Show beaver county P production ra d uch 0 on and developments BY AUSTIN K TIERNAN VA a the first mining carried on in utah was in beaver county in 1860 at the old rollins mine jaine now known as the lincoln mine in the mineral mountains a few miles northeast of minersville Miners ville from 1860 to 1863 a few tons of lead ore were produced and reduced by the settlers to bullion in a crude way beaver county up to the present time has produced more than in gold silver copper lead and zinc during the summer of 1914 the discovery of new gold properties and the finding of ore me at greater depth attracted considerable 4 11 attention to the several districts and it is only a question of time and capital when athe the many porm ising properties in this expensive mineralized section will be in the 5 first rank of utah producers in view or of the necessary curtailment in ore output that has been forced upon numerous J arous mining companies since the european war beaver county has made a very creditable bitable showing the tonnage for the year amounting to about tons as against tons in 1913 beaver county covers an area of thirty miles in width north and south and nearly mining engineer salt lake city one hundred miles east and west and contains sixteen mining districts san francisco and preuss districts the I horn born silver mine the greatest producer in the county was discovered in 1875 and from that time to the present the value of the output is estimated at over during the last year the mine operated considerably and was one of the largest shippers of zinc ore in the state the lessees lessels on the property of the imperial copper gold mining company shipped several cars of fine copper ore dur ing the first half of the year work was discontinued during august but in december breuscher and jones commenced work and will shortly be on the market again with their high grade shipments the south utah mines or cactus property continued to operate until the war cut off the demand for copper in august besides the shipments of concentrates there were several cars of crude ore per month running high in copper during the last four months the property was operated john kelly leasing on the klondike property encountered some good ore and made a shipment of first class clas s 1 A large amount of prospecting and as ses work is being carried on this winter and some new shippers will undoubtedly be on the market from this district before the end of the year beaver lake district A large amount of important development work has been going on in this district during the last year and every indication leads to the belief that before long this section will become one of the most important in the state the 0 K mine of the majestic mines company has been the largest producer ore to the value of about having been shipped on the skylark claim of the utah united copper company a fine body of high grade copper ore was opened up work is progressing on the foot level drifting along the contact where the showing is getting stronger the beaver copper company sent in a shipment during may from the development already made it appears that this property will be regularly on the market with its ore during the year ore assaying as high as ounces in silver has been encountered in the main shaft the 0 K extension has only thirty feet to run to be under tho the highly mineralized droppings crop pings the broomfield james mcmullen group of five claims has a fine showing in their 65 foot shaft assays essays from which showed 39 per cent copper and 15 10 to 45 in gold at the property of the black rock copper mining milling company of which walter james is the manager the tunnel is now in over feet with feet to drive in order to encounter the ledge of high grade ore that is exposed on the our face this property should be one of the big producers of the county lessees lessels on the 0 K mine of the majestic mines company were on the market with a car of ore last spring and another car is now ready for shipment the copper mountain property also shipped a car of ore in may the success mine belonging to I 1 cline has developed some good shipping ore bradshaw district one of the oldest districts is about eight miles southeast from milford the cave lower cave and noon noonday day have of ore at different tonnage shipped a large of the camp the times during the history cave mine is being operated with a small force the old croff property prope arty under the management of dan ferguson commenced development work a short time ago some ore was struck that assayed 5 to 15 per cent copper star and north star district this section a few miles southwest from milford is the oldest in the county and has come into much prominence in the past year or two through the operations of the moscow mining milling company this company has demonstrated that the rich silver lead ores continue with depth during the last year the main shaft has a small force but by february the manage ment expects to increase the number of I 1 men an and d continue with regular shiar shipments dents j the monitor one of the new shippers i sent in some eighteen cars of ore during the year some of which carried values as high as 15 ounces silver and 40 per cent lead the hoosier boy is expected to have a large force at work in the next few weeks the leonora group encountered some 90 ore and a body of zinc ore was s ered that assayed from 40 per cent to 45 per cent zinc the following properties were operating and some shipped their product to the market during the year 1914 the red warrior hub lady bryan anvil the brown group big gentile and blue bird and hobson group newton district the results from extensive prospecting map of beaver county showing MINING DISTRICTS mining districts corresponding to numbers on map 91 14 qa 4 sk taj ew j W 40 1 oey PIE e 4 deorio Oe orio 0 13 k Is lj C VIER of 6 r e ec e 4 ck A 0 AIM jr j mch 12 S wes miles f no 1 beaver lake no 5 newton fortuna no 9 rocky no 13 washington indian peak no 2 13 bradshaw no 6 north star no 10 sulphur no 14 gordon no 3 granite no 7 pine grove no 4 lincoln no 11 san francisco no 15 Jar loose no 8 preuss newhouse no 12 star no ag anor unorganized the baby jack is being operated with a small force and a good grade of ore is being piled on the dump at the galena mine work is being pushed ahead by contract Jar loose district i the excellent mineral showing owing sh in this district should warrant an extensive campaign of development during 1915 three men are at work on the sparks brothers property the mcconne and jensen group has been recently operated and the vein opened up showing some good ore the old mikel property is being worked with a small force of men A J mcmullen has signed up an agreement to develop the ivans ivan s hagena hagenbarth arth P property for an interest and there is every indication that ore of a commercial grade will be encountered been sunk to the foot level which is practically the same as the 1100 foot level of the old shaft the ore bodies developed on this level will have an approximate depth of 1300 feet during the year cars of ore having a value of about were shipped to the and in december a dividend amounting to was distributed among the stockholders the company has been operating at one third the cost since the ore has been hoisted from the new shaft with the ore already blocked out on the lower levels and the development work now going on the management expects to continue the regular production and the posting of dividends the cedar talisman company shipped a car of ore that carried high silver lead values the mine is now being operated by for gold have brought baroug ht this district to the attention of th the e mining world and caused considerable ex excitement c about the new gold camp of f fortuna this camp is about twelve miles northeasterly from beaver in the bald hills and the rock from a remarkable series of outcropping cropping out ledges in rocky hollow was found to freely pan gold with values running from ta 5 per ton and up and in consequence of these values practically the entire country is staked and covered remains remal 15 with mining locations it now only for a little time and capital to demonstrate the extent of these immense low grade gold erected to propositions before mills are inc increase rea 5 e this and economically handle ore the countes coun tys production with cyanides cranides cy anides and an t taken lien bullion some new interests have over r the lucky boy and gondola groups S develop deve op of claims and it is expected that ment work on a large scale will be commenced at an early date R H strickland is working quite a force of men and making excellent progress in deve developing lopin g the property of the fortuna gold mining milling ing company in the valleys and the adjoining bench lands below the sheep rock section over which the creeks and washes have flowed are immense fields of auriferous gravel which have been tested and it is claimed will average per yard A B blainey and associates are at present endeavoring to finance a company which will install dredging machinery to handle these gravels the sheep rock mine in 1914 shipped cyanides cranides cy anides crude ore and gold bullion and have blocked out a large tonnage of ore in its lower levels the five stamp experimental mill has demonstrated that the large quantities of developed ore can be treated on a large scale and it is the intention of the management to install the first unit one hundred tons of a ton plant during the coming year the beaver gold which adjoins the sheep rock reports improvement in the 60 foot shaft the shaft will be sunk to the foot level and at the same time a crosscut will be made from the 60 foot station the rob roy will start up at an early date and active development work carried on during the year among other properties that have been operated during the year and made a pro promising m showing are busy bee the beaver beav er butte ada belle deer trail tr ail gold basin indian and tushar pine grove district this district is situated about eighteen miles southeast of newhouse on the western slope of the wah wall wah range with pine creek following through the center of it to the west this is one of the few districts where water and timber abound the hills are strongly mineralized and afford most interesting ground for the miner and prospector to get into a country where there is a chance of taking up some excellent virgin territory of great possibilities float running high in gold values has been found in these hills as well as high grade silver lead ore the principal property is the revenue which covers the shale quartzite contact with anite intrusions during 1914 extensive work was carried on at the tasso and cliff claims and several tons of ore were sacked from the latter workings adjoining the revenue on the east is the lou property which has shipped two cars of high grade silver lead ore other promising groups are the lone and altoja successful cyaniding cyan iding through stages the process was developed to benefi clate silver ores refractory tell urides heavy concentrates complex sulphides sulp hides of every description ores of cobalt and even silver bearing a product of blast furnace smelting smelling sm elting what will be next atah in in 1914 reason noted in the case of the gilsonite lack of transportation these properties are all located in the uintah basin remote from railway transportation and the owners have found that it does not pay to deplete the properties and have what should be profit eaten up in wagon transportation so the mine owners like the farmers and the lumbermen and others in that great basin are waiting as patiently as they may for the railroad why do not some of our coupon clipping friends wake up or stop watching the war game or whatever it is and pick up a good thing the amount of tonnage the uintah basin could furnish a railroad every day in the year is almost un T lp hofira hlo |