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Show JANET COPPER iT" GETTKH ORE Big Property in Brown's Park Has High-Grade in Volume. William O'N'eil of Roosevelt, one of the pioneer raining men of the region known as Brown's park, located in the north-rust north-rust part of Uintah county, is in the city for a few days on mining business. "Mr. O'Xeil is general manager of the Janet Copper Mining & Mllllne company, a corporation with extensive holdings In that district, the company controlling thirty-two claims. s Mr. O'N'eil said that approximately 1000 feet of development work had been done on this ground and that even now a large tonnage of high-grade ore had been proved and that ore was now belnj talcen from two different places on tne pron-ertv. pron-ertv. The values obtained are exceptionaJ-ly exceptionaJ-ly good, as a shipment of two cars of ore carrying 32 per cent copper and twenty-two twenty-two ounces of silver per ton. according to assay tests made on what is believed to be average samples, show. The general manager added that this rich copper ore, with its high silver content, con-tent, was by no means the sole source of revenue on the property of the Janet companv, as there is also a larfre deposit of metallic manganese, much of which runs as high as 54 per cent, that is awaiting await-ing development. J. Thomas Fitch of Helper is president of the Janet company and some of the prominent mining men of the state are : associated In the enterprise. Onlv the distance from the railroad, the property being fifty-five miles south of Rock Springs. YS'yo.. stands in the way of immediate development of one of the biggest mines in the state, but, in the opinion of Mr. O'N'eil and many others who are interested, this obstacle will be overcome in a comparatively short time, as it Is held a necessity that opportunity for adequate transportation facilities will be given the residents of this section of - the state. |