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Show DEEP GREEK MIKES PUSH DEVELOPMENT Western Utah Copper Maintains Main-tains Position as District's Leading Shipper. PRODUCTION GROWS High Grade Ores Accumulate Accumu-late at Copperopolis and Garrison Monster. Special to The Tribune. GOLD HILL, Deo. 1. Shipments from the Western I'tah Copper mines are bein made at the rate of 125 tons of copper ore and seventy-five tons of lead-silver ore a day. Deep exploration work bein carried on in the property is bringing good results. Work was recently started by Frank Levee, a Copper Mountain mine opera-, tor,on the Napoleon company holdings, half a mile north from town. With eight men employed, he has produced a carload of 7 to S per cent copper ore in about ten days, and is developing show-; ins ot' copper and lead-silver ores at j several places. A wuize is being sunk j from the main tunnel where a five-foot i ore bodv was opened with little work. Indications at the place are that a persistent per-sistent shoot of ore will be developed with depth. A highly mineralized ore body has been penetrated for more than thirty feet by the west drift from No. 1 tunnel of the Pole Star Copper company, and the deepest working in the property. The character of the formations oeing explored is different from any previously previous-ly found, but is regarded as favorable ior ore. Drifting to the north and to the south has been started to prospect for shoots of shipping grade ore that are expected to be found. Some fairly good ore has been opened in the west drift from the 130 level of the Victor shaft, though no attempt at production is to be made at present, as the ore dips downward toward the shaft in which work of sinking is under way. The management plans to gain a depth of 2j0 feet before doing anv lateral prospecting, pros-pecting, unless an ore body is encountered. encoun-tered. Monocco Is Active. Near Clifton operations at the Monocco Mo-nocco mine, on which C. M. Davis and Joseph Kimball have a lease, have resulted re-sulted in three carloads of copper ore being extracted and shipped to the smelter smel-ter in' seven weeks after work was begun. be-gun. The first carload was settled for on the basis of lO.b'7 per cent copper content, and brought the lessees approximately ap-proximately $1000. The later shipments are cxpeoted to average about the same, though they should bring larget net returns, re-turns, as the cars were Ioated nearer to capacity. The original force of three men has been increased to eight, and development work has exposed fully as muh ore as ha been mined. At the Copperopolis mine of the Bam-berger-Diinyon interests, a large amount of ore is being accumulated on the flumps, as it was planned to begin ship-meuts ship-meuts this week at the rate oi fifteen tons a day. But the auto truck that as due here a week apo to haul the ore has not arrived. As much of the i ore found in this mine wiil bring $200 to $300 a ton at prevailing metal prices, the company could make a record shipment ship-ment if the management so desired, but it is probable the grade will be kept down bv mixing high and low-grade ures. The last carload sent out bv the company netted $2000. Covellite Discovered. At the Western Utah Extension property prop-erty good pay ore is being found in four or five workings. A shaft is going down close to the "glory hole'' of the lig shipper controlled ' by the Mac-Vichir-Smoot interests, and not. far from the Copperopolis. The object of the shaft is to develop extensions of ore-brarinrr ore-brarinrr fissures that are productive in the adjoining property, and to prospect for other ore deposits. The haft is nearly 1 00 feet duep, and indications are it may be in ore at that point. Copper Cop-per ore in tiie form of ovo!lite was discovered this week in No. 1 tunnel in Helmet hill, the ore bo'y showing two to thre t'ct wide. In No. 2 tunnel on th same vein but en the opposite side of the hill, ore carrying car-rying up to 7.7 per fnt copper and 8 unn-'cs silver to the ton is being mined. The ore lias been persistent for more than 2f,0 foet in No. 2 tunnel, and as No. 1 tunnr! is being driven toward the same part of the vein at an elevation 123 i'cM lower, the finding of better and wider ore is anticipated when the lower tunnel is extended to reach the downward down-ward extension of the shoot. From a shaft on the Silver Tip claim lead-silver ore is being mined, and the company has let a contract for 100 feet of sinking. sink-ing. The contractor who is sinking the Moonlight No. 4 shaft of the Deep Creek ' Copper King company stated Thursday that some copper ore is being be-ing found at the depth of thirty-five feet. His contract calls for doing 100 feet of sinking, the measurement to begin eighteen feet from tho surface. He is confident he will be working in ore before finishing. New Ore at Frankie. Another shipment of a carload of copper ore from the Frankie mine of the Woodman Mining company went out over the railroad this week. At that mine ore is being found in abundance in old and new workings. A winze is being sunk from the main tunnel and practically all the material extracted is ore of a shipping grade. Nino men are employed, and the management plans to keep a force of this size through the winter to systematically develop the mine. After the second shipment of copper ore mined from the Silver King was sent to the smelter operations were suspended sus-pended for the winter, but will be resumed re-sumed on a larger scale next spring. The mine adjoins the Monocco, near Clifton, and the ore is similar in character charac-ter though carrying more silver. ! In the Dutch mountain part of the district the Garrison Monster company: is producing from two of its mines ! the porphyry incline and the Uncle Sam. j A carload from each arrived a lev. days ; ago at the smelter and another lot from j each is being hauled. The ore carries j lead and silver, that from the Uncle i I Sam being high-grade galena with j enough silver to make it worth $100 a ! ton and better. According to J. P. i Gardner of Salt Lake, president of the i company, a large tonnage is prepared for rapid extraction and it is planned j to maintain regularity of shipments.! Ten men are on the pay rolls and more ' are to be added as soon as they can be j obtained. " j |