The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-29
BONANZA ORES
At MARYSVALE
Reuben Dewitt, Veteran Seeker
After Mineral, Has Found
Splendid Rock.
ORES ARE FAIRLY
LOUSY WITH WEALTH
Vein Parallels Webster Vein
and Is On One of the Web
Ster Claims.
SneciaI 10 The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune,
MARY YSVALE, Utah. Aug, 2S.-The
results OF a two days roundup OF the
active mining properties west Of Marys-
vale may interest the mining public.
a few weeks since the writer stated
that the old Webster mine In Bullion
canyon had been bonded to eastern peo-
pie, Under the management of j. w
Young. practical mining and milling
man Of Philadelphia. the lower tunnel
has been reopened. cleaned out and put
in shape for exploration. The first point
selected for development is hfty-foot
portal, and from which, several years
since. number OF Tirtic leasers took a
carload Of ore that sold in Salt Lake
City for close to $50 per ton. 1t was
suitcase, and as the original leasors
time had expired and no extension could
be obtained. the ground has since been
The upper workings OF the Webster
were In hlgh-grade slvcr-lead- gold ore.
and stood transportation 10 York.
the then terminus of the Oregon Short
Line. about sixteen miles north OF Nephl
An amusing story Is yet told OF a
learned geological expert who examined
the Webster mine many years ago The
bond price was less than 500, 900, and
when he made his final adverse decision
he was sitting on the groupings of more
high-grade ore than would have paid
Smith and Reno shipped $50. 900 worth OF
ore from within sixty feet of where the
expert was sitting.
From conditions above and below the
lower tunnel on the Webster, it appears
that 1t was run on the vein at the point
where the silYer-lead orc yields to cop
per, and it is encouraging that the high
values in silver and gold descend with
the red metal,
Across the gulch TO the east and some
22e ieet from the upper shaft on the
Webster recent sensational find OF
high grade silver gold ore was made by
Reuben Dewitt. who Is Marysvales old
est living prospector. and who has lived
here here fully generation. AZ the place
stands up out OF the gulch like a broken
wall fifty feet high and fifty feet thick
The new find. as indicated by the crop
pings, is also strong vein which paral-
lels the Webster and IS on the Goliath
claim of the Webster group. Mr., Dewitt
secured ninety days lease on the
ground, and with two men is taking out
nearly, If not quite. $1,000 per day with
picks, sads and mo!s The pay streak
is from four TO six inches wide and has
been opened about thirty-ive feet along
ana a mixture OF quartz and spar, which
Is fairly lousy with native silver and
goid' selected specimens are silver and
gold, with hardly any other substance
An average sample of the ore was as
sayed by Mr., Young, superintendent of
The webster with the following results:
silver; 1922 ounces; nc; gold. 262,2! ounces.
and gravel on the hillside below the vein
yields phenomenal quantities of gold and
native silver
The locality just described is in a deep
gulch down which. In ages past, glaciers
plowed hundreds of feet from the noun
5 tain side. and since which time frosts
work of disintecration until II is safe To
say that at least 500 feet of the Webster
and Goliath veins has been transferred
10 the valley three or four miles to the
east. And this brings us TO the discus
sion of another feature of MarysvaIe's
gold assets.
Adjoining Marysvale. and extending a
couple OF miles to the south, Is a wave
washed bench upon which are five we'll
deftned shore lines, or terraces Each
terrace is uniformly charged with placer
gold, among which alfalfa roots are blind
~ cropping. Repeated efforts 10 collect
the yellow grains in paving quantities
have resulted in failure. Reuben DeNit's
last attempt resulted In Sl.50 per day 10
the man when the sluice boxes were
cleaned up. Paintings OF gold can be OBJ
talned at almost any point along Bullion
creek the black sand of which samples
sl2 per ton.
To the west of the Webster in Bullion
canyon, three properties are now produc-
ing The Glen Erie has a small force
at work extracting hgh-grad copper
silver gold ore for shipment The sham
rock mas another car lot of the same char
acter OF ore as the Glen Erie, and which
VIII run close to 500 per ton nearly
ready for the Salt Lake smelters The
shipment Will go out early next week. AS
soon as the shipment is out of the way
Winze VIII be sunk from the lowest
tunnel on shoot of ore that is fully
eight feet wide and which samples sI02
IN gold and ninety ounces In silver. and
ne1ter pet rhn man c, II per cent copper. to the
mines that form the basis of the fallacious
oeiiet that all veins improve with depth
hundred feet west OF the Shamrock
the Cascade Is taking out steel galena
from four-foot vein in the bottom of
the winze that is almost pure lead
Inc Branch vein of the Deseret group
adjoining the Webster 10 tho west, Is one
OF the old-timcrs. and in all of Its check
cred career never looked so well. A min
ing rule. characteristic of this locality
TO stop work when the vein pinches. has
been persistently followed by nearly ev-
cry company and prospector that has
tackled the mining game along the
Tushar range. ''Reub" Dewitt. working
for an eastern company. will have In
CURED the iil-wiil of Salt Lakes ''chair
warmers when they learn that he has
disreSarded the old rule and that Marys-
vale really has ore beyond the pinches
Years ago a tunnel was driven In on the
a good body OF ron-stained ore car
ryine S12 per ton in gold and silver. was
followed 500 feet to n point where II
pinchcd- As usual. work stopped and
remained stopped during fully twelve
years After opening UP good bodies OF
ore in the upper workings. Mr.. Dewitt
tackled the abandoned tunnel At sixty
feet from the old face he has several
feet OF the sl2 ore and more than a foot
OF spar on the hanging wall that carries
fully 100 ounces to the ton OF brittle
silver in addition to the gold values. and
at vertical depth OF fully 400 feet
The apex OF the Bullion Cotton wood d.
vide represents great dyke that eX-
tends from the crest OF the Tushar range
easterly TO the SEWER fault at the base
OF the mountain. All along the crest OF
the divide are Indications OF buried
wealth. Tens OF thousands of dollars
have been spent on the marvelously rich
cash veins in the porphyry flow on the
north side Of the divide. and thus far. in
every instance. there have been Irish
dividends" Some ten years ago. DR. P,
A. Fl. Franklin, for a Philadelphia com
pany; located a tunnel we'll down toward
Cottonwood creek, II would take nearly
5000 feet OF tunnel to reach the point d.
rectly under the apex OF the divide, and
would be about 1000 vertical feet be-
meath the crest. On that and other tun-
nels nearly half-million dollars have
been expended, The tunnel is now in
about $500 feet and the company has a
four-foot vein that samples 81 gold per
ton. The vein Is dipping toward the dyke
and there is little doubt If those Quak-
ers' nerve and money hold out that
greater reward Is I'm Store for ,i,or,