The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-18
MUCH ON SURFACE
Of NORTH FORK
uintah County Mining District
Has Splendid Veins Low
Grade Ore.
PR0SPECT0RS on HUNT
FOR RICH PROPERTY
Modest Values Are Failing TO
Attract Capital to the
District.

That the eastern portion Of the State
OF Utah is being Sighted by capital
lists on The hunt for legitimate mining
propositions, and that this part OF
Utah is deserving of the greatest con
slderation, has been stated numerous
times in these columns, and no more
staunch champion for the resources OF
the Unitah country could be desired
than William Sullivan, now IN this city
on mining business. Mr.. Sullivan is
operating in the North Fork district
and he stated Wednesday to The Trib.
une that no more ideal section for the
mining industry exists throughout all
Utah. This portion of mineralized
Utah has not been seriously considered
for several reasons. One reason more
prominently emphasized than any other
combining with modern-day 'get-rich.
quickitiveness to keep this region
back.
The trouble is, says he, that nearly
all the prospectors who have gone over
this region are looking for rich sur
face deposits. They are in search of
the famous Rhodes mine, from which
for many years Indians have been
bringing IN enormously rich silver and
gold specimens. Mr., Sullivan deplores
this tendency, and this tradition which
splendid region TO Tadiate around a
lost mine of tremendous richness. That
such mine as the Rhodes is really ex-
listing, he does not doubt, but that one
should center all his energies upon its
discovery to the detriment of his own
and the territory's interests is not
along his line Of conduct
This hunt, however, still continues.
and it will continue as long as the
spot from which Indians bring such
rich stuff has not been settled upon
time such gentlemen as Mr.. Sullivan
and VIM. Ryan, his partner, are secur-
ing some magnificent ground whose
modest surface values are more than
compensated for by the vast amount
OF ore awaiting treatment. There
have not been any great surface dis
coveries, he states, to attract the at
tention OF capital or of prospectors ac-
customed TO the surface showings of
Nevada: He and Mr.. Ryan, however,
have a large group of properties whose
surface showings bid fair TO blossom
out into one Of the most splendid min
eral showings In all the State.
Mr.. Sullivan states that on the sur.
face or this property there is a well
defined, clean.cut fssure vein fully 600
feet WIDE, and there is rot a place up
on the whole vein that will fail to give
values. Nalues, of course, are com
paratively small, running anywhere
from So TO SIS per ton. TIE metal
contents are gold, silver and lead, with
indications pointing to some very sat
lsfactory copper values with depth,
Nor is this one property all that the
North Fork district contains, for Mr.
Sullivan says there is wide area Of
ground there capable of supporting
one of the greatest milling camps in
The country. The present unsatisfac.
tory facilities and the cost of handling
such deposits necessarily make such a
proposition strictly rich mans op-
portunity, but even this idea long pre-
vsillng may have to give way before
time and time S improvements just as
Ely sentiment along such lines has
been forced to change
The hismuth deposits of the North
Fork district, states Mr., Sullivan. arc
extremely fine and rich. This metal is
very little understood, but as its uses
IN medicine and arts are being fully
appreciated it will be one OF the most
desirable metals within q short time.
Blsmuth Is used as an antiseptic, one
or the lessons OF the Russia and Japan
war, also for an alloy to harden lead.
One Of the great needs of North Fork
is an assayer; he would have his hands
full, and the first conner will have a
monopoly upon this business. Mr.. Sui.
hvan is stopping at the Cullen and he
WILL be IN the city for over a week.