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Show STUDIES SKTONE COPPEIJEPflSITS Local Consulting Engineer Visits Southeastern Utah for Bureau of Mines. Samuel S. A rents, consulting enginocr, has returned! from a trip of two weeks in southeastern Utah in the interest of tho United States bureau of mines, his mission being to investigate the sand-Htono sand-Htono copper deposits of that interesting region. , Tho country visited' extends from Court House Springs in Grand county southeast to Lisbon, vallcv, a distance o about seventy miles. Thcso'deposits wero found to cover a largo area, but to bo very superficial. Genorous sani- Eles were brought back and turned over 0 tho bureau of mines branch at tho University of Utah for experiment and Btudy. Air. Arentz says thoro aro two groups of claims on theso copper dopos-its dopos-its on which thero has beon somo development, devel-opment, the Big Indian, twolvo miles from La Sal, ana tho Burlington, twon-tj'-two miles below that place. Air, Arentz says thore is great activity activ-ity all ovor that section in locating, developing de-veloping and mining carnotito ores. IIo says tho operations of James L. Wade of'Moab and the company of which ho is the head, has already "been of groat bouefit to the people of that region, and that apparonti' greator things in that lino aro yet in store. Thoso ores aro found to "bo widely distributed' in that part of the state and in spito of tho activity of recent months the rogion has as yet "bcon only very imperfectly pros-poc'tod. pros-poc'tod. Speaking of roads, Mr. Arentz aaya that following the Grand river from !Moab to Dewey is remarkably beautiful and picturesquo and should by all means bo mado a part of tho ocoan-to-occan highway. |