Salt Lake Tribune | 1901-12-08 | Page 13 | Titles to Iron Mines

TITLES TO IRON MINES Examining Them nnd 0 Visit to tho Properties After several days among the archives of Iron county where he has been passing on titles pertaining to the big Iron deposits Fred McGurrln attorney for a number of the Interests I tcrsts came up from the south yesterday morning and Joined by two visitors from the East whose Identity he would not disclose boarded the train for the empire of Iron again last night Over the mysterious although very energetic movements of Mr McGurrln and his sudden departure with the travelers In cog there wae not a little speculation among tho number Interested In the locality cal but the gentleman obdurately refused to be drawn Into 0 discussion of hit movements lIe Is digging Into titles developments within the present month he volunteered should set at rest even reportorial curiosity That the gentleman Is acting in the interest In-terest of the 2165000 Iron deal however how-ever Is quite conclusive and that important im-portant developments are about to Issue Is-sue all parties arc ready to believe On his return yesterday morning Mr McGurrln brought with him a boulder of copper ore from the group which la I being developed by Messrs Frew and Thompson and that was taken from 0 level by which the iron zone Is undermined under-mined The boulder shows a red oxide of copper which Is being rapidly replaced re-placed by a sulphide and everything Indicates that the owners of the group are developing one of the future copper cop-per mines of the south