The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-09

ity are eruptiye rather than metamor-
phic. Some 1900 to 1000 feet south Of
the fault escarpment just mentioned
Gold Butte rises from the slightly I'M.
dulating flats distant many miles
to the north and northwest. On
the southeasterly side of the fault
Schist granite and lava (probably
trachite) abut against the limestone es-
carpment From the contact formed
by the limestone and granite, south a
distance of 1900 feet. the granite coun-
try-rock is quite fiat, with a gentle
ascent towards the south. The fiat is
relieved by small granite buttes marked
oy vertical assures ana bands. and
prove that they are the outcrops Of
granite dykes formed by the ascension
Of molten granite along lines of fissur-
ing that descend through the schist and
buried limestone downward to enor-
nous depths.
System of Dykes.
The south side of the fat is bounded
on the north south and east to an al
titude of 400 to 500 feet and is a great
dyke. or system of parallel dykes, forced
up through the underlying limestone
and schist. Between the fault escarp-
ment and the base of Gold Butte there
are eight or more dykes of granite
marked by low assured buttes along
their strikes and whose weather-worn
faces show vertical bands that uner-
ringiy tell the simple story of their ORR
gin. The trend of these dykes is in
harmony with the general trend of the
principal fault and contact to the
north. and along their southwestern
proloneation on the fat carry veins of
gold bearing quartz and mineraliZet
granite. From the north base OF Colo
Butte to the apex the mountain side
is assured every % to $50 feet, each
assure containing a seam or group or
parallel veins each of which carries
crystals of iron and free gold. The more
important assures are marked with
bands of highly mineralized granite
that descend vertically In coDtradistinc-
ton to the massive structure of the
mountain. Each fissCre has the gen.
orally uniform strike of north, 20 de-
gTees east. Until recently 1t was IN
ferred that the southeasteriy side of
Gold Butte contained no assures. But
within the past few days stake WORK
on a claim, located for the sole pur-
pose of safeguarding that side of the
group of claims, was unde- taken and
disclosed a system of nearly a dozen
parallel veinlets Ot quartz, each of
which yields iron crystals and grains
of visible gold and have the same
strike and vertical descent as those on
the north SIDE The assure contain
ing the group of veinlets is not more
than ten feet across. This added dis
covery disclOses the remarkable fact
that from the extreme nOrthwesterly
assure of the Gold Butte group over
the mountain to the latest find is
fully 1000 feet, and, as before stated,
with not more than $50 feet of inter
vening unfissured ground.
Cedar Basin Country.
Cedar Basin, to the south of Gold
Butte. is also marked with granite
dykes and assures of nearly ident cal
strike and vertical descent. and each
assure also contains the iron crystals
and visible sold that characterize the
assures of the entire locality. Such
are the mute but eloquent testimonies
that Nature bears to the unerring
truth that tho assures of Gold Butte
had their original ir profoundly deep
seated and inter-related forces. The
cross-cut tunnel now being driven into
the north base of Gold Butte is daily
adding evidence to the permanence and
value of the assures.
This is no place for tie get-rich-quick
boomers. 1t is a country where intel
ligence. muscle and faith will reap
golden harvest. Were the evidences not
present the writer would be the last
man on earth to make the preceding
unqualified statement.
Cottontais and Cacti.
The country here fairly swarms with
"cottontails" and quail. that find con-
venient refuge from their enemies in
the cluste4s of cacti that everywhere
somewhat relieve the otherwise barren.
repulsiVe scenery. Quail flock around
the watering places and where undis-
turbed by pot hunters, become nearly
as tame as domesticated fowls. During
the period of incubation, the male quailS
sit on the high bOulders and in plain
tive notes assure their mates that all
is we'll. 1t is a daily and interesting
occurrence to see ilOcks of baby quails
racing across the trail and around the
spring in broods of twenty to thirty.
In the lead is the mamma bird cluck-
ing and warning, while tho papa bird
is first on one side, then on the other
side and rear hustling up the lag
CARDS with pecks and flutteriDg wings.
and IS fully as busy and self-important
as q drill sergeant of the old time mi
lltia days of Utah. ]. F. GIBBS.