Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-08-20
NORTHERN MINES.
The Cache Valley Mining Fever Black
smith Fork Canyon.

While II Is doubtless true that an I'm.
mcnsc deposit Of galena has been dis.
covered near Paradise, Cache county,
the mining excitement thereby occa.
stoned has been accompanied by ru.
mon and aiatemen T. Of alleged facts
that are untrue aud misleading. The
assertion that mineral discoveries Of
Importance have recently been made
In Blacksmith Fork canyon Is untrue.
The location made by Mcsstr. Wilson,
Hillyard, Pitcher and Hill, In that
canyon, which has been talked Of a
great deal as proof OF the mineral
wealth " Blacksmith Fork canyon,
was on claim that has been worked
for Fix yeats past by Mr.. T..
A. Nielsen OF Logan, and which
the locators supposed had been
abandoned. Mr.. Nielsen, however,
claims 10 have done, each year, upon
the claim, the amount of work necos-
saty to hold IL. lie has expended
about 81 800 In all upon II.
This Is the only promising prospect
In the canyon unless others have been
discovered since Monday last. Along
the face Of u perpendicular. blum Of
limeAtonc formation IA shown n vein "
quartz about four feet thick, which OK.
tundd III q horizontal line along tho
face Of the mountain and can be traced
for long distance. At the point
where Mr.. Nielsen made his location
six or seven years ago, the groupings
OF this vein bear galona In consider
able quantities. Mr.. Neilsun tunnsled
Into the blur and found that the
galcna bearing vein Of quartz
pitched downward ut an anglo
Of about 35 degrees, and from distance
OF twelve or fifteen feet the ore was
very good. Then the ore wa. exhausted
Ia that direction, and, acting on the adj
vice Of men claiming 10 be- experts, Mr..
Nielsen sunk vertical shaft Ia the
mouth OF the tunnel, going down 20 feet
without finding any trace Of ore. His
opinion IL that he did wrong, and
should have driven the tunnel further
In, In a direction parallel with the
quartz vein.
Busldes galena, the latter bears goli,
copper, Iron, etc., and at tho mouth OF
the tunnel looks very well, aud has
yielded assays In gold and silver
varying from S2i to 500 per
ton. Several other prospects In
the vicinity OF this mine were located
and worked years ngo, but were all
abandoned. The locations were made
and the work on them wns done by
men who were not experienced nor
practical miners or prospectors, and II
Is believed that the region has never
been examined by the latter. What
the result would be were II 10 be-
thoroughly prospected by good pros
pectors could only be determined by
tho experiment.
Galens groupings abound In various
parts Of Logan canyon, and probably
some large deposits Of II could lie unc0v.
erred with money judiciously expended.
Samples that have been assayed
run high In lead, but only moderate IN
silver, with sometimes little gold.
Many OF the assays Indicate paying
ore.
In Smithfleld canyon work IL being
done ON a fow prospects, two or three ,
Of which promise well; but no very
high grade orc has boon struck there
yet, though ore that pays fairly well
has been found.
Very little has boon done by way Of
developing the mineral wealth OF
northern Utah, and there are not
wanting men'who believe that, when
II shall receive attention from experts
aud capitalists, II Will prove very
great.