1871.] . 341 [Jackson, 



difference of form is the device of the same great creative thought, 

 as illustrated in an infinite variety of methods in all objects of 

 creation. 



Dr. C. T. Jackson read the following letter from Mr. J. 

 B. Meader, on the mineral resources of Utah, announcing 

 the discovery of a Bismuth mine in that territory. 



Salt Lake City, Sept. 3, 1871. 

 My Dear Friend : 



I have for some time been on the point of writing to you and 

 giving you a little outline of the mineral resources of this Territory 

 and finally I have brought myself up to the point. 



Utah is pretty well supplied with valuable minerals, but as yet the 

 principal developments, as in all other new countries, have been 

 made upon those mines which produce ores more or less rich in sil- 

 ver or gold. 



Gold is not very plentiful here; however in "Bingham" Canon 

 some twenty-five miles southwest of the city they are working some 

 " placer diggings " which produce gold in paying quantities, the 

 total yield of this district in gold being upwards of Si 50,000. 



Also at "Deep Creek" some hundred and twenty miles west of 

 here they find some gold in veins of quartz; and the quartz car- 

 ries from 5 to 15 ounces copper; this district being rather out of the 

 way and so far removed from railroad facilities, is not in much favor, 

 so as yet nothing of any note is being done there. 



These two sections are the only ones in which as yet gold appears 

 to be found. 



Silver is more abundant ; its most ordinary forms or rather the 

 class of ores which produce the most of it is the lead ores. These 

 ores are very abundant, and there are more than a dozen districts 

 within a radius of eighty miles from the city in which they are found. 



The most remarkable mine yet opened is the " Emma," a mine sit- 

 uated in Little Cottonwood canon twenty miles southeast from here. 

 The mine has produced several thousands of tons of ore, and is said 

 yet to contain large quantities opened up ready for extraction. The 

 ore is of a very singular character, it would perhaps be more appro- 

 priate to say that it has no character at all, for it is a strangely mixed 

 up deposit. The vein produces galena, fine grained; black anti- 

 monial galena, coppery carbonate of lead, decomposed antimonial 



