The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-23
FORMEDANEW DISTRICT
Juab County Develops a Good
Silver Camp.
LATE NEWS OF THE IBEX.
MARSAC SULP8IDES WILL BE RE-
DICED TO BULLION.
DAILY Saw Mill About Completed
work on the CrOwn-Point-Muna
dore-Putnam Company VIII Sink
a Shaft-Bingham Mines.

Nephi Blade:-From Captain huso
roonrazin who went out to Little Salt
crook early last week and returned on
saturday. we secured some informa-
tion relative to the new district w me
r,ere attending the recent session OIL
Hbe county court, Captain Deprezlh
-.o,,rez a sample of ore from the new
.zi.+ric+ took i to his home IN
hznrel5a. and had it tested with the
eolIouyine results:-Copper 5O4s per
ar+ silver 12O ounces and trace IN
la Rv A. o'clock the next morning
the captain was on ms
new Eldorado. o,,d
1ie 5r,e country rock is coarse ana
60 congIomerate; the mineral zone l.es
between quartzite and grahlle VIZ
dilrae about one mile apart Inc
S.;,arals are found. las far as present
.5a11elonments indicate) in plahheI
%-eins without walls or any uellhi: :s
80 oP aenarcation. 1T looks as
Ne Ne o,I,,graIs" said Captain Deprezin,
Ia aoma nm through a assure ana
$50 - enread out" following lines OF
800 resistance. OF course lndI
4baorv awaits demonstration. me
80 +to+ +he minerals form a KIND OF
-,racious cement that holds the smootn
cobF,Ie stones and pebbles togetneI'
and that The stones are loenllcdl AZ
value with the rest OF Ihe I..;,,,
,.oolr shows at a glance that the min
o,..l hos heen deposited in one OF Two
-ave IF CAPTAIN Deprezin's theory OF
sss,,ra origin is not correct, the pres
anca Of the metals can be accouhCeu
for only on the theory of deposition py
sn61tratiou. and no regularity can pe
57oned for. as there is but little OF ~
regularity to conslomerate lorna
Sione exnert those lines formed by
tog-o+;on and recomnencemel.t of the
~osi1-itx- Of those forces that laid the
SeC-1p1onnerafe down in its present ped,
"a those lines of separation, unlike
tho metal bearing sandstones OF Silver
Feef- are generally far apart. mere
may however, be exceptions ana Well-
defned blanket veins be found, as was
sbe csse in Coyote Creek, about 15O
..o;ies eo,,+h of Nephi, where anthony
r.as found in pretty much the sdiIe
sri1d of a conglomerate. The anthony
r-as hedded and capped by deposits OF
hlue clay varying from a few lncheS
10 several feet ia thickness. There are
SURPRISES vet in store for geologlstS
and no one can do more than specu-
late on probabilities that nave past
discoveries for their warrant, and the
aid saving of prospectors, that silver
lies in veins and gold is where you ind
a. NAV be overturned in the de-
veiopments in the Moss district.
When we go back in time, and IN
sn,aeination. watch the operation OF
4he forces that laid down that enorm-
Gus mass of corE'omerate, the subject
Is full of interest m the nrst place
+he rock had to be formed. Much of 1t
4 &C. composed Of quartzite, some Of the
& nehbles are lime and other rocks. After
n Their formation they were broken up
D and then on the beach of an ocean or
& The shore OF a vast inland sea, those
& Jagged fragments were rolled about
against each other until, they were
y smoothed by attriton. Another con-
j. diIion, that of gradual substance,
Il was necessary in order to account for
bhe enormous thickness of the BED
which forms Inc larger portion OF the
. mountain range east of Nephi, and
NJ that divides Juab valley from San
s4 pete As fast as thu rock fragments
a we're SmoOthed and rounded, the mass
II gradually sank ana the process of
,onglomerate forming went slowly on
III and must have consumed millions Of
4 years. Taking the Four Mile coal veins
IS a guide, the bulk of the conglomer-
tie was laid down during the upper
silurian and Devonian ages. At the
II lose of the latter age, there was a
A period of comparative rest in the
= downward movement of the earth S
VI .rlIst. and permitted carboniferous
trata to be laid down as also beds
ii # coal forming vegetation. Then an
'ther period of substance occurred and
81 onglornerate vas again formed as is
NJ roved by its position along the apex
n the mountain.
Captain Deprezin secured four claims
district was organized, with D. Nc
rtllur as recorder, and will be here
fter known as the Moss district in
onor Of the Moss brothers who were
ne first to attract interest toward the
<Saamp. About twenty-five men are in
RNae camp. Feed for animals is very
u rec and the point of supplies is
evan some eight or ten miles distant
rospectors going in must be prepared
encounter a rough country.