New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-03

but no limit has yet been found to them, and Il
would not be at al surprising If they pEoTee q
Ss ES5 51 33 t peculiar aTo 'F oSs % In rate
the difference in the working Of the smelling lsn9
and those Of the Horn Silver Company
in which hard and barren iron ore DrouRnb LOU on
Iron County, sixty miles below, ie employee, IN IN
the first campaign Of 157 days had just closed et
the time of my visit, while tho furnaces OF tne
Horn Silver Company required new Innings az
often as Onco in thirty or forty days d,.+,nct from
those mentioned, have been discovered IN the
vicinity of Frisco, and many claims have been 10
Gated upon them and partially explored. ora
number Of promising prospects, but up 10 the pres
cut time the work done has not been sufficient to
determine the value Of any OF them and IL can
only bs said that with the increased facilities
afforded by the advent Of the railroad and the con-
sequent activity in the development OF the lnei
it ia almost certain that considerable NUMBER VIII
be added to those which we now call success
full and that the bullion product of this region VIII
DO largo for many years.
near Frisco in considerable quantity. In Copper
Gulch, abOnt six mi Jos west from the town, ana on
tho opposite side Of the Grampian Mountain, q
vein OF copper ore Of very Unusual magDltude mas
been discovered and is now owned by a. t. Camp
bell. II remains TO be seen how valuable this
deposit will prove "a copper sometimes makes
great show at tho surface FROM the diiused stain 0f
the green carbonate, when there IL comparatively
little below; but tho surface indications In Copper
Cuch such rs TO WARRANT the Deuel tnaG COppSi
will he produced there IN paying quantities.
About 100 miles south from Frisco Is the tamoNs
Silver Reef district where sandstone BEDS OF
CretaceOns or Tertiary age are found impregnated
with silver. | have not yet visited silver Rect,
though hope to do carly in the coming Summer.
shall therefore. defer for the present any de5crlp-
ton of it, and will only say in passing that the pro-
ductiOn of bulliou ut SILVER Reef is already large,
and the combined testimony of those who have ex-
amined these interesting and pecnliar deposits, has
led me to believe that this Will continue TO no
permanent and prosperous mining centse.
Silver Park IL another mining district
attracted attention, and which l hope soon
20 visit. From tho reports which come
from there it would seem tina the argentlier0us de-
post ID an eOrnOuS but irregular vein lying IL tho
contact between pOrplyry and Limestone. Some OK
the re is very rrh. but If is somewhat scattered.
aud it remains to lie seen whether the Ore-hOdies
are sufficiently concentrated and continuous 10 De
probably worked. From all | can learn of tho
Silver Pork doposits. thoy seem to present
very much tho same problems ~ the great veins OF
the Shakespeare D!strc', New-Mexicn. or Of the
Ruby Hill District Nevada that Is. they are either
ve;Y good ~ R0Od for nothing, and conslderable
time aud money will be required 20 decide which Is
true.
in my next letter shall give some description OF
the mines Of Rosita and silver Cilh, Colorado in
GLIDING tie BasNck and Racine Boy. jas y.
Ac7c- York. April 90. 1880.