The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-20
GOLD QUARTZ
FROM OSCEOLA
Great Slabs of Ore From New
Discovery Attract Crowds
of Miners.
MEMBERS OF HEINZE PARTY
MEETING OF STOCK EXCHANGE
WILL BE HELD TONIGHT.

Hundreds of mining men stopped to
examine the four great slabs of gold
bearing quartz that were unloaded in
front of the D. F.. Walker building on
Second South street yesterday morn
ing. The aggregate weight of the four
chunks of ore approximate a ton. They
were broken off the immense ledge a
few miles out of Osceola, New, the dis
covery of which, about four weeks ago,
resulted in a stampede into the new
diggings. During the day pieces of the
quartz were Clipped off from several
places on each sample by NJ. 5. Han
auer, the aSSayer, and by this evening
he will have completed the assays upon
them. Early next week two of the
slabs will be sent to one of the sam
ping mills in order that the exact
value of the rock, just as it looks. may
be obtained. The ore came from claims
secured by H. 5. Woolley and w. J.
Robinson on their recent trip to the
camp and, uninviting as the rock ap-
pears, they viii be surprised if it does
not show, by sampling, to he worth bet
ter than $50 per ton. The rock was
broken from the surface OutcrOp. 4, fact
that is attested in its weather-beaJen
appearance. Twelve samples taken ~
as many different points across the SEQ
foot ledge from which these chunks
were secured, are shown by the assays
secured to average $125 in gold and 81
ounces silver per ton. If the rock will
mill SO ton the owners have one of
the biggest things in the country. as
the portion of the district in which
these new strikes have been is not lack
ing i'm water for milling purposes.
When seer yesterday Mr.. WooIley
gave the best account of the region in
which the new discoveries have been
made that has vet come from the Gig
gings. He said:
District and Ledge Formation.
THE Black Horse district. as it has
been named. was discovered on the 10th
of last month. It is seven miles north
east of Osceola. 1t is believed that the
mother lode of the placer mining dis
tTict of OsCeOla has been found. Min
ers have been hunting for il for forty
years, and it is safe to say that thou
sands Of men have rode and walked
over IT without ever suspecting what it
was. The immense size and barren
looking appearance of the ledge is
probably what fooled them. When
Frank McIntiTe and Thomas Watkins
happened to be prospecting in that vi
cinity last month they just happened to
break off a piece from the ledge that
showed free gold; that brought on the
stampede which The Herald describ I'd
a few days after the discovery was
made.
Ledge 800 Feet Wide.
The gold-bear:ng quartz ledge is
about 900 feet wide, but the entire
width of the mineraI-be bearing zone IS
all of two miles wide. That free gold
can be panned for a width of over 200
feet is a fact that almost staggers be-
lief, but 1t is being done every day.
Ihls immense quartz ledge or dyke
crops out boldly for a distance of three
miles 1t lies between porphyrv and
lime on the west and northwest side.
and between shaIe and uuartzite on
the south and southeast The little
hoiiows, canyons and ravines leading
down from the ledge all prospect we'll
IN placer gold. The trend or strike of
the lode is thirty degrees east of north
and the dip of the vein is to the south
east.
The mineral zone, so far as it is I'M
derstood at present, has been located
Tor miles and many of the choicest
claims are changing hands, but the dis
ulct offers splendid opportunities for
the investment of capital and there fs
me chance for the discovery of other
good things by the prospector. The
district is reached from here bv xvav
or NewhOuse. on the Salt Lake Route
and by stage eighty-five miles from
there. 1t is forty miles from EIy
where the new railroad is being con
structed down the Steptoe valley.
town called Golden is now started and
the typical tent city, so common Ia
new districts, is being added to dailv -
Messrs- WOOlley and Robinson each
secured a large group of claims in the
heart of the district.