The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-30
OLD SPANISH MINES.
Theories and Ideas Advanced By DR..
Marshall, of Kamas.

Dr. f. Marshall, of Kamas, this state,
was in the city yesterday with a small
lot of chlorides, the result of expert
mental tests made in his laboratory.
DIR. Marshall Isl an eccentricity and
some of his acquaintance are of the
opinion that he has wheels in his
head" but as it is the crank genius
that has evolved and subjected to the
use of man many devices and fnven-
tions hitherto unheard of and not even
dreamed of, there is possibility that
| the doctor'haS some theories of his own,
which, when put into practical use
may reVolutioniZe the reduction of the
precious metals in this western coun-
try, and he should be accorded a GER
tain measure of consideration and re-
spect at the hands of mining men and
scientists.
DR.. Marshall claims to be authority
on the subject of old Spanish mines,
and he certainly has given this matter
a great deal Of study and thought, and
his Investigations and deductions re-
garding early mining in this country
are certainly interesting, although they
may not be correct.
Within a short distance of KamaS the
doctor is working what he claims to be
an old Spanish mine, and he claims
that the Spaniards or some prehistoric
race carried on mining in this part of
the country as early as the year 1913,
and that the campt OF Tintic, Bingham,
Park City and the Cottonwoods were
known to those early metal workers;
and he states that he can tell almost at
a glance the site of
OLD SPANISH WORKINGS,
which are to be found in the camps
named, but always in the foothills.
The doctor also states that he has
discovered the reason why all these
mines, so far as revealed, have been
covered over. AT first he was of the
opinion that it was to hide or secrete
them; but now he is satisfied that it
was solely done for their preservation,
as it has been demonstrated that if
mine is left in an open and unDrotect-
ed state, the action of the elements
Sc en- cause the caving in of the under
81 round workings of the mine, but that
if the outlet or opening is closed but
little change will take place in the
property for many years. as was il
lustrated in the uncOvering of his mine
near Kamas, the workings of which
were in. a state of almost perfect pres
ervation, one of the tunnels, nearly l.,
900 feet in length, being in nearly as
good condition as when worked by a
former people several hundred years
ago.
In speaking of this property, the doc
tor stated that a short time ago a
appeared in Kamas looking
for this abandoned mine, and when he
found that it had been located he ex-
pressed regret and made the statement |
that when further developed the doc
tor would take out ore that was
MORE THAN HALF GOLD,
and that few feet of it was worth |
more than half of the producing mines /
of Utah; and yet the peculiar feature |
of the operation of this mine is the |
fact that as yet no one has been able
to find any values of moment in the
ore as yet, although the doctor states
that he expects to be able to prove that
1t will run all of 100000 to the ton in
the precious metals: and herein lies
another of his eccentricities, as he
claims that the, chemists and metal
urgists of the present age have lost
The art of detecting the presence of the
precious metals, excepting only to a
limited extent, although the ancients,
not utilizing present methods
If metal extraction and reduction, were
still able to produce wealth galore from
,reS in which the millman and assayer
If the present day is unable to find
values. In fact the doctor claims that
very ledge of quartz, however barren
t may seem to mining men of this
ige, contains hundreds, if not thou
ands of dollars to the ton in the yellow
METAL and he confidently expects to see
he day when he will be able to show
hat the ores of the Mercur mine go
rom $4,000 to $4,000 in gold to the
on. instead of only from 81 to $50, and
lie is confident that he now has a leach
ng process which will demonstrate and
,rcve all that he has advanced so far,
his system treating all
lasses of mineral. as IN nature there is
10 such thing as base Ores the diff
ulty being that so far all
Is BASE INTELLIGENCE
In his teaching tests, DR.. Marshall Z