OHIO DISTRICT.

The Ohio Mining District is situated about six miles south of west from the settlement of Marysvale, on the Sevier River, Piute County, Utah, and about 200 miles south of Salt Lake City. The district was organized in February, 1868; is about ten miles square, and contains over 500 locations. The names of the camps are Bullion and Webster Cities. The character of the ores is principally free milling, and the formation quartzite and granite, carrying silver and gold.

The Piute Mining Company has erected a stamp mill at Webster City, with a capacity for crushing thirty tons of rock per day, which has been run in the reduction of ores taken from the mines belonging to the company. The principal mines are: Daniel Webster, situated on the south side of Pine Creek, above Bullion City. Some of the ore has been worked by milling, yielding $106 per ton in silver and gold. The lode has been traced by the outcroppings for a distance of 2,000 feet; vein nearly vertical, with an occasional inclination to the west.

Homestead—In Pine Gulch; average of ore, $9 in gold and $47.15 in silver per ton; vein nearly vertical; in porphyry and trap; is dry, and requires no pump; very promising mine.

St. Lawrence—Average of several assays gives about $30 in silver per ton, and a trace of gold; foot wall, quartzite; hanging wall, granite.

Great Western—On north side of Pine Gulch, above Webster City, lode about seven feet in width; vein dips northwest; ore averages $85 in silver per ton; porphyry, trap and granite predominate in the vicinity.

Niagara—On the south side of Pine Gulch, above Webster City; lode can be traced by cropping for several hundred feet; average assay of ore, $100 in silver per ton; porphyry and trap in the vicinity; mine accessible by a good trail.

Belcher—South side of pine gulch; improvements consist of two tunnels, respectively twenty-five feet and thirty-five feet long; average assay of ore, $120 in silver per ton; prophyry, trap and granite in the vicinity; timber abundant.

Union—South side of Pine Gulch, above Bullion City; average assay of ore, $160 in silver per ton.

Golden Curry—Northwest of Bullion City; said to have the largest mineral vein of any mine in the district; ore assays $880 per ton in silver and gold.

Miner's Relief—Situated near Webster City; developed by shafts and drifts; extent of works not known; average assay, $160 in silver per ton.

Yankee Blade—Situated near Pine Canyon; is one of the oldest locations in the camp; considerably developed; average assay, $110 per ton in silver.

Jackson—An extension of Niagara; assays about $100 per ton, carrying $30 in gold.

Rothschilds—Shows very prominent croppings, which are traceable for 1,000 feet.

Young America—Situated east of the Homestead; which taps the vein.

Source:  "Utah Gazetteer and Directory of Logan, Ogden, Provo and Salt Lake Cities, for 1884"

By Robert W. Sloan, Herald Printing Company, Sloan and Dunbar

Published by Printed for Sloan & Dunbar, by the Herald Printing and Publishing Company, 1884

Submitted by K. Torp

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