The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-11
Good Property In Bingham Not All
COrralled.
CHANCES FOR INVESTMENT
PLENTY OF AVAILABLE GROUND
ON THE OUTSKIRTS.
The Vein Systems Show That Big
Mines Will Be Opened Beyond
the Contracted Area to Which
Operations Are Confined at the
Present Time.
Enecial Correspondence.l

Bingham, July 10.-In the great
scramble for properties in what Is
termed the copper zone of Bingham
interest has apparently Jagged some
what in the wide area embraced in the
sections remarkable for their produc-
ton of silver-lead ores. This is par
ticularly true of what may be termed
the ragged edge" or extreme east and
southeast portions of the district.
Before describing the great opportu-
mites the sections named offer Tor
profitable investment and systematic
! prospecting. it may be well to say a
word regarding the general vein sys-
TENS of the camp. The subject is one
which has repeatedly been treated in
Scientific manner, and is mentioned
now only as a matter OF Illustration
and to help show the value of those
parts of the district of which this COM
munication treats.
The main developed and prospected
portion of West Mountain district COW
ers an area. approximately. six miles
square, and this vast eXpanSe of noun
famous country is traversed by great
lodges of quartZite, lime, iron and por-
phyry that cut through the country at
frequent intervals in an easterly and
westerly direction. with a dip to the
north. These lodges are all strong and
well defined. and ali of them, nearly
carry ores of varying values and dlI-
ferent characteristics.
Running at right angles to these
lodges is a system of true assure veins
which cut the formation with regular
ity. and, so far as prospected, snow
snlendid values where functions occur
with the contacts and every additional
foot of depth attained in the mines OF
the district adds strength to the theory
and belief that they all go TO the deep
and get richer as depth is attained
What strikes a stranger TO the camp
as being remarkable is the fact tnat
so little work has been done outside or
a prescribed area. a view OF the as
trict taken from an eminence-and
splendid panoramic views are obtained
from the tops of the high mountains
discloses the fact that while the big
lodges stretch away to the east and
west of the beholder, most of the work
has been confined to a relatively small
section in the heart of. the district.
There is really nothing remarkable
about this condition of affairs, though
it probably has a tendency to impress
a stranger with the idea that values do
not hold out for any great distance
1t is a rule in mining camps that
where one or more good mines in close
proximity are opened up. the tendency
is to confine developments TO that par
ticular locality. This rule has been
in Bingham, as elsewhere. and
leasers have. in many instances. paid
as high as 10 per cent royalty for the
privilege of working claims belonging
to the older companies of the camp,
rather than branch out and open up
ground al a distance from the holdings
of the biz concerns.
This condition of affairs is rapidly
changing. however, owing to the fact !
as stated in previous letter. that the
big corporations now operating in the
camp have shut down. to a great eX-
tent. on leasers. Miners and prospect !
ors are. therefore. jumping into the !
eastern and southern portions of the |
district. locations are being made and
work done on ground that a year or /
two ago went begging, and reports |
from all directions are to the effect that /
the surface showings are uniformly |
good.
To people looking for profitable in |
chances TO get in on the |
ground floor-before prices go flying |
skyward. the outlying sections of the !
district, clear around, from one side TO |
the other. are respectfully commended |
The ground embraced in the Dalton 1
& Lark Yosemite. Castro, Mammoth, |
the Chicago and other properties in the !
eastern emu OF the uiStil't' nav Gil
been splendid producers from the grass
roots, and none of them have been
worked for more than 600 or 200 feet |
leep. That adjoining and surrounding |
,Iaims are Just as valuable there is
little or no question, and what is true
If the east is also true of the south and
vest portions of the district, and sooner
II later mines in these portions of the
district will add as greatly to the pro
iuction of the camp as the older and
better developed sections.