Show valdosia Val dasia gold mines co pushes deep development campaign now being carried out in buckley tunnel will seek lower extension of values showing in surface strata of holdings lying iliin on oil tile vat ast 1st slope or of the liilie lii liu of in ill Is in MI 11 us tile the beaver uplift I 1 if t 11 e found it 11 group of ilal ilits 4 long iio in III stalls hold gold lilston lil tor luel lidil in ill tin OIL hiiva lilt are the all y amount hald G add old mid and ahlo ohi districts all have precious lim loii records molds hid old how while where lit in gold ila I 1 H irvell baliell till frolli tilt the region li oll in III tin the pat lust current uth itUs tire aie in ill and new dav all loument now llott under ma Is 1 C xay tweter to open new sources of wealth in the mount baldy bald district seven miles tt LE the teri lillius of the Mais vale branch of the D R G railroad nt lit M arys rale plate county count sev cral 1 il properties tire an active or 01 are pla planning active developments for foi UK h future the iho valdas 1 iii I 1 G gold old I 1 minos mines corporation which alch owtis what lias has been described by it IL prominent engineer as a cral empire k N busily buell e n ga g ed in val iiii 1 ing illg out a campaign campal gu of devel opulent to open its property at depth these holdings owned out ight b by the Vald asla asla gold cold mines corporation consist of OT mining clainie oni bracing an area of ap proximately hi ittu 0 square miles on nhat is known as gold hill the naine auto of gold was given this tails mountain after rich surface gold ores ins were discovered and mined in the early eirl dis days of tile the district the hie VaId aldahla ald asla corporation has hag carried out a systematic prospecting of the area embraced embi aced in ill its holdings it has also ako extended its ita prospecting to other adjoining areas in order to got get a definite picture to as assist kt iu in planning lug an aa economical leal development of its prop erty cit at most favorable points and lit in the most manner con sistena with modern modem rg practice the principal development I 1 now w under way vai Is centered in the buckley runnel lunn cl which velch Is id being driven to open the buckley fissure about nine little hundred feet below the find and to explore the quartz ito ile I finestone contact which underlies portions ot of the property the proal property arty Is underlain with sediment tary enry beds to those in which large ore bodies have been found lit in tills this district as well as in 1 other mining districts starlets of the state the buckley tunnel la Is now in one thousand feet modern machinery is being used in driving the tunnel which Is now living drive driven in a shattered quartzite some stringers of ore have been cut in ill the progress of tile the tunnel when the tunnel reaches a point about twelve hundred bundred feet from the portal it will encounter a prominent east cast west break where important disclosures are anthel however the principal objective Is not expected to be reached until the tunnel opens the buckley alss fissure urel directly under the iron gossan which appears on the surface of the buckley claim the gossan appears as an iron capping and samples from the surface show it to be a hard brown hematite ail to ore containing about 57 per cent iron in doing some prospect work form the surface a shallow shaft was sunk slink on this iron gossan after penetrating this hard bard brown hematite ore the shaft encountered a foft yellow ore containing values in gold in addition to tile the iron content the values have increased with depth and where this ore la Is opened at depth it in the sedimentary sedil ry zone by the buckley tunnel large bodies of 0 replacement ore are expected to be found some new construction Is now under way at the Vald asla camp in cottonwood onwood canyon to furnish additional housing facilities A carpenter shop and timber shed lias as just been completed which will also supply storage space for supplies at the camp there are modern modem buildings power house bouse blacksmith shop bunkhouse and office the work being done by the val basla corporation Is tile the most extensive and deepest develop meA of that portion of the district and Is fg being watched with great interest t by mine operators of the marys vale ale area and other mining centers centera of utah western mineral survey |