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Show An Old Abandoned Mining Town in Southern Utah j I j Down In (southwestern 'lUah, about eighty miles ens! of Ihe Nevada stato line, there Is an old mining camp, situated situ-ated in tho Ohio mining district, six miles west of the town of Marysvalo, Piuto county, and tho Denver & Rio Grando railroad's branch, distant 200 miles south of Salt Lake City, that has been practically prac-tically abandoned for want of Intelligent and honest mine development, energy, push and capital, that would come to the I fore wore tho mines In the hands of propor parlies, as tho writer can affirm and, verify, without conceit or egotism, from Ills thirty-ono years of past practical prac-tical knowledge of mining, having spent two years of mino work and study there together with his deceased friend, Francis M. Ilaughcy, who had put In eighteen years up to tho time of his death, February Feb-ruary 1-1. 1010, doing development work and prospecting in the district. There aro many properties there that have largo bodies of what is now pny shipping ores of gold, silver, load and copper, one of which has a large body of lead-zinc-silver ore that is two feet wide at croppings and widens rapidly as depth is attained. The latter property is known as the Eldorado No. I, being one of seven claims In tho group of tho Eldorado Eldo-rado mine. Having recently written an exhaustive descriptive, classified mine data report and map of tho said Eldorado mine, and being familiar with the properly. prop-erly. Including tho personal sampling of its ores and having them assayed al various vari-ous times by tho kindness of tho American Ameri-can Smelting and Refining company. Salt Lake City, a synopsis of the report may be of Interest and give one a view and Idea of the other properties of the camp, as follows: Course of Leads. The courso of tho Eldorado lead is northwesterly and southeasterly. Four claims (lo'JO by GOO foot each) of the mines group cover the apex of the vein for C00O feet on Eldorado mountain. Tho Eldorado No, 7 Is on the same mountain, but Its course of vein is northerly and southerly. The Eldorado No. H is located on Beocher mountain, adjoining Eldorado mountain, and Its vein runs due north and south, and the Eldorado No. I's (lead-zinc) survey and vein runs northeast north-east and southwest. The formation consists of tracite, dio-rlte, dio-rlte, fonollte, bird's-eye. block and gray porphyry, hluo and crystnlllzed lime, quartzite and brown-red hematite of iron. Some aro Immense dykes running many miles through the country. The ores Ho principally in contact veins between porphyry and lime, and tho quartzllc and porphyry-dlorite, in both a white and brownish-black blue quartz. Character of tho Ores. On the Eldorado No. -I the ore is a sulphide and carbonate of lead-zinc and carries silver. The Eldorado No. 2 is a sulphide and carbonate of lead-copper and runs well in silver. The Eldorado No. n's values aro in gold and silver In o hema-tite-porphyrltic quartz. The Eldorado No. 3's values arc In gold-silver and lead in a hematite quartz. The Eldorado No. 7 (not developed,) Is an extension of tho Bully Boy mine, which rich ores run over $100 In goid-silvor-Icad and copper per ton, on shipments mado In the past, are in a porphyrltlc quartz. The Eldorado No. C is in a heinatite-porphyrltlc quartz, and the Eldorado claim Is practically the same character of quartz as that of the Eldorado No. 2. in the Eldorado No. 2's tunnel No. 1 thero is thirty feet of ore, with a four-foot four-foot breast, that assays -ii percent copper, cop-per, 25 per cent lead and 30 ounces silver. In its No. 3 tunnel's southwest branch there is ten feet, with a four-foot breast, of 2J per cent copper, 25 per cent lead and 25 ounces In silver; and In Its northwest north-west branch, on a blind lead, there Is tivo feet uncovered, having a four-foot face of tlie same character of ore as that of the southwest branch. In tho Eldo- rado No. 5's sixty-five-foot tunnel thero Ik ten feet of ore uncovered, having a live-foot breast, that runs in gold and silver 527; and on the Eldorado No. 4 the width of I lie ore croppings is two feet and widens lo seven feet at thirty-threa feet depth In Its incline shaft, and ita values, as assayed by the American . b Smelting and Rellnins company at Salt f 1 Lake City, December 10, 1 DOS. were: Lead, j 10 3-10 per cent; zinc. 11 2-30 per cent. and ft ounces In sliver. Tho No. 2 tunnel on the Eldorado No. 2 claim is In 350 feet and follows a blind lead, and Is now J within only a few feet of the Eldorado lead proper, tho same as that of tunnel 1 No. I's ore. and at the point of junction' there should be a bonanza of rich ore. ' Strikos and Dips. The general trend of the strikes In tho. i district are northwest and southeast, except ex-cept that of Eldorado No. 3, which Is duo; north and south, and that of the Eldo- 1 rado No. t. which is northeast and south- 1 west. Tho Eldorado vein dips sixty de- MM grees to tho southwest; the Eldorado No. i vM 7 (Bully Boy vein) dips ninety degrees to K'l the west, the Eldorado No. 3 (Hematite, j ffl iron vein) dips sixty degrees to the weat. Km and that of the Eldorado No. 4's vein ftm (lead, zince. silver) dips seventy degrees UM to the northwest. nm Mining and Shipping. M Cost of mining. $2 per ton; hauling. ?2, JM and railroad freight to smelter at Mur- Ka ray. L'tnli. 53 per ton of ore. ; Wm The Eldorado lodge Is. approximately. i 100 feet wide; the Eldorado No- 4" ysm porphyry dyke is 100 feet wide; the Eldo- . a rado No. 3's ledge is 50 feet wide, and Mm tlie Eldorado No. 7's (Bully Boy) por- wm phyry ledce is 75 feet. wide. j3 The altitude at Marysvaie, six miles TO cast of the Eldorado mine, is 500 feet, JKI and at the point on which the house on -ij the Eldorado mine stands, near tho ex- Mm treme east end of the property, is S'lOO Kg feet, and at the middie-centcr of tho SI Eldorado No. 6 claim, top apex of Eldo- Si ttido mountain. It is 10,500 feet. Xh Development Work. 19 Tills consists of tunnels,' shafts and XQ minor openings on the Eldorado claim, 3 400 feel; Eldorado No. 2. 1125 feet. El- Zm dorado No. 3. 30 feet; Eldorado No, 4. 133 -jfE feet; Eldorado No. 5, 125 feet; Eldorado Jim No, (i. 35 feet, and Eldorado No. 7. HO feet. Grand total of workings on the El- 4m dorado group of seven lodo mining claims, Am 100S feet. .v UM Surface improvements consist of a good 1 conditioned, large two-story house, well 1 M situated on the main wagon road to ifl Marysvalo and within 100 feet of Bui- f :M lion creek. The house is well equipped j jfl to food and house twenty or more men. j jW Also there is a well-located blacksmith shop, and wheelbarrows. . track, tools, Vm dressed mining timber and some coal, 11 powder and house supplies on tho '" Mm premises. , III There is a good wagon road leading up Jfl from the railroad depot and tho Marys- yS vale. Utah, postoffice. six miles, to the flffl house on the Eldorado propertv and up 19 to Bullion Crook Falls, ono and a half 111 miles beyond, and there is also a wagon ; M road leading up to tlie main mine work- : (I lags that connects with the road to town. H just below the house. Besides, there aro sufficient trails to other parts of the , I property. Bullion creek, a large, swift stream, open tho year round, runs across tho m east end of the Eldorado claim. Out of W the mouth of tunnel No. 3 there Is a , constant large flow of good drinking wa- K tor. Besides, there arc two open springn n located on the upper end of the prop- ' 9 erty. : m There s considerable good mining tlm- ' her on all of tho claims in the group and an abundance of very large pine timber : ' on government ground adjacent thereto. j j It Porphyry Butte, a Landmark. i ;l There is a large porphyry butto that i is a landmark on the upper part of tho ; A property beir.tr a part of a dyke that ex- 3 tends for many miles through the coun- i try in a northeast and southwest course, vV and the main leads of the district, ap- ' tm pnrently, emanate at or close to this high : it butte, or by underneath which there may ffi be the chimney or hub from which they j flfe were thrown out from. ; w. There is an excellent site on the cast ; II end of tlie property for a deep tunnel , : II proposition and a mill site close to Bui- 1 f lion creek. The property is not patented, if but the title is personally known to the ; ft writer to he unquestionably good. M I Thirty or more years ago tills camp U wus a. fair size mining town and the H county seal, and there were some of the J0 K richest ores shinned out by wagons a dls- tance of over 100 miles to the then near- est railroad, but the Mormon church did K II not. encourage mining, and as the mines j, i were owne l by Mormons and their ig- w Kj norancc of intelligently mining tlie mines. the mines closed down and the town 1 U abandoned and the countv scat moved to I; H Junction. Piute county, I'tah. where It 1 II now is. TIIEO. A. WOODRL'FF. i l Mine Expert. jy Dated July 7. 1910. 725 San Julian i m street. Los Amzolos. Cal.' f :H |
