Show LA SA COPPER ittINES I I lichigan Syndicate Will Build a i Smelter In That Section A special from Telluride Cob to Denver News Captain J W ngel representatve ota Michigan syndicate of capitalists which is operating in the copper felds of the La Sal mountains has been in town for the past few days negotiating for the purchase of additional addi-tional property The sale was consummated consum-mated yesterday It involves a group comprisIng nine full claims ZOO by 1500 feet located on Disappointment creek in the western part of San Miguel county a short distance this side of the property In South creel where the syn dicte has been developing for about a year S It Robinson J W Ward and V Jensen welImown catUcmen are the granturs Caltaln Angel will at OnCe erect buildings lay in provisions and subplies and put a force of men tO work and within to or three weeks will begin regular bhipments He has developed the fat that the La Sale mines farther down the river have an almost inexhaustblE quantity of rich ore and he says the DisaPllointment veins are quite as promising as were the bet of the La Sale claims on the surface Mr Angel has made a thorough thor-ough exploration Of the La Sale region and Cnds the copper belt to be about tlity1he miles in width by eighty in length The veins he says are as per feel true Hssure as are to be found anywhere A numbe of members of the syndicat are from the Lake Su pedor coppe regions and all pronoun pro-noun e the L3 Sale section fa more premising than that of upper Michigan The territry covered br the copper veins is greater in extent and the ores cry much richer The hhhergade mineral now being e trcted from the South creek mines is shipped crude to smelters Some of the are runs as high as O per cent coaner per ton Severe cers ha E run dS3 per cent coppe and i7 er cent silver Fortynine tons shIpped to Chicago paid a handsome rft notwithstanding the long haul to deliver I to the shipping st31on and the long distance from there to ChI co An eightandahafton lot was shIpped to Liverpool England which paid a profit and commanded a great del of attention among mining men on that sid of the ocean The mines are without doubt the hl11estgde copper properties in the United States They are very advantageously located for eaay rapid and economical development devel-opment in fact natUc has already developed de-veloped them in a general way by draws and gulches better than any human agency could have done The largest vein is thirty feet wide and from this sIze they diminish to three T feet in wIdth In addition to copper and slcr the mineral runs small Yn tea in gold The are is also free smelt ingIr Mr Angel visited Detroit lat fail fl1 the PUPOSC of consulting with the stockholder relative to building copper cop-per matte smelter and it was decided t begin the construction of one immediately Colorado imme-diately UlQn lr Angels return to Thu smelter is being built on L Sale f creek dose to the mines and will be rady for oDettiQ in about two r months I w1 h1ve a capacity of from thirty to art tons daily As there are thousands of tons of ore insight in-sIght Mr Angel is under the Impression Impres-sion that the capacity of the plant will be largely increased In the near future i i does satrsfactory work The ore t can le delivered from the mines to the r steler for 50 cents per ton and ore I that runs as low a 5 per cent copper can be bandIed at a proft A considerable consider-able quantity of the ore is practcl solid copper and silver running from 03 to 70 per cent in the former metal and 200 to 900 ounces in the later therefore there-fore no adant will be gained by matIng this character of the product and after the smelter is Jut In ope1 thin it will continue to be shinned to smelters In Its crude state Sever large specImens haVe bee brought to town In which there is practically no roc at all There has been much talk the past season about thel Snle copper mInes tat seemed to be exaggerated but al dpubts a to the existence of large bodies i have bod-ies of been rich are overcome and strong veins In place |