| OCR Text |
Show UTAH POTASH NEW - I ? ' t, . STATE INDUSTRY. J ' Ephraim Aug. 7 The great deposit 1 i, of alunlto found In tho Marysvale dls- 'J I ! & ; i trict last year has now reached a III S? I stage of development that warrants its III r i being recognized as one of Utah's J!T greatest sources of mineral wealth. - Ii'-V' The fact that a large number of local it s.- people and a number, of Salt Lakers i '". are interested in the propfertv con- III ! . -" trolled by the Florence Mining &. i ' Milling oompany, which adjoins the Custer groups, where the original ll,?-" alunltc discovery was made, induced i your correspondent to investigate the 1, present status of the deposits. ' While the existence or the big vein 1 ' ' has been known for a number or W years, it was only last year that its 11 ' 3 leal nature and value becamo known, 'i i5 and considerable development work ii-i was done on that part of the vein II ' , within the conilnes of tho Custer groups, it was examined last fall by llj i tho United States geological exports, lli who Issued several bulletins descrip- I q ri tlve of the depogit. Bulletin No. 511, j c j by Hoyt S. Gale of the United States -' alunltc, says: I , "A conservative estimate of the ton- i I nage of this deposit may be had by as- ' i i suming an average width of ten feet ! in the principal vein for a length of ' 7 3,500 feet, and neglecting the rest of I & the deposit as not sufficiently proved I, f1 to be taken Into consideration at pres- 11 - ent, there would be approximately i tiL 300,000 short tons of rock In each 100 111 lj feet or depth." The above quotation refers to that part of the deposit which was opened A up at that time on the Custor groups. i! The vein extends north from the Cus- I 1 ter ground through the posterity of I, -., the Florence Mining & Milling com- - pany and has since been opened very extensively on the latter company's l -A domain. Ji Big People Interested. II ji ,' During the present season an engi- jj ,V neor and chemist representing oha of 1 J American's greatest manufacturing concerns have been conducting an In- , vestlgatlon to determine the extent of this deposit on the Florence com- 'f't pany's ground. Open cuts have been I $ mad: on the vein every few hundred I 5a feet from the north line of the Custer I i-O ground to the north line of the Flor- j ,"" ence company's Edna claim, showing f J the existence of the vein In Florence j 1 territory for considerably more than III 1 5,000 feet. In all of these cuts the I 'jn alunltc 1b of the ame quality as the j samples pronounced by the Smith- j ;Sj sonian Institute at Washington as 1 ' "practically pure alunlte." The cut3 1 Sj show that the deposit consists of par- ? allel fissures, the larger ones showing j u a width of from twenty-five to forty i J . feet. fcj Figuring the deposit at an average ' $ depth of only twenty feet in the same VJJ manner as described in bulletin No. 4 511, they have for every 10 feet of " depth on the vein 904,348 tons of 'j alunlte, whichwlll yield 170,917 tons I j M of potassium sulphate, and added to III If this will be aluminum oxide contents III S amounting to approximately 334,000 I ',; tons. ' '. So far as at present determined, I i this big deposit Is confined to the . Custer and Florence properties, about II "KjJ two-thirds of It being on Florence jHj ground. 'm New Vein Just Found. rgr Last week another large deposit of W ' alunite was found on the Florence ? 5 company's ground about 3,000 feet I B 1 from the big vein. The depVslt Is en- J j ft 1 tlrely Independent of the original dis- 1 covery. It Is in the center of the II 11 Florence company's extensive domain, I 1 the company controlling the territory ll fl both ways along the vein for a groat Tj M distance. I tfl The development work on tho Flor- III 'I ence property done under tho direction fl of tho eastern interests resulted sat- M isfactorlly, and negotiations are now j H pending between the companies look- ' H ing to the erection of a .large mill to D treat the potash and aluminum con- I M tents of the alunlte , j H The Custer people also have a fore III W of men at work developing their end m of the property. I lj flP Another matter of great Importance 111 ffy to tho Marysvale district in particular, jg ll and to the mining Industry of the II y state also, Is the starting of the Bully IB '" Bov mill, which was placed in com- J k mission August 1. The mill started M v off without a hitch, and is now turn- II ing out a steady stream of high-grade 11 concentrates. JI '. oo II |
