| Show MINES OF LITTLE cottonwood COTTO MWOOD of daily tribunal trib I 1 I 1 I 1 1 knowing your desire to have the mineral interests of the territory properly represented and that tha tyoa you wish to give inch anch general information OR on the subject of mines as ai bills shall U pro te reliable upon a close examination of the tb 0 mines themselves them selvis rd I 1 forward you jou a description of several which in the last few fait months have larger proportions proportion ii and which bid fair air to DC be come is s renowned as a mineral courtr 67 a morel known the fama mine than soy my other but when it can bc bb shown that there are other emmas we are re brov ing that utah is ie unequaled equaled on as X mineral territory and therefore her de and future ia 1 assured among tilt the mot promising of the little cottonwood anes are mhd vast caunce jlia nce and which have and arel arc i situated about h feat nat te about fifteen hundred feet from th the L celebrated emma mino mine these mints mins WPM were originally supposed by their lo in caora ti albe be two sepa separated rateL or parallel wes lodes lint but more recent siow show that they are re each part or illif tame same we lodal tho the hiawatha was dim discovered in id june be 18 1870 40 by sol 84 onion J despain despain who wah others joe located bitted feet thereon but after wards sold eold out ont to the pm eisent owners who have hare sinco since continued the discovery shaft to the depth of feet exposing coirin g a well defined vein rein of an average i of about awen twenty t y inches samples taken from froin the tha hot bottom of this start tod and assayed by meader header gave silver per ton a and n d 53 59 per beill lead iola lint but tie the g genera eferail average assay of ores ore from this his of which about forty ton 0 are arc on nn the dump 1 altho carrai carrying P g about 50 percent of i lead cad cont cent tins only about 60 ounces of silver to the ton which is of course tonch below tho the or oret of the district but is is accounted fr fir by bj the fact of its being an loot or spur eipur from the last chance the course of the ilia watha katha is nearly north tad Bouth while that of the last chance is lenorth northeast north east and southwest south we west t and pos possesses gesses all the atu reis of a art true Is fitehure fit fie eure suro running I 1 1 di I IgO op Bally killy to formation or Cu auntry rock ck I 1 it ia u opened kii at three points by inclined c li shafta one 90 one 43 anil and one ona 20 feet showing a continuous vein of 0 bi high h grade ore for a distance of more than loo 00 feet act in length aud and of an average thickness of about ai 2 feet 2121 pounds taken at the depth of 0 CO 60 feet sampled by lewis johnson co and assayed by me VI el e give 29 ber 4 r ceet cert lead and 3 G 8 in lo 10 liver per ton Va pounds w were er sold d to lewis s joanson n co at ia 52 per ton on A number of small email samples taken liken from different parts of the mino mine assayed mi ai follows one oils 11 ly W S per VT calit ind binl wilver br r axim too b 70 f 4 wis aw by T A 61 RJ 01 r I 1 L W 1 11 11 4 avi n olio oita by SM acler i these samples were not assayed for lea acal 1 but bill would average about 40 per cent this property is owned exclusively by y hardy and K F A wain wall asdall force will be daring the winter but no shipment of ore is contemplated until tile the snows are ro os off to a ad admit mit of the working of the tramway to ti the and savage by which ores are arc lauded landed at the like wagon road to the he from time to time I 1 liall tale pleasure in forwarding you descriptions of such mines as in my jud judg merit ment will bear that close examination is tiec Y to prove their worth we rth I 1 11 |
