Show THE COPPER COPPER BOY MINE under the magical influence of the rapid advance in in copper quotations the active demand for the red metal which has been so apparent of late many of the old camps of utah and t the e west are being born again as it were and in their resurrection give every evidence that it will not be long before they will drop into line as heavy producers of the precious metals and that their old and abandoned mines will respond so readily to the quickening touch of capital and labor that in the near future they can be classed among the bonanza propositions and dividend payers of this intermountain region twelve or fifteen years ago summerville mining district in emery county ten miles west of the lower crossing of the K R G W road was looked upon as one of the most promising camps in this western country in fact summerville en joyed the distinction of being a lively and red hot district and quite a little mining tow town n sprang up as if by magic within its environments a burg boasting boa a population of or souls who found shelter in tents stone cabins while even tasty homes embellished the c camp a in 0 which boasting of its stores supply houses as well as of four saloons generally the true index of the prosperity of any mining region etwas it was at summerville that sam gilson made a stake when n the camp car ap was in the full flush of prosper i 10 55 7 V f AA ity and it was here that many property 0 owners found the wherewith with which to increase their bank accounts as heavy ore shipments were the order of the day there and manya many a consignment of the precious metals found their way to the market from summerville which were sold on controls showing values of from 50 to 1500 ounces in the white metal 40 per cent lead and well up in gold to the ton to say nothing of the copper contents of the mineral mi ne ral which would amount to a considerable sid erable sum now but which then brought the miner nothing or worse than nothing as in those days the producer was oftentimes required to pay for what copper occurred in his ores ores r with the decline in silver quotations a few years ago the heavy drop inthe in the price paid for lead and the little value placed on copper the promising district of summerville began to lose its grip and like a frostbitten frost bitten rose it soon began to be known as one of the 1 4 TJ have beens only here and there a disman 1 tied cabin an abandoned mine a neglected prospect being the only tangible evidence that in the past a lively mining camp had once found existence there only a few claim holders keeping up their annual assessment work confident that in time the wave of prosperity would again surge over that section with the unprecedented demand for copper which has characterized the financial circles of the world for the the past year or i two came cam e the turn of the tide as far as summerville was concerned for old mining men familiar with the of this section returned to look up old mines mine s and to locate new ones and it was for copper not gold or silver that they were looking for and it was here that they found it in encouraging quantities the ores of the district carrying paying values in the red metal SCENE AT THE COPPER BOY MINE aith with the resurrection of summerville came its ita transformation from a gold and silver camp to a copper producing district from the ashes of the past a new camp sprang into existence the merits of which have already been as a lodestone to the capitalist and investor among the first to be attracted by its promising copper properties being being S L LB boggs of this city who with a few friends carefully investigated its mineral zones the result being that associated with acquaintances and with men who are always on the outlook for meritorious mines and prospects a group of claims was secured being the identical property on which sam gilson had made a raise years before and a few months ago the property formed the basis for an incorporated organization designated in the articles of incorporation as the copper boy mining company the mineral belt on which the copper boy bo is located THE REVIEW is informed is prolific in its ledges its dips and spurs the formation being an immense quartzite dyke the principal ledge being true fissures with an east and west strike the most work and development however and this is ia limited has been done on a six foot vein of blanket formation from which in the early history of the camp the former owners of the property made shipments of four cars of ore which netted them something aike like the mineral being sold on control assays essays showing values of 42 per cent led lead 12 per cent copper ounces in silver and in gold to the ton the illustration of the mine given herewith shows the shallow open cut from which this small fortune was taken and also shows where the company is now sinking a shaft on a vertical vein this shaft is now only down below grass roots it is only 20 or 25 feet in depth and yet the bottom is in a nice body of mineral which w h i c h carries encouraging cou raging values in silver and gold and which is heavily impregnated with copper the belief being and the indications showing good cause cause for the assumption that with depth the fissure vein will lead to a large body of pay ore in which cop will predominate overlapping the t h e blanket vein above described there is a large deposit of oxide gold bearing ore which it has been found leaches well and can be successfully treated by the cyanide process of reduction almost on the dividing line between the lee and the uncle sam claims embraced in the copper boy group is the hutch shaft which was sunk several years aro ago to a depth of feet and it is stated that in these old workings a six foot body of ore is exposed between well defined walls one half of which by careful sorting will carry values of 29 per cent coppers copper 66 ounces in silver and in gold to the ton while the balance of the ledge is ia a good concentrating cent rating product which can with a mill be handled on the ground at a good profit on the lee claim about 1500 feet east of the hutch shaft the ledge outcrops boldly and at the surface there is a foot of mineral which assays essays ounces in silver 80 cents in gold and a strong trace in copper to the ton it being evident when the vein was first thrown up that it carried excellent copper values but which with the action of the elements and years of exposure have leached beached out but so promising is thes the showing howin at this point that during the present season manager boggs will do some systematic development there his time being fully occupied at the present time in sinking the new working shaft on the uncle sam claim as rapidly as possible and also in sacking ore for shipment at the old ald hutch shaft quietly and with no whoop and hurrah mr boggs and his associates have been hard at work this spring in the development of the copper boy they do not claim that it is a mine mine but they are convinced that it is a most promising prospect and good enough to warrant a little money in its exploitation feeling confident that with development it will wil willoper lopen open out into a producer and a paying mine in his report on the copper boy 0 L Gilson refiner at de lamars golden gate mill at mercur says i the property of the company consists of the following claims viz lee uncle sam silver and rattler or about eighty acres of land these claims are located end to end along the outcrop of the vein for a distance of feet or about li 11 miles on the vein which shows values in either gold silver c opper copper or lead the entire distance general formation of the country the cretaceous in this reo region ion consists of a series of peculiarly resisting stand stone dakota at the base succeeded by several thousand feet of clay with a few sandstones and lime stones all of marine formation extract from geological guide book to the rocky mountains by S F emmons ore deposits the of the vein is in an immense zite dyke running almost east and west rising through stratified limestone and sandstone the mineral matter has come from below along the contact of this quartzite dyke to the stratified rock which forms th the hanging wall and all indications are favorable to the existence at a lower depth of an immense body of high grade ore proven almost positively by the thorough of the outcrop of the vein in in gold copper silver and lead all of which are found giving very high assays essays the entire distance of the outcrop shipments the discoverer of this mine shipped four carloads of ore taking it from the outcrop afong the vein on the siever silver claim and in no place going down ever three feet from the surface average e smelter returns on anthis this shipment viz gold per ton lead 42 per cent per ton copper 12 per cent per ton silver ounces per ton which netted him a little over after paying mining freight and smelting smelling sm elting charges there are now very bright stringers of high grade copper and galena ore in the crevices from which this shipment was made from information received from the original V locator of the mine and men who worked in the foot shaft on the uncle sam claim shipments of very high grade geld copper and silver were made from the 76 75 foot foat level carrying higher values than the shipment made from I 1 the outcrop of the vein on the silver claim this should goto go to prove up the groundland ground and show that at present there is a vein of very high grade ore for a distance of at least 1500 feet and also to prove that with depth the ore increases in value there there cannot be a particle of doubt that an ore body exists for all alono along the outcrop of the vein for a distance of feet small pieces of ore can be picked up assaying per ton about fifty pounds of chloride of silver was taken from one place that assayed 1500 ounces in silver to the ton one ond of the great advantages of the copper boy mine is that it is not dependent upon the demand or market value of any one particular mineral as its ore bodies carry gold copper silver and lead and if one mineral is not in active demand the other is sure to be active work Is now going on at the mine the company is capitalized for charves of the par value of 1 with shares in the treasury |