| Show THE COPPER QUEEN MINE special correspondence gold hill utah jan 9 the copper queen midland mining company owns acres of highly mineralized ground there being fifteen claims in its holdings these are located on the north side of the overland canyon road where the gold hill road joins it the southern claims of the groups adjoin the celebrated footman ground from which it is said ore running 2000 ounces silver to the ton was hauled by wagon all the way to california the ground round of the copper queen midland company is traversed by several promising mineral veins one in particular extending from the footman on the southwest to the northern edge of the property on the northeast about half a mile or so distant this vein system has been and 1 is being 6 opened up in several places wherever a shaft or incline has been sunk the vein continues down and even gets better in value as depth is gained just above the cabin on the hill an incline has been sunk to a depth of feet in sinking these assays essays were taken every five feet for forty feet the them gold values increased in that short distance from 5 to 15 to the ton at the bottom of the incline a crosscut was driven for fifteen feet and no walls found showing an immense body of milling ore further north another incline is down feet with ore showing at the bottom last spring some leasers leaders were working the incline and extracted and shipped eighteen tons of ore last fall the company itself found a new place that it is still working on the new strike is just south of the foot incline across a small ravine from the incline workings this new strike was worked by an incline also the vein dipping west almost on the same slope as the hill just west of the hill there is a lime contact and the opinion is held that when this contact is encountered big bodies of ore will be opened up the incline is now down thirty feet on the dip of the vein or fifteen feet vertical in this short distance twelve or more tons of pretty fair lead carbonate ore has been taken out the vein and the ore still persist as depth is gained one assay from here gave returns of to the ton another went 80 and still another 40 the ore taken out has been sacked and awaits shipment on this same vein system but on the north end of the property a small crosscut tunnel was run this is now in a distance of feet and is expected to tap six or more copper and lead carbonate veins which show on the surface these veins seem to converge here and come to a focus the lime contact is on the west not more than feet from the portal of the tunnel all the veins dip towards the west one of the copper veins here shows ore on the surface that will assay at least to the ton while the lead carbonate ore ot of one vein ran 50 to the ton on the east end of the property the long midnight tunnel was run in the hill for a distance of feet showing the vein and ore nearly its entire length the ore in the midnight tunnel is mostly iron and copper pyrites with some galena and zinc early last fall another incline was sunk for fifteen feet near the footman on the south in performing this work nearly eighteen tons was taken out running up to 30 per ton but this ore will not pay to ship under present conditions A little tungsten and molybdenum has also been found on the property the property of the company is distant six miles from the railroad at gold hill with a downhill grade nearly near ly all the way A truck can make four trips daily from mine to railroad the company is capitalized at shares of a par value of 25 cents each a moderate capitalization for so much ground and good showings |
