The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-07

is row nearly all placed and very
handsome display it is. Outside of a
few isolated cases it is believed there
will be but few more come in. a.
though there is space for all, by crowd
ing.
There was a large crowd of visitors
at the exhibit yesterday and last
evening. ali of whom took a great in
terest in the displays of minerals. The
l.. of 2. band was at the place a short
time last evening and attracted a great
deal of attention. The visitors from
the outside were especially gratified
with the showing made of the several
mining properties and districts, and
agreed that the territory contiguous to
this state was indeed a rich one, and
one which. if developed and worked to
its capacity, would mean the enrich
ing of the people.
The inteiIor OF the building presents
I d very handsome appearance and there
/ is riches galore in sight, from ore
! which runs 20 ounces in silver to the
| ton. to gold from the Tuscarora, which
shows values of $4,000 to the ton, and
I gold quartz from the Grand Central
/ going S200 900 to the ton
= variety OF minerals are shown.
There is salt and sulphur, kaolin and
tale, silsonite, asphalt, mineral wax,
ana many other substances which are
useful and would prove great money
/ makers for Utah. were the deposits
. properly developed.
In addition TO the minerals the i'm
! plement dealers have exhibits also. and
there are mining cars, air drills, and
all kinds of mining implements shown
| for the benefit Of the visitors.
Inside the hall. beginning on the
south side. is the assay exhibit of Mel
den-Judson, where everything an as
{ -=e~l, Oh te &c
q very neat display. ElbOwing it is
/ the miniature cyanide plant of the
| MacATtbur-FOTrsst process with its
tanks, zinc shaVingS and all other par
aphernalia necessary for the extraction
OF gold from the milled rock. The Salt
Lake Hardware company has a dis
play which made the men engaged
sweat 20 get in position. In front of it
is the Idanha mineral water exhibit.
The Mercur district claims the cyan
ide plant as a portion of its display,
and properly too. Close in is the dis
play of arsenical ores of the Mercur
and right alongside the display made
by De Lamar people. OXidlzed ores and
black ores from the Sacramento and
cyanide ores from the same property
all elbow each other in neighborly fash
ion. The Boston & Mercur are there,
too. with a good display.
The L:ammOth country, Eureka and
surroundings, can claim the credit of
having the prettiest ore in the exhibit.
And while it is beautiful to look at,
some of the rock is exceedingly rich,
and nearly all carries good values. The
Grand Central is the first display after
passing the Mercur district. There are
carbonate ores which show values of
80 per cent copper, IA ounces in silver
and So in gold. Galena, which carries
SIS in gold. 20 ounces of silver and 80
no.. na or I'M he
a good display of milling ore which
carries SO in gold, 10 ounces in silver;
needle spar which, according to the
card, has 500 in gold, 10 ounces in sill
yer; galena, with 81 in gold, 40 ounces
silver and 40 per cent lead; carbonates
yielding IS in gold, 20 ounces in silver
and Is per cent copper.
Next comes the Ajax, made famous !
by the quality of its ore and the guam
tity of the litigation the company has |
with Sam Mcintyre. The first speci- |
mems shown carry 200 ounces of silver I
and 80 per cent lead, with a small per- !
centage of gold; some copper sulphides |
near by are rated at 81 in gold, 40 |
ounces of silver and 80 per cent cop !
per; while still other specimens go !
higher yet.
The Gemini has some carbonates on |
exhibition which show values of 80 |
ounces in silver and % pei cent lead;
galena which runs 50 ounces in silver, |
so per cent lead; other carbonates |
which will run 100 ounces silver and %
lead.
The famous Centennial Eureka,
which has been such a dividend payer
during the days when silver was where
it should be, has fine exhibit. Galena
showing So in gold, So per cent lead and
80 ounces in silver; carbonates which
yield SO in gold, 1000 ounces in silver
and 10 per cent lead; copper ore run
ming 81 in gold, 1.400 ounces in silver
and 40 per cent copper, according to the
card; other ore of the same character
running So in gold, so ounces in silver
and % per cent copper.
The Eureka-Hill has gold ore run
ming $40 in the yellow stuff, 500 ounces
of the white metal and ; per cent cop
per; galena carrying 90 ounces in sill
yer and IS per cent in lead; quartz go
ing so ounces in silver and 20 per cent
lead. This last is a combination of
quartz and carbonate combined.
Then comes the Bullion Beck. Dis
plays are made of ore running $40 in
gold, $50 ounces silver and 10 per cent
copper. Carbonates running $50 ounces
in silver. 60 per cent lead and 10 per
cent copper are also shown. Galena,
which runs 81 in gold, As ounces in sill
yer ana 40 in lead elbows, carbonate
ores showing silver values of 500
L
copper.
The crowds attention was chiefly at
tracted to the gold ores from the Dex-
ter and the Grand Central, which are
located in a glass case at the entrance
The Dexter ores will run $4,000 to the
ton, and the Grand Central people
claim that specimens which they ex-
hibit viii hun as high as $780, 900 to the
ton. One piece of rock, not very large
to look at, is 75 per cent gold, while
one chunk will assay $500.
The Ophir Mine, in Iron county, has
a good display of rock, averaging $13
to the ton in gold and AIS ounces sill
yer, per cent lead and II per cent
copper, and another display which goes
s14 in gold and 729 ounces in silver
Hill e Mcbride of Salmon City, Ida,
have some rock on exhibition which
runs $23 in gold and one ounce in sill
YER
Coal from the Wasatch mine, belong
ing to the Weber Coal company, and
from the Old Church mine, the proper
Ly of the Grass Creek Mining company,
make a fine display.
The Dipper mine of Little Cotton
wood has added a neat display of
luartz, and Jesse knights display of
silver ores going 1900 ounces to the
on. from his property at Eureka, at
-racts considerable attention. this rock
being horn silver.
Some copper ore from the La Sal
district, the Big Indian mine. attracts
notice on account of the reports which
nave come up from that country 1t
s very good looking stuff and runs
rom to 80 per cent copper from ore
aiken close TO the surface.