Show J J3IG COPPER STRIKE I AmerIcnn Fork Canyon the Place of I Discovery One 01 the biggest copper strikes that has been made in Utah was uncovered a short time ao In American Fork Canyon a few miles from American Fork station The claims are owned by A and J Bateson of Chicago and they have given the ground a very thorough survey in the past three years They have known that the claims carried copper and they have J exploited It thoroughly for copper re suits J Bateson who has been on I the ground right along wired his i brother ten days ago to come out as I in his estimation he had found results r that proved to him they had a bonanza f bo-nanza I A Bateson Is a Chicago capitalist of 0 vast means and has been encaed in L the lumber business in Chicago for up T ards of forty years He respondell to 1 I the call and last night returned from the mine He stated that there was a mountain of copper and that an avert aver-t age of assays showed that it would t run S to 10 per cent j We have not shipped any are and J do not intend to said Mr Bateson We will build a smelter and handle our own product I believe we have the biggest lot of copper that has even been t discovered We have an entire mountain moun-tain of it and it is all on the surface No Ve dont want any outside capital cap-ital Ve are in a position to handle it i ourselves We have 15000 feet of patented pat-ented lands down there l |