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Show LETTER FROM PARLEY'S PARK (.Special Crre!tondonee of Hit; IIekald , Coi'per Bell of I lie Wnsnich. Kxlcul of I.ode. Copper Mania In CnUfoi-ii CnUfoi-ii In Shipment Of Oris, Kir. Summit Cami1, Uintah, Sept. iMth, hSi I. Commencing in Big Cottonwood canon near the summit (or at least this is as far north as it has yet been discovered) dis-covered) and extending thence north-1 crly along the summit to Snuko Creek is a broad belt of copper ore. This belt of ore yields on an average surface J specimen assay, about 2i per cent, of copper, from SIT) to $40 in silver and from a trace to $ IS per ton in gold. At Snake Creek the ore belt is ibund on both sides of the summit, and here are located n 'number of claims belonging belong-ing to tho Messrs. llowland and others, upou some of which a little work has been done enough to develop a solid ledge of indefinite width yielding ore richer than the assays mentioned. Farther north a number of claims : have been located at different points along ihis ore deposit or ' lode, but only auQioicni work . has been done upou any of them, so far as I know, to constitute a technical right to title under the district laws. The season is so far advanced that it is , not probable any of these claims will i by developed into the dignity of mines before nest summer, but present indications indi-cations warrant the anticipation that then these mines and this broad, regular and continuous deposit of copper ore, will command the special consideration of capitalists. This lode of copper is about, as Jar as discovered, discov-ered, THREE MILES IN LENGTH Following tho line of the summit, and shows itself on the surface at an even altitude except where it is overtopped by the higher points of the mountain, upon each side of which it is distinctly traceable, seeming to enter and debouch from these taller peaks with the regu-j regu-j Unity of a railway tunnel. j T11K ADVANCE IN THE PIIICK OT COf-I'EK COf-I'EK Taken into connection with Ihc fuels that these ores carry a large per cent-age cent-age of silver and a paying one of gold, and are convenient to railway transportation, transpor-tation, must give this belt of mineral prominence in the mining transactions of next year. Seveial" years ago the copper mania was epidemic in California Califor-nia and was cured by an extraordinary decline in the price of copper caused by the shipment of immense quantities of the ore from Chili by a "ring" of "bear"' operators. The price of the metal has not yet reached the old ! standard and may never do so; but the j ores of the mines ou the belt relerred j to, arc so rich in the precious metals as i to be independent of any possible fluctuations fluc-tuations in the copper market. Copper Cop-per ore is shipped from Tintic district and from various districts in Nevada farther from railway transportation than this deposit capping the Wasatch. Wa-satch. Why can it not bo prolitably mined and marketed J'rom this altitude? alti-tude? Yours, Wasatch. |