The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-17
IN THE MINING WORLD.
country, but there has not been much
activity in them recently.
sIINMG NEAR OGDEN.
Showing Made in the Little Cedar
and Other Mines.

and Other Mines.
Perhaps in no section of the state
has the mining industry received such
a setback as that around ogden and
the north, and nowhere has the anti
mining feeling been SO strong.
There are many reasons for this.
First, the collapse of the La
Plata BOOM" for which there
was no reason in the world. gave q
BLACK eye to everything in the shape
Of mining here. Then the older fields,
Park City, Bingham, Tintic, and later,
Camp Floyd, offered more certain,
quick and safer fields for profitable ef-
fort and investment.
The prospector, however, never
wearies and never dies, and with the
general revival Of interest in mining
that has come with the opening OF
Camp Floyd district and the discover
les that have followed in other parts
of the state in consequence, the knights
of the Long Trail have once more
turned their attention to this region.
THE LITTLE CEDAR.
Some months ago there was a great
/ excitement over the alleged discovery
Of big deposit of gold-pearing rock
a short distance up Ogden canyon,
which assayed over $4,000. This was
alluded to as the Richter mine, but is
in fact, the Little Cedar, discovered
and owned principally by Jones and
Bingham. Several tests of the rock
were made both in Ogden and Salt
Lake, and gradually the excitement
! died out, and the whole thing came TO
| be regarded as a fake. A few weeks
ago mention was made in these
cofumns of the fact that a shipment of
!, the rock was 10 be sent to Salt Lake
| for a test. A reporter for the Evening
Press made a trip to the property this
week A tunnel is being driven to tap
| the ledge at a depth of about 800 feet.
! This is in about seventy feet and is
now following well-defned vein of
quartZite about three feet wide. The
country rock is blue lime, and the
walls are porphyry, which carries
small values in gold, as does also the
Gaping which is a shale. 1t is ex-
pected that within the next week the
main ore body will be tapped.
Two mill runs of the stuff have been
made with the result that the owners
have been encouraged to go right on
with development work. Careful as
says of the rock have been made the
lowest Of which showed 1920 in gold.
Later assays show very fair values in
| gold, silver and copper.
THE MEIGHAN PROPERTY.
Mention was made in these columns
of a new strike near Ogden in which
| Charles Meighan and others were in
| tereSted. Assays at that time showed
$l5 in gold. The tunnel is now in about
fifty feet on this prospect and the
| showing is as good as ever. The de-
velopment so far has not disclosed the
extent of the gold bearing deposit, and
| the tunnel is being driven right into
it. The character Of the rock is the
same, but the extent of it cannot be
estimated. Later assays show about
the same values as the first obtained.
! except for a little increase in copper
Within a few hundred yards of the
| first strike another location has been
made which has all the earmar1s of
the Mercur ore. 1t is a decomposed
lime, stained with cinnabar, and car
| ries $3.50 in gold with only a trace
| of silver. 1t is being developed as fast
| as possible, and in the writer's opinion
| is mighty promising proposition. The
vein is at present about eight feet wide,
as near as can be determined.
THE WOODEN MILLS PROPERTY.
About three miles east of the wooden
mills are couple of new prospects on
which development work is being done
| SO lar the showing is in a ledge Of iron
| stained conglomerate streaked with
quartz and showing small values in
gold Systematic development of the
| property viii be commenced. and it
gives every promise of showing good
results.
A NEW FIND.
A party started from the city today
to locate and begin work on some new
ground recently discovered within a
short distance of the city, the exact
location of which is withheld for OBJ
vious reasons. The discovery was made
a short time ago by an Ogden pros
pector who brought some of the rock
down for assay. The returns showed
fine values in gold that exceeded all
expectations, and arrangements were
made for a return trip TO locate and.
work the ground. The rock is a prett..
free milling quartz, speceed with iron
hematite. The discoverer pounded
some of it up and succeeded in pan
ming out several colors. The gold in
the samples was very fine, but it is
there. It is expected the parties will
be in town again next week with some
more of the stuff, when fuller par
ticulars will be given.-Ogden Press.
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