The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-05-31

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the dullest place on the habitable
earth, the inhabitants Of the place,
generally speaking, express their
sympathy with the inertia Of the
camp by doing, if l may be allowed
the expression, nothing excepting
playing stud-horse poker Omitted
whiting, lounging and drinking
bad whisky in the most inert man
ner imaginable. This applies to
Silver City, Dragon Hollow, Nam
moth Gulch and the Mammoth
Smelling works, now nicknamed
Buffers Scoop. The closing down
of the Mammoth works was, of
course, unavoidable; but the iron
mining interests of Dragon Hollow,
were affected by different cause,
: viz: for years this section of the
Territory has supplied the smelling
works with iron, used as a fUX in
the reduction of silver ores, and the
iron company, in conjunction with
the Utah ForW arding Company, a
lateral offshoot of the same vein,
have held tight grip on the smelt-
ing mems necks. compelling the
purchasers of their ores to take
what they offered for sale in the
way of fuxing, be it good, bad
or Indifferent, at whatever price
they choose to ask. AT the same
time, by controlling the forwarding
business they kept small holders of
iron mining propertyout of the mar
ket by simply refusing to furnish
cars in which transport the ore to
market. When the Utah and Wes-
tern was completed to Tintic, peo-
pie very naturally expected a re-
duction in freight rates; they were,
however, disappointed; freight was
held up as high as in the days of
the slow-moving OK and mule team.
The Union Pacific Company never
have adopted the plan of creating
traffic and bidding for the peoples
patronage. Mark the result: When
the Denver and Rio Grande was
completed to your city they began
supplying the smelters with fluxing
mined in Colorado. Think of it
Tintic iron ruled entirely out of the
markell Utah, with her mountains
of iron ore, purchasing iron from
Colorado, imported by traffic
creating corporation a distance of
over 500 miles cheaper than the
home production "a better article)
can be transported 100 miles. Ma
dame Rumor has filled the air here
abouts with reports that the big
guns of the Union Pacific are COM
ing out to look over the ground with
a view to covering this section of
country with network OF railroad
and knock the bottom out Of the
desert and other futile undertakings
to prevent the plucky little Denver
and Rio Grande from making an
outlet to the westward.
\ GEOLOGICAL FORMATION.
The formation in which the prin-
cipal mines Of this district
are found consists of a
single limestone peak surrounded
on all sides by prophyritic granite
formation, in which the said peak
sits like solitary plum in pud-
ding. In this (so-called) bastard
granite formation on the southwest
side of the limestone formation, oc.
ours pockets or chimney veins of ex-
ceedingly rich mineral. These peck
cts or chimneys of ore vary in ex-
tent and depth. Some have been
\ found three and four feet in width
but the majority do not exceed as
many inches and none have stood
the test of development below 800
feet in depth. All eventually ter
o inmate in body of pyrites Of iron
containing a small per cent. of
silver.
There is, however, an exception
to the rule in the case of the min
ing properties on Gold Hill, south
east of Silver City about two miles.
The mines on this hill, consisting
Of the Tesora, Julian Lane and
Treasure, show veins from five to
twelve feet in width which have
been prospected to a depth of from
300 to 400 feet, withoats showing any
diminu ton of the ores, as regards
richness. These valuable proper
: ties are lying idle owing q am in
formed to the inability of the
owners to purchase pumping ap-
paratus with which to free the
mines Of the water which
. now prevents the extraction of ore.
Along the base of the limestone up
heaval on the west and southwest
Of the peak and in or very near the
contact with the abutting granite
formation is situated the crest mines
Of the dlstrict-Mammoth, Nam
, moth Copperopolis, Dragon, Carriso
Sunbeam and Northern Spy. All
these mining properties, ranging
v from A to fair and middling, are
y in my estimation, on one and the
same vein. This vein, sweeping
= around the base of the limestone
peak, forms an almost exact semi.
circle. In my judgment the mines
located on this vein VIII continue
to improve as depth is attained
3 and as there is no indications Of
z water in any of them they can be
: worked to great depth.
EUREKA CITY,
? Situated in Eureka Gulch. on the
north side of the limestone peak, is
supported entirely by two mines
the Eureka and Crown Point. There
is no other mine on the north side
or even indications of mineral out