Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-01-01 | Page 24 | The Franklin Syndicate's Beaver County Mines

1 mmn t 1t HH + mtmt11U UH Itttittt I I II Itm t I H 11 J f JJ4V ttht um I 1 II I tttrttttmtttmm + uu H H Itmm m t I 11111 Ittttt i tt U c c I 1 I 44 t + r r NICLIIN S YNDICA TR9S F I I 9 + 1 + + + w I q I B 84 VER COUNT F MINESQ IiI I t tl > + + + + u + turn t Hi 0 9 I t + + + + + + + + + t + + + ci + + Comprised Jin the list of the above I companys properties are two of leI i most prornlslrjg mines In that part of I 1 the State and 1 a third which later developments I de-velopments are likely to prove but little I + I t + + if any Inferior to the other two t t Of the two Vnost important the Copper t Cop-per King and Blackbhd it may be said I I hat they are not by any means new I 1 I dlncoverles their location In the first + Instance dating back more than a score r I of years Considerable work was done I 1 on them at odd times previous to their I I I acquisition by Dr Franklin though l neW in a systematic or extensive way i In the early days when the Frisco i smelters were running the Copper Kin I 1 I vas drawn upon for a good deal of Iron to be used In the furnaces but as the 1 Q ore carries Its values chiefly In copper I a metal to which little Importance was attached at that period the Copper King lay Idle J for many years after the t reduction works at Frisco ceased operations tt oper-ations + The new owners however convinced ff It 4 + + f tfMH HMHHH + H + H + 444 + 44 + + + + + + t + + + + + + + + + + the Oregon Short Line to the mines of the Franklin and Neuhouae companies one great dllllculty will have been overcome over-come There remains the Important Item of a water supply and several plans have been under consideration with a view to a solution of the piob lem Although not yet definitely settled set-tled upon it Is probable that a system of transmission from Sevlerlake a distance dis-tance of nearly thirty miles will find more favor than any other proposition The ore Is similar In character as might be suspected to that of the Cactus Cac-tus and to obtain the most satisfactory satisfac-tory results should Le treated on the spot This will require the construction construc-tion of a large concentrating plant and the requisite supply of water to keep tin t-in operation The following description of the geology geol-ogy of the district and tho Franklin properties generally Is from the pen of G L Hutchins the wellknown mining engineer In charge of Dr Franklins Beaver county mines r Mr Ilutchlnss communication will be read with wide Interest as there Is no one In the State better qualified to speak authoritatively upon the subject tttmttt t 4 4 tiit t u ttm and a quartzite the vein breaking away from the contact along its general course Into the liner trained basic granites to the northeast and southwest south-west The wall rocks arc crushed and faulted though only small displacements displace-ments occur The vein filling Is a serpentinized J granite carrying tho pinJneiallatlon some decomposed Intrusive granite and lately exposed In depth bodies of very pure Iron oxides always closely associated with the copper and sliver values and present in all forms from I the semlcryfitalllve black < magnetite and hematite after chalcopjrite down to the earthy and hydrated llmonltes and hematites The outcrop of the vein Js of this Iron and Ironbearing serpentine carrying from a trace to 5 per cent copper and Is of such strength and extent < that In one exposed section along the vein where many hundreds of tons of Iron ore were hauled away as flux for the Frisco lead smellers the ledge has a width of 150 feetThe The vein has been prospected at tho deepest 100 feet and developments at this level while recognized by the management man-agement as being fur above water level + + jt J i 1 < + f t t p Kf i 1Z c rt tt rfA P i r f y h + t 1 i t r t iW > i = j lll 1tI ItJ r oP i 7 l f H F J + ny1 atir > ir 1jffu f1 1f i lfLIfjp > I 1 Y M fv r 1 1 1 r JL i I hl r1y Yl l 1 t l E rcv Jat 7tt Vrtif J4 t j A 7 i n CJ IT f 1 rt 1 tr i nll r i j Lt 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engine of 25 horsepower = J I horse-power has been set up and the cut herewith will show the present state oft of-t i affairs at the Copper King l At the west the Lady Curzon promises I well considering the very limited r i amount of development work which has r been done y The Blackbird group lying on the t nest sIde of the range and nearly surrounding I e I sur-rounding the great Cactus mines of the Newhouse Interests Is probably the best known of the three and may be looked to within a shott period for an l + immense output Its location some 2 whai remote as comparedwlth the two i t + mines previously mentioned hut with 1 1 t + the completion of the Frisco branchof in COPPER KING MINE t North Star Mining District Beaver County LOCATION The Copper King group of fourteen full claims lies near the northerly point of the Pichacho range Beaver county and cover for over COOO feet the Copper King contact vein and its breaks out Into the country granite on the northeast and southwest The general gen-eral strike of the vein Is north G5 degrees de-grees east magnetic The outline of the country Included by this group Is easy and the rise from the Beaver valley and the Frisco branch of the O Sr L a distance of threemiles even and gradual The vein Is centrally a contact between be-tween a coarse basic eruptive granite and unaltered pyrite and above the zone of secondary enrichment are carried car-ried on to prospect the vein systematically systemati-cally and to determine accurately the course and dip of the ore channels so that In laying out the future campaign of development no mistake may be made In the location of tho economical point of attack on the ore In depth through working shafts Drifts on the 100foot level have opened up a large well defined vein tho contents con-tents of which have been subjected to a remarkably thorough and severe leaching leach-Ing action all the products of the decomposition de-composition of the scrpentlnous vein matrix and mineralization are found and the presence of numerous caves testifies to the extent and evidence of the destructive action of percolating acid and hydrating surface waters A cave was recently encountered on tho 100foot level and so far as explored at present Is 40 feet long 40 feet high and 4 6 t H hi H Ht + + + + + + + + + 6 6 0 0 t M M from 5 to0 feet wide The walls of rich semi = crystaillzecl Iron and Incrustations of oxidized copper ores ara < coated with calcite and gypsum crystals tho floor littered from undetermined depth with copper and Iron from the walls Such a cave held at one1 tlmo a largo body of l secondary copper ore before tho destructive de-structive action of surface waters carried car-ried the major part of the values to a Jower level The copper contents the vein fill ingat 100 feet ° occurs almost entirely I as oxidized altered secondary ore although al-though some pyrite and copper glance Is foundas the kernels of masses of oxidized oxi-dized ore The Intimate association the copper x with theiron lends strength to the opinion opin-ion held there that most if not all of the Iron In this great deposit Is derived from the alteration of the original cop perIron pyrites of water level the greater part of the copper and sulphur and some of the Iron having been backed down to such lower zones In tho vein as the oxidizing agents have not reached and deposited In a zone above water level as a secondary ore enrichment enrich-ment There Is every reason to believe that this zone of enrichment In the Copper King will prove several hundred feet In height and In the channels and along lines of least resistance In the vein through this zone will be found the concentrated and enriched copper oro Remnants of previous secondary bodies are found In close proximity to caves and channels in the vein at present pres-ent depth The gold and silver values In even this altered secondary copper are unusually un-usually good and give encouragement to the belief that when tho unaltered enrichment zone Is opened up the precious pre-cious values will prove exceptionally high Assays show from 30 ounces silver sil-ver and 150 gold In the best oxidized ores to 200 ounces silver and 5 gold In the unaltered secondary copper glance Some 1000 tons of oxidized copper ore was shipped from tho Copper King twenty years ago running copper 15 per cent silver 30 ounces gold 350 The present scheme of systematic development de-velopment adopted at the 100foot level Includes a winze sunk at tho most advantageous ad-vantageous point In the largo ore channel chan-nel opened and has determined the best location for a working shaft to tap and work the deposit economically at depth This Fhaft has already been started and Is provided with a horsepower gasoline hoist the Intention being to prosecute work continuously to the 500 foot level when the vein will be cut and prospected whllo the sinking is carried on Indefinitely THE LADY CURZON This property lies In the North Star mining district and In the western extension ex-tension of the Copper King lead The deposit Is of copper oxides and secondary second-ary sulphides In a highly slllcleus gangue the formation being a large fls sure in the basic country monzonite For sixty feet the working shaft of > the company went down lowgrade ore with occasional bunches of high grade copper oxides The ore from tills property like that of its neighbor the Copper King runs high In silver this fact being peculiar in that similar ores in the district carry comparatively little precious values The working shaft of the property Is down 100 feet and a crosscut Is being driven lo catch up the vein at this level t H + 4 4 6 t t 4 4 H t n u I I t t + + + + n t t 0 THE BLACKBIRD OF COPPER GULCH This properly composed of 105 claims covers thegreater part of tho Copper Gulch basin and almost completely < surrounds sur-rounds the Cactus companys ground Copper Gulch lies In the west slope of the Grampian range about three miles north ofFrisco IB a circular basin some three miles In diameter and opening Into WahWahvalley on the west The lower basin rock Is entirely mon zonlto grading to more basic porphy rltlc types on the east and south Tiro rim of the basin to the north Is composed com-posed ofa thick bed of quartzite underlying under-lying a dolomite lime t tm I t m + WU + t r cat d In the mineral basin In closo proximity prox-imity totho I Cactus deep abaft and on the Intersection of an east and west with northand south lend The two shafts are respectively 250 and 325 feet In depth and are provided with modern steam hoisting plants of t large capacity I f I Up to the present there has been little 1 prospecting from these two working J shafts but tome very rich copper and t J gold 010 Is exposed In several sections I i of the old workings and In the new i shafts I The ore Is a copper and Iron pyrite which will mine at about 5 pir cent copper 7 ounces silver and 52 gold but i 1 large bodies occur which show puro + t chalcopyrlte and very high values In silver and gold + The gangue Is attrition product from t i the walls of the fissure with small tit t 1rs L I t i a I y J I i J J toE vrr 4 l It 1 JZt i ef f r tt E a L 0 r r a o V t 7i t r t j t a rl ti I 1 i i 3 j 4fj I 1 1 f > r a rii J to I o J7 bl tv J = h ilj I i r i < ft A r f 1 f i 1 If > C r V lt ft 1 t or 0 + lr 11 t h h 1 P1 taCr ri 1 J Vrlir lrtA t 4 Lt 41MdeZt 2 l f < < l t Jff1 S > 1f 1 i f i t t 3 J + bJil 1 1 t Tv r lry t 1 17 + r1 r v4r j94It ry t > JY t t 1 tiPI rirZi l A h r lrlr fr ivllfTllt C ndCf i M f1lf T i t t 1 W H iltr C M tSr O + iltral r rY t 1 4 t al 11f j t11t J 1l r 1 JJtt M T1 t i5a Jwj IJ J e i j n i frr r t t 1 2 r jq iJA lt 1 tr J as1L II4UirJi t JF 1 P hi 14f + Y P P JEI J11 I a wi l r4 rn to 4 Sr 1 j r6 1 I yo I 2 i 1 r 1 i f j T jo 1 e A Iii rt 4 fm 011 I it 3 a < l Qi A iI r I i J I l + Wj llig i 7 t t W14 > J I h r le ft IJ 1 1 Jf l r J f 1 fsr l q 6i tf a II re5 l = < 1 co 1 r 1 tfl < k g f F = f ctt t JI1 x If = u J1 > M 00 Wto s I I r r rt ic 1ti1 f t r tfB t t r i r 0 1 j t f pr J d t j t c t ja i f fo tl jJ > j I ry f f or 1t J i t J < IL f iIi J p j t jr fii i OC t J Y4l i i i f j7 + t i 1 oJ t A Z j J a ot s A f Ur Jff 7 rM r uz o l a 6 f j 11 It I t 1 1irt It i r ri tY JI f i f s oJ ltt L > tl 4 Y1 I 1 Y i 1 i1 r i 1t T 4 I1 rr J t < 1r j j r r > l < 1J < j 1 > ij I J o ttl p l i 7 f I J > r HH 1 0 j srl5d > t r1 l 4 y rJ J1 rJ It f f > t fi J V llihLirWX42 I Iltj1 i I rt l r Q t Y lJi 1IJ 1 1Si rJ h Ctt J I a 1i t t f f 7JJfi i J t 0 vArr = r I ro ii 1 I t i J I r2 = i1o f 5 > U r 1 Ilri 21 ti W ect q It we A = j rtIJ ir t r 4 1 1t t 1 i Works r 1 I 61 There considerable width toth contact metamorphism at UIO Junction ofthe lime and monzonlte which rung approximately ondwest but thla contact Las been productive of little pay ore What there Is of It consists chiefly of < lead carbonate and galena running well In silver There are three systems fissurlngtlu the lower basin I monzonite and along this flssurlng1 an area of a half mile i square the famous depositsof copper pyrites occur The predominant system of fissurIng Is cast and west following tho linoof the faulting which produced the sharp quartzite and lime bluffs to the north and this system seems to bo thomost productive The Blackbird working shafts arc lo quantities of gypsum and quartz whloK TT last are always found in close ossocla + Lion with the ore Generally the oro Is deposited In the fntcrstlces of tho mass of crushed wall a rock filling the fissure and cementing 44 the mass together Near the surface the pyrites have been leached away from the gangue and the angular cavities cavi-ties are seen coated with very perfect quartz crystals The pyrites come clog to the surface and there is slight secondary sec-ondary enrichment of the deeper ores The Belmont shaft at the Blackbird will be continued down to a depth of 500 feet at least and prospecting pushed at every level to tho ledge The same pro gramme will be folloxscd for the older shaft and the operations at tho mine pushed with all possible speed Theoutlook the property Jser cecdlngly good III I n t S r t + r 1 i > f 1 I J r L tt Jt L + rl Ytf 9 J J 1 + 1 + ar J r i K J t t R r r l r I y Yfltlrt t t L 1 1 t 1 t I lf i I J 1 r 3 0 ra vb hrr lJ + lrt Y > r tr44 IN7 + I g t Jhl f J > t T t + t r 2 1 r i fr J 1 7 t t r 1 r I a r 1 ht1J 15 ti f J 4r w t t t Id + + 1 i + ll w w 1 Q J J Jra < y 1 + 1j j 1 tt t St tt J M typ I 1 YII r V t 11 f l J s 1 j r Ljj Looking Toward HarringtonHickory Mines From Copper King t View Looking West Over Blackbird Property From New Sha thousai 10 t c + 4 i tWJitm + fmu l rt1itm U t t tt I 1 t t t t 1 ttm M tJ t t m t t MMM t H tt U t tH t t t t to t J u + I j h t I tIt + tt + Ill + JUU + f rbfc