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Show 1 I MINING NEWS OF UTAH P And Other Western States highly mineralized. Thero aro huge dikes of felspatlc quartz, througn which tho ore depositions have been made, but the values are found In oxidized oxi-dized veins which appear to be contacts. con-tacts. Pronounced metamorphlc action ac-tion Is shown and of course that la a condition most favorable for gold. "The veins are remarkably strong and It Is necessary to dig only a few feet to get results that will excite any I gold miner. In the ores found In the middle of the district gold largely predominates. In' those on the outskirts out-skirts silver predominates In the ratio of about four to one as to weight. FOUR MILE MAY BE GREAT CAMP. Los Angeles People Beat Salt Lakers to the Gold District. Salt Lake, March 28. Republican: While little is heard on the outside concerning operations In Utah's new gold district Four MUo, 22 miles southeast of Black Rock It is evident that significant operations are In progress pro-gress there. W. A. Marshall, engineer, left for the camp last night with as-' I slstants and four miners. Tho miners I are to be placed at work developing claims previously located by Mr. Marshall Mar-shall and with his assistants he will make surveys of those and additional locations. Throe strong crowds arc already in the field with surveying outfits. Mr. Marshall said before leaving. These include the Utah Mines Investment company, which has taken up a great deal of ground in the new district and is sending in two outfits of machinery. machin-ery. Walter James and associates ot Black Rock,-and a Los Angeles syndicate syndi-cate with millions behind It. Mr. Marshall has sold to Akron and Dayton, Day-ton, Ohio, people his interest in tho Utah Mines Investment company, but he has personal holdings in Four Mile and will acquire others. Tho reason that so little has been heard of Four Mile, Mr. Marshall says. Is that the people interested there have gone in for the purpose of malting malt-ing mines, for which purpose they are abundantly supplied with money, and tho boomer has not yet arrived, 'lhat there will be ' plenty of excitement when the operations started begin to show results he Is confident. Walter James was in the city during the week with some fine samples of gold ore from his properties, but he, like the other operators in the camp, appear ap-pear not anxious to spread news of strikes. "I have never seen a better looking , gold district than Four Mile, so iar as surface showing Is concerned," said Mr. Marshall. "The only reason that I know why it has so long escaped attention at-tention is that It is within the tenccd pasture of the Bradshaw ranch, which has prevented travel going that way. Recently, however, gates have been placed in the fences and access is l easy. "The district is about eight miles long by three and a half miles wide. It is in a range of low hills between the Mineral and Beaver ranges ot mountains. The formation so closely resembles lhat of the Cripple Creole district that miners who have been In the Colorado camp become enthusiastic enthusi-astic over the showing In Four Mile. A large crowd of Cripple Creek mining min-ing men is duo to arrive in Four Mile about April 15, with the idea of starting an extensive campaign of exploitation. ex-ploitation. "The Four Mile formation comprises com-prises andesitic breccias, rhyolltes in different forms, some granites, quartz-ites quartz-ites and quartzltic prophyrles. all i . No signs of copper or lead appear in any of the oro; It is strictly a gold-silver gold-silver camp, as nearly like Crlpplo Creek and Goldneld as nature could j make it Assays so far obtained I range from $6 to $140 a ton. "The deepest working In the camp 1 at this time is a shaft 50 feet deep. , It has been sunk In the porphyry and a crosscut is now being run to the I vein. Whllo a great deal of ground ! has been taken up by the people al-! al-! ready there, and they appear to bo indifferent' as to whether others come j in or not. plenty of good ground re-j re-j ma!n8 to be located. I look ror a rush : to the district' as soon ns the snow shall have entirely disappeared, it is surely a coming big' camp. 2EN0LI LIKELY TO HAVE TWO MINES Working In New Ground as Well as Below Old Tunnels. The Zenoli Silver-Copper company, which, from workings only 75 feet under ground, has produced moro than $50,000 of shipping oro, Is now conducting con-ducting a campaign ot development vhicli is not only pretty 6ure to open ! extensive ore bodies below the level of the old tunnel, but which prom- ises to open a new mine besides. I On the opposite side of tho gulch from tho mouth of the old tunnel, in tho White Rooster claim, a new tunnel tun-nel is being driven in the opposlto direction to tap at 250 Teet depth a strong fissure which Is 15 feet Udo at the surface. Word from the mine yesterday was that at 260 feet in tho mountain the formation had changed to softer material carrying iron, the strong mineralization showing conclusively con-clusively that the tunnel is getting Into In-to ground favorable for the making of ore. The tunnel has from 40 to 50 feet yet to run to reach the Assure. An Interesting feature or the situation situa-tion Is that the White Rooster fissure and the Zenoli fissure, although In adjoining ad-joining mountains, are dipping toward one another a fact "which heightens the probability of encountering greater great-er ore bodies at depth. - The Zenoli Assure is faulted on the tunnel level, the fault being one ot the downward variety. The broken fissure has been picked up below the tunnel and a winze is being sunk from which the extensions of the ore bodies above will be developed. Since the Zenoli company was reorganized re-organized the new directors have been pushing development and the results they are achieving are highly gratifying. grati-fying. An assessment of two cents a fcharo levied for the purpose of carrying carry-ing on the work has been largely paid In by the large holders, so that there appears to be no doubt of the work being carried to a successful conclusion, conclu-sion, and that speedily. |