The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-16

MILFORD, aug. lf.-COiOnIl HdW kiLS
of Salt Lake City is here exporting and
reporting on two or three different
mining propositions. One Of the fore
most Investigations made by him is the
work Of the little crude drill that has
opened up a few holes to bed rock in
the lake bottom in and around Milford,
The colonel thinks that there is no
more Improbable place in the world in
which 10 look for gold. He had a few
pans washed and a piece or two OF
gravel washed, and then quit the dig
gings. The man who owns the little
screw driver apparatus insists that he
has struck nothing that would justify
a man To get out Of his camp wagon
and look at. Says he: We are not
going to set any worlds afire with this
Siblet. and Ye &c not look 30 find any
gold to amount to anything sIntil our
bigger auger gets here, and we take
up something right from bed rock
In reply to the question as 10 why
he continues to send off the red and
blue clays he gets from % feet below
the surface he replied that he has a
number of friends doing assay bust
ness. and st is his duty 70 contribute
a small amount each month TO their
UfnlS. MI. f1dMlAlllS tNdI
ground is not worth 10 cents an acre,
and that the placer channel sought af-
ter would be, in all probability, more
than 1000 feet below the surface. if.
indeed, it was ever deposited here at
all The immense body Of water stand
ing in the ground for miles around
would make it impossible to work the
proposition, even if there should be
something found. He calls the whole
1a1 nd n he
time TO Investigate. Hawkins is ey-
aiming the copper properties in Rocky.
There he thinks is something of value.
The large bodies Of low grade copper
ranging from to 10 per cent pure
goods. the immense Groupings and in
dications of depth lead him to investi-
gate closely. The copper wealth would
be astonishing, thinks the colonel, eX-
ccpt for the fact that it is broken up
badly in places. a clean hundred thou
sand dollars has been spent on the cop
per in Rocky. Other and a new class
of mining men now think, however.
that the former work was not judic-
icusly placed. That slides were taken
to be the ledge in place, and that the
lower values were worked from the
beginning
Billy" Williams showed the writer
piece of native copper from his Rocky
property. and as hand sample it had
assayed little more than 40 per cent
pure copper. All through his 40-foot
ledge OF this material there are small
streaFs carrying the high grade arti-
Gle. With depth Rocky may show us a
world beater in the copper line Lay
ing. as it does. within two miles of the
railroad, all down hill and a good road
makes even 10 per cent goods a ship
ping proposition, and with the price of
copper coming up steadily. Milford may
yet record a copper mining camp.
p 3. McKeon has today taken II
bond for q deed on a bed of pumice
stone ten miles east from Milford For
years it has been known that this ar
ticle existed in this vicinity. Experts
in that line have been here, but all went
away without doing anything. The
pumice has been considered too fine and
soft for any marketable value.
This latter find is different.
however. McKeon claims that he has
the proper stuff this time. and that
fine face Of ten feet thickness supports I
his claims. as the article is worth !
something like $50 per ton on the cars
at Milford, and it can be loaded for So |
per ton, it is reasonable to state that /
quite a formidable competitor in the I
pumice business is springing up in this (
property. McKeon has started the ball /
TO rolling already on the property, and I
10 Milford's line Of business PROPOSE /
lions ought to be added this one
The ola cave mine is being often /
looked at recently. Examinations are |
being made by different syndicates. |
The caves still stand there silent as to |
where and how and when they came
into possession of their wealth. and /
they say not q word as to what was
done With the gold they did not ap- /
prCpriate- As the water for ages and (
ages drained from this salt sea into /
these caves and cracks IN the noun
tain. it carried with il millions of dol /
lars in yellow wealth. but the question
remains the same silent secret as TO
what became Of that which did not leak
out into the adjoining mountains. This
thought has been one Of the points in
the theory that the lake bottom here
in the Milford district carries values.
OF course. t may be SO, too. The Cave
mine Is going to again ship ore. Just
what quantity remains To be, sean.