The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-23
NEW MINING COUNTRY
New Fields For Mining Operations
the Coming Season.
LA SALE MINING REGION
MANY OPPORTUNITIES OF
FERED FOR PROFIT.
Its Prospects In the Production of
Gold and C~opper-The Blue and
Henry Mountain sections-Grand
River Placer Mining interests
Southeastern Utah.

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ducing properties, Utah cannot hell
but be blessed with mining prosperity
this year, simply because her principal
mines are copper producers, and with
the addition of certain gold values con-
tanned in the ores. and their easy treat
ment, will enable most every camp in
the state to produce shipping ore, where
several years ago they could not reach
the expense mark required to carry en-
development work. With this encour-
agement old abandoned and newly
discovered districts will be able
to go ahead with development and
prospecting operations. More especially
will owners of prospects in new dis
tricts, where they have the least rar-
ticle OF a showing in gold and cooper
values, be able to open up their pros
poets and place them IN shape for in
veStigation to the satisfaction Of in
vestorS.
Southeastern Utah has for many
years been practically unknown to the
mining world, and not until lasc season
was there any real interest shown in
it's gold and copper properties. All this
time it has been struggling for recog-
milton until now circumstances ard
conditions are forcing its mining inter-
ests TO the front. The fact OF the mat
ter IS that the country has been un-
fortunately looked upon as inaccessible.
IFS ores of d low-grade character, and.
if any. confined to such small districts
that they were not worth the time and
expense OF investigation. Most remark
able of all, very few really know the
exact location of the mining country,
and how to get there if 81 disposed. It
is said that if there were mines n the
moon, some people would try to get
there by some unknown route, but Tor
some reason the La SALES, Blue and
Henry mountains. with their unknown
riches, have been thoughtlesSly n
neglectfully oyerieeked-Jreated with
contempt, as it were. Older and now
most prosperous districts have e1Der-
fenced the same ordeal, until their
richness was known to the satisfaction
of all: then the reaction Of condenna-
ton. regret and failure came back TO
those who doubted their values, ard
they realized that they missed their
opportunity by not getting in Of tie
ground floor. when the time was first
offered.
Fully one-fourth of the state Of Utah,
Known as the southeastern portion. has
been regarded. for some reason or
other, as a desert, wholly unfit for civ
ilization, and more especially Tor min
ing pursuits. This is a very
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clusively mining, the remainder is ex-
cellently adapted to s-tock-raising, aid
its numerous valleys cannot be beaten
for agricultural pursuits. 1t is rec0S-
nized as inaccessible. isolated and
worthless, simply because the country,
with its numerous commercial advant-
ages, is unknown.
But. like all new territory NOWADAYS,
mining and mining prospecting is the
only incentive that will bring it out.
The La Sale district is now sounding
the slogan of the beginning Of his new
era, and it viii not be long before the
Blue and Henry mountains will follow.
Last season demonstrates 10 the
miner and prosDector that these new
districts were not found wanting m The
value Of their discoveries to warrant
them in staying by the country and
opening Up their prospects. The result
has been hat enough "a shown from
surface work to induce them TO develop
their prospects as best tney can until
can be induced to take hold.
LA SALE DISTRICT.
The mining interests Of the La Sale
have been known for a number
Of years. Mining operations began there
in 1897, but nothing was done in the
of development work until last
season, when prospectors with limited
means began opening up their proper
ties as best they could. a number Of
good properties were opened, showing
in every instance that gold and cop
per were the exclusive values contained /
in the ores. Samples were sent out to
Salt Lake and Denver assayers, and
most invariably the results were of a
most encouraging nature for surface
Indications. In very few instances did
the ores show any values in either sill
yer or lead, and at first were thought
to be free milling, but upon investiga-
ton were found to be of a sulphide
and chloride nature, excellently
to the understanding process.
In order to ascertain the real value
If the ore samples from fifteen of the
principal prospects over the district
we're sent to the Pueblo smelter for
est, also a like number to the Moffatt
lgeneS at Denver, both returning certi-
icates that varied but little in the
7alues of the ores. The general aver
was $2S in all values; the lowest
vas So in gold and Z per cent copper;
he highest S279 in gold n As per cent
These results SO encouraged
he miners hat it vas proposed to
a carload shipment of fifteen ions
# ore from the fifteen different mines
o the Salt Lake smelter. This project,
%oXeveT, failed on account Of having
,een started too late in the season. The
proposition still stands good, and the
hipment will be made as early as
this spring.
The La Sale mining district covers an
.rea of about t~hirty-Gve miles in length
nd from eight to ten miles in width.
( is divided into two divisions, desig-
-ated as the north and south divisions.
he altitude of the range is from $500
o 1880 feet above sea level. The for
-
hyry. The naturalization strata are
ivideA into three distinct belts, with
north and q south trend. These belts
re designated as the west, central and
1st zones. TIE central belt is from
GO to 1880 feet in width, starting in at
1t. Wass, in the north division, and
south through The south divi-
until lost in the sandstone forma-
ion on the southern slope, occurring
gain in the Blue mountain range,
evenly miles to the south. Both the
orth and south divisions Of the La
allie range Show large chutes and Chin
eys Of ore IN porphyTetic quartz, but
: no instance can any signs of a true
ssure formation be found. The ore
in ehutes ranging from ten to
fly feet in width. In the east and
-est belts the ore bodies occur in the
form, but are mere of a sulphide
/ q granite formation The red and
lack oxides pan gold freely, and in
Feryinstance the p0TphYry throughout
he central belt shows gold by panning.
In the south division, in Gold basin,
lutes of p~honolite are found in which
.reaks of s~ylyanite ore occur. In a
ing this ore a streak of what appeared
be white iron somewhat puzzled the
Hners, and samples were sent to Grip
e Creek for assay. II was pronounced
ylvanite and ran from 127 to 1913 ounces
gold. This property is owned by
.essrs. Case & Clark. two Colorado
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