The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-01-20
WILL CONSTRUCT TWO
MILLS IN La SAILS

Writing to the Deseret News nj
Salt Lake. from Mesa. Joseph H.
Webb saws of the La Sails:
While the Grand river country Is
having its oil and gas boom. Moab
is organizing its board of trade. with
good prospects OF boat line In the
near future. Just keep an eye on
the old La Sails and especially the
mesa We have no big oil or gas
wells, nor big transportation schemes;
but there will be something doing
next season just the same For we
have plenty OF the yellow metal and
arrangements are now perfected
whereby some ot II will be extracted
next year. Two mills here next spring
arc now assured and indications are
good for more.
The prospecting stage has been
passed on the mesa and from now on
mining will be done The work OF the
past season thoroughly demonstrated
that the ore and gold here are OF
geyser origin, following the faults of
porphyrhic sbale and congiomerate
sandstone, 1t has also been discov
cred that the amythist quartz Is not
the only rock here that carries good
values Nearly all Of the altered erup-
tive rocks that fill the throat of the
gcysers. sudh as green hornblende
field spar. porphyry and dolerlte. all
carry good values in gold and the
largo bodies OF tale and kaolin havo
values that will pay TO mill
When the fact Is taken into consid
GRAFTON that there are numerous
places, here, where the faulting is
plainly traceable and the outcropping
or the now extinct geysers show. and
that at all of these places good values
In gold are found on the surface one
can readily see what will happen
when the doping of the stamps dem
onstrates 10 the mining world What
We have here.
Heretofore the work on the mesa
has been confined to placer mining.
and good results have been obtain
ed. The operators. however. early
learned that they were losing large
per cent OF the values In the fine
gravel that was only partly diSinte-
grated. BY n more thorough test
made In last seasons operations the
rather startling discovery was made
that for every ounce OF free gold say
and rock All this could have been
saved BY milling.
Three other factors tend to work
against the economical operation OF
placer mining here. These are, that
the trend OF the gravel soon dips be-
low the level at which hydraulic min |
ing can profitably be done; the scar
city of water for extensive hydraulic |
mining: and a large amount OF big !
rock encountered, which requires |
blasting
The coarse rock would be no detri- !
ment to the milling process as nearly !
all OF the coarse rock as we'll Us the
fine gravel carries values that would !
pay TO mill.
Wilson Mesa does not stand alone
as prospective producer for 1910. !
The neishboring camps of Beaver ano
Miners basin bid fair to soon take
their places among the best camps
in the West Few camps have larger
bodies OF medium grade ore and none
have a more determined resolutc
class OF miners In spite OF all OBJ
stacles, they have pereistently pound
ed away until today they hnve many
good mines. lacking machinery only
TO treat the ore, AS the machinery
Is forthcoming
The writer recontly received let
ter from the Denver Quartz Mill COM
pany. wherein they stated that q
party of Beaver basin, Grand county.
had just ordered 5o-ton mill to be
installed early In the spring OF 1910
While there is an immense amount
OF medium grade ore in Miners ald
Beaver basins. there is also some
ore Of very high grade, Tho writer
was shown numerous samples last
year. taken from the Tornado and
other mines OF that district. that
would class as high grade, even In
Cripple Greek or Goldfeld