Show BIG cottonwood CANYON promising properties in which leading murray people are interested special correspondence murray utah april 10 the spring zephyrs are having their affect not anly upon the snows in the hills but also on the spirits of those interested in mining claims in big cottonwood canyon and development campaigns are being planned by many local people the murray copper mining company incorporated owns a group of eight claims about three quarters of a mile above the lower power plant of the utah light railway co and on the south side of the canyon this company now has a tunnel feet long in the lime and is driving for the contact with the granite which should be encountered within the next feet the tunnel has cut three fissures but no de was done as it is the managements intention to conserve their capital and explore the contact first after which they can call come back to the fissures the contact on the surface presents an excellent showing of copper lead and gold in a quartz gangue and this company certainly has every reason to anticipate a producing mine as soon as the contact is encountered the chief stockholders of this property are andrew adamson matt ilby gilby G henry harker A condick and phil cole to the west of the murray copper company s holdings is the victor group of three claims owned by vie vic johnson and T J birch this property has an immense quartz lead from which some good assays essays in gold have been had and the owners believe that on their ground exists the source of the picture rock float that was found in the early days of the valley A tunnel sixty five feel in length I 1 has been driven and another of twenty y five feet is expected to cut the lead after which development will be done along its course work is not being done at present but will probably be resumed shortly the blue point group in the same vicinity is also said to show some remarkable gold ore but is lying quiescent at the present time one of the old timers to retain faith in the mineral resources of the canyon is I 1 matt ellison of murray alo who 2 has held a group in the vicinity of the cardiff for twenty years upon he has some of the richest samples that eief ever came out of the district and which show horn and ruby silver mr ellisonsr Elli sons friends are conrat con rat elating him upon his pluck and foresight in retaining the ground all these years as the present showing in the district now assures him remuneration L C miller who is heavily interested in the big mitt alitt property situated between the big and little cottonwood canyons recently paid a visit visa to the property and says he is well content with the present showing this property is remarkable in many ways as it has a vein from eight to twelve inches thick that has been followed to a depth of feet from which a free gold ore is taken that will compare with anything from goldfield or cripple creek as assays essays have been secured going as high as to the ton and several small shipments have been made that yielded smelter returns of to to the ton if this property was situated in some place difficult of access it would probably create a stampede but situated as it is within twelve miles of salt lake city where an automobile can be driven to the dump and whose dump is in a lucern field it seems to be ignored by the mining Z 1 fraternity of cactus street but some day it is likely to create such a sensation such as the state has not seen for a long time one of the pioneers of the canyon is samuel mcnutt Alc Nutt who now at an advanced age continues to live on his property and continues development mr air McNut AleN utts ts best elbowing isi Is said to be on the squirrel property and it is rumored that davenport and hollenbeck have lately become interested with him and will aid in future work |