COMPARISON OF IRON SPRINGS ORES WITH OTHER ORES. 91 
Meadows Valley, Magotsu Creek, and Moody Run. The nearest 
railway station is Modena, 28 miles distant by way of Enterprise. 
The area is covered by the St. George topographic sheet of the 
Powell Survey (1891), but the map is so imperfect and generalized 
that it is of little use. 
The principal ore deposits lie several miles below the headwaters of 
Moody Run, which empties into Magotsu Creek 10 miles below the 
Mountain Meadows. From this point they extend eastward about 3 
miles to Garden Springs, located a short distance west of the Moun- 
tain Meadows monument, the site of the famous Mountain Meadows 
massacre. To the southwest, deposits occur on Bull Mountain 2 or 3 
miles distant and on Cove Mountain an equal distance beyond. 
The essential geological features of the district are the same as those 
in the Iron Springs district — a series of laccoliths with sediments 
dipping quaquaversally away from them, surrounded and overlain 
by flat-lying lavas, the whole being bounded on north and west by 
later flows of basalt. The contour of the district is rougher than that 
of the Iron Springs district and the evidences of volcanism are more 
conspicuous on account of the presence of basalt flows and cinder 
cones. The general aspect is barren and forbidding. The same 
topographic and geologic conditions are said to extend for about 
40 miles to the southwest into Nevada, and ores are reported from 
this area. 
The ore deposits were examined in their discontinuous occurrence 
between the headwaters of Moody Run on the west and Garden 
Springs on the east, and were found to be similar in almost every 
feature to those of the Iron Springs district. The principal deposits 
lie within the andesite associated with limestone fault blocks, and 
subordinate ones follow the main contact of andesite and limestone, 
which crosses Moody Run in a northeast-southwest direction, dipping 
to the southeast. Flat-lying flows fringe the ore-bearing areas. On 
the south are acidic flows and tuffs, on the north acidic flows and 
tuffs and basalts. A white band near the base of the acidic lavas 
is very conspicuous and for most of the district is sufficiently near 
the limestone-andesite contacts to make it useful to explorers as a 
guide in locating the ores. 
The greatest width of ore observed at the surface was 115 feet. 
However, it was not sufficiently well exposed to make it certain that 
this 115 feet was continuous ore. This particular deposit has a 
length of approximately 700 feet. 
The iron is both magnetite and hematite, as in the Iron Springs 
district, but the hematite on the lower slopes takes on a fine granular 
texture and a steel-blue color which is not seen in the Iron Springs 
district. 
