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Show Milford May Become Uranitm Boom-Town Milford, once the center of Southern Utah's most active in ninjj uiea, may return to the metal-mines spotlight as a T major uranium producer. The strategic ore has been found in hills and mountains on all sides of Milford, with the latest strike being in a famous old copper mine eight miles northwest north-west of town. Assays showing from slightly under .20 to a reported .85 have been received on samples sent from the Old Hickory mine, owned by Prosper Mining Co. and at present under lease to the North Star Metal Mines, Inc., of St. Paul, Minn. Previously, uranium has been ; reported in "shipping ore" qual- j ity in the Fotheringham claims j on the east slope of the Min- i eral Mountains; on the Ed Schoo claims southwest of here; and in the south Wah Wah j mountains 20 miles west ol . Lund. Also, an old hot springs 1 in the southern part of the , Minerals, is under lease to a j Salt Lake group which an-! nounced plans to begin shipping i ore by truck to Marysvale, be- ' fore snows forced postpone-! mcnt of anticipated open-pit i operations. This claim, on , private property owned by John j Bailey, is less than a mile south ; of a "high-count" area located ! by a Murray-Tooele group. ; The Old Hickory, a copper producer of old which became : fuming as a tungsten producer duringThe'i': years, was pur- j chased from the "New Majestic ! Mining Co. in" 1940 by Ed i Schoo, former president of Prosper, for $4000. Mr. Schoo j made a token payment of $5 t and in less Jhan six weeks had mined more than enough ore ; to pay the purchase price. ! The original workings were opened by a shaft about 300 ft. deep and a tunnel that cut the ore body about 100 feet below the outcrops. In the fall of 1941 the scheelite workings, originally begun by Prosper, were leased to Charles Seeger- j strom of Nevada, who rebuilt ; the old Schoo mill, cleaned and retimbered the shaft to the 300 level, and mined 8000 tons of , high-grade scheelite. From 1942 I to 1944 more than 60 tons of tungsten concentrates w e r e i worked thru the mill. ! In 1945 F. S. Leany of Mil-? Mil-? ford leased the property and developed an open pit, known as the "Leaney cut," shipping i about 50 cars of copper ore be- j fore being forced to discontinue production because of the 1946 I mill and smelter strike. 1945 production was 4227 tons, containing con-taining 5983 oz. silver, 40.69 oz. gold, and 233,121 lbs. of copper. The North Star group, headed head-ed by J. A. Moren of St. Paul as president and Gottfried Peterson Pet-erson as resident manage?, has been doing both development work and production mining at the Old Hickory. Most re- cently they have been working a new stope of high grade copper cop-per ore in the north wall of the old open pit. Several cars of ore have been shipped in the Continued from Page Three Here's More About URANIUM Contimie'cf rrom page One '"last few months, and. copper production is continuing. "We are continuing the sampling sam-pling and checking of our uranium ore," Mr. Peterson . said, "but we aren't neglecting the day-to-day copper, mining. There's still plenty of high grade copper in the Old Hickory and our job right now is to mine it." Uranium ores have been sampled on the 150,-200 and 300 levels, Mr. Peterson said, with "very favorable" assays from each ore body. Sampling will continue on the known ore bodies, and prospecting for new uranium ore bodies, until the extent of the deposit can be determined. |