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Show 10 iW STRIKE MADE if" WILBCITli Four Men During August Take 150 Tons From 165-foot Trench. 1 To have fnur men mine nnd et ready for shipment during the month of Au-; Au-; ' s.iat 130 tons of ore that averages 69 , ounces of silver. 4 per cent in copper and f2 in pold to the ton is the record of the recent strike made at grass roots on the property of the Great Desert Copper Cop-per company, located on Wildcat mountain, moun-tain, nineteen miles south of Clive, Utah, on the -Western Pacific railroad. Chief Justice W. M. McCarty of the supreme court, L. M. Morrison and General Manager Man-ager J. M. Hamilton returned from the nrospect vesterduv after having- spent the , - cT-afn- portion of Sunday in going over th- irrounrt. Both Alanager Hamilton ' and Morvion expressed themselves as highly pleased with the showing made luws far. Clive. Utah, is seventy-three miles from ! Salt I.ake and from the station to the - propertv there is a roadway practically as level as a boulevard. The eight ; .-laims of the company, four of which ; have been patented, are located on a lime mountain cut by porphyry dikes and - Cjuartz fissures. A number of bedding - planes extend in an easterly and west-e:-!v direction and these are cut by a I ;: lime fissure extending In a northerly and ; S'Hithoriv direction. ! : It is from this fissure that the ore was - t.-.ken. The fissure shows for 1200 feet I "in lensth and has been opened up by a ! trench 1G5 feet in length, from which the four men took the 3 5u tons of ore. For futenahr along the 1-00 feet small shafts i have been started showing the ore. The vein in the trench from which the ore ! was taken is three feet In width with a ; well defined wall. A shaft has been I sunk for thirty feet on the vein, which, at that depth, was increasing In width with the ore increasing in values. ! The company plans to install a gasoline hoist and an 'air compressor in the im-; im-; mediate future and active development '; work will be started. The rock is of tsuch a degree of hardness that it makes mlnine with hand steel very slow work. The ore shipments will be sent out im- mediatelv. The Wildcat mountain district Is not " new. Mr. Hamilton having sent Daniel Kartck. the discoverer of the Bull Do- : mingo mine in Custer county, Colorado, Into the district twenty-two years ago for the purpose of making an examination. examina-tion. At that time, though there were manv claims located and much ore taken c.'.t. "trie lack of economical transportation ' facilities held back the district. Another feature of the mining at that time was i!;at the prospectors confined their at-tention at-tention to the bedding planes and did not attempt to prospect the fissures cutting them. In speaking of the property yesterday ; both Mr. Morrison and Mr. Hamilton said that while it was merely a prospect and - i.ould not in its present state of develop-' develop-' !TTnt be viewed as anything else, despite the ore in sight, they were confident that with development it would make a mucb better showing. A number of local people peo-ple are interested In the company. |