The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-05
GREAT PROMISE
OF GOLD BUTTE
Description of District in
Which Much Public Intefsst.
Is Being Taken.
MINES BEING DEVEL0 PED
SHOWING ON SOME is EXTREME
>LY SATISFACTORY.

SHOWING ON SOME is EXTREME
sLY SATISFACTORY.
Gold Butte. April 26.-The interest that
Is now centering in this section of south
ern Nevada would appear to justify re-
cttai of few details in addition 20 the
generalities Of formation, etc, heretofore
furnished The Herald
In former letter the Gold Butte area
was described as an eruptive basin or de-
preston surrounded by a rim of broken
and tilted altered and semi-altered lime
stone. and presenting irrefutable evidence
that the eruptives are but the Gaping
TO mass of fissured and faulted lime
stone. 1t is unfortunate for immediate
results that at no place within the erup-
tive basin is there any exposed original
limestone. Therefore all conclusions as TO
underlying conditions must necessarily be
drawn from surface indications" That
the submerged limestone lies at no great
distance from the surface seems TO be
amply proved by the almost onlnipresent
lime deposit that, in superficial sheets and
small beds is associated with the erup-
tlyes including a large bed OF lava which
forms the northwest portion of the basin.
A portion Of the deposit appears to have
been the result of thermal water ascend
ing from the buried limestone along irTeg-
ular fractures In the everything ernptive
mass and might have been the result OF
deep-seated- conditions.
] ne CompInatton group.
IN many instances, conspicuousIy pres
ent on the Combination group. owned by
Fred casanbon and Nels Olsen, lime. de-
posit forms the casing between the gran
tie walls and a most promising vein of free
gold ore. AT one place on the COmbtna-
ton group the fisSure is about forty-five
feet wide and Is filled with alternate
bands of ore and lime deposit. AT other
places like secondary deposits appear to
have been the result of lime solutions as
cending from, the limestone through the
porous everything schist or granite and is
thus often found associated with sheets
of low-grade copper ore few inches to
& foot or more thick And wherever iron
exists here in vein or bedded form the
> same carbonaceous material is always
present.
Merely the bare facts that indicate con-
ditiOns beneath are given and from these
the rock sharps may draw their own con-
illusions as to whether or not the under
lying contacts should be productive of
pay copper, or. in fact, of any precious
metal.
The topography of the eruptive area
proves that great dykes of schist and
granite, and perhaps of other material
not visible extend downward through the
buried limestone to the once melted In
terror. Those dykes project Upward from
the undulating basin forming ridges. hills
and Duties. which separate the area into
three natural divisions.
In Jumbo Basin.
Jumbo basin lies to the extreme south
and is bounded on the south and east by
the Colorado river range. In the south
east portion OF Jumbo, and occupying al
most the crest of the divide, is the group
owned by the Finance Mining company,
of which Levi Syphus, the representative
of Lincoln county in the last Nevada leg
islature, is the controlling figure Two OF
the three dumps show unusually fine ore
carrying copper lead. silver and gold a
shaft is down 100 feet on remarkably
111 arffr 1T
The writer has no definite information as
TO the value of the filling at the bottom
OF the shaft, but il appears TO be salts
factory to those in charge as drifting
and prosecuting is now in progress. The
central part of Jumbo basin presents a
confused mass of schist altered and I'M
altered, and holds out no hope to the pros
pector However, the northwest bound
ary of Jumbo, ia the intense metamorpho-
sis of the rocks. in the strength and reg
ularity Of the veins and in the contained
values is the very antitheSis OF the CEN
trail portion of the basin. In this promis-
ing field the Fairbanks brothers of Salt
Lake have located some pFospectively val
liable ground. Joseph E. Simpler, an old
timer from the bonanza camps OF Colo
RADIO, and one of the most conservative
and painstaking of the old school OF pros
pectors, is associated with mis- nephew,
Harry Simpler. the well-known photog-
Ter group consists Of seventeen claims
containing strong Lodges that yield copper,
silver and gold. The ore runs from s to
Al per cent copper. 81 to So gold and from
to Is ounces silver per ton. Consider
able galena is also present.
Cedar basin lies to the north OF JUMBO
and is about four miles in diameter. The
assures are strong and marvelously uni
form in their general strike OF eaSterly
and westerly, and nearly every vein is a
gold yielder. That Salt Lakefs are get
ting IN on the ground floor of Gold Butte
is further shown in that ]. H. BURNER, T,
J. TAYLOR and c. NJ. Temple are president
secretary and manager. respectively, OF
the Cedar Basin-NeVada Gold Mining
company that Is the owner of five prom
Using claims yielding s. to 500 in gold per
ton. Mr. Temple is also associated with
W A Crawford in number OF unincOr-
porated claims from which values OF s.
to $40 are obtained.
To the west of Cedar basin is range
Of eruptive hills in which the principal
groups are the Wlnona, owned by AIR,
and Mrs Harry Gentry; Ole Rossum and
Levi Syphus of St Thomas. and the Ros-
rum group of which ole Rossum and Mr..
sharp. Indian agent OF MQapa, are the
owners.
Tha Granite Springs division lies to the
north of Cedar basin from which II is dl-
N-ided by a great granite dyke known as
Gold Butte. Granite Springs, from which
in the long ago colony OF dusky Lean
antics Stacked their southern Nevada
thirst issues from a remarkably clean
cut gold bearing fissure at the base OF
a north spur from the butte Just de-
scribed. Broken pottery. mescal pits and
flint arrow heads are numerous-mute
witnesses 10 the sone-tinre presence Of dis
cipIes OF the simple life. This historic
spring Is now the property of the Nevada
Gold Butte Mines company of Salt Lake
which also owns the adjacent TOWNSHIP OF
about 100 acres. The water OF Granite
spring is free to all occupants OF the
sownsite. campers and transients includ-
ed notwithstanding the fact that barb
wire barrieade has been built around the
spring TO protect it from burros, and to
shield the graceful black willow tree that
is ever nodding a welcome to the always
thirsty prospector. But I am wandering.
n is however, perfectly natural for a
IJtahn's mind to wander in this south
eru Nevada land, and to become sentimen-
faI At sight OF almost any old tree other
than a .clench- listed Joshua. From
the south side of the townsite the Nevada
Gold Butte people have secured a group OF
eleven claims that extends over the great
dyke into Cedar basin. and from the crop
pfnas of each OF a dozen. or so parallel
assures free gold is obtained By panning.