Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-04-10
MERCUR GOLD FIELD.
Hudson D scoursss on The Prospects
No SEES There.
LARGE pErOsIrs OF THE METALS.
usreur viii be to salt Lake What
Leadvlllc Has Been 10
Denver.

sgssial cortarorsene' II ire News
MrRcua MiNiNu DIsTmcE Utah,
Anil o, 1894. - Your Tocial cor
respondent made, through the couric-
Az OF the u. +. r. H., n.y.
ipg trip from Weber 10 Mercur the
ihhylng little city ia the Mofcuf min.
u ,dislrioL can hardly oxprosa my
surprisc at the peculiar methods OF both
mining and milling the ores Of this
camp. neither can feel Justified Ia my
own mind ~ to the forces Of nature Ia
bringing about these large deposits Of
pold.ucaung ores.
A good news PAPER man should aud
does have the ''galW IN enter the
pfesruce uf kings In his thifst TOT news,
and / pfcsumc,if the truth was known,
many, now gene, have entered the
uftacnce u Satan, out u mere curios.
ity, Of course. But the mining man
must have both "gal" and ntfvei 10 he
drsirra 10 obtain mifiug knowledge.
The old story II miuing Ia this lie.
tfiut years ago Tor silver need not be
gone over. That story ~ without dDubj
tmu ir0m tho evidence u tho "pOi
hoicp,n clvurut, caves aud excavations
in many places on both "Morcur" aud
"Maflon" ground as we'll as In other
roftiOua Of tue camp.
Many theories have been advanced
o. 90 the cause OF the formation. 5 mo
think 10 deposit; othufs say this can
hardly DO tue case from the
fact that the gold bearing
derosit seems TO follow the silver
lcdgeu-is In fact tho hanging wall ui
thoailvtr Ofe. fhe latter 1 can hardly
feel Is the true theory. tom tho fact
could not see aoy reason % luauiy q
statomont % auy silver ledge.
The silver ore, Judging t. IN tue
holes from which tho ore was takon,
was "ilun Ecfs ald There uc1ui1ns
ally" where She uiuor happened 90
run onto ~, while tho golI htarins
portion has "a ven uoGutd cJuisc anl
uip hulWUpu two walls Of different
bnatactrr OF r1us aud eau BOO miuei
systematically, after thu prospecting
has been done aud the miner chooses 10
abiue syttom with WORK. 1 tl0E tnu
liberty 10 rInwl down unI ilt1
many OF those abandoned silver POT
holes aud found hUTo auI there piece
OF silver bearing rock ana occasilu-
ally found ciuuabAr stain, ne 10 we're,
something like the came ~ iouud la
tuu gold uu4uug dtpl-it now being sg
pr0nuhly w0rhui. This silver bearing
ore ttumH % possess much auiimDuy
in TACT found tevofnl pitC.B which
Beema 10 be all anthony and doubt 10
thefe 10 any silver IN o..
From tuc facts havo stated 10
regari 90 tho condition % tho gOli
bearing rock, which teemn 10 bc con
glOmufato mass VI quartz, spar, oryslal.
lizsd limo, Shalu aud black
lime. verglng QUITO dAlamite auu
also talc,it mas two perfect walld. Tue
iooF or loot wall Of thu ledge is black,
hard line, while ihu roof or hanging
wall b composed OF lime ihalc. On the
Mefcuf anu Marion grounds the ledge
OF deposit lies almOst Hat, aud only has
DIP whore thu mountain slope is quite
abrupt. Tue tread OF strike oi this gold.
bearing lr1go or deposit ~ northofly
Hud souiherly, and my opinion II that
tho miner " proprietor wuO nndB this
orc zone either north or south
Of thu above mentioned locality
VIII hnl II more nearly avern1 anu
more perpendicular, aud perhaps n
higher grade VI Urc. This very easily
worked ore cannot pgttibly be confined
10 the small Territory whicu has been
pTOspoUtCI nuar the town oi heICur
tue pact TAIL aud winter months.
Near the valley "a the GIeucle slide,
1 understand, very fine uIosprciu have
bunu upsnvu zap aud large bJllth Ut ore
Ola buuer craze have teeuiOuuI. Tnis
part OF tuo camp 4 have MOI yc, yi8itoJ.
Gu the Rush Valley hiuo Messuu.
Dicks uuu Jones seem o. 90 opening up
uu Immense deposit OF this orc, which
they ciaim val assay ON tue average Of
some tl2. Mt Jas. MuNetce hiss tuy.
eTai claims Ia this same vicinity that
also look Tine with what work has been
done. These claims are almost In tue
valley. some day some euierprising
miner u liable 10 80 farther down Ia
tue valley, get a solid formation that
mas not ueeu intgfieted with by q
stray volcanic eruption, aud gel
BONANZA Tor his pains. This may
prove false theory, but the chances
nre greatly In iti favor In my opinion
the Merguf miuing district VIII DO ~
Bait Lake City what Lsaiyille was to
Denver.
The TACT that tue Colorado party did
not tgEe tno Merous mines uoed NOT
deter those Interested from WORKING
their claims, nor keep Utonians or any
otter legitimate mining men FROM
faithfully prosecuting woTklin thecnmp
Ia tho belief that "a legitimate pr0hi
viii crown their efforts with success.
HUDSON.