Show WOOT FLATFOOT FLAT FOOT CANYON DEPOSIT THE BEST testimony res of the rocks pronounce halterman claims most wonderful the recent discoveries of kortals um bill or alunite deposits in the vicinity of parowan carowan is without doubt doub t the forerunner of f an unlocked for prosperity a resource of 1 great yelp value 0 md id importance not only to iro iron n twity but in the hour and opportune to ne moment to our national government As to the incalculable raw material quantities that is be a question with the favorable local condi conch tin ciuni with an unusual expose of varieties of min mineral eral acids sails its in compounds with and in alunite nitrate of potassium pota MT nitrate of sodium etc anere can be no fu further arther question as aa to their val values as examinations its de terminations and knab analyses sea have settled and answered all questions the areat great important proposition for consider consideration atio in by in interested terea ted poll parties is the establishment of a plant or works for treatment here at par owan no more favorable site in the west can be located particular ly utah when it is understood that within a radius of less than three miles of parowan carowan th thee the the e are the greatest beds and deposits I 1 set et found in utah or Tro bably in the united states slates that answers for all al that important question in support of this statement let any expert or any person go up the flat foot canyon on the Ea amussen hatterman halterman claims and ami seeing is IB believing and examination la is not damaging as to the hundreds of feet across the formation of inex haus tible bodies measures and deposits of alunite ores orea in all forms of nf compositions while great bodies of these ores are ara found in the canyons easterly and southerly in main and other canyons at greater distances from parol no such exposure of this mineral minera can compare with the flat foot cannon deposits which are owned jointly by job johnt T and ana robert Halter halterman nian of carowan parowan in all sorts forms oxidations exudations crystallization the alunite constituents and potash soda alum etc in the numerous cavities and caves caes of these sandstones of the cretaceous rocks and to the geologist and mineralogist minea logist this flat foot canyon is BY THE TESTIMONY OF THE ROCKS the bl most wonderful and well worth while to investigate up to the i 1 resent reliant time very little information could be obtained from dana brush or other text book on mineralogy as to what constitutes alunite ores from blaunstein t in grm glin but from danas text textbook book we have the folio following wis composition ka sa 1 plus iii atal bif also in mas tem i 1 e sive fibrous form seams in and other rocks it has been found at tolfa near rome tuscany Tusca nv hungary mt dore in france etc ores 0 of f same composition do as a al d unite but contains three parts part more water this has been found at to ta arze silesia however Ho weer we glean from the U S geological report of G F laugh who recently exa examined in tied the a alunite uhn ube deposits and developments near Marv evide and beaver utah much valuable information we have not the space to go into a lengthy description but give ex cerat or selections viz three varieties of oe alunite have been heen noticed in the veins coarsely crystalline fine grained to dense and laminated the coarsely crystalline variety is by far the most moot com comon common on it is whitish pinkish to reddish and forma large mosses masses of columnar to platy cr stall as well as small that cut the other two var laties the fine grained variety is a pinkish to white and resembles porcelain where hard and chalk where softened by weathering under the microscope some specimens are apen en to consist almost entirely of minute crystals of alunite with only an apparently ineligible neli gible amount of pyrites elica and kaolin quartz and talc the fine grained variety may mav resemble kaolin or miners talc especially if f enough kaolin is 13 present to yield its characteristic odor ina but t the fine grain alunite like the coarse grained abety variety may be recognized by its high specific gravity the laminated or shala variety differs daffe from the fine grained only in I 1 its structure which la is evidently do due t to shearing along the plane of t the c vein such a structure is could have 0 been developed in either of the oth t er varieties it seems from the reports of he hots it S gale and B S but ler or in bulletins nos J U S geol survey recently published that potash and nitrate deposits are arc found throughout the western states in most all the strata of sand i stones limestone and conglomerate if the cretaceous and the overflow of the igneous rocks of tertiary times are depositions of these minerals it I 1 is prell presumed umed that the origin of these mineral salts acids etc is from the former beja bed of the celm accous and tertiary lert iary seas and their estuaries which by receding saline waters and evaporation and con cent ration caused desposito des posits and tin im nation of all sor a of rocks this is one theory and has avaloa ba ble cause c for support next week we will wiil give more in detail or description of alunite and nitrates of iron county |