Show WESTERN UTAH operations captain duncan macvichie of salt lake consulting engineer and general manager for the western utah copper company has the following to say regarding operations at its holdings in the deep creek district utah the copper ore body which had been developed at the time the mining commenced proved a great disappointment in the north end of the mine the core of the ore body is largely iron with a shell of about fifteen feet of good copper ore on each wall this iron replaces over tons and perhaps as much as tons which had been estimated to be copper ore however in the upper portion of the mine and on the foot level a large tonnage of lead ore has been developed compensating pen sating in a large measure for the disappointment in the copper we are now developing ve some copper ore on the foot level which looks promising developments on the property adjoining the calaveras talaveras Cala veras group of the western utah copper company are very satisfactory this almost insures a mine on the calaveras talaveras Cala veras group of claims in addition to the ore on the gold hill group the indications are that the western utah copper company will make good though the failure of the copper tonnage was a great disappointment |