Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-02 | Page 10 | Moffat Road Will Help Eastern Utah

MOFFAT ROAD WILL HELP EASTERN UTAH Thomas H. Donovan Tolls of Minej-ol Possibilities of That Part of the State. THOMAS II. DONOVAN, -who has been at Vernal and Fort Duchesne Du-chesne since lS'JO, Is slopping for a few days in Salt, Lake. Mr. Donovan during this time has carefully explored and prospected over a large part of that region, and is enthusiastic over its merits as a producer of the precious metals nnd predicts that with the transportation facilities that will be afforded by the Moffat road It will materially Increase the metallic output of the State. Mr. Dpnovan states that the ores are for the most part medium and low grado, but that they exist In large bodies in well defined fissures. fis-sures. The ores are not of such a character, he states, as to incite stampedes, but that silver, gold, copper and lead are found. Two idle smelters, the Bromide and the Dyer, erected several years ago, are an advertisement against tho country, but the long wagon' haul of from seventy-five to ninety miles to the nearest station on the Union Pacific road to the north Is the cause of their failure. Mr. Donovan states that ho holds a property on which Is a five-foot vein of rotten iron pyrites that can be easily traced several hundred feet on the surface and this vein carries from $3 to $12 to the ton In free gold that yields readily to concentration or amalgamation amal-gamation processes. The long and expensive ex-pensive haul, he states, Increases the cost of taking supplies and of taking out minerals that may be produced to an extent that is absolutely prohibitive to progress In the mining industry save the production of hydrocarbons, which Is enjoying a steady growth.