Delta chief., 1883-04-25
The Garfield Boom.
am the Dcnver Trlbnne.

the route from Red Cliff down the Eagle river
a good one, there being practically no snow
between Red Cliff and the mouth of the Eagle
river, distance Of fifty miles. Loaded
wagons are constantly passing over this part
of the route. There are ranches and houses
at intervals all the way down the Eagle,
which furnish accommodations for those who
may desire them. Good feed for stock is
abundant, and hay can be bought chcaply.
From the mouth of Eagle TO the town site
Of Carbonate the distance is twenty miles,
twelve of which can be made only on snow
shoes Therefore prospecting in that region
will be wholly impossible for at least month
from this time. Passing from the mouth of
the Eagle TO Carbonate the traveller follows
about the line of the old trail to White river,
marked upon Hnyden's map. There are
few canons, with bare, prccipitoGs sides,
where the formation is distinctly defined, IL
is lime overlaying quartzite, and the strata
lie horizontal, and are undisturbcd, apparent
Iy, by any uphcayal or volcanic action. Five
or six miles north Of the trail, on the north
.idc OF Deep creek, porphyry overlies the
lime. The porphyry is rather more Of ba-
saltic nature than that about Leadville.
When the contacts appear between the por-
phyry and lime and lime aud quartzite, crop
pings of the red oxide and carbonate Of iron
nrr prominent. No work has yet been done
upon these contacts. On Lime ridge, at the
town site of Carbonate, there are n number Of
veins, showing croppings Of oxide and car
bonat.7. Of iron, galena and carbonate Of lead.
81 In, tiuV. u,,l i,g lya,1
ore contains from six to ten ounces In silver,
aud from forty to axty-fvc per cent. lead.
About thirty legal assessments have been
worked only two Of them reaching depth
Of more than ten feet The Ryan shaGt,
about which many reports have been cir.
culatcj. Is littlc less than one hundred feet
deep. IL has been timbcrcd nearly to the
bottom. Below the timbrrs il shows vein
Of ten or twelve inches of iron. II il has ever
ever reached a large body of ore. or any drifls.
as reported, have been opened from the bot.
tom 81 the shaft, they are not nov visible,
naI the shan has been fillei up above the
dsifis and the ore body. There is no bad ore
ON the dumps The other shait, which Is
something more than an assessment, /. eighty
ieci deep, also following u vein of iron. The
presumption Is that these veins will lead to
the contact between lime aud quArtzitc, where
valuable ore will be found. Our Informant
considers it fairly probable that this will
proyc to be the case, bu, can make no estimate
from his knowledge of the country Of the
depth to the contact The amount Of lead
shown In some of the ten-foot assrssmen,
holes is large. In his judgment no great
mines have thus far been discovered, but the
fact thnt the country exhibits favorable geo.
logical conditions. aud that lead carbonate
ores do exist there over a large extent of
country, as he is reliably informed, lead to
the conclusion that somewhere within the re.
yion large and productive camp will he
formed. lie will return shortly, prepared TO
determine the value Of the deposits by the
practical test Of sinking upon them.
Mr. O. u. Griffith, writing to the Gothic
SHrer Rscosi, under date Of Scofcld. speaks
as follows of the new bonanza field of Garfield
county:
feel Il my duty publish through the
Medium Of your paper what we found and
what we did not find. may save good
deal of hard labor and long journey TO the
praspoctor Do not think for moment that
want to run the country down. Nothing
would please Us better than TO have found
things as they were reported, but we found
things entirely different.
The excitement sccHs 20 hr ON the outside,
aud the people there know nothing of it. They
are cultiyating their farms, planting potatoes,
etc AZ the Lower Hot Springs they do not
want to talk of their carbonates. Why9 Be.
cause there has been no new discoveries made
there since last summer and then the mineral
found is not in the shape Of deposits, hut in
the form Of fssurcs, cutting through the lime;
but very little mineral has been found, and
what they have got is of low grade. The
deepest mine hns shaft lis feet does not
show n great deal of mineral, which assays
from 10 to 20 ounces in silver. They got
some assays that ran 40 ounces in silver aud
30 per cent. lead, and one piece wus found NJ
the bottom of the same shaft that ran 40
ounces in silver, but no more like II has been
found. Il mus, have been kind of stray
bird. try to give the facts and the people
can Judge for themselves. II they think they
can prospect in FIVE feet of snow they Ind
better go there aud try. What started this
excitement Mt this time of the year II is hard
TO tell, but will mention a couple of points
that may throw some light upon H. II is
known TO every one, by this time, that the