Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-30 | Page 10 | Sees Big Future for La Sal Region

SEES BIG FUTURE FOR LI SKL REGiOiM I James McWilliams Is Developing- High-grade Copper Cop-per Property. JaiiiM M.:Wllh:unH. veteran pr-.spi" t .,r and mining man of Moab, wlio h;is bM-n ative In mining dn.-k-s or. Colorado anJ U't,th ox or mIim-o tlift early da va of .fiul- J in tliu fil y for :l few days on nushit-.s", Inlnlii'.: with dim i-onie san:-ples san:-ples of I In; or 3 from his holdini::-. in the La Sal flihli-h-l. Whirl, lit- .-olifl'i'titiv' ,o-Uc-vch v. 111 ooli b.-.ome nti.: of tin: r'at-L'.-t uiiiJ bp'H known hi (in- i nniiirv-. Mr. M'-Willlams hiif.l I bat. I:- h-ld two I'lll rlmiriH, known as th-j Cniri'i Vb-w N.i. 1 and Onin.l b-w No. iiluat. -d In the, west end of I In; J. a. .;tl inoinil.jins. in Grand rotiritv, jn-t i h : j ' y - t-ii 1 1 niib 1 1 of ( A hoi it -f J.'j .'"in w or Mi "f v-nrk has prevlou.'l v hn--n done mi tin; property, ( 1 1 ; Infill nV II. hy former OWli.jrii und largely in I.-h pi ,1 bd. Tho ore. aid Mr. M " II I ia i n". lies virt ually a t i,e mi t fur.:, with tin ."in from n to luoK o t. w ide. 1 Miring tin; p;i M K-a son 1 1 ir p'fson I u w in-r has d'-veluped a laryo loNn.ie of liiu'li-ra.J: copper ore. w il h ;i orae va iin-s of L'G P-r cp nt ropier, S I 0 in Kold and 11 OniifH nllvi-r ..-r ton. It Im Mated hv tbe owner tliat he has fbty tons of this liiKu-rade ore. Marked f'T shipment and nouxh of tin- same chu rue t r.r pruv ed to be able to ;diip at tho rate of onn car per day for months lo cm no. Tho samples, of tho ore are on f-xhlhitinn at t iie Culli-n hotel, wh.-n: Mr. ; Mn Williams Is a Rin-st, a nil have; a t- 1 1 acted much attention among mining men. Tho veteran operator stat.;d that there is an auto road direct from Cisco to the door of his cabin and that'the altitude of IiIh ground Is s.'.inj feet, with an abundance abun-dance of good timber and water. As to activity in the district g.-nerall Mr. Mi-Williams said that tho prevalence of the influenza had had a deterrent effect, ef-fect, for the past few weeks, but that. C. j S. Shaw was mining uranium ore of the highest giade uu a properly located slx-j slx-j tueu miles from the Grand View, and that t here w via scores of oppor t un it bs i'T dev.;lopuient or unusually ricli copper, cop-per, gold and silver as w eli as exceptionally excep-tionally rich deposits of uranium and I kindred rate metals.