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Show BLACK PINE MINIM DISTRICT. Another Rich Mineral Section In Idaho Tributary ne Sal4 Lake Ore Market. Special Correspondence Democbat. It is a long lane that has no turning, and to follow the salty rifts which mark the boundaries of Great Salt Lake from the mouth of the Jordan to the immediate immedi-ate neighborhood of Kelton, on the Central Cen-tral Pacific Railroad, will enable the camper-out to appreciate the turning-point. turning-point. From Bear river with its delicious trout and swarming ducks to Salt Wells, and even to Pilot Springs, on the Old Emigrant road to Oregon, mosquitoes,, brackish water and alkaline dust form a trinity in unity of discomfort sufficient to indicate that the road in question traverses trav-erses the immediate suburbs ot sheol. But going north from Pilot Springs, the rising lulls are covered with ; fragrant cedar whose resinous berries are kissed by the pure mountain air from mountains that on either side of the road rise to an elevation of 10,000 feet above the sea level. On the right, encircled by Curlew, Raft river and Clear Creek valleys, the Black Pine- mountains with their white quartz-capped quartz-capped summits, attract by their beauty and richness the lover of nature, the miner and the herdsman. Beautiful springs of water, forests of pine with great stretches of excellent pasture grounds furnish summer feeding for thousants of cattle, sheep and horses from the ranches. High grade milling and smelting ore, running from $100 to $7,000 per ton in silver, gold and copper, is found along the mineral belt which follows fol-lows the contact between slate and lime in a northeasterly and southwesterly direction di-rection across the entire range. A Virginia Vir-ginia company own five or six mining claims on this" contact on which a large amount of injudicious work has been expended. A mill equipped with pans and settlers and a Howland crusher, fails to do what a properly constructed smelter would accomplish in reducing the rich ores now on the dumps and at the mill. The past season a number of promising claims have been developed on this mineral min-eral belt by Messrs. Martin, Bradley, Barnes and Smedley, of Salt Lake City, ana the district, in connection with other promising mineral camps in its immediate immedi-ate vicinity, will prove valuable tributaries tribu-taries to the Salt Lake ore market, provided pro-vided the railways will be content with a regular supply of golden eggs instead of being possessed with an insane desire to kill the patient goose which lays them. Permanent veins, requiring and justifying justify-ing deep mining, "appear to characterize the Black Pine mining district, while within a circuit of thirty miles from its center, especially to the north and west, first-class mines are beine developed and and prospectively valuable claims will be worked from this time on. This portion of Idaho (details of which may be given hereafter), rich in mineral and teeming with live stock, finds its appropriate market mar-ket in Salt Lake City. The railway and business men of. the city will find it for their interest to secure the trade of this section, if it requires a railway from Coruine to do it. |