The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-01
other gold, silver and lead bearing
deposits and verify the old German
saying: Es ist klein Gang go gut,
Oder Err hat einen eisernen Hut!
CAMP FLOYD MINIEG DISTRICT,

CAMP FLOYD MINING DISTRICT.
This district commences four mile
south Of Ophir Gas; C.nyou) an
about thirty miles south west OF Ssi
Lake City; situated 10 the OquirrI
mountain range.
The principal mines are situa!e
around Lewiston. near the sun mi
OF and on the western flank of tn
Oquirrh range, and produce fire.
m ling ors, which appears ia and il
hereditary 20 a quartzite oed
which bed oy6rlies the older lime
stone. This limestone comp 0se:
the centre OF the grea. upheava
10 tina part of the Oqairrh range
The lower part OF the limestone
overlies the snsle d ouarzite beds
end balongs With them to the
silurian age. The older line beds
occ 'py q space OF about 1900 fee,
between The q1ar'zite beds. It is
very difficult to determine the exact
point where the devouian and car
houiferOus beds commence, but it il
certain that all the beds in which
the ore containing quartz appears
belong to the siberian age.
The lover limestone is compact
and Crystalline, of dark gray GO or,
shows few fossils and sucn as are
found, as cQrsllnes and mollueks, are
so changed by orystaliiz alton that
their species Can only be determin ed
by the most careful examination.
The Ore-bearing quartzite beds
have thickness OF nineteen TO sixty
eight teet. They have hard lime
stone Il OR, and roof of cslcareous
ehaIe. sandstone and cherry lime
sto e, alternating, and ale in their
structure and appearance entirely
different from those underlying the
quartZiie. The shaly linn estone is
itch in fossils of the devonian and
carboniferous ages.
The character OF the silver-bearing
zone or belt of qusrtzite is very pecu-
liar and different in every way from
true assure vein structure, but it
shows distinct qualification of ordi-
nary sandstone or ouartz!te beddi e,
and is coniormsble to the bedding OF
the country tock throughout the
whole district, the hanging wall be-
ing ca'careous lime-shale and the
footwall a dark gray limestona :.
These distinct lines of tue quartz to
bedding disappear only where the
bed is crushed or brecciated by the
upheaval. which fact must appear
clearly beyond dispute to every care.
ful observer.
This qlsrtzite bed is permeable
stratum Of sandstone, made crystal.
line and vitreous by the heated va
pors and chemical reagents from be-
los, before and during the gra 'uai up.
heaval of the antedeluvian ridge; the
ov~rIying sha,e bed being imperne-
aol-, the mineralized vapors were
confined to the permeabie and porous
sandstone, changing the came slowly
into true qnartzise, and depositing
the silver, antlmoDy, cinnaba-, lead
and copper ores in the same.
From this will be seen Tat the
richest ore deposits will be found
there. where the Qusr;Eite ia most
broken and crushed under the H.
huence Of the upheaval, as the pene-
trStiops OF the mineral solutions at
those points are the easiest.
By q close examination Of the rock
in the crushed quartxite, deposited
together with the ore, it will appear
that the ore formp, in many cases.
only coating of the fragments, the
interior being more or less barren,
which indicates the process of de-
posing ore, continued also, subse-
Qnent TO the upheavalss
There is 20 reason why impreg-
nated beds formed By sublimati3n.
as the above mentioned ones, should
not be "a rich, liable and extern
eive as soy other ore beda. Copper
and other ores are found as impreg-
nations IN various countries. as in
Germany, Japan, China and Califor-
Ms. Gold ia found in China and
Japan in beds of slate. which are
entirely impregnated with iron, cop
per and lead sulphurets.
The principal mines are the Spar
row Hawk. London, Marion,
Geyser. and others of the Camp
Floyd Silver Mining Company.
These mines are largely developed
by numerous shafts, inclines, drifts
and adlts, and have produced o great
amount of silver, which would have
been made more profitable il the
early management had been more
iuG e;ous.
The Carrie Steele is largely devel-
oped. showing large quantities of
rich ore.
The Qaeen OF the West, Silver Cloud,
Silver Sn ED, Antelope. Jenny LIND.
Lewiston. Last Chance, Camp Doug
las, Silver Ster, Reno. Leopard, Sill
yer Circle, Wandering Boy. Star Of
the West. Midway, Emery, Black
Hawk, Gentle Belle. Mormon Chief,
Greciau Bend, Merosr. Alexander
and New Idris of No. 2. are all pre-
missing mines. having all besn more
or lees extensively develped and ore
producing.