Show LA SAL MAKES GREAT ADVANCE f More Men hip M e c n Now Row Working Than Ever Before r RICH STRIKES OF YEAR y PU OF 01 CAMP AN ABOOL IE rF IEN Is mote of th thI the thep e N NOTHING I N progress p in development t that has bai taken pace In to the theSal La LaSal LaSal Sal Mountain district than the tact fart t that the New Year Tear sees more men me n actually engaged in fn mining work in th aye ge mountain mountable moue tams than at any previous time Ume being the first Ant winter that t at the theatt attempt att t has baa been made to keep work ine tae and ail aU la Is on a more substantial basis than daring diDing the past sat Mt summer And ADd this activity y is 18 seen eastern e a tern Utah especially anion among those interested in the carbon carbonate carbonate ate copper coppe deposits which are Le so IiO ex extensive tD throughout this re nJ This TIUs step forward for eastern Utah is 18 not confined to the metal mining interests The past year has seen seen en this section attracting attention as a pos aiba section and on the of the indications and the re report report report port of numerous oil experts ex upwards or c c acres of oil claims have been n located and recorded in Grand county alon alone and Emery and Carbon counties have come in for greater attention Practically all the desert lands be between between tween the Grand and Green rivers riven has baa baan ben been n thus located A number of corporations cor corporations para have been organized organised to oper open operate operate l ate on this land and two sets reta of well weil drilling machinery have been n unloaded from the cars between Thompsons and I f Green for tor use in Grand county I The great manganese deposits discovered ered about a year igo by E T Wolver j I ton tor ten miles south of Little Grande Grandee on the Rio Grande Western railway hat has been feen developed to an extent that th ore shipped from he here hee e is now supplying the steel st l industry of the United States with the manganese needed A railroad grade has haa been constructed to the deposits it It is re reported reported reported ported on reliable authority that the Colorado Coal A Iron Irn have secured control of ot this property Big JUg Copper Plant Twenty miles mUes south of Thompsons station at what is known as Court House rock the Clara Copper Mining company of Salt Shit Lake LaIre City CRy is now erecting a copper extraction plant to operate the Gardner leaching process B The buildings are about completed and the machinery in place An immense depot depos of carbonate copper ore is found sound hee Michigan capitalists have lave taken hold of the natural resources at Westwater on the Grand river and besides developing devel developing the oil copper and agricultural ands lands at this place Pace will harness the th e great greet water power at this point on the th e Grand river for use throughout thi this s section it being but about thirty miles mile distant from the center of the La Sal mining district J A large canal Is 18 g under unde r construction to convey water for tor irrigation irrigation gation gallon on these th rich bottom lands of o which there are upwards acres A Denver Deaver company has haa placed paced a steamboat on the th and Grand n riv rivers rivers v vera ers era and the first trip from Green Gree n Rh River Rier to Moab baa haa been made mad r and the th river surveyed eyed and charted It is the intention of this steamboat campany com cam company company pany to place several everal mor more boats on o n in the tile early spring and open up th the e route both for tor tourists and ADd for freight t It being Heine believed that this river route will Nil be the tile cheapest and I nd best beet be t for the th fruit transportation from troD the Moab Moat vaLey vaCey The Grand View Mining company which is supported by lIs Tenn G parties have spent a lace amount of o t r money In developing their property on o n the La r Sal mountains at the head of o f f 7 Castle valley and have finally opened a i vein of ot gold ore that promises to give e them rici reward for their labor laborI I They y are aie working a large force of men me n and will continue work during the tin e coming winter Judge Burton of Salt Lake City ob obtained obtained tamed in October a bond on the Tor Tornado Tornado Tornado nado group of three claims in Miners s basin owned by M K I Fowler and Mr Burton has at present eight men a at t work on Oil the property The consider consideration of the sale ale is fa s This group grou p is Js the one that attract d so o much at attention early in the season and w was as anxiously nought after by a number o of f Utah and I rado mining men Rent Recent Big Strike The Mount Mining com corn company company pany do own ground on the south lout and west slope ski of Mt aU an and d north of Bh ro pass pa a in the very cen center center center ter of the La 41 Sal range and wh where they have done a large amount of or work won k during several years past opened into lot lota 0 a very promising ore body late in Oc Ge tobe tober and have since been working g dup d double shift and art are prepared to keep kee p up the v working during the present win winter winter winter ter This ground being above 11 feet elevation in the very center cent r of the theLa theLa th e La Sal range requires extraordinary efforts to t be made to be e prepared for to winter work The mountain Is t por per ph r ry formation but cutting It nearly nearl y north and south a granite dyke u un A likE lik any a ny formation found f und in of other he r points of the La Sale It is along alonar this th granite granit ITa ni t dyke d ke the values alues have been dis discovered covered rich float samples of which h have hac hat been be n found on this ground an and d which which h first att attracted attention to it I I but a depth of 75 15 feet teet was reached by bythe b y the projectors of this company before re encouraging values alues were reached The lot Int Copper topper company compan y operating in the head of Beaver basin bast just north of has haa worked a large ford force If f men continuously con during durin g the past year ur and has hafi now on its i dump A large body of or ore rid net enough ough to stand he to great expense es e of shipments from this section and an d ed would be Ix cor a bonanza with a amill amill mill operating opera tine on the ground A company of Mercur men have bave taken take n nad y hold held h l of jf th the Caldwell group at the head he ad of Deep creek and Just east of Tama Tame I r SEIl and have dm driver en a tunnel In a dei depth th of ITO feet and have all preps pre par stir t ins is mad and men at work under In 1 to keep going during Curing the ti te e tela wills r rOle rOe Ole Oe cf of f the richest strikes made in th the district the rast st lUIt season w i iS th that at of the Wolf Volf olf brothers broth rs on their Skyla k lark rk jn i in Miners Miner s basin This is a ore averaging n g I 1 in values better than 60 a ton They ha hu t e a large bo ly of it now on their the r I dump ready for shipment A number num ber of Montrose Colo people are inter ante interested r c ested in this property Great Silver Producer The La Sal topper Copper opper company opera operating t ing ng on the southeast slope of or the La Laa oa tea a range has worked an average of sixty men the past Tast year This Thu is the ti e great gnat it silver sHyer r and Is a bonanza bonan b mank la lah lulf itac lf The company has been work working won k ins ing In its it ore of ot th silver ilver values the high hl b h grade cle being shipped to the smelter hauling ninety miles to a railroad and the being mitlee mille on the ground huf bu of this latter ov ove aday a ada ada da day has been lost in n copper opp r alue and p th they j are worlds working at present pre ent a reduce reduced toe for foi e hale bile hi Ie they are making changes ir h irth th process pro ess in order to save th the copper Th The lark Mirk property in Gold basin buln ii in inthe the middle division of the toe La sian is at the head of the developed in n the La Sal district distract ct Some J Jc 0 k t c c I thing over feet of work having been I concentrated into one vein has baa gained I a depth that has bu demonstrated beyond a doubt that t at the La have haTe bodies of ores sufficiently large Juse arse to demand mills of large lae proportions This property prop I erty has a comparatively low tow grade gold ore but of a character that can canI be handled bandied by the cyanide process I and aad I there being a large body of the ore makes the property On one that will be beI I heard of in due time At present ent the principal owner is east where he has bail gone to meet parties who win will organise a company to carry out the work MRk net nee necessary essary to make this property a dividend payer The great depth obtained on Oft this property demonstrates that tt with depth many o of the present prospects can cast be made paying mines and that all I through the La Sate Sail depth is necea necessary sary to show continuous values I The La r Sal district lea has never suf suffered Buffered suffered a boom area There has haa been steady development dev since work first arst started on it five live years ago aso But the I developments now made are attracting attention and the indications are that 1 the year 1903 1993 will be clawed classed as u a Doom boom year in the La Sal Sl country and that I before the season is III over there will be beI I seen the th opening of one of the great I mining sections of off the t e west I |