Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-10-04
TALKS OF COLORADO
And IRON BLOSSOM
J. Tcwson smith Makes Technical TX
animation Of Properties and Gives
Report OF Investigation.

AT the request OF newspaper men ana
a number OF persons Interested in Colo
RADIO and Iron Blossom, j. Fewson
smith. engineer for the United States
company. has made an examination
OF the properties and made report.
Mr.. smith has also made map of thv
ore bodies a. he found them ana ne
further tells OF what the conditions are
at the properties. In his report MI
smith says.
"Tho map was made from informa
ton secured by study of the lode last
June, at which time its true position
WAS determined, and a. careful esu-
mate made OF the volume ana Nalue on
ore actually developed and sately
measurable in the Colorado ana part OF
the Iron Blossom properties.
"Geologlcally speaking. the COLORADO
IS great assure. one which mas Gus
vertically through successive stlA1a
and different rock formations from
great depth and has taken the course
shown upon the map. IL is "a Netucal
channel through which mineral-bear-
ing solutions once circulated until they
were absorbed in the more horizontal
strata Of the limestone which the MS
sure broke Up and rendered NJ for the
reception OF mineral which followed
later When the mineral did come
through the assure 70 spread out Tor
30 to 40 feet through the crushed lime
stone on each side. and formed bed
from 60 TO so feet in width and about
20 feet i'm thickness. That several ore
chutes OF great value viii be found adj
jacent TO this assure at intervals, under
the present chute and through the sew
eral thousand feet Of limestone which
the fssure has cut. seems certain IN
rrfIfTh NnNgIa
oped elsewhere In the district II rs
also safe TO predict that the ore VIII
persist 10 the Dragon Iron pits south
west Of the Iron Blossom property
There are many reasons tending 20
prove that IL must do SO and none
prove 10 the contrary. The porphyty
formation will neither cause II TO dip
into Tintic Central or push II vest
ward into Carlsa property In fact,
the spy-Carisa vein r. parallel to the
Colorado and has been explored for
thousands Of feet. both north and
south OF Carisa property II proves
that the ore Is persistent; that II fol
lows the fracture zones whether they
strike with or across the limestone
beds. and that there has been no fault
ing or great detecting ~ ore bodies.
NO FIGURES FURNISHED.
Il am not permitted to furnish fig
ures regarding the volume ana Nalue OF
ore which can be measured In the Colo
rado on iron Blossom properties. but
may say that In the Colorado mine
there remains twice the amount OF ore
that has been taken out and this of
such grade as 10 guarantee dividends
for a long time yet. and there Is evi.
dence that with proper development ot
the main assure new ore Chutes viii
be found long before the present chute
Is exhausted The Colorado ore chan
mel Will not prove an exception 70 the
rule IN Tlntic
at the Iron Blossom all physical
editions are very favorable, with evil
.rnce OF an ore body for thousands Of
feet. and values such as to guarantee
dividends indeiinitely. At present the
south face OF the stope is In the mixed
ore found In large bodies In both tho
Sioux Con, and the Colorado; the val
ues are good and the face opened Is at
least SO feet by 10 feet In cross-section.
At this point the ore seemed TO end
abruptly but n resort 20 much-neglect-
ed prospecting has developed the con-
dition which has proven, in all the be-
ginners on parallel zones westward.
that the ore is see king depth IN the
neighhorhOod OF the sO-called Sioux
Ajax fault or break This development
e. significant OF most favorable results
IN the Iron Blossom and possibly 10 thu
Sioux as well. as IL indicates depth
and permanency consistent with the
other great ore chutes In the history
~ the Tintic district"