The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-19

e-~et@t Aa-lllie5 Tor transportation are
90 be had.
A Railway Alone Needed
~ Is also certain that the great
impetus thus given the mining indus
tfy wiz result in the discovery and
FeHl"s on mines upon mountains and
DuLl1a which today are passed as bar
IrA-t IN consequence of never having
received attention from the pr0spect0r.
on having been passed by as not sup
plylns ores of richness sufficient 20 Be
or Nalue az the present day. The dis
LIlcts visited are in almost every case
dylng a lingering death. The ores are
OF TOO low "a grade TO- bear the cost cf
transportation which now amounts to
go 10 4l00 per ton, according To the
location. and even then teams cannot
always De found 90 take ID out. as the
freight would not be- sufficient 10 equal
the out freight of the ore"
while gold IS found az De Lamar,
ncdrchHEht ana other places. and cop
per az Bunkerville and elsewhere. sill
yer and lead are the prevailing metals
no all southern Nevada which is tri5-
utary 90 the Salt Lake route. In his
discussion of the geology Of this area
Professor Jenney says;
The only formations found 20 con-
The Cambriau quartZite. the wall rock
of the Raymond G. Ely. Meadow Nai-
ley and fuba mines, al Pioeae New
assure veins OF high grade silver ores
with varying percentage OF lead, the
CambEian limestone carrying the bed
ded veins of argeItiferous salena of the
Hair Moon and Chisholm mines, al I.i-
ucne the Irregular deposits of silver
bearing gslena az Groom district New,
ana the assure veins at Resting
Springs. Cal. with ores of both silver
and lead. the carboniferOus limestOnes,
in which occur the silver mines at Irish
mountain and Tim Pah Ute districts,
and the veins and deposits OF silver
bearing Ealena at Timber mountain,
POt0si Yellow Pine or Good Springs
districts. the Tertiary beds interseCted
by assure veins of silver milling ores
at Calico, in San Bernardino county
California, and formations of Tertiary
of recent age yielding boraX and the
deposits Of borate of lime OF the Amar-
gOsa and Death valleys.
"The Cambrian rocks appear in but
limited area on the TANKS OF the noun
tain ranges. and the strata OF the Ter
tlary age have been found TO carry
mineral only I'm the vicinity of Calico,
where these beds are much disturbed
ana fau.ted and extensively lntruded
by trachyte so that a study of the
mines OF this region is "a study Of the
area covered by the carbOniferOus lime
stones
Great Areas TO Be Prospected.
Extensive areas covered by the Ter
tiary strata occur between Milford and
Phoebe. and TO the south of Tim Pah
Ute and Irish mountains Heretofore
this formation has been looked upon as
barren Of mineral bat the develop
ments al Calico show that silver chlor-
idc ores may be sought for. especially
where the strata are disturbed and IN
truded by igueOus rocks.
1.-THE carboniferous limestones cover
an area approximately of 1000 square
miles. extending over the larger part
of the Timber mountain system, the
Vegas or Sheep mountain range, and
a large area but little explored TO the
east Of the Meadow valley wash.
Wherever this formation has been
faulted and disturbed, or r-s been I'M
truded by trachyte. porphyry or other
igneous rocks, the deposits of silver
bearing lead ores are 90 be found. only
a small portion Of this area has been
prospectei, the IimestOnes are known
20 carry lead ores in widely distinct
localities, and ] regard lt as most rea-
fonable that many deposits of argen-
tifer0us lead ores not now known 20
exist win be discovered and developed
when the construction of the road slim
ulates prospecting and makes 10 re-
munerative.
Owing to the rocks of the mountain
ranges being barren and denuded OF
soil, prospecting for mineral veins ls
easy. the country can be rapidly gone
over. and no deposits can escape de-
lection The SHOWS OF winter interfere
but little. and the work OF exploration
and development can be prosecuted al
an seasons Of the year
Rare Indeed was the white man who
penetrated this region after the retreat
OF the Spauiards. A few Goshutes and
other degraded Indians wandered there
AT times. finding scant subsistence but
it was a little over a haf-century ago
before the cOnquerlng whites appeared
in numbers. Again 10 was the thirst
FOR gold that made them brave the
dangers of the desert The yellow
raetal had been discovered I'm CalifOr-
mia. and gold-mad hordes rushed across
the naked lands In a wild rush for the
colorado near the coast They did not
sion to look on either side for other
metals. and thus it came that for a
decade thousands along the San Ber-
nardino trail stampeded past what have
since been proved to be treasure
houses,
EIormons First DISCOVERIES.
The first record of discoveries OF
metal i'm southern Nevada is in 1859,
when a group Of MormOns on their way
between the chosen land of Zion IN
Utah and the settlement near the sign
OF the arrow on San Bernardino noun