Show THROUGH THE NORTH and Us bicci illanes special air to the in looking over the salmon river district af mines wo find that it embraces a strip of country lying west of the river that is very large in extent and rich in mineral deposit sI lave partially described the bonanza district in which some noted mines are located then came custer with its wonder in the shape of rich ore and mammoth properties of vein body after returning to this place a visit to TUB BAY HORSE DISTRICT and others lying of here was a pleasant one and fu il of surprise at alie importance of the field now be aag opened up in a much more sue manner than has been ble heretofore acara ago a man riding a bay horse made some dincov cries here and reported the fact at salmon city and so described the creek that others might find it from this fact came the name of bay and tho district has be come famous for its mines from challia the is reached by a good road of twelve miles in my trip thither I left the wagon road at a point halfway thither and followed a trail up and over a divide thu trail besides being an easy one passes along on such an elevated ridge aa to give very rand views of mountain scenery the most hotd fame reached in the route along this trail is the one called HAMS HORNS bec flue the death leap of a mountain I sheep landed carcass upon a ledge of mineral and thua revealed to he fortunate hunter a rich find from which came tho mine nov so far developed as to be a paying institution the main ledga has been tunneled on its leneth by one of three hundred and fifty feet and another one hundred and eighty feet ve entered the first tunnel and after examining the ore bodies here and therein the narrow drifts and upward slopes we finally went up a drift on the vein anich lies at an angle of about thirty degrees from a level and wo finally reached the other tunnel which ii about one huldred feet above the other at various other points along the face of the is being done in the way of gelling at the ore body and opening up the mine tho vein varies in thickness from three to twelve feet is chloride ore and carries an average of one hundred and forty ounces of silver with sixteen percent lead and the mine is owned by men principally from salt like city the ledge is located in clale u easily mined and of such quality as to smelt well to get the ore down from such a precipitous and high mountain they have put in a tramway feet long provided with wire rope to draw the cars and a turnout to the track of T rail so as to let the two cars pass each other from the top of the hill in which this mine is located tho minera belt can be traced for several miles ns it passes the hills and canyons and many exten have been located on this ledge and some of them are being developed into good mines TUB SKY TUB BOY are extensions which are being deval tl oilier balges lie parallel with tho hams biorn lode which are very similar in structure to that of the rams horn THE BULL 01 TUB WOODS is ono of the best of these with its hanging wall of slate and foot wall of porphyry tho vein dips west at an angle of about forty five degrees and the ore is very rich going up so reported loan ol 01 something near ounces these mines are being worked at an alti tado of feet above the level of the sea and the oro is taken by pack to the new smelling smelting sm elting works located down the bay iiorio gulch borne three miles from abo minea after spending the day in looking at these mines and others near by and viewing the grand panorama of hills gulches and which are almost bottomless wo rode down the steep trail to THE towa BAY noral this town canies conies because of the smelter just completed and put in motion by the cinalia smelling smelting Sm elting and refining co the capacity of the present works aji furnace la thirty tons of ore per day and its success a new to this mining district many mines are located in this immediate vicinity and much ot tha ore would go OB the dump as waste because of its low gabo were it net eliat now they cn c n be successfully and profitably be reduced thin smelling smelting sm elting company are wll prepared for working ores hore chuo their morics in havo become an enormous affair hiving paid last year nearly seven million doll arst for ore and bullion a large portion of which went from utah idaho and montana THE nay borig SMELTER will work a largo force here in operating the works and developing w berous mines which they leave one half niilo from the town is located the bardsley mine which has become somewhat noted a an ore producer and is owned by robert beardsley Beard nley co opened two years algo it hoa continued to produce well tho vein is in limestone with talc hanging wall and varies in thickness from three to twelve leot and while streaks p loduco ore runs uli up into thousand the or alie entire lode will reach about civo ounces silver and twenty five per cent lead and the mine L considered a very valuable one further south up the salmon ami on alio west side wo reach the district a kown robetr the former 13 six milea from bay and among the being worked and worthy of note are the vermont Broad ivay you knote aion and otlie rg the latter i owned by utah iea abo have run a tunnel four hundred feet three hundred of which is on the acin which is three feet thick during this month four hundred tons of bood chloride has been taken out kinnikinnick is thirty dye mile auth of chellia and here another emelder will oon bo in operation under the oath baho smelling smelting Sm elting co composed of omaha hartjes part jes bome of whom were formerly connected with the refining works there numerous mines are now producing ore tica ilar in quality to that of the bay diore district in the strip of country I have hamd we find tho mineral bell k ahn and all tributary toC halt w to take these ores out by pack animals ani malf nd to blackfoot Alack foot onil thence hip iq shelters smelters sm elters jn other lo 10 would euph a tp kiako it impracticable for all others but very rich ones while the greater portion of alio product of the miners labor would go on the dump iia waste or else as low grade to await the coming of reduction works the erection of the two shelters smelters sm elters entirely changes the aspect and gives an impetus to these now lively camps that will make them known to the world as prominent bullion producers all the ores are said to be easily worked in all these new camps the building of broadi and other improvements requiring labor aud capital haa to be done before mining properties become practical value and here that class ot work is being done through mutual assoria tion and the mines aro alius coming rapidly to a paying basis place these district in one and we have a strip forty miles long and ten miles wide thai is rich in minerals and seems at present to bo only a little isolated from the other districts of balanza and ouster and yet the between may bo equally as rich when once prospected take it in all I can say but little except in praise for all the mining country reached through Challis which seems to be the to this great mineral region N J sharp formerly postmaster at ogden bai lately sold out liis london city ranch and come here to live G CHALLIS idaho sept 1880 |