The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-01

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tors Map-The Free Gold Mining
Company-Col. Ike Trumbo In It
Gold City. Gold Mountain District,
Junc 27.-There is not, very likely. on
all the earth a prototype of the God
Mountain district in its peculiar forma-
. lion.
Beginning within rife shot, almost, OF
the Sewer mine. a lead of basaltic rock
extends 10 the northward about 10
miles. The bed extends easterly and
westerly at least 20 miles, at from near
the Cove Fort divide down to the Sc
vier station on the Rio Grande West
ern railway; then it bends southerly to-
wards Marysvale. which the basalt
reaches in the form of isolated buttes
anG foothills.
About eight miles north OF the Sewer,
Clear creek, on its busy course to its
junction with the Sewer river near the
railway station, has cut a deep chan
1iel in the soft basalt, which has been
worn into the most fantastic forms by
1he tireIess elements.
This morning our party left R0biSon's
amen, in Clear creek canyon. and pro-
ceeded UP Mil creek fork almost due
south a distance Of three miles, then it
continued on up the Sewer branch
about seven miles
TO GOLD CITY,
a few hundred feet below the Sewer
mine and mill.
The enclosed specimen Of high art
photography VIII give fair idea Of the
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having been necessarily left out of the
field-and the Sewer II in the back
ground TO the west.
Down in Sewer sulch and running
with the course of the creek, is located
the hydraulic works of Captain Davis.
The group consists of nine claims. 1,500
feet long by zoe feet wide, and extends
M the gulch toward the Sewer: and.
until recently, was owned by BOlithO
and Hess, who received $4,000 for the
property. The works are idle, but Cap
tain Davis. an old time California
placer miner, has "A men now at work
on a ditch which wiz convey ABOUT 300
inches Of water from Mil fork over the
intervening ridge and pour the fluid
into Sewer gulch nearly 900 feet, YER
ically. above the present site OF the I
hydraulics. This viii afford ample I
water power 10 work All the placers !
clear up to the Sewer mine. CAPTAIN /
Davis informed the writer that the top
layer Of gravel, about six feet thick (
samples 80 cents per cubic yard. The
bedding is y inches OF boulder clay be /
meath which is another stratum of .
gravel, from the top Of which Captain I
Davis
SECURED Il COLORS
from a single shovelfun of dirt. The
gravel is composed OF porphyry, quartz,
etc, and its crushed, jagged form FUR
nishes unmista4Iable evidence of its be
ing glacial drift.
Above. and adjoining the Davis prop
erty, is the Scout group Of two claims.
Joined TO SCOTS Is the Holland group
of five claims. which occupies all the in
termediate group up 10 the Sewer.
Gold City being situated on the Holland
claim.
These placers, in connection with a
number Of adjoining and fine looking
lode claims. are the property of \. }.
Moore and W. F. Snyder of Richfield,
who are now working quite force OF
men on their several properties.
After partaking Of a dinner prepared
by Messrs. Moore & Snyder's cook and
which, in every particular, would cause
the patrons of nearly every hash
house" in Salt Lake to turn green with
envy, the writer. under the guidance
OF Mr.. Moore, visited the Miller and
other claims situated over the Sewer
hill on the descent TO Fish creek.
a few more words on the country
rock of this district Will suffice, as
nearly every claim lies in the same
kind of formation.
aet,. ee- 1t. previously re-
ferred to, and the treeless foothills / ,
OF ut. Badly and Belknap Peak an (
enormous belt of birdseye porphyry
has been forced up from profound !
depths. The belt extends easterly and
westerly over distance of several {
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always of the same general character 5
istics. Through this great belt, with
a northerly and southerly strike, a
large fissure was formed which is oc- f
cupied with the
GOLD BEARING QUARTZ q
of the Sewer mine and its north and :
south extensions On both sides of the :
Sewer lode i,,e other parallel assures,
and all carrying excellent values, q
chiefly in gold.
II is not a mere co Incidence tina. all r
those assures have their strike toward n
MI. Badly, and Belknap Peak the :
points of greatest elevation. An exami- \
nation of a pane of glass through :
which pebble has passed, will show
that the fractures radiaIe from the I
centre or axis Of disturbance. And il !,
IS reasonable applica ton of the law q
IF cause and effect, to suggest that :
hese Gold Mountain fractures were :,
laused by the tremendous uDlift \
which forced Mt. Badly into the :,
'egiOns OF eternal snow. The same :,
of fracturing is a char u
lcteristio OF the greater portion OF the r
ohio and Mt. Badly districts in the =
Narysvale portion of the metaiiferous q
1elt. which is believed 10 entirely en- =
,ircle Mt. Badly. /,
we viii now resume our description n n
u Oh
THE MILLER PROPERTY.
.onsis+i,e, Of eiobt claims sno fae+ :, lie
engfh by 600 feet wide, which is the y
equation size Of all locations. except "
fractions, in the district. The ac- |,
Jmpanying easterly view of the Miller -
!, flicieTt iaea % ;fs s;,,ia,i,,' irba 50
igh ridge in the left background is the a
outherly continuation of the Sewer III
ill.
The owner, Mr.. ". L Higgins. is Ia Ia
in no III