Show ube be areat copper deposits of copper a 0 the past few years utah has made a marvelous record as a producer of copper bearing ore and at 7 the present time this section of the 6 great real west is attracting tr widespread wide spread attention M be because caus of its rapidly growing output of the red metal and the wonderful wonder lul possibilities it offers in this direction butte montana as a producer of copper bearing ore is a close competitor of the mines of michigan in this respect in drabin drawing a comparison bingham in this state promises to become a second butte and there is every reason to believe that another bention of our commonwealth mon wealth will in a short time become a formidable rival to bingham BinI iam as a producer d u c er of immense quantities of copper with a goodly showing of gold as a byproduct the locality in question is known as san francisco d district i S in beaver county and covers a large area of country beginning near fris panics banies began operations in the gulch ten or fifteen years acro ago one of these the cactus company owned and developed the mines while the other syndicate put iut in a smelter for the reduction of cactus ores A very successful run was recorded at the smelter when a disagreement arose between the two associations the result being that the plant was closed down and it has since remained idle four or five years ago the reduction company and the cactus people arrived at an understanding and the former erected one of the holders being the purchasers the period of redemption ended but a few months ago with the bondholders bond holders in peaceful and legal possession thus leaving them free to consummate a deal then pending which has sine resulted in the acquisition of this mat magnificent 1 piece of mining property by the royal copper iain mining in r company the personnel of which includes prominent mining men of this city chicago and othar eastern cities copper gulch where the major portion of the new companas comp anys possessions is located is e pop A f aa M J W V fig JA L A 01 at A 7 X av eel alit f 4 M vt A 41 9 1 i 4 rm THE CACTUS HOISTING WORKS AND MILL co the home of the great horn silver minei mine and stretching out to the west and north including 11 wi within thin its environments copper gulch systematic work in the production and treatment of copper was first begun several 1 years ago 11 in copper gulch here nature has not bee been n ni niggardly eardly in her deposits of mineral and nu do dar narrow row walls vall confine the ina magnificent gniel cent zones of copper bearing ore for which this loca locality lily isso is so justly famous two french com largest and most complete concentrating works to be found in this intermountain region on the batters lat pro property perty but a short run had hardly been completed before war broke out again occasioning the close down once more inure of both mining and milling 11 operations and this his too with will an immense amount of fine milling copper and gold 1 ore blocked bloche d out in tile the cactus cachu s wor workings kinus this disagreement led to a law suit which ended in the sale of the property under th the e hammer the bond 5 noti not more man miles from frisco as t the lie brov flies in a westerly and northwesterly w e s t e r ly direction frisco esthe is the southern ter terminus binus of the utah branch of the oregon on short line railway 38 miles south of salt lake city the road giving ivin excellent transportation facilities for the southern portion of the state as the U utah tah k P pacific connects with it at M milford i I 1 f 0 r d seventeen niles miles east cast of fris frisco co to get to copper gulch the kaoo wagon n road runs around H horn 0 r n silver mountain the thoroughfare affording easy access cess to the 11 gulch aulca d during arin the entire year the most direct route h how 0 w ever is by means of a wagon dacron road and du dugway over the divide north of 1 frisco between frisco and copper gulch about midway bobers canyon winds its sinuous way down clown to the valley it is in this canyon imperial copper mine is is that the now famous located locate d a as s well as the massachusetts and washington mines all th three ree of which arta arc producers of the precious metals and all indications I 1 go CO coshow to show t that hat f from rolli tile the horn silver mine it at frisco over to and including opper gulch the whole country is heavily mineralized the cactus properties being on the northwesterly portion of this wonderful mineral zone or belt in copper gulch the ore occurrences are on a gigantic scale in this locality the he country is stratified by great porphyry zone i or dykes interspersed by dy dykes lies of granite these porphyry dykes are from fifty to feet in width and dir dig or sink where one may in this porphyry copper associated with iron parities and carrying pay values in gold is to be found asa general thing this vein averages aes a es not more than four tofie to fie five and up to 22 per percent cent in copper and a afew few dollars in gold but in the development of the property pio perty large bodies of mineral mine ral have been blocked out going abino much higher than this the ore in its general characteristics being such that the values are easily and economically saved either by concentration or reduction by the smelling smelting sm smelt elting ino process the existence of ore 0 e in i n such enormous quantities reducing the cost mining of 0 f M inin g to the minimum the hol holdings diDgS of the royal Roval copper alenin mining 91 company with its patented patented 5 claims and locations cover cojei an area of something so n ething near acres embracing a tract extending from copper colln gulch to the boundary lines of the massachusetts and an id imperial copper mines in bobers can canyon y on and taking faking in both sides of app copper ar gulch and extending up and down the gulch fo for r a distance i 0 of f feet by 85 00 feet to td the imperial lin peria 1 mine the cevelo development ddn t of this extensive property consists of a d number of tunnels and shafts and openings on the various claims comprising the group the chief development consist mineral have been made to the salt lake markets in a crude state two hundred feet southeast from the shaft the main or cactus tunnel has been run for a distance of feet from which a number of cross cuts have been bean t Y nn P 4 41 A RIN mt 4 iv 1 W 51 N A M aj 7 it 1 5 t V id ann ap 5 F 1 A F Q SW F W THE CACTUS MILL HOIST AND MINE BUILDINGS LOOKING UP THE GULCH driven both ways for a distance of beet the entire workings practically al abut oat feet being in ore which can be profitably handled from this tunnel an upraise has been made to the surface a distance of 75 feet a practical demonstration of 00 feet work in depth all 0 of f the of devel evea on the group made in doing openings on a 4 se development work show 11 qt ore ot of general quality and the aam 8 c characteristics baractaris barac teris ties shown i as tb since obtaining possession of tle the tl e P cactus w mine the company has started a new compartment shaft the location triple of the workings being at an elevation rhew top of the ore bins in the mill equal the to being to secure the most jobje ct of the property in the mini economic C operation ope ratio I 1 mining no and hand handle lia of the ore as it comes from the mine alack ath th of ten feet the new shaft mineral bearing C zone the ore encountered being identical identical the th in character and values carried to that ex posed in the other wor workings kinas of the property this shaft will be pushed to the level with stations cut and levels run at every feet feed an average of the ore in the bottom values by fire tests of of 4 gold 18 au ounce aces s silver ilver per cent iron per cent silica and 78 per cent copper to the ton in the way of equipment there i is is not a producing and dividend paying in mine e in id the west that is better provided for in this respect two reduction works embellish the property and at a moments notice almost can be started up on an almost enli unlimited cited quantity of ore which can be treated at a handsome profit the hoisting works have a sr capacity of feet the mill I 1 anaw and modern and embodies the concentration method of treatment the equipment of the the plant embracing a nordberg compound en engine crine a large blake crusher four bradley mills and ei eighteen lateen frue banners van ners the capacity A ft N 7 I 1 4 w ft A aa THE CACTUS MILL HOIST AND MINE BUILDINGS LOOKING DOWN THE GULCH or of shaft and main cactus which is also all in ore the face of the t tunnel the shaft over which the cactus hoisting tunnel will give a vero ver ical cical depth of works stand has been sunk to a depth of feet from the surface the level of the feet all the in way ore of good milling value tunnel corresponding to that of the collar of and from which consignments consign ments of high grade the tt the hoisting wn ia gives of the works being in the neighborhood excel ei lat n which tons daily the smelter of to t condition can be made to han handle dle fifty addition I 1 in a ore twenty four hours every alicel congeni cabin combined d with junrous nun rous other calculated to improve the service at the mine mine and mill the works are equipped with an electrical plant and a dynamo furnishes electric lights for both mine and mill mil as well as 1 tiie THE wonderful demand for copper has been greatly stimulated during the past few years by the utilization of this metal in the manufacture of electrical appliances and ma 11 41 k R 61 7 N 64 Z 44 THE CACTUS SMELTER BELOW THE MILL for the little vil village lacre composing composino the companas comp anys boardinghouse bunk houses the residences of the superintendent and foreman as well as the assay office which is finely equipped for fire tests and analytical work all of which are shown in the illustrations which accod accompany p any this article NOTES timber in abundance for mine timbering abounds in and around the gulch which is quite a factor in economic mine mine operation A shipment of ore recently made from the cactus was settled for on smelter receipts showing values of 22 per cent copper and in gold and silver in 1889 a large larae specimen of cactus ore weighing 2800 pounds was exhibited at the paris exposition and was given the highest i award in the mineral department of the E exposition x an average sample of ore taken recently from crosscut crosscut no 2 in the cactus tunnel gave assay values of 99 per cent copper 18 ounces silver per cent iron per percent cent silica and small values in gold since the royal roval company entered into possession of the cactus it has haa shipped a num ber of carloads of concentrates which were stored in the mill the product running well ju in its copper contents as well as its gold values the iron in the cactus ores makes the concentrates cen a desirable product at the smelters shelters sm elters in n milling the excess of silica is eliminated so that the iron contents net the company good returns on the market the iron pyrites carry arry values in the red metal chinery and the indications are that the end is not yet in sight and that the consumption of copper in this and other directions for years to come will greatly exceed the supply ac ax gac qa J aa va N NO I 1 CROSS OUT IN CACTUS TUNNEL SHOWING 50 FOOT BREAST OF ORE AS SHOWN BY TAPELINE TAPE LINE TO THE RIGHT cording to the mining and scientific press the united states exported electrical machinery during the first eight k months of 1898 I 1 to the value of 1439 for the corres bonding period of 1899 the exports in this line amounted to while for the ficat eight months of the present year the exports increased to with such conditions prevailing it is no wonder that thac there is such an active demand for copper properties in this western country and it is pleasing pleading to note that utah is able to fill this demand to a large extent with some of the lar largest 9 est and most extensive copper propositions to be found in this intermountain inter mountain region rec rion nothing No thino i is s seemingly more safe just now in the way y of investment than shares an in a good copper property or the the 0 ownership ip adf ofa a copper producing ducin mine IT is hard t to 0 con convince viRce some people that mining is legitimate and that money money spent in mining operations 1 is a safe investment this feeling fedelino obtains principally in the eastern states and yet there are thousands of business men in the east who have hate made thon thousands sands e ven even goodly and princely fortunes in mining investments investment and with them the foolish talk of doubters ori on this subject has but little we weight ht As a matter of fact the demand in in the east for safe and p profitable table mining investments is steadily on the increase and it is not fiot as difficult pow now as it was five or ten years aro ago to interest capital in western mining ventures tures statistics show that no other branch of business brings larger returns and this is why bright and brainy men of boston new york st louis chicag chicago 0 o philadelphia and other leading cities of the middle east and atlantic coast are becoming identified with the great mining industry of this intermountain region the coming year promises to show a wonderful increase in the interest taken in mining minina affairs throughout the united states |