Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-05-23 | Page 11 | Native Copper near Ogden

NATIVE COPPER NEAR OGDEN. Discovery Made in Property of the Southern Pacific. Bpecia to The Tribune OGDEN, Utah, May 27 -The Southern Pacific Pa-cific Gold und Copper Mining company, whoso properties arc situated about eight miles north of Ogden, today received word thsl native copper was encountered yesterday In tho new tunnel nt n depth of fifty-eight feet. The discovery is in a erystsJUsod form, but Is sv far from tho surface that It Is regarded re-garded at the genuine native copper and not the result of thu deposition of a hydrous-oxide solution or organic matter, such as is so often the origin of native copper. The man-ng. man-ng. in nt bad exported to .1 r I v . Its tunnel at leaBt NO f'et before encountering values, and thrlr occurrence at a nearer iilnt is regarded os an Indication of a vein v hose presence hud not been suspected, and which Is nooi.' the surface.