold count country ry carrying both lode and placer promise and possibilities extensive quartz veins outcrop at in I 1 is t northern area of the igneous rocks X T eins are paralleled and faulted by diorite and po 0 t andesite phonolite and barium dykes e gold found i in n the immense gravel deposits of gold gol gu bulj ands shows tha thatis t has traveled a short distance gold gilch or can canyon var itself is not more than a mile and a half in bength and quite narrow in its bed but the gravel mealue i is s quite de depp 1 in most places A considerable part of these gravel ads have alre aar ad been located six very promising claims claim sat at the M mortn out gold canyon have been located both for gold aric and for the he lode veins showing along the surface T ta he loca are parties from nevada ogden and alt aalt lake C most of the gold region here is ye yet ii territory as to placer ground and lode claim i fr drw only recently the writer leaf leaa arties ift outside of utah had secured an H prom placer ground at the mouth of G go this offie game roil ground was later transferred to oti rom outs cr ta f the state and the they ty report that th opening furta their property gift begin during 1 be stated that the came ame parties who 1 e interests in gold canyon are also interested T ad holda barther to the sou southward t ard jin in t the he sar A As h hereto of fo 6 wis newfound t t j a e r e iulus r e t a e P i vv alte the heart of th ir 7 at T mer acar a nsf 6 utterly Y ba baaren eren flat salt desert tl that fat reaches be beyond y ond this vu tinease dilba in every direction southward this wa waterless teries s region deac reaches ches for more than 80 0 miles to the c sout nast t it is only barrenness and there is is no ab fresh water 1 fa ril sixty miles to the westward it is fifty five miles r toy arz vater water and to the eastward it is almost forty miles to A the west vest shore of great salt lake while to the north norih and I 1 northwest nth westward vard it is about abou t 60 miles es across a waterless salt I 1 earrel b waste wast e water and wood of district v A adail in the mountain itself there a ar e ethree ahr e fresh water springs brings each of ji limited m cited but constant flow there is one slightly iii atly brackish spring from which most prospectors and scheep sheep nen men have taken water for camp and stock use in n one of the si small nall basins lying in the southern part of this mo mountain there is said to be a miniature lake in which afi the e I 1 water ier is quite deep and pure this lake receives its supply a from winter snows and as a lake has no outlet the write writer ihas has not seen this lake but was told of its existence b ys everal persons who claimed in past years to have visited esiee d it C gedar cedar and juniper exist in considerable quantities from We north end of the mountain southward south waid for about aboaf six amiles alles mlles nd then ceases eases so that for more than aig eight ht miles camp seems to mohave have b been a h lb cally known as named knowlton a resident of grantsville Grants ville who was one of the flie most iner energetic getic workers in attempting to open the strict district dl back in those old days he and a few others 0 opened p ened up the east and west veins that show on the ridge near the saddle fr from 0 m a few short tunnels and one or two incline shafts at this saddle pa point int about worth of ricci filver lead or ore was taken out and shipped by teams and pack animals a i by way of grantsville Grants ville to the old sandy and cottonwood smelters shelters sm elters south of salt lake city in the meantime a boom was on and scores of r running bining claims of newfoundland district were sold in salt lake lak q city st joseph mo omaha and san francisco at P prices rices ranging from each up to rich ore arti running nning several hundred ounces in silver came irr into S salt a ai ake city from various claims of the newfoundland Newfound lar d country nd at the old salt lake |
