Show I T L S Tt r MINES AND MINING DITE BY av f F. F W. W j STATELINE STATE LINE YET TO BE GREAT MILLING CAMEt CAMEI GAMP CAME t I I Idleness of Two Old Properties Does Not Reflect on 1 Merit HAS BIG QUARTZ LEDGES t Jt Shares Attention Being Attracted Attracted At- At traded By Results to S Gold Springs Tho The deep Int interest rest now being taken In InGold InGold Gold Cold Springs district In the western portion of Iron county count has been the means of again turning the attention of or the mining public to Stateline district district dis dis- the discovery of or which severn several I years ago o says ago says ays tho the Salt SnIt Lake Mining Review Revlen led to the find finding Ins of or th tho great grent mineral minera ledges of Deer Lodge district Pikes' Pikes Diggings and eventually e Gold Golc Springs Deer Lodge is on the Nevada Id of nf the line dividing Utah anc and Nevada evada and Gold GoM Springs adjoins adjoin on the south virtually taking In Pikes' Pikes Diggings all three of these camps being located on a great groat porphyry por per I belt extending for ten ton or fifteen miles in a northerly and anI southerly dl- dl di direction direction and which is three e or 01 four fout miles In width On this zone there thero are numerous quartz ledges of mammoth proportions which nr are gold Jold Tho These e are very pronounced in State Stat lino Ine and Deer Lodge and even cn north of the they nr aro In existence where here a number of or valuable locations t I have hivo been heen made marJe Essentially a n Cold Gohl Camp was established in the tho year rear l h by r tho Ow discovery of tin tin- Ophir anti and Burro mines mIne At first the tho new now district was as supposed to bo ho silver hearing hut but within a n short time limo It Jt was shown that Stateline was principally a gold Johl camp and that the silver producing veins were east and amid west vest fissures cross thrown out h 1 by the main north and south ledges of the tho district The Ophir and Burro mines are aro on the these e east cast and west vest veins The first gold dl discovery covery was wn made mado on the time Creole located on a n north and south fissure Following this Important dl dl- dl covery came the location of other parallel fissures to the west and gl at ledges of or gold bearing quartz were later found on Rice nIce Mountain Mountain- just north of or Rice Rico gulch The Johnnie vein eln from which so much gold old has been taken was practically a n. blind d deposit posit and was not found until tho camp was two two two-or or 01 three years' years old It Ita now a demonstrated demon tact fact t that the thc maln fissures of the camp are Its north anI Routh- Routh ou h veins ens und and that thee thoe Invariably In- In variably are aro productive o of gold with only a small percentage percenta e o of silver pros pros- 5 A. A t. t ent Stateline i Is about sixteen miles west westor of or Modena lodena Utah a station on the Salt Lake Lako route The fhe elevation is about feet A good wagon road of or easy ens grade connects the camp with the railroad Water Vater for mining millIng mill mill- Ing and culinary purposes Is easily secured and pinyon pine and cedar cover er the tho hills hilll affording tu fuel 1 In plent plenty and small timbers timber's for far mining purposes es I There Thero are two big mills in the camp the Ophir and the tho Johnnie both of oi which are arc Idle at the present time lime The Johnnie company has been a divi l payer lend and tho the mine mino is in no exhausted Bad management or lack of or harmony mn may be he given as an nn excuse for the fact that thal both the Ophir and the Johnnie are now out of commission but this does not detract from froni the real and intrinsic value o of these mines nor should it reflect upon the actual merit of the camp as the geology of oc the section gives almost almos er C every assurance that with proper de development IC- IC and management will vill yet take tako rank as one o or of orthe the greatest mining districts of the West cst Ore H Resemble k Tho The ores greatly resemble in character character char char- acter tho those e of Bodie Bodle Cal of or the Corn Corn- stock tock lode and of Tonopah Ores found fount In this titis character of porphyry throughout the tho Vest West usually have the same mme characteristics and are arc unS un un- un derived from tho the body o of S igneous rock roel at greater depth Theore The Theore ore usually occurs in well defined am and continuous shoots In the Johnny Johnny- Margaret Ophir Ophir vein the tho shoots rake rako into the tho west at an nn angle of or about 45 degrees and occur at nt or 01 near Intersections InterSections Inter Inter- sections with north and nt south veins eln Another r noticeable feature of this vein I Is the tho fact that In tho the Johnn Johnny ground the gold Jold values lar largely l predominate pro pre dominate in the Margaret tho the gold and tho the silver il yalU values S are about equal while in the Ophir silver values altie are largely Jars in ex excess cess The ores of the district except those S. S found in the silver sliver veins are arc what are arc generally described as free tree milling The ilie only m metallic contents being gold sliver silver and a small mall percentage of or Iron In various various' forms Corm anti and some Mm marigan- marigan mangan mangan- ese se As n a rule Iule thc they are low-grade low 4 averaging from 5 to 20 O 0 a ton Yer Very rich s samples may be bc taken from al almOSt almost td- td most any vein and and considerable ore has hns been heen shipped that netted from 1000 to a car but high grade I In th the ore oro or In quantity I is not common future everything will be bo milled on the I ground |