The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-31
Existence of the Big Ore Bodies Is
Explained.
REPORT FROM MR.. HAYDEN
BIOLOGIST FINDS CHARACTER.
ISTICS OF CRIPPLE CREEK.
Thinks the Silver City and Diamond
End of the District Wonder
Says Mine-Owners Should Go to
the Deep to Aid Intelligent Con-
illusions, However.
fsnecial Corresnondence.l

Diamond, May &C. Il. Hayden, a
gentleman who has directed all of his
time for the past twenty years in Colo
RADIO and elsewhere, with the view of
acquiring a thorough knowledge of
mining in a practical way, has recently
taken up with this locality and doubt
less will reside here permanently. Mr.
Hayden is a nephew OF the eminent ge-
ologist, +. V. Hayden.
In answering a number Of questions
with reference to his veins touching
on the lower end of the Tintic country,
Mr.. Hayden said: Speaking strictly
of this particular section, too few of
the leading mining men of Utah have
given it the thought and personal at
1ention the circumstances and condi-
lions really merit, when ii is taken into
consideration that the rock OF TINS
country belongs TO an age OF lorna
ton which contains the greatest ore
bodies known TO the mining world
The formation from Silver City to Dia-
mond and further south is the same in
character; and TO the east of Silver
City for distance of two miles belongs
the same nineraliZed belt on which are
located all of the well-known proper
ties of the southern end of Tfntic dis
trict: and, while the developments have
shown in many instances remarkable
values in silver, lead, copper and some
gold, nothing like enough deep mining
has been done to determine the char
acter and strength of the different
veins so as to aid one in arriving at
any intelligent and satisfactory conciu-
sion al TO their richness or permanency.
Judging. however, from geological
standpoint, and from the discoveries OF
ore which are in evidence, | have no
hesitancy in expressing my personal
belief, that this locality is destined TO
become one of the greatest mining dis
tricts that Utah has within her Dor
ders, supported, as it is. with all the
features that made Cripple Creek Ia
NOUS as well as other districts where
a like condition prevails.
Having spent four years in and con-
tiguous to the Cripple Creek country,
making a careful study of the occur
rences of the ore bodies and the COM
bination of chemical elements employed
in producing them, l am naturally pre-
pared to say with a reasonable degree
of accuracy that the general formation
here is strikingly similar in many
characters and features to that which
contains the great ore chutes of the
Cripple Creek region. While the solu-
lions carrying the values are of a silver
and lead nature. they have been sub
jected to the same action, but different
influences, as the Cripple Greek ores.
One of the best illustrations of the
ore deposits of this district can be
found in and along the great ledge on
which the Joe Bowers, Showers, and
Joe Bowers Extension mines are To-
Gated The naturalization has taken
place during the vein-forming period,
and after the volcanic outbreak the
Undertaking agents were heated va
tiers, circulating along and through the
assures, containing silver, antlmony,
conner and silver quartz in the nature
Of rocks ant TO accllnll-
late in compact crystalline masses, or
IN a fiint-like jasper or chalcidonic con-
dition.
When this qualification takes place
at the surface. it forms clouds of steam
generally visible in cooling lavas, but
when the lava is forced in, in molten
state underground between stratas, the
water is still under sufficient pressure
to keep il in liquid state. From this
result intensely heated solutions arise.
CAPABLE of much corrosive effect on the
adjacent rocks and in aiding ore solu-
tons. These solutions act more Vlo-
lently in the assures and become rap
idly cooled in penetrating the adjoin-
ing rock: eXuding at every point in the
cooling porphyry where the least re-
sistance was offered, and. in conse-
ouence where circulation was retarded,
accumulations and naturalization
would necessarily be the greatest. The
associated with the solutions, are such
as would easily pass into the state of
Vapors, and would be the last deposited.
After the eruption of the porphyry,
disturbance brought about set of YER
teal assures. which established con-
ne-ction with the great body of I'M
cooled igneous rocks of uncertain
depth. thus affording a vent for moist
volcanic vapors. that were taken up by
the porous and metamOrphosed zone
and resulted in the deposition of an ore
body of any size which the strength of
the vapors might create So it is that
The findings of so many different ore
deposits. on either side of the great
ledge. that were extracted and shipped
from here in the early days, without
any thought or knowledge of where
they emanated from or the possible
cause of their existence. Yes, indeed. ]
am much pleased with all the mineral
showings in and about Diamond, which
/ regard greater than any place l have
visited where the same amount of work
and development has been done In
time the people Of the Tintic country
will do as the mining men in most sec
tions of Colorado-not direct their at
1ention toward acquiring so much ter
ritory. but in working every foot Of
e,.o,rnd they own thoroughly"