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Show 4 INTER-MOUNTAI- Of course all argument Utah's Production of Precious Metals. was wasted upon that body, but such on resolutions. Lead Bearing Sandstone. One of MINING REVIEW. N the rare Instances of primary words as these are worthy of the mineralization is presented by the bearing standstone discovered in Salina canyon about a year ago. Elsewhere in Utah, notably at Silver Reef, mineralized sandstone has been found, but the mineralization of that district seems to have occurred subsequent to the formation of the reef, while in the Salina canyon there is every indication that the lead was deposited by sedimentary action during the period that the sandstone was being formed. The lead is laid in stratifications, and the lead- mineral, under microscopic examination, appears in rough and .abraded fragments, and not in the form usually occurring in veins. The deposit contains no silver and no gold. The full extent of the mineralization has not been determined, although quite extensive exploration work has been done. The sandstone is easily milled, and an experimental concentrating plant is in operation, but the commercial value of the deposit has not been fully determined. Mr. R. E. Ball, the original locator, and owner of the plant, was in the city last week and stated that development work was still being prosecuted. It is his theory that Salina canyon was at one time a channel running down into the sea, and that the deposit was formed by the action of the waters during the cretaceous period. While the rock is of very low grade, it is easily concentrated and can be handled at very small cost. These lead sandstones certainly present a very interesting subject for geological investigation. Going to the Deep. The decision of the East Golden Gate company to prospect their ground to a depth of 1500 feet is a matter of considerable importance to the Camp Floyd, or Mercur district, as this is a much greater vertical depth than has yet been reached by any of the present workings. The shaft is 365 feet deep, double compartment, and is as fine a piece of work as has been performed in the district. A mineralized stratum, showing values as high at $11 per ton, was passed through at a depth of 330 feet. A station will be cut at this point and drifts run upon this vein. The shaft, at a depth of 365 feet, is in shale, and a contract has been let to prospect the ground 1000 feet deeper by drill. While it will require development to ascertain the value of the vein passed through, it is not the main Golden Gate vein, which will undoubtedly be cut by the drill, unless the theory of all the geological experts is at . fault. The Government geologists expressed the belief that the Mercur vein would be found to increase in value with depth, and possibly shange to a telluride, and the result of the East Golden Gate operations, with reference to this prediction, will be' watched with interest. con- sideration of the American people: You propose to commit the Republican party to a financial system which is intended to and does depreciate the value of every product of human toil, and you expect to prove, and you must prove to the American people, if you succeed in receiving their support, that it is to the interest of a producing nation to reduce the value of everything which it produces. You must also prove that it is to the interest of a debtor nation, whose debts are paid in its products, to depreciate the value of those products. Abstract of Recent Mining Decisions. Prepared for the Mining Review by Salt George Westervelt, attorney-at-laLake City, Utah. w, Discovery What Constitutes LocationRev. St. U. S. Sec. 2320, providing that no location of a mining claim shall be made until the discovery of a vein or lode within the limits of the claim located, it is the finding of mineral in rock in that constitutes the discovery, and it is not necessary that the vein or lode should contain mineral of such nature that a practical miner, if he encountered it, would feel justified in following it up, with the reasonable expectation of finding paying mineral. Nor is it required, -Under pi-ic- e under the statute, that paying mineral necessary to justify the location of the claim should be found at the time and place of the discovery, but it is sufficient if the development of the vein showed that paying mineral exists within the limits of the location. Mc-Sha- ne Pac. Rep. 979. (Supreme court of Montant, May 4, 1896). Survey and Patent Size of Survey. While the law prescribes a limitation as to the size of a single location, there is no limitation to the number of claims one person may hold by purchase, or that may be included in a single patent, or, It seems, in a survey, showing only the exterior boundaries, and omitting all interior lines of the several9 claims. Polks Lesee vs. Wendell, Cranch 87, and Smelting Co. vs. Kemp, 104 U. S. 636, applied. Carson City G. & S. M. Co. vs. North Star M. Co., 73 Fed. Rep. 597 (Circuit court, N D. California, March 16, 1896). Same. Effect of Patent Including Several Claims. The question of the right to a patent covering several vein or lode claims, before parallelism of the end lines wras required, is within the jurisdiction of the Land Department; and after the same is determined by it, and a patent Issued, the boundary lines as defined by the patent are the lines by wThich the rights of the parties are are to be determined, and the patentee cannot be compelled to rely upon the lines of the several claims of which the patented survey is composed. Tbid. Same. Right to Follow Dift. Vein terminating within claim. - When the apex of a vein crosses one end line of the claim and runs in the direction of its length, but is cut off, before reaching the other end, by a crossing, so that it terminates at that point, the right to follow7 the dip will be confined between the vertical planes of the one end line and a new end line parallel therewith, drawm at a point wTbere the rein disappears. Ibid. vs. Kenkle, 44 BY A. IIANAUEK, JR, The report of the special representative in Utah of the Director of the Mint shows the output of the Territory (now State) for 1895 to have been in round figures 75,000 ounces of gold, of a value of upwards of a million and a half of dollars, and over 8,000,000 ounces of silver. The coining value of the silver at $1.2929 wras some ten and a half million dollars and the actual value received barely half of that. The silver comes mainly from two counties, Summit, with 3,204,000 ounces to her credit for the year, and Juab, with 3,517,000 ounces. Juab, with ounces of gold, is a close 27,525 second to Tooele, wrhich leads, with 29,300 ounces. Nearly the whole of this comes, of course, from the Camp Floyd (Mercur) district Two mines only, the Ontario, in Park in Tintic, City, and the Bullion-Bec- k show an output of over a million ounces each of silver. The Centennial-Eurek- a, Tintic, comes next, with over 900,000 ounces. The Silver King, Park of City, produced some three-quartea million ounces. The Daly, Park City, and the Horn Silver, Frisco, had over half a million each, while the two Packard mines, the Eureka Hill and the Gemini, together produced over 700,000 ounces. But twro mines, the Mercur, Camp Floyd, and the Mammoth, Tintic, produced over a quarter of a million dollars each in gold. Another, the already mentioned as one of the heavy silver producers, had rs Cen-tennial-Eur- eka, nearly $175,000 wrarth', wrhile the Old Jordan and Galena, Bingham, and the Marion, Camp Floyd, came near the hundred thousand dollar mark. The precious metals leave the State for the markets of the world in three different shapes: In ore, as it comes from the mines; in the shape of base bullion and matte, as they are made by local smelters; and in bars of more or less fineness, made by mills using vaWere rious processes for reduction. the gold and silver separated, however, and shipped by themselves, either absolutely fine or of the fineness of sterling wrare, or of the United States coins, it would take a train of fifteen cars of an average capacity of twrenty tons each to transport our yearly output. Perhaps this gives a better idea of the extent of the product than a mere recital of the figures would do. Utah ranks third in the production of silver, being excelled only by Colorado and Montana. The gold output is steadily increasing, and single mines produce more nowT than the entire State did till a few7 years ago. While the year is not yet half spent, it would seem from the activity in the various camps and the steady stream of ore pouring forth from old and new producers that the silver output will show no decrease and the gold should reach $2,000,000 for 1896. The Kansas City Investor says IdaIn all recent discussions of the silver ho is making quite a stir in mining The biggest gold mine in the world, there been has question that nothing matters, and promises soon to rival which was in Arizona last week, is now goes so directly to the point as one por- some of her Western sisters. Idaho is in British Columbia. It is the Le Roi, tion of the speech delivered by Con- at the to Mr. Prichard, the Lonpresent time and has been for according don expert, who was Cecil Rhodess gressman Hartman of Montana before some years a very formidable rival to consulting engineer during the South the Republican conventions committee some of her Western sisters. African boom. |