The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27
STATELINE DISTRICT.

Time after time a post-morteIn ex-
animation has been ordered for the
Statelne district, but invariably the
scalpel is sharpened and the disinfect-
ants are gotten together pulsn beat
Is felt. Stateline is not dead by any
means and is destined the coming
| spring to awaken and shake off the eff
fects of the Ophir soporific and rise
above the high water mark of the
Johnny. That a portion of Rice noun
| tain will be explored with the advent
of spring is certain. and this will no
doubt lead to a general awakening OF
the camp.
There is no mining ground found
anywhere that exhibits much better or
more surface indications of gold than
do the properties on Rice mountain.
Free gold may be PANIED at a dozen diff
ferent places on the following claims:
Rockford, Valencia, Langtry, Dumas,
Aggie D., Cold Float, Salt Air anG
Jumbo. In the middle or western break
of this mountain is the property known
as the Big ii, in which some very rich
gold and silver ore has been found in
a porphyry dixie. But the main noun
tain is crossed by three very strong
quartz-spar leads, with spars and
stock works of quartz making in the
porphyry. II is probably owing TO the
field being geologically misunderstood
that the district has lain dormant as
long as il has, and in the absence OF
any other definition prospectors have
invariably considered the porphyry up
lifts and bikes the true ore veins. re-
sulting in much dead and profitless
work.
/ AS a brief technical eXplana ton, il
may be stated that -Stateline. like Cold
Springs and Modena, is undoubtedly
undertake with a lime bedding. ans
which, If not identical, is at least con-
temporaneous with the underlying for
nation of Phoebe, New. The porphyry
upthrusts and overfiows fractured
upon cooling. The ascending thermal
calcium solutions filled the assures anc
crystallized upon cooling, forming the
lime spar veins found in the districts
mentioned.
When these solutions percolated
through the minor fractions of the
country rock, much silica was released,
accounting for the stock works of
quartz veins. varying according to the
silicious contents or resistance to hy
drafting influence offered by the country
rock. A preponderance of silica il
shown by the close grained structure of
the true veins, and a poverty of silica
is shown by their coarser spar forms,
the ascending solutions having crys-
tallized in places. more comfortable to
|
ing as a calcitic spar.
Formation illustrated in Jumbo.
The Jumbo claim affords d very good
illustration OF this theory The prop
erty is traversed by heavy spar vein
carrying small gold values; but 'froze"
to each side and ramifying therefrom
in various directions gold-bearing
quartz. from foot to four feet in
thickness is found. carrying up to $50
in gold. The reason why no definite
walls are encountered by the prospector,
/ therefore becomes plain and the lime
: theory accounts for the various forms
of silver ores found within the gold
bearing area. In passing downward be-
: low the horizon of the porphyries, the
gold values will doubtless grow less
; and silver and copper ores makes in,
with possibly lead, as these ores should
exist in the lime bedding planes below.
Since no limestone exists in any of the
districts mentioned, the presence of
calc spar and calcitic quartz can be ac-
r counted for in no other way, and the
L latter therefore assures great depth of
5 the veins.
Properties of Promise.
Among the properties of promise may
be mentioned the Hope group. owned
by the Interstate Gold Mining COM
pany, the welfare Of which is in the
. hands of w. H. Weber of Fairview,
New, fame. Merely annual work was
done during the past year, but a more
I active line of work is promised for 1909.
The Gold Coin. Standard and Silver
Bell, owned by the Standard Gold Min
ing company, of which c.. E. Peak is
president is a meritorious property.
The Gold Coin adjoins the Utica claim
5 of the Johnny Gold Mining company,
on which the initial strike of the John
I ny was made. one vein running east
and west into the Gold Coin, and only
distant $50 feet. So far only milling
values have been uncovered in the
property, but real mining has not been
: engaged in yet.
5 The Venus group of five claims,
! owned by James Muldoon and Ben
Schwartz, covering an extension of the
Ophir vein, is good ground and will no
2 doubt be taken hold of during 1909 A
shaft down lis feet shows good silver
and gold values, considering it's loca-
? ton. The vein is fully sixteen feet
wide on the outcrop and has hardly
been scratched.
: The WiIlowvale, owned by w. ].
: Dooly and q. Drake, is good property
for an investor who desires a modest
milling proposition on $12 to 500 gold
ore. The property is developed by
z means of a tunnel in over 800 feet, and
by winze and crosS-cut.
A recent examination of the Big
= Fourteen discloses that the mining has