Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-12-24 | Page 9 | Strike Announced in Hughes Property

STRIKE ANNOUNCED IN HUGHES PROPERTY I Engineer Todd Receives Word of Important Im-portant Developments at' Chloride, Arizona. A big ore strike has been maTe tn the Hn-hes Arizona copper properties at Chloride, Ariz., according to word received re-ceived by r. S. G. T-dd, enyineer of the j company, ivho is now in t he city. ! Mr. Told rice, arcs the discovery of the lore body was predicted by several ensi- veers at 1 Le : i ire the corr.pa n- s :t rlf-d i to drive :ts tunrcl nloncy tie vein. Sur- ! face diggings indicated an oj-e shoot of b.ih vaP;es in copter and ll'e engineers caieidated that it sh.oulil be ream.'. -ien the tunnel bad been bored almijt 3ml feet. Their calculations were ful;i!!ed almost to the foot, s.iid Mr. Todd. John R. HiiLrnes. presidfit of the company, com-pany, has mapped out the dvclpmnt of i the mine and arrange I wit.i ;;ie Cordi-j Cordi-j nental tjecuri :ies , In vrst merit com pit nv ', of Salt I.ake Cit v to f::.ance it. Work ! w.U be nns'aed witli all s-'re.J, n.'ia:es , M r. TchLI. It is Wdived ihat the mine I will be in shape to bcL.-:n sidm-ins; ! as soon as tl;e mills n.-w bf-ir1 j erected 'at Chloride are I:: a position to tike care j of the ore. Shipm-nts wil: probab'v Ve I heavy when they Mart, according to" Mr. I Ti;J. as the ore body .psst l.ud" open is jot" 1 a ri; e m ?.e and t i i e n: : n e Is wed s ; I -j uated for rc.:;ck tra nspon.i : :on of t::e ore.