Show The La Sol Mountain Mining District The La Sal Mountain mining district which section first began to be talked about In 1S3G which year not over llvo into tho prospectors found their way mountains and in 1S97 not to exceed twentylive men advanced In 1S3S till probably o men were scattered over the district settled down the past year to steady development work which Is being continued during the present winter win-ter The result of the past years work has demonstrated beyond a doubt In the minds of the men who have been supplying the means and carrying on sUJJblnb that the district Is destined to have 0 bright future Depth Is now beginning to be reached in n number of properties and has r demonstrated that the deeper the shaft or tunnel the richer the ore that there are to be no surface mines In the mountains moun-tains that the ores will largely belong to the sulphide family and is to be looked for in the porphyry trychlto and quartz The International Copper company organized the past summer with Pro o and Salt Lake City people at the head arc carrying on extensive development work at Beaver basin and have opened up a large body of sulphides averaging above 20 per cent copper and fair value In gold and silver The later metals In this property as in nearly all In the district increases in value with depth trtvhlle the copper decreases Just west of the International ground and lying adjacent tho ThomsonCaldwcll people have In a seventyfoot tunnel a similar simi-lar grade of ore Early in the summer a company of Cripple Creek capitalists represented by J L Loomis a practical mining man became interested in n group of claims lying adjacent to both tho International and the Thomson ground an began extensive develop nicnt work working two shifts of men oh n tunnel and shaft and at n depth of thirtyfive feet In the shaft opened n large body of sulphides similar to that In adjacent properties and Is adjaent propertes apparently appar-ently on the same vein and demonstrating demon-strating its continuity for over 3000 feet The Loomis company have applied for a patent and arrangements arc perfected per-fected for the placing of a concentra lion plant at Mill creek in the early spring by this company Lying just south of Beaver basin and commencing at a point about 2000 feet from the International property and taking In the Mt Tamasakl peak and south slope lie the I Tamasakl Mining Mi-ning company group of claims on which over 200 feet of work in the tunnel tun-nel and shafts were driven the post summer showing at four points on this property veins of porphyry quartz Carrying f Car-rying gold values of from 1 to 520 on averages across the veins Some copper hot been found In this property In the form of n red oxide This company Is prepared to continue vigorous Jovelop rent work In the spring A1 of their property lies above an elevation of JQOO feet Winter work with the present pres-ent facilities for reaching the properly was considered Impractical Lying to the west and adjacent to I Tnmagnki and Just south of the Loomis group the DArcy brothers who are backed by Denver people continued development work began in 189S A tunnel over 100 fe t was driven and n crosscut tunnel iM now being driven with two shifts of men and will continue steadily through the winter they having gotten in supplies sup-plies to last until next May At Miners basin where the drat lo catlotifl were mad in the La Sala about 0 mile north o Mill creek a thriving town was established with a trlwcek ly mal and u Thompson as postmaster post-master Development work has been carried on alcadlly by the numeroun lo cilors here and with encouraging Ie I mill the richest strike having been made In the Corsair properly which in 01 the oppuHitc slope of the mountain ohwhich the Loomis and other strikes wSru made and Is I apparently ona part oC the tame ore body A wagon road Into Miners bnaln wns completed and ih j flrst on hhlpmont a lilnl shipment of a carload was gotten to the railroad At Gold basin three miles south of Mill cnek and In the center of tho middle mid-dle division of the La Sail the most 9Xicnrivu work In the district has been carried on In the Clark property and this Is lxlng continued during the present pres-ent winter The main tunnel hnH been driven In over 200 feet with a crosscut of sixty feet In this property the Jlmt hyjvlnltc dlucoveral In the district him been found coming In 1 narrow seams in Rrinlle and which In Improving as york continues This property IK I bnekel by Iowa capital ThlH company was prepared to erect a reduction plant curly In the season hut nH the character charac-ter of tho ore WU H changing Its the work advanced It Wf windy decided lo await until development demonstrated the best method of working the ore Near the Clark property tunnel Is I being be-ing driven this winter by the Turner brother Colarfldg They exMcj t to 1 i crosscut a vein which at the surface I has a fine showing The Section of country for thirty miles surrounding the La Sal mountain peaks Is generally classed aw t the Ln Sal district but the part outside of the mountain peaks propor which embrace an area of about ten miles long I and live miles mlde differs materially I fuun the mountains which ire an igneous Igne-ous formation Tho ore bollles In the surrounding district are as far us de i volopmcnt has demonstrated a prcclpl 1 late formation In sandstone Ore running run-ning as high as 20000 to the ton haM 11Ing been found In this character of ore and In some places large bodies of It I Tho La Sal company at Paradox just l across the Colorado line have expended many thousands of dollais the past i d season having a payroll most of the I time of seventy men and have kept up I steady shipments oC ore none running i less than U0 per ton hauling II I seventy I sev-enty miles In wagons to the railroad I The values have been mostly In JIll I copper and gold with it The Big Indian company In which Edward Loose Lester Taylor John r I Skews 1 Thomas Kennis and other prominent Utah men are Interested have run over 1200 feet of tunnel on I their property all in ore averaging f v from 2 lo S pea cent copper This com I puny has expended upward of S50000 r and have refused a quarter of a million I dollars for It The dllllculty encountered encoun-tered by the company has boon a proper l method of IreaUng the ore the ntolal lying in sandslone letiulrlng a slclal treatment Thty have been ma king extensive experiments and have applied foe a patent for an entirely new method being more of a mechanical treatment than chemical and believe They have solved the problem John lomb tiC wellknown Colorado Colo-rado mining man has become Interested Inter-ested in the Daly property at Lisbon ten miles from the Big Indian and ls I furnishing the jneans for putting thin well lmov a property On a producing basis The plans now being worked call for 0 redifctionphint onlhc Dolores river about ten miles from the mules and where pelnly of water and power can be obtained In the section lying between Moab and Thompson between the Grand and Green rivers some very promising copper cop-per discoveries were made the past summer Several thousands of dollars were expended jn prospecting ground at Salt Wash and while some very rich ore was found the main body of Us source was not discovered l This was also true on the Huntsman property at i Fisher canyon on the east side of the Grand river from Salt Wash The Salt Valley Copper company have some very promising ground at the head of Salt C I valley twenty miles northwest of Salt Wash but have as yet done but little development work From these and several other properties small shipments ship-ments of ore hUe been made netting the owner from 30 to 540 per ton The character of the ore found In all the sandstone area surrounding the La Sal peaks in a new proposition In mining mi-ning and Its proper method of treatment treat-ment has yet to be demonstrated Its extent and source depends much on location lo-cation and no rule of mining will calculate cal-culate what will be found by development develop-ment work it must show with the work work The Blue Mountain district sixty miles to the south of the La Sal have not rcelve as much attention this year as some former seasons but what has been done Is of n permanent character char-acter The Gold Dream company have about completed i twentystamp mill and will be ready for opt ration in the spring The Blue Mountain Tunnel compun have a force of men at work now under the direction of Alex Cald vell and will drive their main tunnel in about 0 feet thin winter I |