The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-05

Marysvale. Utah, July 3.-The Cold
Mountain correspondent Of the Salt
Lake Tribune of the 1st inst. has the
following:
Some biologists and experts who
have studied the formation in this
country held the theory that the ter
rife upheaval SHOWN by the presence
and position of Belknap and Badly re-
suited in an overflow northwest and
southeast from the eruption's center;
that the metals poured down from the
lofty caps along the huge dykes of
porphyry. the heavier material seething
to the bottom. They base this opinion
upon the fact that lead ana silver are
in evidence in Ohio district, up near
the mountain tops. and that lower
down northwest in Gold Mountain dis
trict gold predominates.
If any readers of The Herald are
fond of the grotesque and impossible,
second reading of the above clipping
may interest them. Aside from its
nonsense, the theory advanced as to
how the mines of Gold Mountain have
been formed is a blow at that deserV-
ing district, and would seem as if
written in the interest of those who
NGS4At ~ oUAdAn li olfCi ~ lilGiC al Ala1lL
its value, rather than in the interest
of the mine owners.
OF course II is to the interest of in
Yestors to affect TO doubt the Derma-
nency of the claims they cOvet, and
it is their right TO obtain them at the
best possible terms; but it is not right
to discredit a whole district-0r rather
the entire Mt. Badly region-by cred
iting TO some biologists and experts
Uhe theory thar the Gold Mountain
assures have been filed from the top.
No wonder that many practical mining
men hold the opinions of the experts
in contempt when they read or hear
such untenaals theories as are adj
vanced in the clipping.
There is no doubt that the origin of
the veins surrounding Mt Badly is
intimately associated with the ire
mendous forces that lifted the central
portion of the Mt Badly region TO its
great altitude; but that the metals
poured down from the lofty caps" and
filled the veins. is sheerest nonsense.
Imagine that stream Of metals pour
ing down the mountain sides, then up
the intervening ridges to Sewer hill,
then crossing ravines and ridges and
down into the forks of Deer creek.
Imagine thc silver and lead hunting
for a resting place in the higher lodges
while the gold found an abiding place
by "seething to the bottom Capital
would naturally be shy of investing
in a district where the metals owed
their origin in the veins to such sci
entifc causes. one portion of the
premises for the theory involved in the
clipping is wrong. The lead in the
Ohio district is found in a much lower
altitude than Gold Mountain, as is
evidenced by lead in the Deer Trail,
Crystal Bully Boy and Webster
Chattanooga, on Butcher hill, etc, while
none has been found in a loftier alti-
tude than Gold Mountain. AS rule
the gold in the Ohio and Mt. Badly dis
tricts IS found in much higher attitudes
than those where lead exists.
The mine owners of the Mt. Baldv
region have no cause to lose any sleep
or confidence in their property by try
ing to think out how their lodges were
filled By the pouring down of the
precious metals froTl the lofty caps
along the huge dykes of porphyry sur
rounding Mt. Badly.