Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-02-28 | Page 10 | Lucky Deposit Has Good Copper Values

LUCKY DEPOSIT HAS. GOOD COPPER VALUES Salt Lakers Busy Developing Promising Property Just Over State Line. Out in tho desert hills ol! tho eastern part of White Pino county, Novada, twenty miles or so from tho Utah state line, ia tho Luclcy Deposit mining prop-ort', prop-ort', owned by L. G. Hardy oi! this city, and associates. They have been working thero for a year ami last summor shipped five carloads car-loads o silver-lead oro that yielded returns of $5100. but tho fifty-mile wagon haul to Currio on tho 2sovatla .Northern was too expensive and that part of tho proposition was abandoned, although tho oro was not by any means exhausted. Mr. Tmrciy says, however, that at an oxponse of about $3000 a road could be built that would, reach tho railroad in sovontoou miles. At anothor location on tho property is a twenty-two-foot vein of copper which at tho surface assayed -1 per cont. Four months ao thoy bogan development de-velopment work horo ny a tunnel cross-cutting cross-cutting the vein in its dip. This was carried iu fifty-fivo feet, then a winslc was sunk thirty-four fcotj and from tho bottom of tho winze- a drift on the vein has now progressed teu iject. Tho vein dips at an anglo of thirty degrees and all those workings aro in oro assays of which, at a depth from tho surfaco of sixty feet, run as high as 15 per cent copper. The vein rests 011 a bed of quartzito over 1000 feet thick aud is overlain by tho bluo lime. Tho tunnol is entiroly m a carbonate ore, but at a dopth. of three, feet in the winze the sulphide was struck aud the rest of the work is in oro oC that class. Tho property embraces em-braces 3600 foot on tho strike of the vein and tho owners feel that thoy have something that will dovelop into a big property. The ore is said to pos-Eess pos-Eess excellent concentrating qualities.