The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-07

For many years the prospector and
miner has Travelled up and down City
Creek canyon and over Black noun
tain, seven or eight miles north of this
city, in the vain endeavor to find in
this locality the ledge from which
came the float that is scattered all over
the mountain side and down the can
yon.
On Black mountain there were many
evidences of good naturalization to
be found and small strirgers of ore
have been discovered and considerable
money and time expended in their de-
velopment. but all to no purpose, and
work in that locality was abandoned
some time ago. Still, where there's life
there's hope" and. as if in fulfilment
OF this old adage, the main ledge Of
that region was discovered month
ago, but not until after it had been
uncovered by the action of the ele-
ments, presumably by a storm, which
washed away the debris and dirt and
left exposed one of the finest bodies
of silver-lead ores ever found in this
western country.
The Herald, from time to time, has
called attention to the possibilities ex-
listing in the mountains east and north
of this city, and from all indications its
predictions in this respect are about
to be verified in the discovery of the
Free Bullion group Of claims on Black
mountain, and also OF the group ad-
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city.
There is an old saying that distance
lends enchantment to the view" and
this has applied to Salt Lakers as
we'll as to people OF other places; for
there is hardly a person Of repute in
this city that has taken any stock in
the reported mineral deposits almost
within our very gates" and as q re-
suit the prcspector has met with but
little encourag cement in the develop
ment of his locations.
One gentleman, however, and man
of means, has become imbued with the
idea that in the Hot Springs district
there will yet be found another On
tario. and he will not rest until he has
proved his theory to be correct or
erroneous.
This gentleman is c. L. Dignowity
of San Antonio. Texas. who recently
moved his family to this city, and who
has mined with success in Old Mexico
and in nearly every camp OF promi-
nence in the United States and Can
ada.
Mr.. Dignowity visited the new finds
on Black mountain a. few days ago,
and was so well pleased with what he
saw there that he at once purchased
Clarence Jones interest in the three
claims comprising the Free Bullion
group, and also his entire interest in
another claim adjoining.
This deposit. Mr.. Dignowity says, is
q wonder, and he is of the opinion that
II is the mother lode Of that region. He
describes the ledge as being $50 feet
in width. the average assay value OF
which is 81 per cent lead. 175 ounces
in silver ard $3.50 in gold to the ton,
and along its trend, on either side, the
country is covered with float that can
be gathered UP in large quantities.
For some time past three shifts have
been employed in prosecuting the
ledge in order to demonstrate its eX-
tent, and now work has begun in driv-
ing seventy-five foot tunnel, which
will cut the ore body at a vertical
depth of LIS feet, and it is believed
that at this depth the gold values will
increase.
The group is also being surveyed for
patent, and before falling weather
comes, it is expected that this prop
erty will become a heavy shipper
This ledge. according to Mr.. Digno-
witty. must have been a blind lead until
a snowslide or a cloudburst washed
away the soil and debris which COW
cred it, which accounts, to a large ex-
tent, for the fact that it was never be-
fore discovered.
Z. w Center also has a valuable
group of claims adjoining the Free
Bullion ground, and he is satisfied that
in it he has the making of a great
producer
Elsewhere in Hot Springs district
some very promising discoveries have
been made, and at no distant day it
is believed that Salt Lake will beast of
her bon2nZaS almost within the
shadow OF Noroni.
Near the Twin Peaks, just east of the
city, there is a promising property that
shows good gold values. In Emigration
canyon, also, there are several fine
prospects from which encouraging as
says in sold have been obtained; and
in Dry canyon. between City creek and
Emigration canyons, rock was obtain
ed last week in the Smelling claim.
owned by J. J. Smell ct al, that gave
assay returns Of $11 in gold to the ton
near the surface.
In these latter properties it is be-
lieved that all that is needed is depth
to uncover bodies of ore as large and