The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-12

/ when they sent the judge to attend the
opening of the New York mining ex-
! change.
/ AS It is. hardly a day passes but what
( ern papers in which the topics "Colborn''
and Mining in Utah" are thoroughly dis
cussed, the latest of these being in the
New York Daily Financial News of the
18th, which says:
At the recent opening of the New York
mining exchange Judge Colborn of Salt
Lake city discussed the mineral re-
sources of the new state, and convinced
New York of the marvellous mineral
bodies of the state. The state has, with
ten mines, paid but s1,SS4,49 less than
Montana with seventeen, and but $751;
9S6 less than Colorado with thirty-six
mines, and yet so much noise has been
made about Montana and Colorado and
so little about Utah that these startling
facts are not generally known Mr.. Col
born states that Utah has produced in
the last eighteen years over one hundred
million dollars in gold and silver, and
that the development of the mining in
terests of the state is in its infancy.
The Utah people have been quiet about
their mining, but there have arisen many
millionaires, whose great fortunes have
been taken out of the mines. Park City,
with its Ontario, DAILY and Daly-West
Bullion Beck, Centennial Eureka. Eu-
reka-Hill properties, and the great Camp
Floyd district, with its Mercur, Golden
Gate, Hillside, Wonder, Hecla, East
Golden Gate, Sunshine and numerous
other properties, are now attracting
widespread attention among the mining
men of the west. The Camp Floyd dis
trict is particularly interesting at this
time. In times past it has been worked
in for cinibar and silver. but interest is
now centered upon the great bodies
of low grade gold-bearing ore, which in
every respect resembles the ores of
IL,
ore bodies have been determined to exist
within an area of thirty square miles.
They vary from 10 to 10 feet in thick
ness, averaging $12 per ton in gold, and
can be mined and milled for 50 per ton.
These ores are particularly adaptable
to treatment by the cyanide or potassium
process, the most simple and inexpensive
method ever discovered for the reduction
of low-grade ores. This process consists
in crushing the ores to the size of coffee
gravel, after which they are subjected
to the action of a weak solution of
cyanide of potassium, which teaches the
gold from the rock and reduces it to a
Solution;, the solution is deprived of its
gold by fltering it through zinc shavings,
which take UP the gold, from which it
can be released by simple and inexpensive
methods.
The development in the Mercur district
already demonstrat ties that millions of
dollars in gold will be extracted in the
near future, and new discoveries in every
direction give color to the belief that
these marvellous ore bodies exist over a
great portion of the state of Utah. The
Mercur mine has now nearly three mill
ions Sin sight" and has paid 100000 in
dividends during the past year.
The Golden Gate mine, less than two
years DID, has a seventy-foot vein of ore
and has 100000 "in sight"
The opinion is rapidly gaining that
Utah is to become one of the great
gold-producing states of the Union It
has a perfect climate, and it's mining
population had its schooling in Comstock
and the other great mines on the Pacific
coast.
Figures furnished by Judge Colborn
indicate that mining in Utah in the past
has been with the pick and shovel in the
shaft and tunnel and drift rather than
with the pen and stock book in the office
of the broker and on the floor of the
mining exchange Judge Colborn inter
estingly portrays the great wealth of his
state, and states that the people of his
state offer an invitation to the people of
the United States to give it's mining re-
sources a most careful scrutiny.