The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-25

amateur prospectors, who are looking for
duplicates of the famous Eberhardt mine,
situated on Treasure Hill at White Pine
The country was full Of just such pros
pectors all hoping and expecting to find
bonanza OF chloride and horn silver.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast,
Man never is. but always TO be blessed.
applies forcibly to the professional pros
pecJors as q class who undergo many
hardships and privati0ns, hoping they
will some day be blessed by the discov-
cry of Big Bonanza that will enable
them to build in realty one OF the many
castles they have built IN the air.
cLIFToN's UPS AND DOWNS.
This district has had its booms, its ups
and downs, its smelling works, the wreck
and ruins Of which now stand as monu-
ments of the misplaced confidence of the
ability of the builders to reduce ore with
out a practical knowledge of the business.
The boom that struck the district two
or three years ago is producing good re-
suits. More or less developments have
been made which have demonstrated that
the district possesses intrinsic merits
which have heretofore been overlooked,
and it is gradually coming to the front
and will loom up as one Of the famous ore
producing districts OF Utah when we get
railroad connection with Salt Lake city.
Whenever it is an assured fact that we are
TO have railroad. mine owners viii COM
mence development work in earnest, and
predict that many valuable ore bodies
viii be uncovered, for the necessary con-
ditions, so far as formation is concerned,
exist to produce such results.
FORMATION AND ORES.
We have a variety of formations or
country rock, hence variety of ores.
The formation consists of limestone, gran
lite, quartzite, porphyry, and occasionally
slate belt. Our ores are galena, carbon
ates, silver, gold and copper, all the ores
carrying more or less gold.
Dutch Mountain, in addition to its ga
lena and carbonates, has some very high
grade silver ores, chlorides and sulphur
ates. Heretofore this, the north part of
this district, has been considered low
grade. but the discovery OF the rich ores
by Messrs. Evans and Brewer demon
strated otherwise, and the result is that
that portion of the district is pretty well
prospected and located.
Considerable development works. being
done in this part of the district with salts
factory results, and its outlook for the
future is very bright.
THE GOLD HILL MILL.
Gold Hill, besides its heavy lead ores,
mill at this place, owned by Woodman,
Martin d Co., is running very success
fnliy and is working the gold ore up to
90 per cent of It's assay value.
This mill or pulveriZer is different from
anything usually seen. 1t works on a
different plan from the ordinary stamp
mill and is destined to revolutionize gold
quartz mining, as it pulverizes the ore to
an impalpable powder and frees the min
11f 1al Of thn
and in its grinding process destroys the
coating on sulphuret or rusty gold and
hence increases its affinity for quicksilver.
THE TOWN OF CLIFTON.
The town of Clifton is in the southern
part of the district, where the recorder S
Office is kept. CIV. Brown, the recorder,
neer prospectors of the district and has
been contented to sit down here quietly
and wait for the district to open up.
Messrs. Watson and Chandler of Bing-
ham had some eight patented mines in
the immediate vicinity of the town. Here
we have the relics and ruins OF two of the
old smelters.
Some three miles east of Clifton is the
embryo town of Minnehaha in the copper
belt.
The Coleman Henry lode is situated
near this town. The lode carries a good
per cent of gold, silver and copper and is
considered one of the coming bonanzas of
the district. The meager developments
on this lode have developed a strong vein,
which bids fair to become a valuable
property.
In this vicinity is the Immense, appro-
priately named, for there is an immense
amount-a mountain-of medium grade
ore, carrying gold, silver and copper
enough to wear out a half dozen quartz
mills.
The Christmas Gold and Silver Mining
company has several tons OF good ore on
the dump, taken out in doing the assess
ment work for this year.
The Bully Boy, owned bye. w. Brown,
is bonded to Pierce 6 Co., who propose to
make rapid and substantial developments
to determine the intrinsic value of the
mine before putting their money in it,
which is the proper thing to do.
EThere are some 500 claims recorded in
the district. This means-twenty acres to
the claim-10, COO acres OF mining ground.
A NEW DISTRICT.
A new mining district has been discov-
cred recently near Ferguson springs, some
thirty miles north of Clifton. The ores
are galena and carbonates, but sufficient
amount of work has not been done to form
a correct idea of the merits of the mines.
The general outlook of Clifton district
is fiattering. Give it railroad and it will
astonish the natives with its ore output.
James Hendry has resumed work on the
Red Jacket. Several tons of galena and
carbonate ore have been shipped from this
mine to Salt Lake city, which sampled rs
to 80 ounces silver and from 30 to DO per
cent. lead. The developments on this
mine demonstrate the permancy of our
lead mines.
The Black Mountain.
Joseph Lee and Frank Parker, who