Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-03-28 | Page 32 | Red Butte Attracts Attention of Utahns

RED BUTTE ATTRACTS ATTENTION OF UTA1INS Special to The Tribune. RED BUTTE, via Humboldt House, March 27. So many glowing reports in regard to the richness and great extent of tho oro deposits in tho Red Bui to mining district, together with enthusiastic enthu-siastic exhibitions of high-grade copper-gold-silver samples of ore, 'have reached the world from time to time, that the attention of several of the largo operators has been directed toward to-ward this locality, and interest has been awakened to the extent thai plans are being formed to send experts and experienced engineers into tho camp during the next month. Oro bodies fifty feet wide, averaging 0 per cent copper. S7 in gold and eight ounces in silver? gold-silver-lcnd-eoppcr veins, from four to six feet wide, panning free gold for several thousand feet; veins of antimony anti-mony thirty feet wide; lodes of lead carbonates eighty feet in width: cipni-bar cipni-bar iu paying quantities f immense deposits de-posits of specular and iron manganese 100 fcot wide, and outcropping for hundreds hun-dreds of feet; copper in the forms of native cuprite, gray, copper, glance, torahedrite, chalcocite, chalcopyrito :uid red and black oxides, are claimed for this district, and give an adequate idea of the varied minerals distributed by nature. The oro deposits have been proven to extend for a distance of fifteen fif-teen miles long and five miles wide. The district lies in tho northern part of Humboldt county, Nevada, on the south slope of Jackson, Mont., in the Antelope range, on the eastern edge of the Black Rock desert and forty-six miles north of the Southern Paeific'rnil-road Paeific'rnil-road station called Humboldt House. A distance of only fourteen miles over a line, level wagon road will separate the district from the Western Pacific niil- 'road, to be completed near the middle of this year. Ore was first discovered in this promising prom-ising camp by A. D. Ramol and Walter Schnieirer of Salt. Lake on Sopt ember I, 1007, immediately preceding the depression de-pression of 1 107. Extensive development develop-ment on Iho manv wonderful showing? is planned for thi& year, and capital introduced in-troduced at this earlv stage will no doubt lay the foundation for enormous I profits in the near future. The country rock is mostly dioritc. Also dykes of foldsite. qnartzite, shale," lime rock and spasmodic intrusions of porphyry occur. oc-cur. Unlike most other Nevada camps, plenty of wood, wnter aud wild gnme abound, while droves of wild horses and herds of cattle arc a dailv sicht. Your - representative will in future correspondence give a description of I individual ore. showings and develop-! merit throughout the district.