The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-12

recent discoveries in several mining
districts have somewhat Disconnected
the book-iearned and college-bred min
ing expert and knocked his pet theo-
rles to the four winds. Some men will
not consider a mining proposition I'M
I'll they are satisfied that the formation
is Just SO and SO. and if they knew
that gold mine existed below a muck
patch. they would not strike a pick
into the ground or turn over a hand
towards its development, simply be-
cause the existence of a mine in such
a place would be contrary to their
hloe-Dound opinions as to where ore
should exist, consequently it is the ten
derfoot, or the man who has rejected
the fine-spun theories of ''yellow-leg-
ged experts who develop ore bodies
where science says mineral wealth does
not or cannot exist.
In the vicinity of Phoebe, one of
the richest and best known silver-lead
camps the west has ever known, a
camp that has been famous for over
twenty-five years, gold in paying guam
titles has been discovered at a spot
which had been considered by expert
mining men as barren. and worthless
Indeed. if anyone had undertaken to
prospect for the minerals there twenty
years ago, he would have been laugh
ed at as a fool; but now that gold
has been discovered there, the hills
are covered with prospectors, and it
goes almost without question that sew
eral rich mines will eventually be de-
veloped there.
To come nearer home, we have case
at point near Eureka, Tintic For
years scientific mining men have held
that there was no mineral north of Eu-
reka gulch and west of the keystone
mine This has greatly discouraged
prospecting in that locality, but of late
years a few men, willing to stake their
capital at variance with the book
learning of gentlemen who wear cor
duroy clothes and take pride in point
ing out the formation of the camp to
aWe-inSpired visitors, have been quietly
working away there, with the result
that news has recently reached US of
a rich strike in the Dagmar claim, To-
Gated in the barren" region. Of the
claims in that vicinity, a well-known
mining man once said: They would
make good farms if water could only
be brought to them" Another gentle
man said that he would not give fifteen
cents an acre for all the land around
there; and so it goes, and day by
day solid and undisputed facts con-
front and overthrow Sc1entnc theories.
When Colonel J. f. Woodman and w.
w. Chisholm first began work on the
Blue Rock claim, now part OF the Cen
tennial-Eureka, knowing men shook
their heads and said that it was pity
for them to waste their time and
money on such a fruitless proposition,
and yet there is not a greater mine
in the west today than the Centennial
Eureka.
Science said that silver could not ex-
list in sandstone, but it does, as has
been demonstrated by the fortunes
made at Silver Reef, in Washington
county.
In Bingham, even in the cold Reli-
able camp of Bingham. some of the
most prominent mines in the camp
have been found on ground supposed
for many years to be worthless, and
we have heard men say that hun
dreds of times they have walked over
York hill and supposed the ground to
be barren, and yet on this hill are 10
Gated the York and Petro mines, which
are properties of great promise, be-
sides other valuable claims.
Would space allow, many other in
stances of this character could be cited,
but we believe enough has been said
to make tenable our assertions that
"Ore is where you find it.