Show f W J l III THE T MINES IiNES E OF AU J BEAVER REAVER COUNTY C J Y Yr m p r r n rc rr l 1 I Where Great Ore Bodies Are ire Found Carrying High Percentages of Copper Cooper With Silver and Gold Enough ini in 1 i Them to Pay the Cost of Mining Smelting and sand Transportation T ra c a i iE E I 5 I I 1 3 a tl d 1 f 4 r y f T L 3 k THE TIlE NEW I TUNNEL This tunnel has been driven 00 feet and there is yet remaining feet to drive before reaching the Hie great cross croes fissure aure which outcrops from the apex of the mountain The at the junction of that apex a vast body of ore even larger larcer than that of the Old Hickory and larger than any outcroppings of cop copper copper copper per ore on the continent At the ue Junction point the tunnel will strike the vein nearly a thousand feet per perpendicularly pert t below Its apex t 1 i t t t t t HE EE significance ean of the above T THE I statement stat will be better com cent comprehended 00 in connection with the following table recently rece published pub published showing the ue relative cant nett t of this most mott useful unit metal in ha the tM different la s where w ere it is t 1 chitty c iy b produced I Atlantic Mich U I Anaconda Cy ant 11 Arizona Copper C company Art J Q Boston Montana Moat 7 I J J e Boston Mont v 1 13 U Calumet Ml y yr r j fi tI Queen Ariz S D Copper c Art f 1 Mountain Copper company Cat cal 10 Montana l Ore On Purchasing company y 12 Mont j Mich 11 PErrott Moat Mont lo 1 Quincy Mich R J Tamarack Mich iMich T J United n i tea Verde Ariz 4 V Utah tah Consolidated Uta Utah S 3 Wolverine Mich tech 9 0 It mesas in brief that In Utah we have tare a set ret et of conditions which widell win will contribute to building up here heIe OB 0 bf f tLe tt greatest gre mining industries that t the he world can show and that tin till rich miner of gold and silver ether that we have bave to so highly are likely Bitchy l te to t taSe tiL second place in comparison with th the 1 e ea a copper corper mines of the southern them counties i Bani County At the present pre nt time public attention is being b ing centered upon Beaver county where the d ck lQ of the past pant year are are a revelation to even the oil oli timers in the mining mini industry Considering the conditions prevailing less lees haa than two years ago the mining Interests there have advanced more rapidly than in any other section of the state Prior to that time there here theren were n ere ate a few struggling men mea here and there doing assessment work but the Horn Hern Silver was the only mine employing employ ing ng a regular rE force of men Today there are no fewer than Ulan sign six sixteen teen mines and groups ups of mine min under systematic dev meat with crews ranging rani from half a dozen do to more mere than nn rh n and there are prospect prospectors ors and individual pushing push pushIng Ing ng work wor single an ed or in pairs pair pal in all parts of the th mining section During the t e incipient stags stages st of the loining excitement which has as brought I this southern u county into such prowl pro l lI I nence nea e a number of articles appeared In m the Salt gait Lake papers papera reciting the th history of early mining milling in Beaver county coun county county ty explaining or apologising for the Intervening period of in inactivity Inactivity inactivity activity Apologies ies are no longer lonser nee necessary essary That millions of dollars were taken oft off the surface la in luSan San Francisco Star North Star Lincoln Bradshaw and Hock districts and aAd then even eVE the surface abandoned is a little piece of Eatery y the details of which the present mining b operator hat has about as es ranch JD use tine for as they USey have for tor a history pf of f King Solomons 1 mining oper I jk new era has bu dawned and 1 while title of at lieges may be Interesting to men of leisure there is ill not time to consider them in a bo be bonanza nanza nana mining camp One present and astounding fact tact stands out in bold relief Om One property abandoned twenty ty years yean ago 0 as practically worthless s has han h shipped worth of ore dur dUT during the raft hut four tour months and ancl the tile con COD conditions condition 41 ons that have made such a ship shipment shipment shipment ment possible exist over a large area where enterprising men are aN striving with aO all their energies to secure the strongest str footholds I General Features Peat reA reAThe The traveler landing at Milford Utah bent upon acquiring some in forma rma ion in regard to the topography and mining possibilities po of that sec section section section tion finds find himself in a little town of some Inhabitants which was at atone atonE atone one time of considerable c importance In Inthe Inthe Inthe the mining minin district t by which it is stir sur surrounded rounded Milford lies in the middle of the great t Beaver ver valley formerly th the bottom bot tolD of an immense e lake hike a rem remnant remnant remnant nant of which still sWI exists To the eastward east rd some miles away aay lies a range ranee of high JUgh mountains beyond which te is still sUlI another nother valley of somewhat teaser lesser extent and in which is 18 located the th Hwn t WD of Beaver the county seat Beat end nd Dd which by way of the proposed electric line Une to connect the two towns ton will be a distance of f a trifle aver t mites The three intermediate villages Greenville Adamsville and Miner wiP wil also share hate t in the benefits ac a rung rang rd ng from the construction of ot this line Hn The Beaver river debouches debouch ell Into the th t ho va valey val ley Jey last 18 mentioned and In Its t through the canyon some opie t miles mUa from Beaver Reaver falls a distance of many hundreds cf et feet through throng a nar narrow narrow narrow row gorge and with a constant toW flow never neer less than minire rt inches A power dm could cOId be places place 1 advant advantageously at he mouth Douth of ot this fis canyon or in fact tact tae Le teAra brat of them at various points In the twelve miles deB of canyon thus thu making the water perform mul multiple multiple tiple service In m generating electric power of ot which the district ct is sadly in need to supply light and nd power to the surrounding towns and mines It Itis is Iii probable that something will wUl be bedone done doge dOJ in this direction in the near fu Iu future future ture The Th e Beaver river rive f flows dow on down the valley until it the end of ot the range raule some miles south of Milford Miford turns taros tar into e Laite e v y yi i and aid 4 flows fm elIy Hy r dIM disappear disappearing pear ing hg altogether before be reaching Milford Uford It emerges emerge eme froan the ground around later I r on however bever and tend flows into Seyler Sevier lake thirty miles away ay Plenty of Water Underground Unde ground In the vicinity of MIlford fiord there is no difficulty whatever In securing HeUring an am ample ampie pIe w water ter supply aupP within a few f w feet teet of the surface by means of wells many m ny of ot which are in III operation by wind 1 power There was warn at t one time some twenty years ago age j a smelter at Mil MU Milford MUford ford handling the ores from the old Harrington mine five miles southwest This mine was a heavy producer and some worth of ot silver and lead were taken from it and the old Rebel mine just north A considerable town I named Star and containing SCIO peo pee people pie and nine saloons saloon flourished hed there i So wasteful were the methods method of or mining min minI ling I ing and smelting melting the ores however I that when it became necessary to sup supply supply I ply the mine with ith more effective hoist holst 1 s ing and drilling machinery the whole plant was abandoned The smelter with a capacity of only fifty tons per day was waa continued in tn operation using ores from form other mines The New feW Regime Bo ime The Harrington mine recently carne came into possession pos of the Majestic MajetIc Mining Min lIin Mining ing Smelting company at the head of which is Mr A B Lewis and work was wa recommenced It is a group of nine patented claims sad and fourteen lo locations locations location cation situated live five miles southwest of Milford also owned and operated by this company With William Rob Roberts Roberts Roberts erts as foreman the principal workings on this group are the Hickory and Adelia shafts each ach down about feet Notwithstanding the disadvantages of equipment equip equipment C ment a large extent of or sinking drift tt tf t t 4 t tt t r fc tJ t e y iY iYa 2 a a 4 4 3 t 9 s sS S 1 1 I 1 t Yrs V ry n 4 n nr nt nt ry t t r t o t 3 td i t FACE OP OF ORE IN THE TEE 0 X K SCENE MINE t Tai Tw vein t In Is II i s feet fett between walls walla At points poin 8 in the vein the rade ore which has h 8 been 1 has h s been hn wire wile for eight ei ht miners ti to to work wok abreast in the face fa e At A other points there are bodies of z and of q stuff ture In the illustration shown from the white ledge of quartz on the one side to 4 I the lut ter boulder Cuder of the same name formation at the he the top is a Q mass of the most brilliant peacock copper all of whir vil ill run nl ra olos cl Irs s to 50 0 per cent That h shows apparently white whitt In the center of the ore body is a bril brilliant 4 haul 11 r t preen green In lor i t tt t tt t ing crosscutting etc has haa been accomplished ac accomplished accomplished during the last year nar with the he result that great peat bodies of cf a good J Od grade of lead and silver over carbonates have been opened opec d between the 10 and a d levels leveLt enough in fact tact to prove an important item in feeding a near nearby nearby nearby by furnace In addition to this thin some nice bodies of ore are being developed on these properties Fifteen carloads of ore on have been shipped from this mine during the past year and have fully demonstrated the high value of the property This together with the adjacent properties all of which are also under the same control is Iii soon to be equipped d with modern machinery and ami systematic prospecting with I mining is now In progress thirty two men employed Recent develop developments developments developments ments show that there is yet a vast quantity of good ore in the mines and they bid fair to be of immense value under uDder better conditions These Thue mines lie at a considerable eon elevation above Milford Just at the base of the range Several miles across acres the valley alle and at a somewhat greater gre tec distance front from Milford Afford lies lea leaThe The he Famous O 0 X Mine Sensations are not the t everyday e incidents In Incidents of mining that they were ere dur lug the prospecting ting days d of ef Pioche Virginia laity City and Leadville but It was wasa as a genuine 1 that turned the t f eyes eyes of the mining world d I when hen In August last the O 0 K made madeUs I Its Us first shipment of copper ore to the smelters of Salt halt Lake valley Two I hundred and sixty tons of ore ore assaying 40 per cent copper 8 8 in gold thirteen ounces in silver sliver and a high per er cent in iron and sulphur was a revelation to that class clus who thought that t all aU pay pY ground in Utah lies north of 30 ti grees green and 40 minutes north nor h latitude Q the south boundary of the Tintic dis district district district I Although there has beep been bee no attempt at sensation and no in inthe Inthe Inthe the policy polley of the 0 O K nothing but legitimate and intelligently Intelli directed de development development development there has been more than 1006 1000 tons of this ore landed on the dump within the past put six she months and fully runy 1 tons store more blocked out in the mine The vein ex exposed exp exposed posed p aed to w a depth of over feet teet is about eighty eight feet teet thick this with the rich streak ranging irregularly from fro a six to feet In thickness near or orOR orOR oron OR on the Equipment The The property is la equipped eq with a sub aUD substantial substantial roomy boarding bunk honk house office blacksmith shop and a 3 hone power steam hoist and with David as a t n It Jt is i ae as near ear perfection in la its ita waking Id min it ing lug I gets Pt A ml a modern hoisting engine is t tone one of the necessities nece in fn the near fu future future ture tUrf when the present force of ot five v men IB is to be increased to seventy as a contemplated early In the new new year It is Ia a difficult undertake to d dip diM scribe such nell a mire mint as the a lt It lle It te full fult of contradictions of surprises of wonders wooden There Is nothing else like Mke It in the state and probably not In the world It is spectacular entrancing The location is not where here one might expect to find copper deposits An ex cx expert J Jert pert ert from Salt Lake City only two years ago pronounced the mine worthless worth worthless 1 less leam and advised ad the discontinuance of operations altogether Twenty years ago this property was partially developed by a shaft sunk to toa toa toa a depth of m feet and a drift from the bottom was run in a northeasterly I direction Considerable ore was Wall taken out t This ore was of high grade which after paying shipping hipping charges to Bal Baltimore Baltimore left a handsome net return It I was thought that the mine might pos pea possibly po sibly sll ly develop into an ordinarily good property but for some reason reason further I work was discontinued It was never resumed until the acquisition of othis this and 1 adjacent claims by the present relent owners Just Missed ItIn It ItIn ItIn In the light Ugh t of recent developments thie old incline furnishes several veral stir sur surprises prison ea In one place it comes within a single inch of tapping the marvelously rich deposits which have recently been I discovered Had it deviated afoot a foot In either direction there Ia fa i no question but what southern Utah would have long iong since come to the front and aad made that I section one of the greatest copper producing districts di in the west we t I There are other copper mines in which great ore deposits occur but 1 I none of which the writer has lias aay any I knowledge can compare in the spec spectacular spectacular I element There are veins three to four feet thick and even greater i ith thickness th kness and of or unknown width run running running ning as a high of 40 and even een 75 d 7 per cent ent of such uch surpassing beauty that it is 18 idle to even attempt in type an ade adequate adequate dp quate description des of their theft splendors In Inthe Inthe the glare of the magnesium light they hey I glitter litter and shimmer with an I rent cent loveliness comparable only to old ld i Venetian glass Immediately contiguous I I is found quartz of or snowy whiteness white whiteness ness ess imbedded in which are beautiful crystals attaining here a size me and aud perfection truly wonderful won t Upsets Old Theories I It ha been an axiom 8 dom among mining I men that v t here her these O tag r irys rys 1 tas ta s occur it is ii i useless to look louk for foe ore on ony yet y t here hert WH WP find them within a t very nry fro 10 in h and aHI in some cass cases ca actually attu lUy projecting into nt the th veins above iB n boned Hut But the th t Hr r are vre not sip all of or orone one hai act r Not rot twenty ft jt ot lion one orre of these th thi si se sulphide veins may moy be lie found th iii re t t 11 1 del Iel i equal in magnitude magl tul and so aily marl that a ash cI is i the only on 1 tied tol tm l re te required Azurite i f also found in large bodies all of th sp se arlous arbus minerals being in such d e son to each other t i that they lwy are in fa at a t m hied d dI I from rom th tk same Unite This Ibis was tuns w aur sur surprise aurI 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