The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-23

discover. AS an apology for the stagna-
ton that has come to the mining inter
ests of this locality it is alleged by some
people that the brilliancy of the great
public attention that all other districts,
except where firmly established, are being
neglected by investors. But the princi-
pal reasons FOR the unusual deafness mere
are purely local and self-suffieient. In
many instances funds were not available
TO reach objective points and failure ma :
Erally resulted. In other instances where
abundant funds were available to reacl
definite objective points the original plans
were changed by the substitution of other
objective points with the result that the
money was frittered away and absolute
iy nothing determined as to the value OF
the ground. Just one instance or mex
cusable indecision VIII suffice.
The objective point was the apex Of a
mountain ridge from whose sides nun
dreds of thousands of dollars worth OF
ore has been extracted and shipped The
objective point was well selected because
OF its strong naturalization and the pres
ence of an unusually large vein bearing
good values. On the north side OF the
ridge tunnel was started to tap the vein
at a depth of about 600 feet. Simultane-
ously a tunnel was started on south side
of ridge to reach the same objective point
at a depth of about 1000 feet. Either OF
those tunnels would have proved the val
ue of the vein. Or, better still, shaft
a depth of 800 to 400 feet, would have
demonstrated the ACCESSIBILITY of a deep
tunnel To expedite work, machine drills
were installed in the south side tunnel.
After three or four days use, the >drills
were moved a mile or two further west
on the ridge and installed in another tun-
mel with a similar objective point. Seven
ty-five feet was added to the Turner's
length when work was shut down, pre-
Sumably for lack of funds. That one OF
the three tunnels comes within several
hundred feet of reaching the objective
point not less than $4,000 of confidlng
eastern investors cash has been dissipat-
ed, and the value of the ground is yet to
be determined.
Mistakes Are Many.
For each of those ignominious and I'M
necessary failures MarysVale gets black
eye, and one of the greatest and most
promising mineral belts on earth is held
responsible for the mistakes of many OF
those who have essayed its development
A second IngerSOll could write more elO-
Quentiy of the mistakes of Marysvaie
mining men than did the original and
only Ingersoll of the Mistakes OF
Moses
If the doubling Thomas will closely ex-
anime this country he will find that the
Deer Trail qudrtZite and limestone con-
tact is cut by great easterly and west
erly porphyry dyke from which the So
lutiOnS were derived that made the Deer
Trail ore bodies. Two or three miles
south of the Deer Trail he will find the
Monte del Rey situated along great
eruptive dyke between quartziteI and lime
stone and associated with more or less
transverse faulting. He will find the
once, and yet-to-be famous Webster on a
great dyke that extends from the mouth OF
Ten-M Mile creek northwesterly to the An
ME Laurie in Gold Mountain. distance
of nearly twenty miles, There. are nu-
merous other dykes and good values
along every one of them.
In it's country rock" structural fea-
lures and values the country lying to
the west of Marysvale is absolutely per-
feet. 1t is waiting for a combination of
brains nerve and money.