The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-28

the WEBSTER was "A SHAFT about 100 feet
deep and short level from the bot
tom of the shaft. Afterwards a tun-
mel was driven in under the shaft and
several thousand tons of ore were ex-
tracted and milled. Since then, an
other tunnel has been driven on the
vein a distance of 1.sOO feet and nu-
merous chimneys of good concentrating
ore have been developed.
Dalton Gives Another Impetus.
The Dalton strike of marveIously
rich ore on the surface gave the camp
another impetus. The management was
the reverse of good. The revenue from
the rich ore was Squandered. After
wards a mill that was not adapted to
the work was installed and remains
still. Three years ago an Iowa
banker took a bond on the Dalton and
poured $4,000 into il. Net results may
be summed as follows: small gaso-
line hoist: about three miles of trail
dignified by calling it road, and less
than 400 feet of development.
The Dalton is but one out of many
instances here where extravaganza,
mismanagement and in some cases
downright dishonesty have played at
mining. 1t would seem that every
drunken adventurer and shyster who
hits the state drifts to Marysvale and
makes it's mines the magnet for draw
ing money from the east to be spent
in dissipation.
The present management of the Dali
ton, however. is making an economical
and honest effort to open mine.
Mount Badly.
Nearly a score of years ago great
veins bearing good values were dis
covered about ten miles northwest Of
Marysvale. The locality is close up
against the north bases of Mounts
Badly and Belknap, and was named
Gold Mountain. Along with the mill
ing values. there occurred pockets,
stringers and continuous streaks of
very high grade ore, some of it run
ming up into the tens of thousands of
dollars. The find attracted consider
able attention at the time, but the dis
trict soon lapsed into the condition of
All assessment camp.
From small vein of high grade ore,
the Blue Bird made an occasional ship
ment. Just over the divide to the east
OF the Blue Bird, the Silver King sent
out few carloads of very fine free gold
ore. A mile or so further down Deer
creek, the Butler-Beck people opened a
fine property and built small mill that
couldn't extract values from the
greasy tale which largely predomi-
mated The Owners-Utah men-were
stranded and lost their all.
Just below the Blue Bird, the Annie
Laurie people put up a small mill, with
the same results as at the Butler-B
a mile or two west of the Annie Laurie
the Sewer company put up mill on its
great ledge and IMPLICATED results at
the Butler-B Beck and Annie Laurie.
To make matters still worse for Gold
Mountain. a horde of tin horn" ex-
!
One eminent expert. some five years
since, in a Salt Lake daily, gave the
theory that the veins had been filed
by the metals pouring down from Sae
huge porphyry dykes surrounding
Mount Badly, the heavier seething to
the bottom" What that expert Opin-
/ ion lacked of killing the camp was fur
nished by certain class of persistent
croOkers. Eastern men would be in
duced to. start for Gold Mountain or
Marysvale, and if they stopped over
in Zion they generally got no farther.
They were told there was nothing in the
Mount Badly range. and were then
steered up against some other mining
/ proposition.
Kimberley Takes Hold.
/ The foregoing is an ungarnished mar
ration up to three years ago, when p.
/ L. Kimberley and associates were in
duced to take hold of the Annie Laurie
prospect. Energy, nerve and money
I were combined in an intelligent effort
\ to find a mine, and today the Annie
Laurie is paying a handsome dividend
on the investment, and is generally con-
| coded to be one of the biggest gold
/ mines IN the country.
/ In Marysvale the spell is also be-
/ ing broken. and the coming season is
/ bright with promise.
! Five miles northwesterly from Marys-
/ vale and only one and a half miles
/ west of the Rio Grande Western rail-
/ way in Sewer canyon, is one of the
most remarka BILE little mines in the
| state. A little more than three years
ago a small seam of high grade ore was
found. and the 3. w. & H. grOuI
/ was located. From an inch or two or
/ the surface the vein gradually wideneC
/ with depth. A few weeks ago a 300
foot tunnel pierced the vein at a verti-
cal depth of 250 feet. and three feet OF
shipping ore was opened. From the
/ grass roots down the B. w. & H ha:
been a shipper, and has never cost the
! owners one dollar.
Geology of the District.
It is a well recognized fact that
aside from such exceptional localities
as Silver Reef. it is hopeless to lool
for the precious metals in commercial
quantities in the sedimentary rock.
unless those rocks have been subjected
10 the influences of heat and the cir
| culation of hot solutions by the in.
| trustion of gneous-eruptive-m
either as dykes or in intercalated beds
In fact. the presence of the preciou.
metals in large quantities is inseparab biz
from past intense volcanic activity, o
which the famous Cripple Greek anC
Tonopah regions are convincing il
Illustrations.
The closing centuries of the tertiar.
age Witnessed an enormous change o
level. Mountains were lifted int,
) eloudland. Enormous assures wer
formed in the earths crust and al
most the entire face of nature wa
transformed by the upward flow o
vast quantities of molten rocks. Tn
northern portion of the Mount Bald.
range was the theatre of profound ifs
surfing and faulting, which displace'
portions of the earth's crust to
! depth, or height, of thousands of feet
/ The great northerly and southern
/ "Sevier" fault was made, and from
that displacement there extended west
erly assures and faults. The extrem
northern boundary of the Mount Bald,
range is marked by a bed of basal
that extends to within a short distanc
of Gold mountain.
Reaching out easteriy from Col
mountain and crossing the Sewer faul
an enormous assure connected tn
Mount Badly range with the mountain
to the east of Marysvale. That grea
fracture is now represented by