The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-29
LA SAL DISTRICT
ONE Of PROMISE
Magnificent Ore Shown From
Utah Region Little Known
to World.
ONE MILL IS ALREADY
WORKING ON ORE
Specimens Compare With Any
That the Worlds Richest
Mines Produce.

While | do not wish to speak dispar-
aginEly about the Nevada country, &c
which 80 many Salt I4akers are rushing
and in which region / have many good
propositions. nor with any desire to make
any odious comparisons with the Colo
RADIO mines, which is. my native State.
/ do wish TO say that right here In Utah
you have some OF the fincst mineral show
ings and possibilities that the whole
country cannot surpass" This was stated
Wednesday by Fred q. schaffer, promi-
nent in the mining circles of several
States. including Utah lie Is stopping
at the Knutsford for few days on the
way to the camps of Nevada.
Magnificent Ore Specimens
To back 10 his statement Mr.. SchaTer
exhibits some or the finest copper, gold,
silver and lead specimens that have found
their way To Salt Lake in many a day,
The copper and silver ores he presents
arc especially beautiful, while the gold
orc Will compare most favorably with
the richest that Scarchlight, Bullfrog or
Manhattan has exposed To view. And
the best of II is that this ore all comes
from Utah.
Rich Utah District
In tho La Sal mining district. about
fifty miles west OF the Colorado line, the
nearest point being Cisco, on the Denver
ftlO CrdnQe railroad. is q district tnat
would astonish the world, says Mr., Schaf-
Ter. could the facts only be spread before
the people. This is q Utah point about
which very little is known or printed,
yet from the nature OF the the dis
trict is capable of producing there can be
no doubt OF It's value as q richly produc-
ing region when the region Is entered by
prospecJors.
Overcoming Shipping Difficulties.
So far th-re is but a small amount Of
grfIN nd coll
the district aside from those two or three
companies now operating on the richly
Producing ledges. Those now operating
there must haul their ore for q distance
of thirty-flve miles, ferrying across the
Dolores rivcr, yet In spite OF this distance
ard expensive trip, much orc is finding
Its way into the market, netting the own
crs very fine profit. l. Is the endeavor
OF those now mining In La Sal to develop
such a tonnage OF rich stun so as TO not
Only encourage others TO enter and par
take, but TO bring so forcibly upon the
attention of the railroad company the
real merits Of the region as 10 leave lit
tic doubt Of an immediate extension of
line to that place
Great Copper Showings.
Tho company with which Mr. Schaner
is connected is called tho Intermountnln
Mining and Industrial association, aud
aside from It's La Sal mines this company
controls the Mystic Shrine property at
Bingham and eighty acres OF highly
mineralized ;erritory in the Bullfrog dis
,rict on the La Sal property Is an enor-
nous dixie, forty feet wide, running for
distance of GG0 feet across their pos
sessions. The walls of this dixie viii
run enormously In silver and gold as one
we'll believes seeing the native silver
and the gold OF the specimens while
across the same arc values I'm copper thai
stamp the property as ono OF enormous
promise.
One Mill in Operation.
A tunnel has been driven UP to date for
q distance of seventy feet into a body Of
copper ore that is of constantly increas-
Ing strength, tie samples of native cop
per In the ore resembling the richest that
tho lake regions ever boasted of Ad-
Joining the property is that Of some Ros-
ton people who have quietly erected a
hfty-ton mill, now In fun operation.
One Of Utah's Best.
Mr.. Schaffcr Is OF the opinion that here
Is district Of great promise. and one
tSat should attract the attention of Utah
generally, being within the State and
practically untouched. There are up-
dc GbteGly many most encouraging propo-
: 'Vons thers awaiting location and he |
: 'Htss that there is no reason why the |
-''- y should not develop into one Of
best.