The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-02
MANY MEN FOR
BULL VALLEY
Reports From Southern C0un-
try Tell of Movement Into
New Gold Camp.
Especial to The Herald)

Modena, April Probably no mineral
discovery made in this end of the state
has excited such spontaneous and whole
sale interest as has the gold discovery
in Bull Valley, thirty miles south Of Mo-
Geila. PrOSpectOrs are flocking III rom
every direction. Nine outfits from Pr
oche, New, passed in by way of Asoma,
several days ago. Daily arrivals are
reaching Modena, going in by the more
Travelled roads
Joe Price, one of the old timers of this
southern country, arrived here yesterday
on his way from Salt Lake City, after an
inspection of the Pulsipher-F arnsWorth
strike, made ten days ago. being one OF
the first to sample the prospect. His
returns yielded by the samples taken are
sensational. four-inch streak comprls-
ing the richest ore. shows returns of over
$1,000 in gold. -Four feet of ledge ma
terial from which all visual evidence OF
mineral was eliminated. gave returns of
SO pier ton in gold, aside from fair silver
values. Price located several claims, and
returned with a full camp OUTFIT. ana
intends making further locations. Today
five men from Gold Springs outfitted
here besides a. number OF unknowns. and
pulled out on a trot for the new mecca.
Prospector Describes Country.
An old prospector who has just arrived
from the new discoveries gives this de-
scription- He says that the gold is found
in porphyry, with a contact that has been
being nothing more or less than She leach
ing from a hill of calcitic material ada
cent and being more OF shale akin TO
the lime shales of Phoebe. The work on
the new discovery consists of about TWEEN
" feet of excavation, part being an open
cut. The gangue is quite flat, pitching
AT no more than twenty degrees from
the horizontal.
overflows on one side and rhyolite on the
other with considerable lime in evil
Oence. He noted lime spar lodges iden-
tcal with those of Modena and Gold
Springs crossing through what appears
10 be the mineralized zone. He claims
the exposed mineralized section to be
several miles wide and six-sniles long.
Much incipient quartz is commingled with
the porphyry and several heavy veins OF
jasperoid and breccia with iron pyrite
was noted by him.
Work Will Tell the Tale.
The new discovery has apparently the
simplest merit of extraordinary richness
as far as developed; what il will develop
into is the absorbing question in view of
its pitch and indefinite extent. Owing to
the rich float found in the vicinity, II Is
confidently believed, however, that the
more ventUresome element which is go
ing in will open up something definite and
that rich district is there awaiting sys-
1ematic prospecting 10 show II mp
The discovery has much geological sig
nificance TO the holders of property about
A,odcna and Gold Springs. 1t has long
heen an accepted theory that vast mfn-
eral zone reaches across this end of the
state down toward the Dixie country.
The formation in Bull Valley and diree-
ton OF the mineral zone seems TO con-
firm this. and should carry through some
where between Modena and Gold Springs.
At Modena the same iron as is found in
the ironized portion of Bull Valley is en-
count cred. The same lime spar veins &C.
cur between Modena and Gold Springs
are great veins of lime spar. dykes of
jasperized or incipient quartz and a zone
of rhyolite all striking toward the south
ern country. where not obscured by the
other ignigeniOus overflOWs, tufts and like
formations.