Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-12-30 | Page 51 | Peruvian Copper to Resume in Spring

PEHII COPPER 10 ' RESUMEJN SPRINGj Vigorous Development to Be Undertaken Coming Year at Property. Activities- at the Peruvian Copper property in the Alta district have been suspended until spring, according to an announcement made vesferdav by Man-i Man-i ag-er K. C. Miller. ' Hans have been ! outlined, however, to inaugurate a yig-i yig-i orous development campaign, during I the coming var with a view to plae-1 plae-1 ing the property on the list of steady producers in the distriet. i The work during the year was ear-i ear-i ricd on through the Ked Dump tunnel : with .1 view to penetrating tho Klva j ore hodv at depth, but in the course of the -tofk a body of carbonate ore was ' cut which has developed from a seven-I seven-I foot tace of ore to a width of thirty j feet. ; The ore carries values ranging from lo to Id jter cent lead, five to six ounces silver and around sj-il.SO in gold, according to smelter returns on -ship- meats mido during the year. I The property adjoins the Oxford and Geneva mines, which yielded heavy rc- t turns in the early days of the camp, j! is t; cut these (insures at depth that the tunnel is being extended. During t lie year the company was j reorganized and the capitalization was J 1 increased to make possible the develop devel-op in cut ca mpa ign out 1 i ned. fh i patents have been made intermittently, the production being handicapped by smelter smel-ter and railroad embargoes aud the shortage of ears. For several months the mine was in shape to produce about two cars of ore' a week but because of the handicaps it averaged little betYer than a car a month.