Show EMERY COUNTY COPPER progress Cast ledale utah something is likely to be done the tha present year in the way of prospecting and mining in E emery mery county there are good reasons to believe that many of the copper colored sandrock droppings crop pings in this county contain both copper and silver in hi paying quantities that no great bodies of pay dirt have yet been uncovered here is per haag owing to the fact that there has been very little development mining work done in any part of the county in the old summerville district between Cast Cat ledale and woodside several pockets or kidneys of copper and silver bearing ore were dug out and the stuff shipped with varying success the few attempts made to ascertain the depth of the ore bodies here have been limited to a little tunnel work and some sinking by means of windlass and whim Gop hering is the usual term applied to such work as has been done here yet even with the slight development work referred to more valuable ore has been unearthed here than is now in evidence in some of the boom mining districts in nevada further work may prove emery county to be a fairly good mining section peter frandson is certainly getting out some rich ore toward desert switch ore that runs up to 60 in copper and silver the face of the vein now opened up is from three to six feet wide and the pay streaks vary in width from one to several inches pinching and widening as depth is acquired mr frandsen and his son in law johnny allred are now hauling a carload of ore to desert switch which will be shipped probably to the united states smelter at bingham junction utah which concern has offered 12 a ton for the ore laid down at desert guaranteeing the transportation charges to their plant mr franssens Frand sens mining efforts under many adverse circumstances is being watched with keen interest and it is the hope of everyone that success will attend him some substantial developments are expected to accrue the present year from the work of dr walter pike on his copper globe mining property southeast of perron ferron and from the work being done by dr C B snyder on the norma group contiguous to the copper globe claims the efforts of the gentlemen named is causing others to acquire the mining itch who knows but by the end of 1906 emery county comity will be listed among the pre precious mineral producing counties of the state attorney ed R pike of eureka spent part of the week at the copper globe mine of which his brother dr walter pike of st geor george 9 e is owner mr pike stated to a progress man that he had three men at work driving a tunnel on the property and that the present showing was quite favorable work will be continued indefinitely attorney pike expects to return in about a month or so and give the development work his personal attention assays essays of ore give copper values varying from 5 to 50 per cent in the red metal there is a large body of ore in sight running 7 and 8 per cent copper the ore is a good fluxing flexing smelting smelling proposition and the big body of lowest grade ore would prove valuable were it possible to smelt it near the property water however is scarce in that neighborhood but if future development work on the copper globe normo norma and other properties that have as yet only been scratched in and near that section continues to improve with development it is safe to say that some method will be adopted to treat the ore locally with the dawn of the new year appear signs of a reawakening awakening re of those in control of the affairs of the utah nevada copper company a concern owning a number of copper bearing mining minin claims in the extreme southeastern corner of emery county the company was incorporated over a year ago and their proposed mining milling smelting smelling sm elting transportation light and power enterprises were loudly heralded I 1 by very attractive illustrated literature then a cloud overcast the internal workings and plans of the concern and all lapsed into innocuous desuetude as the great grover would say wo we now have it from reliable authority that all misunderstandings are being adjusted and all that is practical will be carried out the officers of the utah nevada copper company are pr practical mining men of denver who know what and how to do and have the temerity and capital to do things |