Show INTEREST IN LA SALS Denver Men Have Obtained Interests There Minors Flocking In The developments in the Li Sal mountains are progressing ao rapidly that much attention Is being attracted thereto and many Denver men hav obtained interests therein There arc now from 20 to GO properties shipping to Pueblo and Salt Lake from holes from 10 to 30 feet deep and getting returns re-turns In cash and letters received from these statethat shipping ore is found at shallower depthsthan ut any camp In Colorado A mapreceived by Frank Earte gives the clearest Idea of the formation for-mation around Miners basin The basin Is a depression In the heart of the mountains which gives evidence of being tin crater of an extinct volcano Entirely around the ruin of this basin Is porphyry dike several miles In ex tcnt the formation proceeding from the summit tnAVard the tenter of tilo basin being lime calcite u vein of hematite from three to four fet wide gneiss the upper conuiet from five to ten feet thick porphyry dike 500 feet wide lower low-er contact live to ten feet wide gneiss hematite vein and trachyte The formation for-mation is an Ideal one for mineral values val-ues and the I results obtained from the small amount of work done Indicate that with thorough development the district will be a heavy producer all the claims being so loeuleu as to Include In-clude both contacts and claims being laid lengthwise along the hematite veins Theie are therefore practically four contacts including ih hematite veins all of which show good values at the surface Both hematite veins are goldbearing tho outcropping assaying as-saying from 7 to 12 i In gold The upper up-per porphyry gneiss contact carries a copperiron with gold values The lower low-er porphyry gneiss contact shows carbonates car-bonates of copper on the surface spcedr ily aS5iflg Into sulphides copper glance and other forms of high grtule ore But little work has been done on the upper contact most of the shipping proper > tics being engaged In devloping the lower contact In which the ore is of higher grade In this lower contact at a depth of ten foot the ore tuns I from 12 to 23 per cent copper and about 5 In gold and at thirty feet as high ns 72 per cent copper with enough gold to pay all expenses of mining transportation transpor-tation and treatment Several men from Colorado Springs aml Cripple Creek leave next week for the La Sals and three or four companies are now being organized In this city tom operation opera-tion In the district Denver Republican Republi-can |