The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-20
BUSINESS, MINING AND STOCKS
derness and far distant from the cen
tiers of civilization.
THE wAH wAH MOUNTAINS.
New District of NethaIie Organized
Another Camp Started.

Another Camp Started.
Richfield Nov. 19.-Last July w. A.
Crawford, an experienced prospector,
left here for the State Line district.
After spending some time in the State
Line country he went to other min
eral belts in Iron and Beaver counties
finally settling down for a location In
the Wah Wah range of mountains;
The Wah Wah range runs nc,th ana
south, parallel, or nearly so, with the
san FRANCISCO mountains. The Wan
Wah mountains are for the greater
part aqueous in their formation, though
here and there are TO be found dykes
of igneous rocks such as pcrphyry.
The Wah Wah range is not entirely
unknown to the proSpectors OF Utan,
for it was proSpeoted and worked some
during the later '70'S and early 81 s,
when Frisco was boonang. But tne
work of breaking rock with black pow
der and double-hand steel was too ex-
persive and the locations were aban-
doned. Now, however, there are some
ten or twelve prosDectorS in there and
they have prepared to stay for the
winter. Horse feed, wood and water
are plentiful and Frisco is but % miles
distant by a trail or 40 miles distant
by wagon road. About the middle of
trdct. the Netha9ie, and made 1t law
of the district that any claim staked
should have ten feet of drift work or
eight feet of shaft work done inside OF
three months.
The object of This will be clearly seen
10 prospectors. In the State Line dis
tr;ct d few farmer DroSpectors nave
staked off a great number OF claims
and are doing no development work,
no. can they be forced to do any for
over a year to come. Thus little is be-
ing done towards the development OF
the camp. Seeing how State Line had
suffered the laws of this district were
made to correct this evil.
The prospecting field Mr.. Crawford
reports is very large, as the mineral
belt is from u to Is miles in length
many leads are traceable for a great
distance. One lead now located by
Robert Leroy, an old Nevada pros
rector, can be traced for 1900 feet.
Quartzfte is the original formation
here and the mineral hes in the Fine
and in the contacts. All of the ores
are silver-l1ad with some gold values.
In the lime TIE ores are most all car
Donate OF lead while some lead sui
phldes is found in other places.
Mr.. Crawford and H W. RamIOse of
Rfchfield are owners of two claims, the
Su'o-Treasury and the Extension. Mr..
Crawford brought some good rock from
these claims and wifi send it to Salt
Lake for an assay today. United States
Marshal Nat Brigham and Ben Jordan
recently had an assay of average
specimens made with a result of 80
ounces silver and $13 in gold. Orson
Keeler and James Murray have To-
Gated a claim upon which an old shaft
rad once been sunk, but is now filled
with water. They have found a new
lead and are highly encouraged by a
number of assays made as they gave
six ounces in silver and a picked spect-
men assayed 500 ounces silver and from
SO to $17 in gold to the ton, while the
average of an S-fnch streak was 80
ounces silver and ST. in gold.
The Wan Wah mountains are covered
with saw timber and several saw mills
were there when Frisco demanded a
great deal of lumber, but now the road
from Frisco to DugWay Springs is
washed out and all who go by team
must go around by another way, which
IS 40 miles.
Speaking of State Line Mr. Crawford
said there were three stores, a hotel,
a restaurant, a feed stable and a shoe
shop there now and several houses. The
camp will be a good one when capital
ists once become interested in il ard
put up the means for developing the
mines.