Show TALK OF MINERALS AROUND CALIENTE Salt SaIl Lake Tul many mining mon of pass through Caliente ever overy lay dar tho people In that vicinity assort there thore has imas been heon but tIt lit littie tie done there thore In a mining way al although although though It affords some somo of the tho rare ost eSl metals 1 F J L Wilson a mining engineer has the tho following to say or of ortho tho district after making no an examina Ion of oC It It has lon long been a Question with the tho people or of Caliente why h tho they could not secure mills an smelters said Mr Ir Wilson the they have i a great deal of oC undeveloped ore indications of oC suit richness however to Indicate large deposits There Is or of water hero here to furnish power for tor n a large fill sIx monthS of oC the tho year ar There are arc natural reservoir sites In inthe the tho vicinity for or storing this water which could be perfected at small cost which If properly handled would supply a mill all tho th year roun round with power There are arc a few gold silver lead and galena and copper mines In the vicinity that have proven beyond a doubt their permanency from rom there I wind that there really has been no prospecting that has been done In a systematic way The rho pros prospector who goes It blind In this dis district triet stands a poor chance of oC ever getting beyond beron his first samples There is no section of the state where I he needs the knowledge of oC geology and more Nature has placed some of oC the rarest metals close to Caliente Some Somo or of these metals aol dom If ever reach rench n a western assay office and tho average assayer sel selom sd dom om In a life lICe time Some Somo of the largest bodies or of 10 low grade gold ore oro In the state are at atthe the very door of oC Caliente awaiting eat Cobalt carry nickel Is abundant Nickel Is found In Ito He and Those These minerals are aro analogous to copper silicate kown as and It Is possible they run more Into copper values I also find some sarno cinnabar In this vicinity but ag a no work has been done dono on this It Is hard to determine Its future or black sulphide of oC mercury exists In pa paying quantities near neur Elgin Bight 20 miles south This mineral greatly resembles grap graphite hite In There Is scarcely l a rock found In Inthis inthis this vicinity that does doos not show Ring tung tungsten sten Acid aluminum Is present In large amounts Many mineral streaks show In small p pYrites rHes Above Caliente opals are arc plentiful they are arc small but there is iR nothing to show that anyone an one over tried to find larger ones A few mIles south are bodies of onyx which if IC opened up tip may provo prove sufficient to work Last but not nol least I wIll call your attention to the theto theto to the tho great beds of magnesium mitt min minerals the lIte New York quotations on these Is 18 per pound What Is needed Is expert ment of these resources and then all that will be needed will be the tho capi capital tal You have hao the stu stuff C what you lack lacki i is men with push who will show their own confidence by br developing It will not bo be out of place hero to advise the prospector In this district not to the fact that certain ro rocks ks and earths in this vicinity though not generally reckoned among minerals have havo not infrequently proved the tho foundation of oe largo large fortunes and for that reason are aro worth worthy tIme the time lime of 1 locating antI and investIgation |