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Show uuuu ul Ui xaie mis. ueiuice vui- he was ther which. were passed away $hUAlJtenseiL.ABibrose. - white ft - j e c nort id te THE BOX ELDER NEWS, BRIGHAM CITY, UTAH. At the mouth of every canyon within the country 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 b t era! 23 i wa resii t. 11 whose values run quite high, have been discovered in this mountain. A Boston syndicate has done a considerable amount of work on what is known as the Silver King group of mines and a large quansilver ore was shipped from this tity of high-gradglass. property to Salt Lake City many years ago and paid As to the metals of higher value, Vipont and very well for the work of mining it. It is now for districts the have said by those interested that still greater work is twenty past years Century 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 Eider county, they number more than five hundred locations, and in which we find to exist gold, silver, copper, lead, nickel, bismuth, anitmony, iron and manganese. Over that vast domain, within Box Elder county, and which lies adjacent to the eastern line of Nevada, may be 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, Eldorado, Napoleon 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 the above groups of claims have been worked up to the present for gold, silver, lead and copper. Blasting a Trench Through the Cliffs on the Mountain Side for the New Brigham City Pipe Line Within the Eldorado group there is a very imThe cut walls. well and with course mined ores the its wherein as localities very clear, been known portant lode of nickel and cobalt ore. The lode is some it is vein in known Utah. through quartz having running values the an extremely wide one and the ore is in an oxidized filling highest approach The Vipont is a silver mine in which native and black maganese oxide, and generally this large quartz state. Some work has been done on this and the horn silver abounds and the shipments from this lode has been very easily owrked and in its working ore already removed is of a very high order. In this group there is also found a large promine in years past were considerable although but requires only a limited amount of timbering. of ten are there In groups the It Century region ducing high grade molybdenite in commercial quanis, littls is at present being done in this property. this and if that claims near worked, destined in the is properly a tities, but which as yet has not been mined to any mine very that gold bearing however, to become one of the largest producers in Utah. work continued, would most certainly become pro- great extent. The samples shipped to the eastern The causes of its lying dormanent seem to be the in- ducers of large quantities of gold. As to their gold market received the highest commendation as to we can quality. The chief demand for this ore arises from ability of the principal owners to settle upon a fixed yet unmined, but positively in evidence, values its use as an alloy in hardening steel, and unof the the gold that part greatest only say course a3 regards its opening and development. doubtedly the largest known deposits of it within The Vipont mines lie in the northwest corner of of the Century mining district is to be considered in Box Elder county on Box Elder county and adjacent to them we find the as a great part of our reserves or metallic wealth the state of Utah, are found named. above men in of the hands to be the delivered into property well known Century, or Dove Creek Mining districts, destined Iron exists as limonite, magnatite, and specular the future. in which lie the Century and other gold mines. conTo the westward of the Century gold mines there ore in many parts of the county, but the most The Century is the one property over there in to southeastern lie the lodes extensive and spicuous which anything like favorable and extensive work lies a large area in Box Elder county where exceladsilver-leaand found are part of the county, particularly one that rises east ore of some lent to As outcrops wise done. been management, has of Willard and runs through the green slates for a in questions have arisen in the minds of many rela- jacent to Pilot Peak and over in Silver Island, distance of about nine miles. This vein, or lode, best some of the prosdeAmerican the Great desert, tive to the course pursued in the opening and been done on this property and a modem quartz mill has been erected there. The mine has been worked in a desultory way 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 and jasper. Sed : tere Fur e jProu ha Laui ben re licit V lele un I d eks y ii Irs to P egc ier :an tali be! !OUI J. ne in, E, ro rn o r ?rr IJ o iei up .at b oc' d t 'I C the Century mine. Be that as it may, velopment the mine i3 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 easy of 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 quite an extensive farming region known as Dove Creek from which many of the supplies required by the of mine may be obtained. Several thousand feet of development work has much of iron is about 170 feet in thickness in some places, pects of the state exist. In the latter locality, in others it narrows down to about 40 feet. Much work has been done during the past two years of the ore will run up to 60 per cent, at other places by Salt Lake mining men with quite satisfactory to 45 that assurance per cent. Associated with this body of iron results, bo much so as to give us at two one points you find a good deal of copper as or many within the next two or three years, malchite, aszurite and chalcopyrite. Associated with on Silver Island. heavy producers will be running mammoth vein of specular iron the copper New Foundland district lies in a very desert this of found, promises in itself to become a mine of great A solitary group part of Box Elder county. waste Experts claim that with depth the iron importance. mountains rise up from the sterile, forbidding Lake. of this lode will cut out and copper take its place. of the American desert, west of Great Salt in This change is predicted particularly for that part This group of mountains is about seven miles of the lode that is so prominent on the mountain and quartlength, is made up of lime stone, granite of diorite breaking east of Willard and also at the head of Willard zite, with tremendous dikes More than 30 silver veins canyon, where much of the specular iron has altered through these measures. -- 1 1 I de- - ill ni rrrt 4U |