Show THE NAPOLEON MAGHERA ogden state journal A letter from D don on maguire president deni and general manager of the napoleon maghera machera copper mining reduction company launched recently with a capitalization of and with the napoleon and maghera machera groups consisting of acres of mineral bearing territory in sierra madre mining district box elder county twelve miles north of ogden says work is to be prosecuted most vigorously and that the best contained in his long years of experience peri ence will be devoted to the undertaking telling of it mr maguire says the sources of metallic enrichment in this property consist of two lodes or cop per bearing fissure veins the one passing through the group for its entire length of feet this is what is known at as the napoleon maghera machera lode passing through the maghera machera Ma ghera tugela napoleon and maine claims a distance of feet with in an average of ten feet at the outcrop for feet and through the last tin ten feet of distance this vein will average twenty feet in width along with the napoleon machera maghera lode there is the prince of india copper lode which runs through this group for a distance of feet with an average width of ten feet the entire length of its outcrop within the confines of this property and these two lodes in their eastern course inside the con fiens of this group join a contact vein known as the contact copper lode that runs across the st dominic mary and maine claims a distance of feet in length within this property Theo metallic values of these three lodes or veins give an assay return of from 5 to 45 per cent copper with gold values of 1 to 2 per ton and from I 1 to 4 ounces of silver per ton the copper lode has been prospected to depths of three to ten feet along its entire distance the ore exposed is quite extensive the situation of the vein being such that it can be opened to a depth of more than 2000 feet while the ore may be delivered by pack trail a distance of half a mile to bonneville on the oregon short line an aerial tramway for the transmits tran sion of to tons a day to the foot of 0 the hill will cost but As there is a large percentage of the output of these mines re requiring quirin requiring g concentration a mill for that purpose must be provided which will require an expenditure of in the development and opening of these mines to the point of ore shipment to market a conservatively ively high estimate places the cost at thus we see that our group of copper mines requires only exclusive of the fitting up of the property with such features as buildings tools machinery and other essential wants of the property making in all a demand for to equip the mine to the point of heavy production the friends of mr maguire and his associates wish them all kinds of success in the undertaking |