Show tho the bear lake country there is rather an interesting country in rich county utah cnown as the bear ahk e country tiie the eastern slope of ef the mountains dividing cache and an bear lake lak valleys are highly bibly I 1 crystalline it in character and strongly mineralized in in places ascending the mountains westward from bear lake the country rocks are sandstone and quartz quartzite ite to the summit a distance of about four miles here the blue and dol dolomite limestone laps on pitching to the west ivest at this po point int the contact formed by the different erent rocks is a strongly mineralized belt about one fourth milo mile wide and twenty miles long and running parallel with the lake this boit belt is composed of beds of iron and veins of copper ore the gangue gangao is dol mitic lime quartz and heavy spar the ch character ameter of of the be copper is native red and black oxide and carbonates with gome gold and silver r at tho head of bisbing canyon about 1 four our miles west of garden city utah is a heavy mineralized hill on which is loc located abed the rich cache copper mine mille and other valuable claims I 1 in n the rich cache about feet of cuttings have liean bean roade made showing e a vein from two to four feet wide of copper ore north of tile the rich cabbe C iche and over the same vein are the fruitful bieles pont champion black bess and argosy claims the last named have been worked to a limited extent and for the work done on them show fully as well as the rich cache property in ili the canyon is is a stream of water sufficient for use in in a smelt smelling smelting sm elting im and concentrating works while the hills are covered with good timber for ful and bipin mining purposes the ore from most 0 of f these claims could bu ba run to the works by a tramway while a good public road leads to montpelier idalio idaho on oil the oregon short line railway a di distance of about thirty mil miles es with such euch facilities the mine in this district offer good inducements for operations on an extensive scale since the expense expensed of wago ning ore or b bullion to the railway will ivill not be heavy swan creek is about three miles north of garden city and on it Is located the eldorado copper mine now bonded to and being worked by salt lake city parties who have mado made cuttings to the extent of over feet showing a vein f from two to four feet wide of good r ore many other locations have been made here upon little work has been done here hera also is plenty of water and timber new years tribune |