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Show UTAH ARGENTIFERA. 171 City, the metropolis, stands in the bottom of a cafion 2,000 feet deep, which makes a very singular division of the district. On the south side are bonanzas of very rich ore, mostly chloride in a limestone matrix, with little or rfo admixtures of base metal ; on the north side are larger bodies of lower- grade ore a combination of sulphides of iron, lead, arsenic, anti-mony, and zinc, carrying in sil-ver from $ 30 to $ 80 per ton, and from twen-ty to fifty per cent, of lead. From the series of mines on Lion Hill, south side, known as the Zella, Rock-well, etc., have been taken at least $ 800,000 in silver, leav-ing an immense amount in Sight. CHLORIDE CAVE, LION HILL. Over the sharp ridge which bounds East Canon on the north is Dry Canon, which was the leading camp of Utah in 1874. There one mine yielded three- quarters of a million. In this camp carbonates of lead and silver predominate, all the ore smelting freely. Both canons are included in Ophir District, which has passed through the three periods destined for all new mining camps. The year 1870 was the era of discovery and high hopes; 1871 of wilder speculation, not unmixed with fraud ; then came the era of reaction and long drawn- out law-suits, which were aggravated by the wretchedly unsettled condition of the Utah courts. It was the era of transition from the old Mormon system of juries directed by priestly " counsel," to the Gentile system. The Saints were determined to retain their hold on the courts, or cut off supplies ; the Federal District Judges were equally determined the courts should not run unless independently of the Mormons. Courts of Equity in the afternoon enjoined proceedings directed by Courts of |
