| Show BIG COPPER FIND A special from hanksville Hanks ville utah to the salt lake tribune says A big copper strike has been made in the henry mountains near here which pi promises to cause a large degree of interest and mining activity in this section W B hay and frank bennett who nad been prospecting and placer mining in the region for the last few years located a good showing of copper which they found cropping to the surface last fall mr hay returned to the property this spring and began a tunnel on the main vein which is developing an enormous body of ore thus far it has been opened to a depth of feet and it is fully twenty two feet in width the values run about 8 per cent copper with 2 to 3 in silver to the ton the ore is in lime porphyry and there is a mountain of it surrounding his claims the silver values are increasing as depth is attained and it is believed that at feet depth the silver values will reach twenty or thirty ounces to the ton the gold values are small on the surface they ran from 1 to 4 a ton but these are lost with depth the property is situated at the base of midd e mountain higher on the sides of the same mountain judge bennett of denver and his associates have a property that shows good values in gold william stewart of hanksville Hanks ville made an examination of the hay and bennett property a few days ago and said that while he had seen a good many mines in his time he had never seen a bigger ore body than the one they have on their property the owners have some good men associated with them and they expect tv to begin work on the property on a large scale as soon as they determine the best method of development their p ans also include the building of a railroad to the property they also own valuable coal lands within ten miles of the copper amne m ne and other undeveloped resources as well and are certain that the construction of a branch line from green river will be a financially successful venture |
