The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-02
THE HAHN's PEAK COUNTRY.
Richer Than Heretofore Represented
to Be-

A special from Columbine, Colo, to
the Denver Republican, gives the fol-
lowing account of the Hahn's Peak
mining district, which lies east of
Uintah county, this state:
Every additional day is proving that
the Eahns Peak district is a richer
proposition than ii has heretofore been
represented. The rich territory is broad
ening, and the prospects are all growing
richer as depth is reached.
People who come here find that one
half the truth has not been told. There
are now nineteen different leads in the
Whisky Park section being worked.
Some are located for a distance of from
six 10 ten miles apart and everyone
has pay rock in their claims. pc
culiar feature, and one that but few
camps can boast of is that wherever
quartz lead is found, whether it has
mineral at the surface or not, only
few feet has to be dug until the rock
shows values either in gold, silver, cop
per or lead, which values materially in
crease until at a depth of less than 80
feen pay is found. The width Of the
streak also increases very fast, and
what may have been a streak of quartz
not more than two inches in thickness
at the surface is over a foot thick at
IL to 20 feet in depth.
VALUES CHANGE WITH DEPTH.
The Elk Horn lode has an eigth-inch
streak at the surface which assayed an
ounce and a half of gold, 1,735 ounces
silver, per cent copper, and As per
cent of lead. Now, at a depth Of little
over 40 feet they have the same amount
of gold, less lead, but little copper, a
Is inch pay streak, four inches Of which
carries brittle and native silver, and as
saws 20, 600 ounces in silver per ton
WhinOlp q nrOninP0t citizen of
Steamboat Springs, claims he saw a
sample of the ore roasted in a common
wood fire which showed nuggets of sill
yer as large as the end of his little
finger He further stated that this lead
had been opened by shallow trenches
and shafts for over 1000 feet, and that
pay ore to the amount Of several tons
had been taken out of a number Of
them.
over on the North Fork, six miles dis
tant, the leads are not nearly so rich,
but have wider pay streaks and are
practically just as valuable. Four or
i've miles north of these points the
quartz in the leads turn TO Jasper and
carry gold and copper almost exclusive
". but in quantity TO gladden. the heart
Of the most covetous locator.
A noticeable pecrliarity about the
leads is that in whatever portion of the
camp they lay the southern end points
almost directly tONdIQS I1dnll Cdh
showing that when this upraise of
rhyolite came to the surface numerous
assures rent the old archaic rocks and /
were afterwards filed with the precious
metals.
SOME OF THE SHIPPING MINES. !
The Tom Thumb is outputting con-
siderable ore at present. Two four /
horse wagon loads started overland for |
Denver last week, and others will fol- I
low almost daily, besides a car load viii I
be shipped via the Union Pacific at an
early date.
The Minnie D. has struck another
streak of rich ore, some of which will
soon find it's way to the smelters.
The Greenville properties, eight miles
south OF the Peak, are outputting for
the Columbine smelter, and the ore is
improving with every foot of depth
The ore contains gold, silver, copper
and lead, and is considered a good pay
proposition and is very desirable as a
fux for dry ores.
1t is reported that sale is now being
negotiated Of the Magic property, ten
miles east of the Peak. This is one of
the finest properties in the district, has
a nav streak of seven feet, carrying SIS
in gold, IA ounces silver, 20 per cent or
lead IS per cent OF copper and 20 per
cent OF iron It is claimed by disinter-
eSteQ paIsieS lidt thSlN oAc OfSh 49,
tons of ore in sight. Whoever gets this
property and has money TO put in
concentratOr will have bonanza from
the start. with g f1rst-class water power
to run it at the foot of he dump.
STRIKES NEAR STEAMBOAT.
Three different localities near Steam
boat Springs are showing rock that runs
from $40 to see in gold, with few
ounces OF silver at the surface, and
quite a number of people are getting
interested
Work is being pushed on the Repub-