The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-28
RICHES In THE SOUTH.
Ore that Carries SO Per Cent.
Copper and 1910 Gold.
Low GRADE ORB LIMIrLEsS.
The Resources OF q Portion of Utah
as Yet Comparatively Unknown
Demanding Alteration.

Two years ago couple OF young
men, residents of St. George, while
prospecting in the Bull Valley Noun
tains, about forty miles west Of st.
George, found unmistakable signs oil
the existence of gold in that locality; in
fact they brought home some of the
precious metal with them.
The discovery was kept quiet and
several trips taken to the mountains,
bat without satisfactory results; in fact
nothing was found exceptlarge deposits
of iron, which abound in that vicinity,
and the general verdict was that gold
did not exist in the Bull Valley country,
and the aforesaid parties were either
wilfully deceptive or mistaken.
Seeing, however, is believing, and the
boys had seen the but ton and carefully
preserved it after having passed it
through the nitric acid test, and never
for a moment abandoned their resolu-
ton to find the source from whence it
came.
Bull Valley" is a misnomer, the
large area of country to which this
mama is applied being one continual
series of canyons, gulches and ravines,
with high mountain peaks,
RAGGED CLIFFS AND SHARP DIVIDES
intervening. Talk about a valley, D
says our informant, "why I have
travelled over the greater part of it and
never vet camped where there was q
level spot big enough to spread my
blankets on. Sam Cunningham, an
old Texan, expressed it when he said !;
In Bull Valley there are not enough
hills to fill up the hollows.' This
rugged country, about forty miles in
length by twenty long, was once the
home of vast herds of wild cattle. Well
watered, with plenty of grass and a
mild climate, they increased for years.
unmolested by the early settlers, but
when Dixie boys, to the manner
born, attained to mans estate, they in
vaded the rocky Businesses and the
work of determination has been carried
on until the wild cattle are
almost thing of the past. An old
bull is occasionally met with and an
ugly customer he Is; like the grizzly,
he prefers retreat, but once brought
to bay his fury is terrific and the only
safety for his adversary is in q good
Winchester and steady nerve"
THE COUNTRY ROCK
consists chiefly of granite with some
trap, lime and qusrtzlte and occa-
sional deposits of spar and quartz.
During the past month, equipped for
tour of two weeks, the above mentioned
parties made another trip TO the noun
tains, and this time not without results;
upon their return they brought rock;
which looked good.
Assays of some samples ran as
high as IS per cent. copper with a good
of gold and silver.
Assays of samples since brought in
are satisfactory, some going as high as
so per cent. copper and $270 gold per
ton. In some of the rock taken from
the bottom of the shaft which is being
sunk, native gold is plentifully distrib-
Qted. The ledge is large and has the
appearance of permanency. Two miles
from this point Messrs. Woolley, Lund
& Judd have some locations from which
galena has been taken, going $3.50 sill
yer per ton, and there are many large
deposits OF
Low GRADE COPPER ORE
in sight and many miles of country
that has never been prospected. There
are inezhaustible deposits of low grade
ore all around there, awaiting the ad-
vent of the long promised railroad.
Given cheap and rapid transporta-
ton, and Dixie will give in return
fruits, vegetables, wine, honey, oil and
silk to supply her northern neighbors,
and will speedily take her place among
ritories as metal producer.
With her unparalleled climate and
large deposits of silver, lead and cop
per which are known to exist. she is
capable of doing all this and even more.
AMUssEN's stock of jewelry is to go