The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-01

tricts the name OF the American
Switzerland and they are certainly
Ro,tay the attention of the capitalist
and Tourist on account of the great
value OF their mines; and for the lst-
ter, on sooount Of the grand. sublime
and beautiful sceneries.
Hotel Keppernick at American
Fork. and Frank Birk, the genial
and cbligiug recorder at Forest City,
accommodate snd provide for all
travellers. James Chapman at Amer
icau Fork keeps constantly on hand
full assortment of all and every.
thing needed to work the mines and
TO reside in comfort, and well cup
piled near and at the same st all
seasons.
HARRISBURG MINING DISTRICT.
The mines of this district are si;u,
a.ed bout 329 miles southwest of Salt
Lake City. The geological forma-
ton is stratiied red and white mari
sandstone, at places greatly broken
up and erodad; here and there the
sandstone alternstes with thin seams
Of clay shale; the cementipg mate
rial between the sandstone is lime;
petreiactionS of trees, branches,
leaves and ferns, such as are peculiar
to the coal formation, are everywhere
in great abundance. [ have not the
slightest doubt but coal will be found
in the vicinity.
II We observe the large extinct vol
canoes which occupy the centre and
the southern parts of Utah, together
with the volcanic rock which appears
here everywhere. we cannot be sur
prised at the foldings and contor tions
of the strata. The great plains bear
conclusive evidence to the erosion
which has taken place here. The
whole basin was certainly at some re-
mote period great inland sea, part
of Lake Bonneville. whose bed was in
all probability on level with the
surrounding table mountains, and
the remnants'of which said lake we
zee to-day represented by the Great
Salt Lake, Utah and Sewer Lakes.
The shore lines of the ancient lake
are distinctly marked and clearly CD.
servsble all along the base of Utah's
great mountain ranges. Since then
the strata has been bent, folded and
broken by volcanic action. The up
per portion has been washed away,
leaving the reefs as the anticlinal
groupings dipping towards each other
on opposite sides OF the valleys. Here
and there the formation is covered
with volcanic material. forming as it
were cap to the sandstone.
These beds OF red and white sand
stone. in particular the white sand
stone, which is OF a fne- texture
than the red. are inprtg grated With
chloride of silver, carbonate of cop
per. and iron. Some of the latter
appear in nodules ard assay very
high in silver.
The dissimilarity OF the ore in these
sandstone layers is go vast that very
careful sampling of all the material
is great necessity. The assay value
varies from $50 to up in the thou
sands. There are only two reasons to
a ccount for the presence of ore in
these sandstone strata. The frat is
by sublimatIon, the mineral vapors
ascending from below and depositiug
the ores in the pores of the sand
stones,
The second is q contemporaneous
formation Of the ore with the beds in
q hich the same appears; in other
words, in explanation, the mineral
was precipitated of the same time
that the beds OF sand and clay, which
are now marl-ssnds.one and clay
shale were formed. This mineral
must then, of course, have been in
and mingled with the waters
whics as waves precipitated the min
eral among the eand and clay. and
al such places where there was the
most vegetable mold. carbon and
iron in greater Quantities. AS both
sources have their pros and coKs
do not find it necessary to adopt
either of them at this time.
The leading mines ia Harrisburg
district are: Bonanza, which has been
opened by shafts, tunnels and drifts.
The shaft cuts the deposit at depth
of 40 feet.
Leeds Mining Company have
opened their Gre deposit at many
places, and a shaft with q double
compartment is continually ad-
vancing downward. Attached to the
mine is ten stamp mill.
Tecumseh and Barbee & Walker
are developed very extensively and
largely. The Stonewall
Jackson. st. Johns. Shephsrd Il Lea
man, Silver Flat. Scott, Silver Point,
Silver Crown, Savage, Bennett. Buck
eye, Chloride Chief. California, En-.
lily Jane, Interval. Kinner, Luna.
Leopard, Maggie, McNally, Pride of
the West, Regina, Thompson. SAM
aria, Great Western, Butte. Wander.
bilt, stormont, Duffin, Maud. and
several others. all very promising for
the future and worthy of the capital
lists attention.
twenty-five miles north OF Leeds ia
Silver Belt district in Iron County,
the character of the ore aud forma-
ton of which are similar to those de-