The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-03
FINE SHOW|NGS IN
DEEP CREEK MINES
Tonnage in Sight for Railroad
and Splendid Prospects
Coming in.

Utah has many mineral regions of
surprising richness. and experts are
pretty well agreed that the famous
Deep Creek country is the most extern
sive and, perhaps, the richest of them
all 1t remains one of the puzzles OF
the age that a country Of such won
derful resources remains virtually un-
developed for lack of railroad faeili-
ties-when railroads have been con-
stfucted, generally through barren re-
giOns, upon almost all sides of it. In
one Of the half-dozen camps of Deep
Creek is mine which has blocked out
| 100000 tons of commercial ore, and the
reason that more is not blocked out is
not because the end of the ore bodies
base been reached, but because it is
useless to continue the work of devel-
| opment when there Is no way of mar
keting the product.
The mine mentioned is that of the
Western Utah Copper company, in the
Gold Hill district A score or more of
other properties in the region have as
good showings as had the Western
Utah at like stage of development, but
their owners have lacked the capital
or the temerity to develop. as extern
! sively without assurance OF transpor-
/ tation facilities being provided within
/ q reasonable time
| A correspondent. presenting a brief
/ description of an area of about one
mile square in the Gold Hill camp
says:
"Gold Hin lies about three miles
! south of the east end of Dutch Noun
tain, a cOnical-sheped peak which
/ slopes down to the Great American
desert. and which is the northernmost
peak of the Deep Creek range, The
country rock is a porphyritic granite,
with here and there hills and noun
| tains of limestone protruding through
It. Veins occur in all the formations,
but they seem to be richest on or near
contacts.
Good Values In Blowout.
THE group of claims of the West
ern Utah Copper company is on Gold
HIM. On the west side, near the top
of the hill, is an iron blowout covering
about one-half acre, carrying good val
ues in gold and copper. The property
| has been opened by long tunnel and
a 6G0-foot shaft, with a depth of about
1900 feet from the top of the mountain
| to the bottom of the shaft. Crosscuts
from the bottom of the shaft have dis
| closed a large body of lead carbonate
ore which carries about one ounce of
silver TO the unit of lead and little
gold.
This ore body dips toward the east
It has a porphyry footwall. and 1t is
| evident that the blue lime shale Will
be the hanging wall, but that has not
been reached.
is the property of the Gold Hill Ex-
| tension company, which Is chiefly in
| the pOrphyry and covering large area
that is traversed by many quartz veins
which come to the surface. No work
has been done to prove the value of the
property.
/ North east OF the Extension COM
pany's group is the property of the
Red Copper Queen company. Here is
a limestone hill completely surround
? h. 10 xrrfo
/ ter a tunnel has been driven which Is
! disclosing a vein about 20 feet wide.
/ Five feet OF the vein, on the fOotwall
/ side is sprinkled with sulphides OF
/ lead and silver; the remainder of the
vein is heavily tmpregnated with oxide
/ of iron. The vein has a porphyry
/ footwall and q limestone hanging wall.
'aFhe Ethel Mining cOmpany's group
of four claims, north OF the Red Cop
per Queen, has promising surface In
dications, but little work has been
| done.
AIvarado Slopes Rich streaks.
Adjoining Western Utah on the north
/ is the Alvarado group of the Wood
man Mining company. This property
has been opened by a S00-foot shaft,
and the rich streaks of the vein have
/ been stopped TO the surface. 1t has
produced some very rich gold ore, but
! no development has been done the last
| ing content to gopher few specimens
and a little high-grade.
1.-THE Sooner claim, owned by Pay
son and Spanish Fork people, sidelines
the Ethel claim OF the AlYarado group
| on the northeast. 1t is in limestone,
| like the AivS RADIO group, and yields the
same kind of ore. A 30-foot shaft
has been sunk on the vein, which Is
four and five feet wide. A horse en-
| tered at the 30-fool point In the shaft
and work was stopped. There is no
reason TO believe that the vein does
not go down, as like conditions Were
encountered In the Alvarado. and the
ore was soon recovered.
Adjoining Western Utah and Alva-
RADIO on the west is the Eagle group.
It is in porphyry, which is cut by
quartz veins striking northeast and
/ southwest. The little work done has
disclosed a fairly good showing of
"a property of rare promise is the
Last Dollar group, which sidelines on
the west the Lost Cabin, patented
claim Of the Cane Springs group owned
by the Woodman Mining company. The
patent work for the Lost Cabin was
done 20 feet from the sideline and 1T
o ainly shows the vein-which is very
wide and carries good values In gold
and copper-striking into the Last Dol
lar ground. About 900 feet further
ND the hill is a parallel vein, which
likewise traverses the property.
VIII Cut Big Vein.
ION the Last Dollar No. 1 is being
driven a tunnel which will cut the
Last Cabin vein at the depth of 20
feet. The vein is in the limestone,
near the porphyry contact.
1.-The Woodman company's Cane
Springs group has produced 100000 of
high-grade gold ore. But at the depth
of 100 feet the vein appears to have
faulted and no work has been done
with the view Of recovering It, Another
vein which runs through the ground
appears to carry mainly copper values,
but it is not rich enough to cause the
specimen hunter to exploit 1t.
sTn the Oregon claims, west of the
Cane Springs group, is large blowout
of oxidized quartz and limestone. This
property carries the Cane Springs vein
and 1t looks very promising. Shallow
holes on the vein show good gold and
copper ore
ssBetween this territory and Dutch