The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-01

Park City, July 31.-Continuing the
subject of the copper-gold belt, barely
mentioned in yesterdays letter. and
which is the most southerly outcrop of
pre- in this district, will say that the
trend of the quartzite, lime and por-
phyry, which comprise the formation,
is easterly and westerly, or the same
as that over the divide two miles to
the north, in which the great silver
lead veins are found. The dip is also
to the north. To the south the mineral
belt is supported by massive bed of
porphyry in which there is no outcrop
of vein matter.
Beginning at the east end of the belt,
so far as developed, we find the much
talked-of vaIeo copper-gold mine. The
eastern descent of the hill is quite
steep and covered with drift which
supports a dense growth of shrubs and
scrub oak, and forms a hard PROPOSE
ton in which 10 prospect and trace the
vein on its strike, and because of this.
the owners pointed the lower tunnel
too far to the west and drove in some
Geo feet. Discovering they were off the
strike, the tunnel was abruptly turned
to the right and driven 300 feet, and is
now in highly mineralized lime carry
ing white iron in abundance and evil
IDENTIFY nearing the vein. This theory
is also supported by developments in
the upper tunnel The lower tunnel
cuts the intercalated belts of quartzite
lime and porphyry on their dip to the
north. Each contact is heavily cased
with clay, and for uniformity and alb
sence of irregularities has no superior
anywhere About $50 feet up the hill,
faa loo 1xr oh ha II
just described, is the upper tunnel. At
ter piercing the drift, the tunnel enters
the lime belt and catches the vein on
its strike and follows it a distance of
nearly 300 feet to the west.
From the tunnel an incline shaft was
started on the vein and followed it on
a dip Of As degrees to the north, a dis
lance of about so feet, where it bends
down much sleeper and exhibits
strange indications Of making" for
the Quartzite, which doubtless will be-
come the footwall. The incline shaft |
is now down a little over 100 feet. Be /
low the collar a few feet there is an !
ore Slope which shows the vein to be
from
FIVE TO SEVEN FEET WIDE.
a marked Improvement is seen from
top to bottom, where the incline is in
a body of ore so large that a crosscut
viii be necessary to determine its
width. The walls are heavily cased
with tale, and the vein soft and easily
worked. The ore is principally copper
oxide, some azurite, mixed with rich
looking iron gaugue. The values were
given as follows: Copper, 40 per cent;
silver, 40 ounces, and S102 gold per ton,
and forms a fine product for smelling.
The owners are to be congratulated
on their pluck and energy which have
carried them through good and i'll re-
port to the certain reward which is
now within their grasp.
About one mile from the Valeo, west
arly, on the belt is situated
THE COPPER QUEEN.
On the steep southern hillside, some
line years ago, a deep shaft was sunk
IN copper Groupings. The ore SOON
1inched out, but the shaft went on
Down into the barren quartzite. Re-
BORT has it that the owners became
lisgusted with each other and quit
work. A patent was obtained, but ,
ince then no work has been done by |
he owners. However, nature has been
,usy, and a year or so ago the shaft ,
aved in and tore away the drift from
.bove thereby exposing a magnificent
Upper vein fully 10 feet wide. From
he appearance and weight of the ore
t must carry at least % per cent cop
Ter Ut is d pity that work on this
lain has been turned over to nature,
Which has done about all she can in
he way of supplying the ore and its de-
elopment. c
With the exception of the Copper
queen, the copper ledge and other par
lei veins are carried along distance
{ about two miles towards the east,
here they reappear on the summit of
hill Which deScendS steeply to Bo-
ANA fiat or Snake creek. The ground
t this place is covered by a number
claims comprising '
THE SUPERIOR GROUP. il
The establishment that one feels in
Ding over the ground is about equally Z
ivided between the confusing number s
strong outcrops of fine looking ore d
nc the small amount of work actually >,
one in the development of the veins =
large amount Of work has been done, ..
rineipally in the country rock and =
very rule Of mining seems in the past \
have been ignored. The deepest :.
on any of the numerous par Il
lei veins is % feet, and in every :
GOT hole" the ore bodies are larger :,
ID look better than on the surface. 81
or instance, a fine looking copper h,
I'D vein lying between lime and por- -
lyry, we'll to the south of the other a.
.lnS, has pot mole on IL nardly SIX n,
et deep. In the ravine. running to y,
e east, there is an outcrop of fine -
oking reddish-brown ore carrying -.
I'D values Of $3.50 TO $22. 80, besides -
PIPER and silver, into which three n
pher holes have been run a distance ~
10 to 10 feet, with no country rock q
sible in the roof, floor or sides. To
e northeast a few hundred feet is a
rec to four-foot vein of ore carrying
average Of % per cent lead, 16
noes silver and 81. so gold per ton. 81
he gaugue is iron and thus forms m
st-class smelling ore, and the same m
ay be said of all the ore along the be
II. ac
the encouraging ap- 70
arance of the lead vein in its size, Inv
gularity and dip, and the values con- IN,
med, not over Is feet of work has w,
en- done on it. Sufficient has been m;
itten in explanation of why the SUI oh
rior group is not today tn
DIVIDEND PAYING pc
oposition. It is alleged that the in,
PUP and the enormous ore bodies it Ia
identity contains were seen in a vision
d that the vast treasure was to be
fol
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