Show THE LOUISE CONS consolidated state journal ogden utah the louis consolidated group of mining claims situated on willard hill te not far from weber county and box elder n ty line is a likely looking property and re cent developments show good values in goll and copper and other ores the property consists of five full lode claims elch each by feet and located contiguously c cov V ering the course of the vein for feekin length by 1200 feet in width lt it is at the base of the main range of the wasatch mountains and a little over a mile fron from the oregon short line and southern pacific tracks the float from this mine was first dincov ered near the surface in the form of small nuggets of and the vein is a contact fissure lying between a porphyry foot wall and a jetam metamorphic 01 slate hanging wall it has a free cleav age and carries considerable gangue on the hanging wall the vein is twenty feet thick and carries a streak of white quartz and carrying about 10 per cent copper this quartz softens up into chutes of spongy oxidized copper ore and is worth about 4 per ton in gold and occasionally produces produCe 3 some handsome specimens of copper opp r ore one shallow incline shaft about twenty five leet feet deep on the vein produced many tons ol of fine copper ore in this incline incline a magnificent ent bunch of ore was encountered among which was found a large boulder of unaltered sulphide of copper that we weighed ched over thirty pounds and assayed 22 per cent copper 3 gold and 4 ounces silver below this boulder the vein was completely oxidized and comparatively poor yet this indicated the character of the bonanza that may be expected when development is carried down to the water level where the ore still remains in its unaltered sulphide condition over 1000 feet of development have been done on the property a shaft feet deep has been sunk and over feet of tunneling done A force of men is kept at work all the time situated as it is near the proposed site of the big smelter the matter of transportation has been made comparatively easy the cost per ton for transportation will be reduced to a MID mum because of the fact that it is possible pos sibL for a wagon to back right up to the dump |