Show BUYS MINES T Tw w d to Be Headed He n l f o i Jr II 1 i V c H s I 2 q to Cheyenne W Dee Dec 22 2 A deal was s closed here yesterday yeste whereby where h the Osceola copper properties s In the th thaB B Battle R Lake ke district pass into the hands of nf ofa ofa a syndicate believed to be e headed by Senator Thomas Utah The price paid was t being paid yesterday yest day to be he paid on n I Feb Fe 1 l 1 n 1 and the he e bal baJ balance balance ance On July 1 It Jt was also ed edIn In th t the new owners should do po at least Worth Wirth o develop development ment ept work on the property during the next two years The Osceola mine l yand and d sIx eix lx other claims Join the cop copper copper per mine on the south Considerable development work has already been dpn done on the e Osceola and the extension slon of the rich vein in the has been opened up in the Osceola Several Se ral shipments of high grade cop copper copper copper per ore have already been made The Osceola company was composed of Governor DeForest Richards Sec See Secretary Secretary of ot State Stat F Chatterton Pitt Covert Coert all of ot Cheyenne J M 11 Rum Rumsey Rumsey sey George W Perry PetrY and others of Rawlins The deal was engineered by Willis ViI lis George Hampton author of ot Buell Hampton Definite information regarding the identity of the purchasers of the th Osce Osceola Osceola Osceola ola mine cannot be had Some say y the North American America Copper company was the purchaser purchase other reports say the Standard Oil Oll company is the new owner but In view of the fact that it was known that Thomas rhomas Kearns and his associates in Salt SaIt Lake have naye been negotiating for lor th Osceola Os for fer some sometime sometime time It is believed they secured the opper bonanza In Rawlins yesterday the Copper Belt Copper Mining company comp Iy gave Judge Charles CharlesF F Fishback an option on the copper topper properties prop at Battle Lake for The property consists of twelve claims being the western extension of elf the garty and Osceola claims Ore run running running running ning as high as 65 6 per cent copper and some gold to the ton has been taken from the mines of the Copper Belt Mr associates in the del deal delare e l lare are not known but it is believed they are all Utah men When Mr Fish Fishack Fishback Fishback back ack was campaigning in Utah last fall faU he be succeeded in interesting a num number her ber jer of ot the wealthy men of ot that state staten In n the mines of or southern Carbon coun county county county ty and nd the several s big deals recently consummated are believed to be the result of ot his work in Utah The Southern Wyoming aerial tram tran tramway tramway way passes by the th Osceola and Copper Belt mines thus furnishing transportation transportation tation tatton for the ores or to the Encampment smelter III |