The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-04-14

shalt That has been sunk so lar, thai
metal dIminlShes and its more Valu.
able associates increase in a rapid
ratio as the distance from daylight
becomes more extended. Some
specimens from one or two of the
december" shafts have assayed
away Upln tie sums expressed by
five figures, and free gold, visible to
the naked eye, was besprinkled
through many of them like curranJS
III Il Christmas pudding.
L recently had the pleasure OF
going entirely over (and partly
UNDER this district. In the north
ern portion of it, and separated from
the locations above referred to
by deep ravine, is all that remains
of the once famous Lincoln Mine,
which had to be Abandoned with for
tunes for a regiment in sight, be-
cause the cavity at its present depth
encountered water i'll such album
dance, that work could not be fur
tier carried on. Expensive machin-
engines and timbers-
was procured at an enormous cost.
but The managers were at last COM
PEELED to recognize the disagreeable
fact that the obstacle was insur-
mOtntable so far as all available ap-
plianceS were concerned, for the
water vein was a living spring of
lneXhaustible capacity; 50, alter
pursuing the unequal contest until
men, money and measures were
alike used up, science retired from
the field, leaving nature in undiSpu-
ted possession, and the shaft is now
little else than huge well. Among
those who invested and worked in
the Lincoln, was that eccentric legal
and literary genius, to fortune but not
TO fame unknown, who delighted in
signing himself, "One SpIcer." l
heard him declare no less than a
dozen times during the last year of
the work, at nearly uniform inter
walls, that he had just invested his
whole pile" in that mine and that
he would soon know whether he
was TO go out of I tab in a chartered
Pullman caro- on the uppers of his
shoes. He has gone, but the man
ner of his going is profound mys-
terry TO the writer; it is a charitable
conclusion, however, that the hurri-
cane deck of cayuSe constituted
an acceptable compromise between
the above mentioned methods of 10
for the dozen fortunes in
vested in the Lincoln are there yet.
Mines, like the sea, yield not up
their dead.
One of the most promising and
best developed locations of the dis
trict is the Creole" mine, at present
the property of Mr.. B. L. Croft, of
AlinersYille. Accompanied by the
owner and one or two others | re-
Gently went to the bottom of the
shaft, now about 100 feet in depth,
on a succession of ladders. This meth
cd of descent enables one to form
a better idea of the general charac-
teristicS Of mine than any other,
since the explorer can take his own
time as he goes along. BY the aid of
a candle held closely to the sides of
the cavern (for it is as dark as CHM
merriam midnight a short distance
from the surface the geological
formation can be examined us
as is desired. As preVi-
Ously suggested (and refer particu-
larly to this mine because what is
true of it is, in the main, true of the
others) iron ere was the prevailing
if not the exclusive feature near the
top. This was manifested Yariously,
but in general by vast bodies of red
diSh-brOwn ore, relieved here and
there by thin streakS or small
SpeckS of glitteTIng substance and
anon made more sOmbre by ribs and
punches of intensely black rock.
Further along, where fragments of
bouldeTs have been torn
from their bed of ages by the incur
Sive hand of American enterprise,
are disclosed to the eye the various
hues and tintS characteristic of the
kinds and grades of ore and
in bodies so vast as to COM
prise almost everything in sight, the
percentage of vein matter which
carries no mineral being trifling. At
the bottom, galena in large Jumps
pTOtTudeS in prOfuSe quantities from
all sides, being distinguiShable by
reason of the peculiar dull luStre
which lead exhibits when freshly
cut with a knife; while interviewer
with these, sometimes twinkling
like stars at night and again sub
dued and solemn in their ashen or
earthly hue, are ores and metals
precious and base, ''lOyal" and rebel
liOus, good, bad and Indifferent,
Just as they were tumbled
together when the crust of the
earth, during the commissions which
followed the inception of the cooling
process, "Shrank upward with
tempestuous dread" To what ex-
tent the vein exceeds the shaft IN
breadth at this point cannot, of
course be told; on top, it has been
traced for more than twenty feet,
and if this diameter should prevail
even to the present depth of the
shaft, of which there can be but
little doubt, the Creole is valuable
property. Its altitude is at least
1905 feet above the Lincoln location
so there is no immediate danger
from water.
Altogether the mining outlook fol-
Beaver County is most promising.
The one thing that is needed more
than money is work. The presence
of the railroad has removed the
principal ObStacle-high freights-
and determination, aided by muscle
and backed by a moderate amount
OF capital, VIII work wonders for u.
the coming season. There is, IL
reality, but little else to rely upon
for. as an agricultural district, thu
countv is hardly Self-Sustaining
That it has mines in abundance
ard some of the richest in tn
country at that, is now demonstrates
Ibeyond all question, and upon thes
must be bestowed more attention
THAN they have ever yet received.
i 1t is my intention 10 visit IN
i western part of the county, OF
thinning business, in a week or two
If anything of especial ntereS
should be developed, L will adyls
YOU of it. 5. a. X.