The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-23
MARYSVA[E HAS
PLENTY OF ORE
District Has Suffered at Hands
of Ten Cent Mining Com
panieS for Years.
NEEDS REAL DEVELOPMENT
TUSHAR RANGE HOLDS MUCH
FOR THOSE WITH NERVE.
BY ], =. GIBBS.

BY J. =. GIBBS.
Marysvale. Utah. July 22-Some one
once described the mineral area lying to
the west of Marysvale as an overflow
from Mt Badly"
The Tushar mountains, locally known
az the Mt. Badly range, extends from
Clear Creek, about twelve miles north of
Kimberley, Gold mountain, south to the
watershed of the Rio Virgin or to where
the Mt Badly uplift breaks down to
the Grand Canon of the Colorado. From
the crest Of the lofty Tushar divide.
marked by the graceful cone of Mt Bel
KNAPP, which is one of the highest peaks
IN Otan. mountain spur trends south
westerly some two miles then rises abb
ruptly and forms the summit of Mt.
Badly. This lacks only siXty-two feet of
being as high as her less massive sis
ter. Mt. Belknap. The great dome of Mt.
Baldy dips Steeply to the south into
North creek, gradually to the west into
the mead OF Indian creek, and TO the north
uescendS abruptly into Fish creek, the
western boundary of Gold mountain M.
Badly is situated two miles west of ,the
Tushar. whose streams run westward in
TO Bevor valley and eastward into Marys-
vale and the Sewer river.
Hence, II the rhyolte, ''birdseye" por-
phyry and other eruptionS which are in
evidence west of Marysvale are the prod
.
tho Magma must have flowed up hill
some two or three miles before the hot
volcanic mud began Overlooking the
Marysvale country. And If that inered-
ible phenomenon actually occurred, as ex-
planned by those who have studied the
country. Gold mountain would certainly
have received the worst of it.
Musical Hill Tops.
Nor can Mt. Belknap be credited with
the overflow 1T rhyolite, trachite, etc
Like Mt. Badly, the body of Belknap is
yellowish porphyry, the, sides here and
there being marked with volcanic cores
or chimneyS of red pOrphyry The sum-
mits of these peaks are composed of slabs
of phonolitic material which when dis
turbed, emit bell-like tones.
The crest of the Tushar divide from east
of Kimberley south to Mt. Delano is
capped with clinky, highly silicious shale,
doubtless phonOlite and which is the pre-
dominating formation of the Signal Peak
claims in the head of Fish creek. on the
divide above the Annie Laurie, the An
ME Laurie extension and numerous other
properties.
Overflow Theory Routed.
To the layman ard not studious pros
pector the overflow theory would have
no significance as TO the permanency of
veins. To the experienced mining man
and student of natures methods the over
flow condition would be fatal to perma-
money. Permanent veins are impossible III
the absence If deep assuring of ehe
earths crust. The often-seemingly fine
veins found in OverflOws are nearly al
ways V-shdped season crackSD, filled by
horizontally circulating solution seeking
lines of easement. The season cracks
represent those ancient lines or OPEN
ings. If a child playing near an extinct
crack in the dried mud, and perchance the
rains had washed fine sand (quartz) into
the crack and the child. thinking he had
found a mine. began digging on it. he
a chances n
ing a bonanza the solemn and unread
prOspector would have If he sunk on an
overflow shrinkage crack in any kind of
an eruptiVe formation. The younger pros
pectors are studying natures methods and
are thus familiariZing~ themselves with
the scientific side of their profession.
Whenever eruptiOns predominant in any
locality like MarysVale and Gold Noun
tain, Utah, Tonopah, Goidfield and other
camps of Nevada. Overflows are inVar
iably present. But TO the close observer
OF natures dynamical methods cash veins
If overflows are easily distinguishabe
from true veins occurring along eruptiVe
dykes, lines of faulting or wherever the
evidences OF profound assuring are pres
ent.
The bold outcrops of cash veins in dis
trictS where OVerflOWs predominant are
generally the first signs of mineral to at
tract the attention OF unWary proSpec-
tors who reason that as ''the ore didn' [
rain down il must have come up" and
persiStently ignore the vitality important
largely filled by infiltration from the
sides OF the assures as we'll as by the up
ward flow of solutions, and that filled by
infiltration is true of all cash veins
Good Properties Idle.
Twenty-six years ago there was an
overflow of miners from the supposedly
defunct camp of Silver Reef into the
Marysvale cOuntry-sOme of US came
from Willard county and have been I'M
PEELED 10 remain principally by the pereE-
man heart" and. incidentally, by the
magnificent scenery of the Tushar range.
Among the discoveries early made by the
newcomers was the Deer Trail, since de-
Veloped into a great mine that subse-
quently fell into the hands of a wealthy
Salt Laker The Monte del Reg. which
from grass roots yielded thousands of
silver ore. since Internationally gophered
by individuals end companies without
means 10 develop Systematically or even
10 reach objective points, row patented
and idle. The Crystal Clyde and a dozen
or so other fine looking properties which
were occasionally worked. then patented.
are now dead while the distant owners
are waiting for the other fellow to strike
ii rich or for the toot of Gslriel's trum-
pet to resur-ect those sleeping bonanZas
Lacks Real Development.
Among the early discoveries were nu-
merous cash veins which are still held at
fancy figures by those who regularly
make biennial locations upon them 1t is
rare that even a tenderfoOt with morey
can be tempted TO bite at n 26-year-old
cash vein with a ten-fOot hole on it. Cash
veins are the bane of any district as