The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-03
GOLD NEAR ELDER CREEK.
Great Activity Is Predicted in JuaI

Great Activity Is Predicted in Juab
1 County.
y Camp on Elder Creek, Juab county,
FEB 26.-Since writing my last letter
thesnoW-has subsidized to the extent of
:sSSSss be general foreman of the
!, -, %ib 30 out on snow shoes and as
EczfTl Asl day of the month. He
1eturneSsz with the information that Mr..
Corbett has5 damned Mr.. Mitchell, the
passage of the Wilson bill by the
House and the contempt proceedings
against Booth, of Salt Lake. In addi-
ton to these tidings he brought in DR..
Arthur 1. Groves, of the Kelley insti-
tute, Hon. P. J. DAILY, attorney, and
fifteen pounds of potatoes from Erick
sons ranch. The later proved an eX-
cellent substitute for beans. DR. Groves
came in to look at some mining claims
he has here in process Of development
and Mr.. DAILY came on the same er-
rand The physician started from John
Rydalch's ranch, nine miles away, and
on the first lap broke the worlds rec
ord. Half way up the pass, however.
he blew opt a cylinder head and was
only working one side when he got in.
He is now lacked up in the top bunk
for repairs. DAILY is taking his rations
with sort of 1-WOuld-like-JO-haVe
scme-more-but-hate- air.
In NY former article ] mentioned
that this camp was going to astonish
the natives this summer. l do not re-
cede from that position one whit This
is going to be a mining town, and one
of the best in Utah. Maybe / do not
exaggerate when l say not only Utah,
but the west. There is gold here; not
in solid masses or bricks, but lots of
good ore. The ores are ESSENTIALLY a
telluride Of gold in a quartzose granite
gangue. generally accompanied with d
pale purple fiuor-spar in small crystals,
cube-like in shape. In the upper por-
ton of the veins, where the decompo-
sition Of the ores has been completed,
\ the telluride is absent and in its stead
the gold is found free, but in spongy
state with a dead dull brown color.
This is not easily recognized as gold
except by experienced eyes. Lower
down. the telluride appears as silver
white mineral replacing the native
gold This telluride would be classed
properly as sylvanite. This mineral
carries gold in good paying quantities
The blowpipe transforms the metal in
minute globules of high grade gold,
although some specimens show The gold
TO be Of d brownish purple which,
when FURNISHED, gives it the natural
color. A description of the ores in
Cripple Greek, Colo, fits the place very
nicely Some deposits Of gneiss rock
similar to that found at Camp Floyd
are located. DR.. Groves, Dan Hutchin-
son and third party own the Peacock
group composed Of the Red Bird,
GLADYS Peacock and Blue Dick De-
velopment work was begun. and has
continued on the Peacock, which is the
central location. The shaft is down
fifty feet and the men are prosecuting
through the ore body. The vein shows
up finely and assays made show that
the mine is going TO be a good paving
Of Jacks and Jessie, a group owned by
J. II. Irvine. Mrs. c. NJ. Jackson and
j. .. Clark, lies south of the Peacock.
Development work began on the Pair
Of Jacks. The blow out covered the
vein with about four feet of fine ashes.
underneath which the mineral lay. The
vein shows up finely. and from assays
the owners will doubtless realize some
thing handsome.
Across the guIch the Erickson Bros
have been working all winter and ru-
NOR has it that they were nerfectlv
~ disfied when they reached depth of
2 eighty feet. At any rate, they closed
the shaft with a satisfied smile, went
home to await the advent Of gentle
spring,
Several other parties are working
over in the neighborhood, but owing to
the extreme cold weather, conmunica-
ton is very difficult.
There is plenty Of property here to be
taken providing Iocators are in earnest.
Men who ride over the ground and drop
stakes from their horses backs need
not apply. The laws Of the district pro-
vide that the party making the loca-
ton must sink five feet on his discov-
cry inside of thirty days after locating.
This must be done before the claim can
be recorded. This law was made with
the object of developing the country.
cite one instance where one man, G