Show THE IRON COPPER MINE duncan J frew of cedar city this state president and general manager of the iron mountain copper mining company who surprised his friends last week by being happily married to miss mary M ferguson an esti mable young lady of this city and immedi abely after af ter leaving for scotland on his wedding trip made the mining review a pleasant call prior to this auspicious event although we regret to say he failed to give this paper any intimation that he was soon to join the ranks of the benedicts however lie he has the best wishes and congratulations of the review for if there is a man in the state who is deserving of his good fortune he is the man mr frew has long been impressed with the mineral wealth and possibilities of pinto iron district in iron county and he be is more than sanguine that in the holdings of his company a big producing and paying mine awaits development on more than one occasion vm 1 0 O Y 47 A 4 X DUNCAN J FREW PRESIDENT IRON MOUNTAIN COPPER MINING CO eminent geologists and mining experts have advanced the theory and alid idea that the great deposits of iron ore in iron county are nothing more than gigantic cappinus cap pings of immense deposits of mineral bearing ore mr frew has long been of this opinion and for several years past has been hard at work in the effort to demonstrate its accuracy and success is seemingly crowning his labors in this direction in speaking of the mine mr frew said we have eleven claims in our group on the surface the contact ore body which is a hematite iron running 63 per cent in this metal showed carbonate of copper stains indicating di the probability that the iron was merely the capping of a body of copper ore going on this theory we sank a shaft to a depth of fifty feet cross cuts of the vein at this level showing howing the ledge 7 to be feet in width scattered through about seventy five feet of this body some high grade ore was found and especially so on the hanging banging wall side of the vein or on the lime contact where a ten foot streak was uncovered from which about sixty tons of ore were extracted assaying from 28 to 30 per cent in copper to the ton sinking to the level cross cuts were again run from the shaft the vein at this depth gives stronger proof than ever that a copper mine can be developed at this point for here the iron itself the heavy hematite iron carries 22 per percent cent copper in places at both the fifty and foot levels it was found that the vein dips at an angle of 45 degrees being satisfied with the prospecting we had done we started a new shaft inthe in the lime and sunk to a depth of feet hoping at this depth with short cross cuts to encounter the vein on its dip instead of immediately striking the contact t with afie cut we passed through about ninety feet of heavy iron ore in the lime and this showed copper sulphides sulp hides on the east side aide indicating that the change to copper was favorably progressing with every evidence that with greater depth the whole mass will present a fine body of pay copper ore getting beyond this lime belt in the crosscut cross cut we encountered water which seems to be confined to the lime and apart from the ore this water which is of excellent quality promises much for the future welfare of our enterprise and other industrial projects in that locality as the present supply is all of 00 gallons per day on account of this water wate r find we are now compelled in order to work economically to put in a pump before we drift further from the contact vein which on the upper level held out such excellent promise for the disclosure of a big copper mine besides the copper ore already mentioned we have from another vein on the property taken out several tons of galena ore averaging 75 per cent lead and 30 ounces silver to the ton this lead prospect we have not developed as yet having confined our efforts more particularly to the exploration of our copper coppe r deposits mr frew has been a ve very ry busy man of late years having inaugurated operations in the development of the companas comp anys copper property in which ezra thompson of circle ville a nephew of mayor thompson of this city is heavily interested he succeeded in securing a large tract of iron land a portion of which with his bis associates three in number he has recently sold to the colorado fuel iron company for the handsome sum of i and as he is also an owner in other iron property in that region and of greater value he stands a good show of still more adding to his already pleasing bank account mr frew upon his return from scotland will install a pumping plant on his copper property at the present time he is arrano arranging for the securing of patents to his iron claims and preparing for the treatment of a big tailings dump at the old barbee walker mine at silver reef and a mill using the russell kussell process will be in commission about the first of june this work being rushed under the direction of thomas ferguson so well known in this city and who has been associated with mr frew for many years in some of his various enterprises iron county and the south owes much to mr frew for the present pleasing conditions which obtain in that portion of the state in the mining line |