| Show AN GOLD BEARING REGION ja j don maguire the eminent ogden miner gist and geologist in commenting upon e fascination which a new and popular gnp p has for investors says it is passing range how many people will follow the lid wd and lose their money cheerfully in lid cat enterprises when they could with aw w to some new and virgin field but little own lown and acquire seething Sn ething of perma mt t worth and value his statement is ie e and indicates it t men who follow B crowd are only nt t upon speculation d are not actuated the idea of safe id profitable invest ant ent for it is safe e to ty y that the majority i those who have a mahant for new om camps and who ivest in mining prop irions concerning cich they know tactically nothing ill lose out in t the he og ing run or else they ill fil make a quick irn and get out as at lit comparatively few equally as rich and prolific in their deposits of the precious metals as are the bonanza districts in the battle born state which are now the observed of all observers and it is safe to say that if certain localities in utah idaho montana arizona and colorado were given due consideration by the prospector the mining man and the in the other in utah there are many localities which have been barely prospected as yet regions which are rich in their mineral wealth and which offer splendid inducements to the prospector and miner to the investor and capitalist one such locality is to be found in gar all 4 approach to capital wash in the henry mountains in n hope to become interested in a really allt ailt edged mine for the reason that the aber of really meritorious propositions an p easily be enumerated while the number t f wildcats wild cats and really valueless prospects re legion j while nevada has the call at the pres nt time in the matter of popularity and antly so there are many other portions of bis is western country which doubtless are vestor many new camps of acknowledged merit would soon be found outside of the charmed zone this is especially true of utah and were an army of prospectors to swarm over the mountains and through the canyons of this state in a manner similar to the stampede to nevada it would not be long before new and wonderful mineral discoveries would be heralded from one end of the continent to field county in southeastern utah where in the white canyon district in the henry mountains there is much to attract the attention of the seeker after gold ol bearing zones and that would invite exhaustive and extensive investigation the henr mountains is a region of splendid possibilities and offers many attractions for the prospector and investor outside of a few individuals there are not many who know of and appreciate the opportunities there awaiting careful exploration and the expenditure of a limited amount of money M E jones A M in an article descriptive of the henry mountains says there is no part of utah which seems to the average man so far away as the henry mountains the reason is that this section is off from all the routes of travel both by rail and wagon until within a few years it was reached only by trail of late years however the demands of the stockmen stoc kmen for a short cut into southeastern utan ave have led to the building of two roads oads r one of these starts irom from green river on the R G W railroad and passes over a desert of clay and sand for many miles where there is but little water and the watering places are far apart this road goes to hanksville Hanks ville on the fremont river and follows around and through the clay hills to the henry mountains and to what is called dandy crossing on the colorado river from dandy crossing there is a fair wagon road over to bluff city where connection is made with different routes to arizona new mexico and colorado this road is considered the best in the winter time because there are no mountains to cross and because the sand is more easily traversed and there is no trouble from the heat the other road is the better one in summer because it is higher is never far away from water has better grass and passes more settlements this route can leave the railroad either at price or salina if it starts from price it follows along the settlements at the base of the coal range to ferron and then runs diagonally down towards hanksville Hanks ville the road from salina has to pass over the coal range then down into grass valley and over a branch of the mountains adjoining fish lake down to loa thence with the exception of a few miles it follows the fremont river to hanksville Hanks ville the entire region adjoining the henry mountains is a desert country with no trees sage brush or grass to speak of every ten oi or fifteen miles along the river are settlements of hardy people who have redeemed the desert by water taken from the river during the utah coal age this whole region was alternately above and below the sea from loa to eastern utah and contains large beds of coal and deposits of oil it was at that time nearly level but later on a series of volcanoes came up in the center of the plain and tilted it up in the form of a great dome and it did not burst through the whole thickness of the beds when these volcanic cores had reached an elevation of about ten thousand feet some of the volcanic matter forced its way along the bedding planes and lifted up the overlying rock in smaller secondary domes at a later time the action of the rain and melting snow wore off the crests of the dome and exposed the volcanic cores now the black mountains of volcanic matter having around their bases other smaller domes stand out in great contrast in the midst of gray and soft clays which form the desert around them these mountains remind one of a hen and chickens A long time after the formation of these mountains there was a second disturbance like but smaller than the first which thrust up large dykes of volcanic matter through the original eruptive rock these dykes run in series parallel to one another and in see sec tle e arst ones at at varying an g angles difley are arege along the flanks of the higher peaks from the nature of the case as the v volcanic matter is limited the dykes soon pass out beneath the soft clays of the desert the veins of quartz are along these dykes for many years gold has been found in abundance along the colorado river opposite these mountains at dandy crossing but it was supposed to have come from the main river and its branches such as the dolores gunnison and grand rivers it is only recently that prospectors have found gold in the streams leading down from the henry mountains this led miners to trace up the gold until it was established that it came from the eruptive rock in the henry mountains after a great deal of prospecting miners at last located some veins on the southeastern side of mt ellen at an elevation of nearly feet above sea level the principal vein discovered was the bromide this is a quartz vein lying nearly vertical and running southeast and northwest it runs all the way from a few inches to four feet in width the gold occurs in a chute which is not far under ground and contains very rich values though the high grade ore is not so abundant as the low grade the property has veen been opened up down to water level and considerable ore ha has s been milled or shipped A small stamp mill was erected on this property about fourteen years ago and an attempt made to mill the ore and collect the gold on its short plates this was necessarily a failure because most of the ore is base no attempt was made to handle the tailings which were run off in the gulch and lost the operation of this mill was by the rule of thumb the ore in this property is sufficiently rich to make a paying and productive mine if properly handled there is practically no water at the mine with the exception of a small spring there is considerable timber along the mountain side sufficient for fuel and mining use A number of other claims haye have been located adjoining the bromide vein both as extensions of it and on parallel veins further up the mountain other veins have been located which run in other directions and further over to the north on the drainage of the main creek which flows from mt ellen near the saw mill are claims showing some gold there is a small amount of placer gold along this creek up to this time practically no work has been done on any claims outside of the bromide mine this is a beautiful region high up in the mAnt mountains ains it is prettily and heavily wooded with yellow pine and other evergreens ever greens it has an abundance of grass and at the saw mill there is a beautiful little stream of the purest and coldest of water there is considerable sid erable game in this region such as deer and chickens the mines are only about twenty five m miles le S from hank s v I 1 ile wh produce and supplies can be had there is no place in utah which afro an opportunity of knowing better what an a X n desert is like than that which is found al alo the road from loa to the henry fountai the air is as pure as crystal very dry a bracing and the scenery is beautiful as aass w as strange here the magid magic rain sculpt on the soft hills has changed them into most peculiar and remarkable shapes r different layers of rock and clay are bea 11 1 I 1 fully colored in bands of blue pink yell yel i I 1 green gray and black the clay I 1 these beds of rock being softer than 1 i overlying material has worn away so rapi that most of the hills face the rivers 2 streams in precipices here the geologic traveling along can read the story of 1 1 rocks in the different layers of strata easily as he could turn the pages of a boo book |
