Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-25 | Page 22 | Says New District is Truly Wonderful

m mi OiSW Melvin T. Rowland Talks cf New Fields in Gem State. FORMATION IS IDEAL Demming Mines Company Is Pioneer in Opening Up Properties. I1 or several months rumors have been curront of important now gold discovering discov-ering in southern Idaho. The importance of these discoveries ha been definitely proved the past weuk by the largo orders placed with loeal dealers for mine equipment by the Demming Mines company of Nampa, Idaho. The purchase of the equipment, including in-cluding the installation of a 100-ton re-d re-d tic Hun plant, is being conducted by MHvin T. Kowland, vice president and general manager, and Everott W. Row- J land, assistant general manager of the , company. j Interviewed as to the location and , scope of the? new discoveries, Mr. Kowland saidT The district lies sixty miles south of Nampa in southern Owyhee county, coun-ty, Idaho, and sixty miles north of the Nevada state line. Named for Discoverer. The credit for discovery lies with J. D. Demming, for whom we have named everything in the district. While only thirty miles from a railroad in the desert, the region remained re-mained isolated until the completion of a wagon road a few months ago by the Rowland corporations. The discovery is entirely out of the ordinary. In fact, all of the important features of the district are ideal to an extraordinary de-. gree. On the 600 acres of the Demming Mines company no less than twenty-five great fissure veins parallel in regular order across the property. prop-erty. These fissures have been proven of great length and range from five to twelve feet in width. ! They lie in a great basin of undulating undu-lating surface, pastorial in character charac-ter and often the only visible rocks are the great fissure croppings j plowing through the soil and sage- j brush. A number of the veins have been j opened to a depth of fifty to 150 feet. In every instance the physical physi-cal conditions have proven approx- ; imately the same. The texture of ! the quartz, the metaliferous markings mark-ings and values of the ores are Big- ; nificant of a geological construction quite astounding. For illustration, the formation of the zones lying between j the fissures fis-sures are a feldspar granite assuming as-suming a still more refined construction, con-struction, the wails of the fissures are lined with two feet of gneiss. Between these wall linings occur the continuous ore deposit-, ranging rang-ing from five to twelve feet in width. The ores are of the telluride group, producing gold and silver of high commercial values. The uniform uni-form values exceed $30 per ton and the high grade sections $100 per ton. Values High Grade. The importance of these discoveries discov-eries is better understood by the developments de-velopments of the past few months. At the Demming No. 1 vein, the seventy-foot frvel shows the usual j seven-foot face of massive telluride ore, exceeding $50 per ton in gold und silver values. On the 100-foot level threo faces of the massive ore seven feet wide show values exceeding ex-ceeding $45 per ton. On the Golden Eagle, 2400 feet north, the same character of ore shows values of $40 per ton. On the Gold Cable. 4500 feet northeast, several feet of ore shows at fifty feet to exceed $100 per ton. As also on the Demming, two feet shows to exceed $100' per ton. I presume the public is more interested in-terested in knowing that real new gold fields have been discovered. A great fissured area known to be six miles long and three miles wide, with all the characteristics of the great Demming veins, have been explored. The topography and geology are ideal to sustain the numerous great fissure veins exposed, known to contain gold and silver ores of high commercial value. The tonnage of these ores, as indicated in-dicated by the parnlleling veins every ev-ery few hundred feet, assures the newest and probably the greatest of gold discoveries.