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Show Ea - ——-7 — z . A cn fn a = ee Soa ' = } ———— 7 ree Ghe Silver Beef Miner. Ghe Silver Reet Min * {88UED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY { Edward Pike, Pubiisherand Prop’r | , ——————_»> >___—__; OFFIOE—Main St. , Silver Reef. TERMS OF SUBSCBIPCION: ed ahcesn 204 or nds hese es=s 6688 FORE, loss DUG _ Devoted O00) ce £0 Tarde Monthiy..-.- +++.» : Pores nee | No. 10. SANDSTONE. SILY ER SILVER REEF, Interests of 0 eee 3 WASHINGTON COUNTY, UTAH, little can be said with ators mnie so fossils favo characteristic Mead vy Chas. M. | been found in them, Reeds and rushes | Synopsis of a Paper Rolker before the American Institute | te plentiful, but no leaf or shell has | of Mining Engivecrs. been traced to this locality. [8. F. Mini +g aud Scientific Press.] THE REEFS THEMSELVES pre-| well while y. os By this theory the | as $40 in silver, I also noticed, in q, “ the nounced that silver had been found in a ee ii sandstanes, and Be- silver should occur indiserimately over | Buc keye reef, a six-inch seam of jasper sandstone formation, at Stiver Reef, | Ween bas ol e tr S blue la eeen to | tJarge area instead of* being confined | resting between sandstone and clay r ay duced beliedenstaat linn voce in color from blue to limited belts, in close proximity to | shale. Utah, very few people belleved TAC) cinnamon brown, of ‘The ore occurs in | ¢oymey yolcaiiie centers, as at the reef end inthe ‘dis trict eae WarreeaCity: and clay anything of the Sue i kind in such a formation, and, in, - fact it couldn't be possible. It Was,an geo-| cent ees not only im-| ee ent probability but ats an impossibility. That is, in November shipment of which but is was 1875, a few northwest side of the horseshoe: men of pre- to be found. centrated in As early as prospected Judge Barbe e then,eame in along, later as to bring one ix.first ore; and a litth-while. afterWard another shipment was made, for Pioneers mills. _ In 1878 the Christy, and Barbee & Walker mills, were built. ‘Khe camp is now a very prosperonus one, the American From this paper, of which we The remarkable district under consideration lies about 320 miles south of salt Lake City, in Washington county, the Arizona border. Lt is now Arriving at Silver Reef, the main camp of the district, one sees at once that hé stands w here once t surging sea has its domain, marked now by large sandstone deposits of a red aud white color, ‘The town itself, a neat, clean and orderly mining town, is encircled on the north by trachyte and granite mountains, skirtiig tothe west. They are cut through in places by deep gorges, left us as the only trace of former into another. Hence the may, and very run together places, at currents, seams to-mill right along $60 to $130; which drained the adjoining territory to the north; and. which,. when swelled and infuriated by tempests and cloud-bursts, took in their grasp huge blocks of granite and trachyte, which unfortunately their occurrence is not as frequent as might be wished. THE ORF ITSELF ‘ ogy lie scattered about as boulders, Lo the north, west and cast of the town, below true water-level will change to the stlphuret of silver, with native silver in places. Of the latter, two indications have been met» with, A tested sample yielded ina certain nine only 9599 of chloride of silver, This proportion will decrease in ratio as water-level is pe and the ore gets Ix what chloride At the base of these encireling mountains lies A BELT OF DULL, BRICK-RED SANDSTONE Over 1,000 ft thick. Its extent is seen on the west side of town, and iis trend is for over thirty miles to the south, Following the northern saudstone ure, right alony $35 to $55, and others run us Slow as $1. { to $173 and at timeseven $s and $10, ‘Phe question of and northeast, high sandstone tableof variegated HOW colors, trom white, to grey, to yellow, beanti. fully banded, looking in the, distance like formidable castles3 a romantic the ue- tion of voleanic forces, stands now boldly several hundred feet above the town’s plateau. Underlying, as it for- merly did, the surrounding sandstone country, it has since acted as a central, wedge, around which the other strata have been grouped. Conformable to its east and west slopes, we see the strata dipping east and west, with be contined a carried solely to places where we find organic remains. TLowever, such ix not the case, taking the district as a silver is @#ind in good permanent grades in strata showing a searvity of yegetable remains. Again, I have zen a stratum where the upper 2 f'. assayed about $30, then 6, inches assuying $100 or more, thea 15 seen and which mined in spots as low were por- really as $20 and as high as $45 and $53. gut grant for a moment that the silver was deposited contemporan- away eously with question how did the sandstones. to present ‘Phe first itself would be, the silver yet into the former Rea? FROM WHAT 8OURCK DID THE SILVER bed Like the red *RandCOME! ; atone hefore mentioned, which has the The surrounding border mountains shape. ofa horseshoe with, the open side ‘o. thy. south, sO. these .recfs.are, have eo far not been so, kin |,to the grouped uniformly about the wedge ‘prospector as to. reveal any seurce of 1 silver, and farther northweret “above myeationed, gold or Jead mixed with ores ¢entainAe-to the age of the ae quence timings te: the result of decomposition bullion » : Silver © -: reid ; Reef. Sn Bich Black Broadcloth stock Urrice—Next to Woolf REEF Cc. & ST., °“- - ls Now Complete. Flannel Surgeon - SILVER SILVER (springs) emit steam and other, so did- we MAURICE 30 ft. apart, in “BALT Notary. the the same permeable REEF. and sand present “ASK PARENTS. 170 CALL AND BXAMINE— - A. Phladpin Salen CAPITOL. ei - - - THE BEST . UTAH. T, Salt ———e Wines, Liquors & John Fortman, Prop’r. CIGARS Bailey, to - “MAIN STREET, SILVER REEF. Main &t,, Silver heef, - Obtainable in the —The Ohoicest Brands of— 0. Bailey), UNITED STATES. AGENT!|-43 door | WINES, City, Utah M. WH. Quiax. er in cases’ With pyrites, See a very atnall amount of copper. cn places GIVE ME A CALL. id. ns BROTHERS y i AKES APPLIOATIONS FOR MINERAL Patents; prepares Homestead, Fre-emption, Timber Culture, Desert Land and Pension | tlon, and-save a trip | Posioffice Box 263. HICKOX Paper Write tohbim, enclosing pondence anawered stamp te tbe city. for THE The a “invite our tulende nade ‘the public in Sekaent to ive us ; None bat the finest eau Transacts > One of the finest Billiard Tables H FINE CLUB ROOM IN REAR. aun NOTICE. Osshier, A WEEK. Saas f N°?! STELe FOR SUPPLIES FOR THE ee & Walker Silver he Company. oe rabies tigen of any kind, wil! © rec$12 » day at home easily ogniszed except on written orders ‘trom the ri Ourat (ree, address Tavs es Uo. »auguets, Matoe , OGDEN, ota, ? r ; ee: ; / ¥ vee ane are Bup't. Sahieemy pitied, Ms 1” st 48y : yet “ ao Bag MESA ; as ie orks oy et h? on ty fe him, ij ae whee (is mR ee I ese foment van i , a mA oan always, the beat Wines, Liquorsana AEORGE States and RICE, ‘bie ~Main-atreet—— rope, JOHN may rely on Nextdoorto the DrugStore, on hand, on Aalt Lake, San Fran- cisco, aud all parts of the Lastern Cigars, ELK-HORN SALOON. First Class _ Liquors and Cigars Utah, BUSINESS. Exchange and Will be kept oa hand, and eee in the Territory, a General BANKING Liquors Rell prompt and courteous tesatmen Alway’ Furniahes , @ oall, Pioneer Billiard Beaang Company, ° - WVE HAVE PE NED THE ApovEdoUsE m LEEDS Silver Reef, & RAFFERTY, Prop'rs. tnforma- all corres- promptly. { lett SISene Cosmopolitan’ teloon, BartTHoLomew J. Quin QUIRK silver, and others again be tree from it. They are, in “inatunces, coated W ith nativedilver, and also intergrow n a AND ene. 1) een enemas south of White Heuse, Lake @:qvors Obtainable in the Market always of J. H. CASSIDY. NN and silver ore, You may eall it “kind” and “unkind? copper, 1 substantiated this on both reefs, and the trained eve will tell it at a glance. Other objects of interest in the beds are occasional pieces of INTO VEGETABLE. MATTER) CHANGED LIGNITE, Some of *which will assay high in i PAT. Salnons. Saloons. next to Mo- > OFFICE—Firat the grades of the sib hl Sea ar ere AND ND Goldsmith & Ge: : “SALT LAKE CITY and SILVER REEF. ——_ green-looking malachite, the amount 8¥ : IS REPLETE WITH ALL THE NOBBIEST. STYLES of Children’s Clothing in sizes to fit from 4 years u UTAH, Street, - | LAND be azurite, ora grassy- improves 3 = gees! Our Boys and Children’s Department_ Wier Pander of of silver in the bed will diminish, 3 —— WE Surveyor, - (Successor y—-—-- COPPER IN THE SILVER BED J have observed a curious fact. If the copper ies Seoke beds, no doubt the chemical nature of the precipitating agents, In places where the qnantity of copper was buat sinall in the asvending waters it has been deposited | ii the same bed with the silver. As to the occurrence CITY, PARKER. REEF Jno. direc- while the silver has gone to the adjacent bed, accordiug to the mechanical roeks, Colored KAIGHN, Main Mineral reefs, the waters carried more copper in solution than in others, and through of the H. SILVER upper strata of the earth, certain and Blankets, Quilts, Else to be Found ina ypalinsteeec Public in Office. those some molecular attraction, it secins as if the copper has more or less liinited eondition LAKE A dissolving the silver from those rocks, portions of copper were dissolved with it from adjoining zones which gave rise probably to the copper deposits farther south, In places along the itself to White Overshirts, Gloves, Suspenders, Rubber Boots, and Everything Mining Eagineer & U.S. Deputy tion, forming’ three ore chutes one under the other, or how the productive branches ran together again. As the thermal witers under pressure coursed through and Contains Underwear, UTAH, 3. Orrice: No. 81, Jernick’s Bank. metallifferin OF- Attorney-at-Law, days different channels, which are now marked by the pay ehutes. We can thus easily see how, according to the hardness and compactness of the sundstone beds, the solution percolated fand STOCK of the sul- have Pants. Will attend to any legal business entrusted to his care. ous vapors, at variable distances from each REEF, Velvet Vests and a “Fault” Suits and single “<= Gents’ Furnishing Goods= Orrice—Next door to Halpin's store. MAIN Cassimere \ - - UTAH. MANTOR, & Suits, Silk and Silk of All-Wool —OUR \ Jordan's. - - - -.- Physician TRADE ++. A. N. THOMPSON SILVER a 8 pro- Physician, Surgeon & Accoucheur, phurets. Asat Steamboat springs. today, Where thirteen distinct openings invariably feet, steady inches say $303. I have and barren, and below it a layer of $20 ZERA SNOW, rock, all of the strata being full of petrifactions. —_, From theseand other facts, I form Attorney-at-Law, my opinion that the sandstones and Box 41, BEAVER CITY, UTAH. silver have not been deposited at the same time, nor the ore deposited by Assistant U. S. Attorney for Utah. precipitation from metallic solutions assing in from above, niine the sandstones had been tilted. D, P WHEDON, AT THE, TIME OF THE VOLCANIC DIS(Late assistant U. 8. Att'y for Utah.) TURBANCE, berets solutions, probably aecom- Attorne y-at-Law nied by steam and vapors, ascended absoputely void to the eye of organic renmiins, and still milledan average of whole. tions. of these beds fora streteh-et-200. to a depth of oyer 100 feet, forming a valley. Of these reet’s we note three: the \ hite the Buckeye, and the Butte reef, overlying each other in the se- concep and deposit barren rock, as would be indicated on the theory of contemporaneous. deposition by ‘the alternations just mentioned. We fintkin the marie Tie of bedding, itisa bad indication for the life of this particular chute, If the copper presents, “however, a pale, but Tively green, With a bluish shade in it, as we often find the stain on quartzy ores, it consecutive their strike is clearly marked by protruding ribs or reefs, the intervening or THE solutione or vapors. T advocate the latter theory. [ admit, at the first glance, one may be inclined toassime a contemporaneous deposition, inas~ much as the reeds coated: and partially ‘replaced with horn-silver, arc plentiful, anda cursory examination may show in certain localities the silver to than the softer underly ing shales, and washed INTO some, While others hold that it has been deposited by ascending inineral varying inclination of from 15 to 3 degrees, striking in a northeast and ‘southwest direction, On either side of this wedye We find a series of superimposed sandstones, ‘These white sandstones being harder have withstood the we athering action better shales being SILVER CAME SANDSTONE also amoug experts. ‘The theory of contemporaneous deposition is held by Turning to the south of the town, sce a ” sandstone hill, about 14, miles distant, which, through THE has been Giseussed guite frequently in the camp, as may be imagined, and picture in the glow of a setting sun. we reach of w: uters and ehloride of of the camp is probably $20 to $25, though I have mined portions of beds which averaged takes the shape of a horseshoe. Back of these red sandstones, on the east extend, is known as cerargyrite or of vsilver, which, however, more outside ‘the charged with oxy ne sodium, ‘The gy yade it flanks to the east and soi ith, gradually sinking into the ground until the volcanic lava caps, and nearly covers it, leaving protruding masses like rocks ina fiery sea. ‘The whole belt lands hs ranc Store CO ; : Lrotrssionat. silver so as to deposit argentiferous rock, and then, again, free ‘fsom silver often*does, in day, 2 sure ducer, Of course the less clayish or argillaceous the sandstones, the less slimes are produced inthe mill. The southern and part of the middle portion of from below and. percolated through the Buckeye reef, show less frequently these sandstone beds, which at that vegetable remains than the remaining time were most porous. ‘The pressure portion and the White reef, and in decreasing, the vegetable remains in parts these remains are absent. In some -parts, ferrugtiGus™ masses mn other parts, and this holds true for the others, precipitated: thesuiphurets of whole district, we find the producing silver (and copper in places), while at sandstone beds underlaid by a stratum other points the silver was deposited of highly argillaceous sandstones of by evaporation, as neither of the two variable thickness of trom 10 inches to prec ‘ipitants is found. ‘The upper por2 feet, which carry much silver, and tions, now ¢chahged to chlorides, are frequently show solid sheets of hornthe result of surface waters charged silver along the reams of the thickness with oxygen and chloride of sodinm, of a knife blade. [have known such ‘and the native silver found in places is reached by the Utah Southern and its extention, andsthe last: hundred miles staves. second one from the third ;one by 30 ft. of unproductive ground, with a well-marked ehute in: eich, one overlving tho other. I cannot see how it is probable that a current in one locality shonld be at one time charged with to a uni- and argillaceous sandstone. tion. near down least two of them do, and then again continue for long distances with barren strata between, which vary in thickness’ from 3 to Td and even 30 feet or more. In the depth, or following the dip, they have kept pretty well their own ground, but 1 have no doubt that what is now considered two and three separate beds will at a greater depth form \but one bed throughout. The producing branches in alk the inines change dccasionally from a sandstone to a clay shale, even in the same bed, but certain portions of the reef show _a preponderance of clay shale Have received advance sheets, subject to revision, we have taken the liberty of extracting such parts a8 are of, general interest. In doing this, to-accomdate it to our space, we have necessa‘rily omitted a great deal of matter, but have endeavored to present the prominent features of the writer’s desrip- ‘are run by the grade in number, (Institute of Mining Engineers, Mr. Charles M. Rolker, of New York, read ‘a paper des:ribing this district in detail, ond. one by’4 ft. of barren rock, and the prove it to have jumped into a lower or a higher bed respectively. In other words, “the argentiferous SAMDSTONE BELT IS COMPOUND IN strata ho ding petrifactions from STRUCTURE, ‘inches to 3 ft. thick, Which contain no The producing branches, two or thFee silver ore, while abov e and below it tention, and in 1877 the’ Leeds mill was built; and also the Stormont and of bed cross-cut mills, Hisidistrict then began to attract at- late meeting As a rule it is more coneertain layers (beds) of giving out of the ore in-one bed is not exactly a discouraging fact, for : He finally re:tlized from ore, Seo from Salt, bake smelters and $2: 3,000 from Pioche Ata B Ht MIT HOLIDAS form $10, Which does not pay to work. F requently , uso, the ore is thrown, in consequence of very fine slips, from the ear, Went away, returned and prosacted further. In December he ship- which he received $7,000. ‘The this belt, but in places itis so scattered in fhe camp, but-left disgusted. GOLDs ae wee : protein dee $12 charge has been reduced to $10 and DAL, EXCLUSIVELY 1N READY-MADE: CLOTHING, F ae hoes, Hata, Caps, Etc.,. for Mens, Youths, Boys Childrea’ Boots Mill assays govern, of course... and separ-| the 4 other underlying by chute ated respectively and again 30 ft. «$9."Taking the camp as a whole, it Wear, we have just received forthe of barren rock, ix likewise hard to ex- shows very well indeed, and it must be plain by this theory. I tefer to a cer- ranked among our goed camps. If tain instance in the Buckeye mine, ‘the companies now operating there near the Gad shaft, where there are will work their mines legitimately and three distinet producing branches, the systematically, the camp will continue top one being separated from. the sec- to. be for along time yet, what it is toFANCY WORSTED DRESS SUITS, ore is by no means confined always to one bal, but it is limited to a silver zone of from 30 to 90 feet wide, horizontally measured, - and anywhere within this belt the hortisilver is Hable $72,996, 2 continuation tious regular shipments. May, te yéef has been washed. off, asin portions»of the Buckeye reef on its the total bullion -the- camp ° ue Tigh milling charges and royalties nave been drawbacks in the early days known, the camp. « toto the the poor prospector, Lard itet of of the one ped Farthermo south we earfind the] Sime beds ‘arrying copper ores in rich) and the present regtlar rates could be quantities, a faet hard to explain under} wel] r i 1 6 ly, 80% of + ) . theory of conte ra ade COUCEH, BAMeYs OF tne theory of EDOM Errante Bry value, 20% discount, and $12 perABBAY ton face of the reef, with the exception of itation from above. | The perfect and} for milling 3In returning only $52 from those places peurenlenar former apex of distinct occurrence of ore chutes in $100 ore. instances of big lots, the It was found, however, practically speak-} ing, not only a possibility, but a fact, and one yery well evidenced on the ‘proof of the-pudding’’ principle. = Be sandstone strata. by a reddish ~ mice iceous sandstone, while the floor is an arenpceous] Ath: ap. | sundstone of . a whitish color, ee | gillaceous crop of thesands ore isunderlying. m: raced ons “Fhe the out= lena | > prt Me per to expect ; ¢ S nonsense : to anything. } similar amount would tind the ‘ ve COST OF WORKING 3 THE ORES side Many so-called experts aaid; it SEwas shale. ‘he roof isMeegenerally marked; | Sd in ‘the distelet ne t VirsemCity,| “Many, 80-C: : reset Te te Glothin are trees of found, some of which:assay a | inpeEyestsog ten os the= er VOL. cipitated. by the decomposing veget-|others do not. The silyer is not alone able remains, why not the fead and limited to the outside bark, but I tried the gold, of which no trace is| pieces from the very interior of such a sy found? W ay is pe oe _ b ae which I carefully washed ted to zoner, outside of which no sil- | and scrubbed, and they yielded as high : ver ¢an be folind? Are made up of whitish-gray and red When, a few’ years ago, it was an-| and 12, (ss), A a a | X. B.—Our sent office, take orders moneys JANUARY branches and then, if the silver|trunks wees ing slicer: have | was dissolved by ithe waters, tah. U Southern WEDNESDAY, Le ® J acc ncrerscnascccecessesseseeesen on to a Spee ——_—___— —-- the Mining a nen J.B. bee > | } Biz Months... eit ere ue AG Onan... BuMOgomeRT Ht Room 1 0. i ' | + yf PoE i ; 4 MILLER, ae |
