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Show HIS OF SLTJ SRE PRDDUGTSVE Records Show That Deposits De-posits Paid When Ore Was Shipped. Prince of Wales Shoots Found in White, Meta morphk Soft Limestone In --.evu of tt re'-:vei interest in Alt ir.ir.es. i survey of the iliirrir. 5 past pro-auc::cr. pro-auc::cr. is. of in:erei-.. Ever sxr.ee ore v-ss first discovered in the Little Cot-.c-a-irocd district by Genera! Conner s soldiers m liti, mining aciivi:;- m the Wasatch district has been of crnsijerable irr.pcr-tar.ee. irr.pcr-tar.ee. Concerning '.ho production of Alta. n.mes, s . C. Keiftcs. averriest geologist, states in his report: "The Little Cottonwood Cotton-wood district has yielded a. regular production pro-duction of metal annually since 1S6T, and may be expected to continue production for many years to come. Unfortunately, no complete records ere kept of the annual an-nual production in the early period cf oceraticr.. tut enourh data is available to make clc-e estimates possib.e. such data is tcur.c in the statistical re-t re-t trts on mires and mining in the states ir.d territciies west of tr.e F.ocSy mountains moun-tains for the years lit. to 1576." line :nnta mine ncccrrliitg to D. E. Hur.tiey. who reviewed ccr.ditions m tn.s Clitrirt'up to OctOLer. 1;0. r-ild S.O.yi'l' 1:1 c.viHer.cs 'one authority s:-s 51. CO -'.i.ti! teptember. !i i v hen it was ' 'ifacr.ed for an nicer teaness of fJOO.OtC-The fJOO.OtC-The r.asstaf: mine -Alien ov-ntd by tr.e I:.;;:s;i company, paid dividends that ainc'ur.ted 10 about iozl'.O'M1- It must te - remembered that these dividends represent repre-sent a laige proiucticn for ireight and treatment charges '.ere exorbitant, rluch '. of the ore was shipped to S'-ansea. wale.-, to ce treated Rich Ores Mined, R. W. K rr;or.a in h: report on tt: -tlcs cf m:r.is and ir.ir.ir.g in t.e states ar.d territor-es ci" ir.s Kooky mount. me :or iiTi. t :e&; "in A-zusi last U'L'i. a por:;or. of the ere beio-.v ihe tunr.el level was s:il! etandi-e-. but the r.vlr.e had pro-Qjced pro-Qjced frcn: I'j.'vJ to C.'.OOO tons of ore, atiayir-g from to ri- our.ees of sliver per ton, of 2: CO pour.cls. and from 50 to it: cent c: lead, avergir.g aiOt 160 our.ees of silver and from 45 to oO per ' cent of lead. The total v:ue of this ore, a: the ca?'"i price paid for a large part of :t in Lr. erpool at or 51.5. m round numbers, was about K. '-'--'. i-'.-.'- "The. ore Y2.s extracted at compara-t:vei; compara-t:vei; lit-1 ccs: y.oi of it vas stored from be.c.v upward ar.d as delivered by chutes into the- C2.s upon the tramway la:d ir. the T.unr,ei. In genera:, the ore was soft anci easily excavated by picks and shovels, without ihe aid of cunpow-dr. cunpow-dr. ' It consisted chiefly of ferrus-.r.O-is and eart" v-jeoktr.g mixtures of carbonate and oxide of lead, oxide of iron ana of a timcuy. mixed with nodu.es of galena. It arrears to have resulted from the ce-comrosition ce-comrosition of argentiferous galena and other su'phureted and antirnomal minerals min-erals containing silver. The. ore- may fce :a:i to te without gangue ar.d does not - reriuire hand sc--:ng or separating by mechanical me-chanical means from worthless vein stone. This ere a shoveled up and put icto sacks for ehirment without any other delay or expense. The larger part was sh.irped overland by railroad to New York, and 'thence by steamer to Liverpool." Professor B. SiUirr.an of New Haven siates. in a report, that an average sample sam-ple taken of eighty-two long tons. 1 3 . C' i j pounds, of first-class ere made by James P. Merry c: Swansea, April. 1 571. showed troy o-jnec-s of silver to the grcs.3 ton Frince of Wales Pays Well. The Prince of v." ales group is credited with a production cf lu.lHi tone of ore up i to :he ei"1 cf bv ?r. Heikes in hi? report. The full value of the ore prcdured from these c airns between 1ST and 1S--1-including a few ?hirment? since, is variously va-riously estimated from SI.OK.Ol-O to $2.C-.-j.-"'"r'. Since ISrl1 very little ore has been produced by lessee, who, in IS"!-?. 1S-I0 r-nd 1?1 made shipments of ore contam- i mg .01 ounces cf gc.d. t-O to 144 ounces of silver to the ton. 1.2b to 3. 75 per cent of copper and 12 to i per cent of lead. As- 1: sa-'s. rnace en shipments m 1 S 73 show the ; lead to have averaged between 25 to -:!i per cnt and the silver between 61 and '22 i ounces. Rich Shoots Described, ' The ore-benring formation on the Prince ci v.'i'.es. which produced so heavily, is said to be a bedded vein, dipping about 45 --.csnees r.crth'et-t. in blue and vhite can us tone. ac--crd:r.g to D. B Huntley m rrs "Olmin.g Industries of L"-ah." Fou-d Fou-d istin ?t inir - ys or shoo'.s cf ore. 1 3! f--t. 'J ' fe-t and '.',' fet epa-t, hae b-en found. They cc:ur"-d where i lie hmestoni n - s wV . : .-. met am or r hit p no so! t, v. - e the burrer sraces between these shoots ? n ' a : n tie vein only as a narrow te am ;n hard blue hmestv.e. These shoots out-rrorr out-rrorr d 2 1 th- s ' "far- or we re covered bv a few feet of drift, as low-grade, ocher- stam.ed sean s of ii:nfr--ore and cl?.;-. Good orj .. fourd by s.rk'rg a few feet. The A nie;o;e and Pr:r.e of V.'air? shoot w f'om t" ? inL-h-c to four f3et. ,',er.-.-e tv. Ive inch's vide. 1M f'M lo-.g n':d w.i-. fr.iy.v. r.-, ts-- d.p f.-et. 7:;e H:g';iland Chief sho-t w? f--?m to in-m-- tA ihr--e feet, a1 ;r?e'Ld eigli' inche." v.ude. seven 'y-f.ve feet long and S""'i :.et dee;. T'h-- V.'eh.r. z'on ik" t't s v c e:-. n about .- from two and a mkf s-ven feet, a-.-er-?. e t h : -e f -e t w . i . fro m t c n to t h ; rt y i-e '.org and 7fj ffet de?p. The ore from th first shoot assaved s bout i '. ounce? stiver snd pr cent '-f; thi fro.n th s-'--nd, I-- omm'-i- of er and --r -:';t l- 'd. and that :rom t;-e rli.rd .-. r.d fourth. '-'J OMnre? silver a.d .: per j--rr lead. The ore w&s a .--.;t. br-"'wnirli c-f-her. C'l.tamir a-cnf. fero ? crjr-tue and g'-.'cnr .,:d ocor; sion'i i pislr.t ""f r.'h : j'i r,f s- s.r.d c"ipn:-r. BosLon Curb Clofe. J. A lit-O- Co.) B-v 5-t C, p.-g-. " E-Vir: E-Vir: kS-C". B-r-s-on T.'.' 7-1m. Pitt- M ut-i T' '"'h ('.'on. .'' '-n - r.'-i . Cn, Ar'Tna 1 -1 '-4 . C- u. "r r. :-!.r s ' . j..-:v:f-- 1 "i"-t Nat'.o; il :---7.. i .''.:- J V- -f - Mi- . :-. . ij - - :-: -, n-w ; -h k' -, r-'-ur. -,.. i ' n-x----, '-': 2 ' ' - A i -!.' T , T-'.'r k s f, - 2 ' -! |