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Show WESTEKN MINING GAZETTKKL. (he west line of said county, which, for this distance, runs on the crest of the Wasatch. tlc.'jfcrn Two largo canyons run southeasterly through this part, of the district, one known as the White Fine, with its head opposite the head of sxkjvii or irrMi Mixxa the south fork of the H ig Cottonwood, the other 'flit followin'; sketch of Uintah, Mine Ledge, as Snake Creek canyon, which heads at the pass in the Wasatch looking into the head Snake (reek ami American Fork mining of the Little Cottonwood Canyon. Hoth of is from the pen of Silas Heed. We take these rise in the crest of the Wasatch, and it from the columns of the New York Jlinimj debouch into Provo Liver valley, near to the village of Midway, at an altitude of 15,000 feet Iiectmt, of January Sth or more below where thev head, a distance of These districts lie like a saddle upon the six to seven miles. The White Pino Canyon. to thirty miles Wasatch mountains, twenty-livis the largest and runs eastward), almost southeast of Salt Lake City, ami cover and parallel with the north line of Wasatch county cross the heads of the groat and grand canyons and is bordered on that line bv a spur of tbe of the J5ig and Little Cottonwood, and of the mountain that rises 10 to 1,000 feet above the American Fork, all of which converge close Horn of the canyon, and presents, in the first I prodistrict. of the centre the near together mile and a half, the upturned edges of the of the some to description give pose lime strata, and tlm other mile and which descends the western slope of the Wapresents alternating outcrops of porphyry and satch, about live miles, to Alta City, and quartzite rock, dipping northwesterly about includes the Emma, Flagstall, Heed Si Henson, live degrees below the horizon, their Prince of Wales, Highland and Miller mines, lorty trending northeasterly and south anil many others of less note. The largest outcrops westerly diagonally across the long mountain half of the figurative saddle descends t lie eastlive to seven miles, spur. ern Hank of the The Utah mine, 270 feet, deep is located and extends along its face about - miles; th Hose to the Hozanza, at the south base of the central point of this circular district being elo-- c spur or i escribed. Its lower level ridge above . . , to the head ol the lute Pine Canyon, where now in a twelve to twenty inch vein ol high ; .ns ' . a .sit eh count the northeast corner ot rP. jom; ot the vein is about ore. hi giade dip count thel , the southwest corner ot Summit It is worked l.y steam rM.F' I '.iH' "'ii tbrty-livn' Y' ... degrees. i i A asateh eie.'. . ii iroug power, ami is owned hv the Marsuc Company, or and the district numerous eanvons ridges, lot which I mted States Senator I citv h pivs- iof trom eie.-the the descend t mountain spurs, j Wasatch. il 'vh and vahiahie mine, as it. appears to which run northeasterly five to eanvons The of qmirzite and its hanging ii toot-w- ail . hac I arh ot s end the south enter and miles ix tt.ni imu Moiiu. . ark at and near Park Citv, are the Ontario, On tlie same vein on the ere-- t of the Valute line mine and (lie le McLaughlin, i situated the i,Mbite l ine engine . , spur . , , A V Walker cnstci the , mine eanvons, rmipire amt sliatt, the sliaSt .WI) tect deep, and a . one other large onetnat, cross cut to the . lieing mine can von, and vein ot over lOOleet, learn, of the uoith lok ot the the Ire extends ill pass he vein bids air to become a paving one a A .A p,ir Cottonwood, through the Wasatch and the ore being pivtiv high ' runs northeasterly into I urlo s aik. a mile igieater depth, "ril,isl,Kra.1.' Its walls are the same kin.1,.1 orsohelmv (north of) iaih v,it, tlu jni(.k ,s th(, Utal Jt js ,v (UV,H..l 1V which I forget. I men, understand, Mr. (lerrisb These eanvons descend about 2,000 feet Michigan its largest stockholder, ami general supin five miles while the mineral spurs being erintendent. There are numerous other good between hold up their crests quite on ridges ; the scope ot this A,,, - looking discoveries within .. level to the mouths oi the eanvons presentsome m granite, some m porphvrv. ol eanvon, J mg all along their abrupt faces the some m and carboniferous in sine quart.ite . rocks, and aflordmg the mineral limestone. rpihere will soon he manv D:ivimr . a fine chance lor the discovery of propector m tins eanvon. .i mines ; veins. Here, on the northeast margin of tins The Snake Creek canyon and mines are circular shaped mineral district, stands the over two miles south of the White Pine spunky and thriving little Park City, the lower They an? almost wholly in the quartzite, and end of which boasts of the presence of the discoveries with high grade ore are not unMarsae mill and furnace and the McHenry common. This eanvon will furnish many fine mill, while at its south or upper end silver mines as soon as capital paying at the mouth of Ontario gulch standsi the im- - can he induced to n full devel- works ot the mills and ti:i:i:s '(Ip'dlnT. 4juiii -- nsnacrs. dis-tric- ts It is fact that the beds of the Silver Iieef Histriet contain much petrified vegetable matter, hut the following story, so far as it relates to the discovery of an immense cave filled with a forest of huge trees is one which we cant swallow one-hal- f a-ha- lf Wa-atc- h, 1- 1 1 . e A-A- I 1 1 J i . . . : ' 1 , . . 1 ? 1 1 out-cro- silver-bearin- g wmn , , amalgamating nosmg 1,1 U m'" ' Ontario Company, tl.eir mino kin;: a mile la-'.T'""!"" ! . tl''' ne,! out'm''.-voml and up Ontario Bulch. The Empire earing ' " ,,lls !',et Me of ami the is the at mine Empire junction .iiam.-level ,e to fi!k'." nnl h Alta and wi Eausl.lin eanvons, a mile vest of the Ontario on i s sontlnvestern hnnler, mine and one and a half miles nkve .ln.l i1'"'1 10 ,,nm? m"1 m,lls 0,1 Iloth these mines and - KTllieartt-rl- iU1! ltinvest of Park Cilv. e.remnlerenee. the, Parley Park and- Mellcnrv mines are in L this canyon is situated the P.tmanza mine tiie quartzite formation, ami how rieh veins of now 100 feet deep in a belt of porphyry which chloride ore in Uoportion to depth. crosses this a trillc diagonally. I could The Onturin is the oldest and deepest of tin not enter it canyon I when was there last summer, four, and, of course, leads in quantity and because it tilled with water while waiting for richness of ore, it being now 10 or 11 feet new is and It engine pump. thought to be a thick, assaying 150(5 to 700 ounces to the ton, valuable property and of which company the affording a monthly yield now of nearly of the First. National Hank of New of a million dollars in silver bricks. It president York is said to be president. uses two largo engines in separate buildings for hoisting and pumping, the water outflow beThe furnace, savs the ing about 1,000 gallons per minute, costing the much the minas as other perhaps Eureka Lanier is still running successfully company combined. ing and milling expenses and turning out its usual quantity of bullion Five of the mines in the Park Citv Tcrritorv twenty-onshipments of ten tons eaeli havin the southwest corner of Summit county, are worked now with steam engines for hoisting ing been produced since the start five weeks and pumping. Throe are located in the quartz- - ' igo. The ore supply has been run quite low, i to rock, the other two in tbe caiboniferous hut arrangements have been made to slope out of this the ore on the fiOO level of the formation. The southeast, l)underhrg, district covers the extreme northwestern cor- and the supply will soon lu augmented. The ner of the county of Wasatch, and extends starting up of the will also add miles seven to the five north a steady run of ore and the furnace is insured eastward along tin same distance about south along work for a good length of time to come. line, and T 1?' i :f j r i f 1 y j ; j i one-fourt- h Hubv-Dunderbo- rg r e 1 one-quar- ter Hull-whack- er a well-know- n silver-hearin- g : : e two nrxnri:n that assay TO Till: TOX. POLL A US Silver convspoiulenfu liocht AVci.v. It is seldom that Dame Fortune bestows her caresses on the people who are worth v of them, yet in the ease of Henry rrendeiithal and Louis Hassell, it would seem that the old lady had at last come to her right mind and has been ever so lavish of her favors on two deserving young men. On the th of Uecem-her- , Freudcnthal and Ilassel, ehloriders in the Thompson Si McNally, were putting a hole rock, when suddenly the entire face of the drift gave way with a booming sound. into a black abyss' 200 feet deep. Mr. Ilassel, who was turning the drill at the time, instantly sprang backward, thereby saving himself from being carried downward with the huge mass of rock. The astonished ehloriders realized that an immense cave ws before them. Two hundred feet over head, and faintly seen by candle light, frowned its domelike ceiling, the further extremity of which was lost in the darkness. Two hundred feet below, firm and upright, stood a forest of huge trees. Hopes wore procured and the ehloriders decendcd into the forest, which was found to he petrilied. On some of the trees strange character were inscribed. Various mosses, also , petrifactions, appeared green and All these petrifactions covering the ground. carry silver some of the samples lroken from the trees assay as high as 8200 per ton. hast, evening, in company with A. II. Parker, Mining Ungiiicer, wo visited the wonderful cave and found its dimensions as lollows: Length S0 feet, width 7 to 100 feet, height, from the bottom to ceiling or roof, o7;7 to Too 2-- 1 in-har- d life-like- feet. I'll i l.APJlL I'll FA About, M 1 X IXi EMJJIAXU 1, gentlemen met on the 7th in Parlor Cof the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia for the purpose of organizing a new minim-stocexchange, many members of the old I hiladelphia Mining Exchange being among the number. Thomas II. CJill was made temHichard Donovan porary chairman and secretary, and then fa) names wen read as subscribers for the original "(.) seats, while it was reported that 8o,Sf0 had been deposited It was also announced lor them. that the use of the rotunda of the Exchange building at Third and Walnut streets had luvn secured after July 1, for two years at 50.1 )()0 a ea r, with a privilege ol renewal for three years. It was voted that the new organization he styled the National MiningEx-chaiig- e of Philadelphia, and the following ollicors were elected: President, Samuil Diston: vice president, W. It. Dalton; treasurer, (J. F. Hart; secretary, G. A. Q. Miller: trustees, Henry Ashbury, C. Diston and W. J. Chcyney. A committee of live was appointed to dra It a constitution and to secure temporarv quarters for the Exchange, and it was decided that the number of seats he limited to inn. of the unsold balance of which 2.7 should he disposed of at 87.70 each, and (he rot at 81.0M). It was also resolved that no sent could h1 alienated by the holder for at U one year-Thelection of a governing committee resulted ill the choice of the following: W. H. Thompson. John Tracy, Charles Kane, W. Wilson, I,. S. an, J. . I lioinpson, ,. Hazlett, 15. F. Hart. J. Valance, F. S. 15, mil. W. U. Hunt. j:. L. Gilhaugh. II. Hurgin and F. J. Stewart. This committee was empowered to appoint all standing committee from its own membership and the meeting adj nrned. subject to the call of the chair. Piilmt1 55.7 k :i ;( e |