The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-01
What Has Been Done, and
What Will Be.
prospects and Promises for
the New Year.
Complete and Exhaustive Paper
on Mines and Mining.
RI DR.. WIN BREDEMEYER, NJ. E
BIOLOGIST.


4Lost Of the mining Districts OF Utal
are situated IN aud confined to the !wt
principal mountain ranges Ct sai'
Territory.
Those ranges run on either side o
the Jordan valley, almost parallel tt
each other, and are known as The
Wssatoa and Oqurrh Ranges.
The WAsATcH RANGE
extends from the Territory OF Idaho
on the northern boundary line O.
Utah. to the Colorado river at the
south, running in south-Westerly
direction through tbs central portion
of Utah, and forming the division bs-
tween the Great Salt Lake basin. on
the east-norlh-sast and the waters of
the Colorado river, on the Wes!-south-
vest.
The tanks Of this range differ ma
terially in their geological structure
and appearance; the eastern flank is
formed either by series of broad ter-
races aud piateaus, or the same ap-
pears in long waving ridges. and
slopes such I'd are peculiar to the pex
ofshe coal formations.
In thu eastern flank We observe
mainly the s&ndstones. shales and
limestones peculiar to the cretacious
and tertiary ages. in which appear
TIE ooalLeds known in Utah Territory.
The western flank Of the Wssa tch
is very steep and abrupt, and COM
pr es tie older chrystalliae rocks OF
the silur:an, devonian and the car
bnofero1s agss in which appear
the rich mineral deposits for which
Utah is Justly celebrated amongst the
treasures OF the United States. The
altitude of the Wasatch range varies
between 5000 and Is. GOO feet above
the level of the sea. It is also pc
culiar phenomenon that the disloca-
tions OF the formations on the vest
ern flank are more numerous and SIX
tensiVe than those OF the eastern.
TEB CQUIRRH RANGE
commences at the centre of the
Great Salt Lake, and extends far into
the southern part of the Territory.
Tbs formations of this range are en-
tirely OF the rocks peculiar to the
silurian, devOni2n and carboniferons
ages, and show g. series of extensive
breaks and faults
Both mountain anges are crossed
by powerful and extensive dykes of
eiuptive rock, representing princi-
paIly sycnitic and diori.ic prophyiies.
Besides the TWO before mentioned
large and principal mountain ranges
OF Utah are tnree others OF lesser ex>
tent. The first CT the three is stu.
sted abou. eighteen miles west of the
Oqulrrh range, and known as ths
OnoQul, or SCull Valley range; this
range begins at the western side OF
the Great Salt Lake, and extends into
SEWER Valley, where it disappears
IN the desert plains.
West OF the Oncqui range appears
The Csdar range, which Is more ex-
ten i've than the former, commencing
on the Central Pacific railroad, by
Summit Station, and running
southsrly through the great desert, a
distance c! more than 800 miles.
The next and last il the Snake
range, which forms the western
boundary line OF Utah, between this
Territory and the State of Nevada.
The formatiou. ct me last named
two ranges consist chic fly OF granite,
proEhyries. basRlt. silari&u, schists. |
qualtzite and lava
There is as yet little known about |
the mineral wealth Of the last NAMED |
three ranges, as the same has only |
oeen explored by the hardy miner in
lew places; but such explorations |
as nave been made give great hopes
IQf TIER future, with the future of
Otah at large. So I shall conine my
sell 10 the mining districts situated in
the Wasatch and Oquirrh moun-
tain ranges.
Going fIcm Salt Lake City east
ward. the first mining dlstricl OF nets
We meet with in Waaatoh range is
UINTAH MINING DISTRICT.
Uintah, OF Parley's Park District
begins about thirty miles esst-south.
east OF Salt Lake City. and adioin.
Big Cottonwood on The north and
northeast sides. The general peolo-
glcai structure is quartzite ard cal.
carous shale of the csrboniferous age.
and in all probability everything the
granite, which appears in the south
trict.
Inc vein, appear. first. as true fig
sure veins cutting through the strata;
SECOND, IS bed or strata veins. living
ne'Ween the strata, and conforming
70 Inc course, foldings and di.loca-
lions of the same.