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Show T1IH ' IU)X ELDEK NEWS. SEPTEMBER 16. 1W8. ? : ; ; Mineral Wealth of Box Elder County WRITTEN Box Elder county contains in its superficial area about 7,tXK) square miles. It is diversified by mountain ranges, broad areas of valley land a large part of Great Salt Lake; and while much of its area is desert, yet no part of it is worthless land. It contain s a greater area of fruit and farm land than any other county of the state of Utah. For the past forty-fiv- e years the fame of its fruit lands has been know n to the wrorld. The greatest yield to Utah has been taken from its farm lands; and the flocks of sheep, herds of cattle, and bands of horses that find sustenance on its mountains and in its ranges have for more than a generation added very much to the wealth of Utah. However, it is not only is the extensive resources of its horticultural and farm products, coupled with its stock interests, that we are to consider the greatest feature of Box Elders place amongst the counties of Utah. Her mineral wealth is admitted by those who have carefully investigated the field, to be of vast extent and variety. To give a list of the well known line of metals and minerals for this county, we will state that in Box Elder we have gold, silver, lead, copper, iron, antimony, nickel, cobalt, manganese, bismuth, aluminum, salt pet re. salt, sulphur, asphaltum, soda, mineral borax, alum, steatite, fire fullers earth, poclay, paint, tters clay, porcelain clay or kaolin, infusorial earth, all of the best cement shales and the various clays required for the manufacture of brick. Underneath the broad expanse of valley area lies the greatest known gas field to be found in Utah, and her resources in salt would be sufficient to supply our nation for centuries to come. Of building material she possesses unlimited quantities of limestone, quartzite, syenite, slate, marble and jasper. At the mouth of every canyon within the county lie beds of disintegrated country rock made up of quartzite, granite or limestone, which constitute the most ideal material for road making, and the very best sand required in the making of glass. As to the metals of higher value, Vipont and Century districts for the past twenty years have been known as localities wherein the ores mined approach values the highest known in Utah. The Vipont is a silver mine in which native and horn silver abounds and the shipments from this mine in years past were considerable although but little is at present being done in this property. It is, however, a mine that is destined in the very near future to become one of the largest producers in Utah. The causes of its lying dormant seem to be the inability of the principal owners to settle upon a fixed course as regards its opening and development. The Vipont mines lie in the northwest corner of Box Elder county and adjacent to them we find the well known Century, or Dove Creek Mining districts, in which lie the Century and other gold mines. The Century is the one property over there in which anything like . BY MR. DON MAGUIRE favorable and extensive work has been done. As to wise management, some questions have arisen in the minds of mafiy relative to the course pursued in the opening and development of the Century mine. Be that as it may, the mine is really and without question one of the great gold mines of our country. The veins in which the gold occurs here are fissure veins, the country rock is granite flanked by quartzite. The mount ranges in which these veins are found are low and of easy approach. Abundance of grass and water exists there; and some timber. A wagon road from the mines runs to old Terrace on the S. P. railroad and adjacent to the mines there is (piite an extensive farming region known as Dove Creek from which many of the supplies required by the mine may be obtained. Several thousand feet of development work has been done on this pro;erty and a modern quartz mill has been erected there. The mine has been worked in a desultory wray for about fourteen years and although it is difficult to ascertain the actual output in gold, it seems safe to say that it has produced considerable over $1,000,000 since it was first opened. The Century is an ideal fissure vein or lode running in width from 7 to 40 feet, well defined in its course and with very clear, well cut walls. The vein filling is quartz having running through it some black manganese oxide, and generally this large quartz lode has been very easily worked and in its worked and in its working requires only a limited amount of timbering. For Protection Against Fire HOME FIRE INSURANCE n COMPANY OF UTAH of FOR THIS SPECIAL In the Century region there are ten groups of gold bearing claims that if properly worked, and this work continued, would most certainly become producers of large quantities of gold. As to their gold yet unmined, but positively in evidence, we can only say that the greatest part of the gold values of the Century mining district is to be considered as a great part of our reserves or metallic wealth destined to be delivered into the hands of men in the future. To the westward of the Centurv gold mines there lies a large area in Box Elder County where excelore are lent outcrops of silver-leato Peak Pilot found and adjacent the in Silver and over in Island, Great American desert, some of the best prospects of the state exist. In the latter locality, much work has been done during the past two years by Salt Lake mining men with quite satisfactory results, so much so as to give us assurance that within the next two or three years, one or two heavy producers will be running on Silver Island. New Foundlaud district lies in a very desert part of Box Elder County. A solitary group of mountains rise up from the sterile, forbidding waste of the American desert, west of Great Salt Lake. This group of mountains is about seven miles in length, is made up of lime stone, granite and quartzite, wtih tremendous dikes of breaking through these measures. More than 30 silver veins whose values run quite high, have been discovered in this mountain. A Boston syndicate has done a considerable amount of work on d EDITION what is known as the Silver King group of mines and a large quantisilver ore was ty of shipped from this property to Salt Lake City many years ago and paid very well for the work of It is now said by mining it. those interested that still greater work is to be undertaken there during the coming autumn and winter. As to the make up of the ores of the different mining districts in the western part of Box Elder county, they number more than five hundred locations, and in which we find to exist gold, silver, copper, lead, nickel, bismuth antimony, iron and manganese. Over that vast domain, within Box Elder county, and which lies adjacent to the eastern line of Nevada, may lie truthfully said to exist a mineral empire whose riches have been barely scratched, and in the mountains that constitute a great promotory extending from the north into the great Salt Lake, lies an unexplored region believed by the most expert mining men to be rich in ores of gold, silver, lead and copper. The main range of the Wasatch extending from north to south through Box Elder county, rises very boldly above the adjacent valleys. This area contains Willard and Sierra Madre Mining districts. and the entire western side of Sierra Madre mountain in which lie the Santa Maria, Eldor-radNapoleon Maghera and Prince of India properties, also the Overland, Boiler Maker and Sierra Madre groups of claims, have been opened to exploration largely during the last five years. Most of high-grad- e o, the above groups of claims have been worked up to the present for gold, silver, lead and copper. Within the Eldorado group there is a very important lode of nickel and cobalt ore. The lode is an extremely wide one and the ore is in an oxidized state. Some work has been done on this and the ore already removed is of a very high order. In this group there is also found a lode producing high grade molybt denite in commercial quantities, but which as yet has not been mined to any great extent. The samples shipped to the eastern market received the highest commendation as to quality. The chief demand for this ore arises from its use as an alloy in hardening steel, and undoubtedly the largest known deposits of it within the state of Utah, are found in Box Elder county on the property above named. Iron exists as limonite, magna-titand specular ore in many parts of the county, but the most conspicious and extensive lodes lie to the southeastern part of the county, particularly one that rises east of Willard and runs through the green slates for a distance of about nine miles. This vein, or lode, of iron is about 170 feet in thickness in some places, in others it narrows down to about 40 feet. Much of the ore will run up to 60 per cent, at other places to 45 per cent. Associated with this body of iron at many points you find a good deal of copper as malachite, azurite and chaleopyrite. Associated with this mammoth vein of specular iron the copper found, promises in itself to become e, Peach Day Souaentts anb Brigham post (arbs The is one the best companies to insure With. Its surplus to policy holders is over fifteen times its net liability, a position obtained by possibly no other company in the World. 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