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Show WKSTKUN MIXINt; (iAZKTTKKlt. Rlesfcrii Jjjjniiii LITTLK COT IVX WOOD ir nzclfm. I)ISTL'CI UTAH. Things have been very quint in this famous district for quite a while, hut from present indications there is likely to he an early change for the better. The compromise between Mr. Park and the Emma stockholders will allow work to again he actively prosecuted in this well known mine, and many other claims in this district will be started up early in the spring. A great deal of very line ore has been extracted from the Emma in the past and the immense body of good ore now in sight gives great promise for the property. The shaft is at present down 175 feet below the Hay City tunnel and about 701) feet below the The vein outcrop of the vein on the surface. is a contact, 200 icct wide, and closely resembles that found in the Richmond and Eureka Con. mines. Northwest of the Emma is the North Star, Joab Lawrence and Old Telegraph group, which are about being consolidated, and active work will be resumed in the spring. The Joab Lawrence makes regularshipmentsof excellent ore. n;ci:s nr the tun ;:muuxta ix, roMxu. imnx This mountain, rising about. 40 miles northwest of old Fort Gasper on tho North Platte, some distance west of Fort Fetterman, has been explored hut little except hv a few bold miners now and then, who hide from the Indians and return in the Fall to Fort Laramie, with quite a harvest of tine gold, umJ give glowing accounts of its resources. Tho Big Horn, like all the other mountains of Wyoming. Colorado, Montana and Utah, was elevated and thrust through all the vast thickness of newer and overlying rocks, at a very recent period of geological time, chiefly, indeed, after the close of the Tcrtiarv era. Like the crest of the xatuhal (ias. Black Ilills, it was forced up by subterranean The following, taken from the Baltimore forces, through all the overlying strata which have such an enormous thickness in most parts Gazette, reminds us of a similar well at of the Rocky Mountains. Over the granite Utah, which six years ago furnished gas base or nucleus were, before their upheaval, sufficient, had it been utilized, to light the gold-beari- ng. Co-rinn- e, deposited : First The Old Red or Potsdam Sandstone, (sometimes the quarzite takes its place), as at Pa.k Citv and near Alta, in the Wasatch mountains, or the dark micaceous states, as at the Sweetwater gold mines and some parts of the Black Hills. Second The silver and lead bearing limestone formation shows next above the red sandstone or quartzite, and is sometimes of enormous thickness, even live or six miles, as shown between Park City and Alta in the Wasatch range. This formation furnishes the Emma and Eureka Consolidated mines and all the carbonate deposits of silver and lead. This lime formation flanks the granitic crest of the Big Horn and many of the mountains of Montana, Utah and .Southern Colorado, and yields the carbonates in large quantities. Third The next of the rock formations which flank the mountains, are the stratified Triassic and Jurassic the former of blood red color generally, but these possess no minerals South of the Emma is the Oxford and Geneva, which the developments show to be a good property. East of the Emma are those excellent properties, the Utah and City Rock, 'on which a large tunnel is being run to develop them. These are considered among the best prospects in the district. Among the other mines being developed are of economic value. Fourth The same mav be said of the Cre the Darlington, Regulator and Snowstorm. We will give a more extended report of this taceous rocks which overlie those just named, though they bear upon their back the tine district ere long. lignite coal beds of the Rocky Mountains, and without which very few railroads could be IDAHOAX MIXK, WOOD HIVE IT operated very long in those mountains. Fifth This is the Tertiary formation which This property (discovered June 30th, 18S0,by constitutes the top or surface formation over Judge A. P. Turner, and now owned by that the higher plateaux and along the base of the gentleman and others) is located in Idahoan mountains. It is at the bottom of this that Gulch, a tributary of Bullion Canyon, and the valuable beds of lignite coal are found resting on the Cretaceous rocks. This lignite distant about 2,000 feet northerly from the coal stratum is seen cropping out above the Work was commenced Mayflower. September worn si wav Tcrtiarv formation all along the 20th and October 2nd the first shipment (ten northeastern base of Big Horn mountain. Jn tons) of ore was made to this city, via Kelton. some places along the line of outcropping it has been set on lire by the burning Subsequent shipments, up to November 27th, coal, prairie grass, and burned out to such a depth aggregated 142 tons, all of which was sampled as to present long lines of pits. This valuable at J. C. Conklins Utah Sampling Mijl. and layer of lignite coal dips eastwardlv from the sold by T. R. Jones, the banker the average Big Horn mountain, and will probably pass and 150 across the of under ton. Powder river, valley price paid being per The present workings are a cut and tunnel and crop out again near the northwestern base on the vein, now in about 100 feet. The width of the Black Ilills and 100 miles east, and as we see exemplified on the Laramie Plains and of the vein has not yet been determined, hut the valley of the Green river, Wyoming developments made prove it to bo over 20 feet Territory. In the remaining benches of this Tertiary and strengthening as work proceeds. The vein matter is carbonates and galena, with three formation which have withstood the eroding streaks of the latter ore, showing a width of 34 effects of time, are found the remarkable fossil hones which have so attracted the inches to 5 feet, and another 20 inches and a attention of scientists largely for a few years past third 30 inches. In addition to the shipments and at its base next to the Cretaceous rocks made to this city there are about 150 tons of rest the extensive and valuable beds of coal first-clacarbonate ore on the dump, and per- before named. It was, as before stated, during quite a ore on the waste haps 400 tons of second-clas- s recent period in geological time, that the dump, which will not pay to ship notwith- granite and porphyries of the central portion standing it samples from $47 to $1G0 per ton. of this and most of the other Rocky mountain With the moneys realized from sales of ore ranges, had to raise and burst asunder all this in this market, all expenses attending the vast thickness of overlying stratified rocks, and surfaco only working of tho property have been paid and thus expose tho mineral-beari- ng a snug little dividend beside declared among along the crest and higher parts of the ranges where wo havo to explore for the gold and tho owners. Work at the mine is under the silver ores. It will therefore be seen, in ordei of Judge Turner ,towhom to find the outcrops of the lime rock and personal supervision we are indebted for tho above data. quartzites, one or both, which flank the I ss granites or gneissoid slates of the mountain top; and to liml the gold you will look for qiiartzose or other vein seams in the granite or porphyry, wherever exposed, on the sides or top of the mountain. For the placer or wash gold, the miner naturally looks for the gulches that have their sources high up the mountain, where the gold lodes, as they decay, supply the beds of the gulches and the alluvial margins of the small creeks with the placer gold during the period of melting snows in spring time. The rim of the great Big Horn Basin must he 800 miles in length, along the greater part of which it is town : The city of Bradford, Pa., and otiier places in the neighborhood, are all lighted and heated with gas from a well bored for oil, hut found to be unproductive. The force of the gas was such that when lighted a pillar of fire fifty feet high was formed, with a roar that could be heard for a mile or more. The well had been burning for a long time before the feasibility of utilizing it was thought of. A company was formed tor the purpose of carrying the gas into the eitv. and it is now distributed all over the place in pipes. A gas pipe with jets attached is run into the parlor or kitchen stove and when a fire is wanted a lighted match is thrown in and the gas turned on. The gas possesses great heating qualities, and apartments are warmed as quickly and hotter than if coal was used. For illuminating purposes it was not so good at first, hut processes for refining were applied, and jiuw the natural illuminator is unsurpassed bv the finest artificial gas. It is so cheap being supplied at a monthly rate, instead of hv the thousand that the people seldom put out their lights. It is burned all day and night in stores, hotels, private houses, ami even in the streets, municipal moonlight being unknown. Gas wells have come to be more valuable than oil wells, and the sudden and plienominal appearance of oil in some of the principal wells has created consternation among the owners ami consumers A few days ago one of the wells ceased in its gas supply, and on examination it was found to be half full of oil. Fifteen barrels of excellent crude oil were pumped out, and the gas flowed again. One or two of the other wells have exhibited tho same phenomenon, and it is necessary to pump out the oil daily before the gas will flow. The sudden appearance of oil in territory that was considered dry lias not yet been satisfactorily explained. GO 3 cud o Ir HI o t" 00 o x -- 3 CD CO cj HI 8 W czn H |