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Show ID BELCHER MI TO BE DEVELOPED i Eh-. A. Broadbeck An-nounces An-nounces Securing of Option Op-tion on Property. Speedy development of the. Dupv' property of the old Belcher Mining company com-pany la indicated in an annotmcement made yesterday by Dr. A. Brodbeck, a veteran mining man of Salt Lake, who stated that he had secured a t11" year?f lease on the pround, with the option ol purchase at the expiration of the leae, and would procee-1 at once to install a plant for treatment of the ores. The BeJcber group, comprising three patented claims, is situated m tne Lu-wav Lu-wav mountains, west seventy-one miie from Tooele, the shipping point. rhere Is a good auto road, with no dlftot grades, all of the way. and Dr. Brodbeck plans to have all of his hauling done by I auto trucks. . A ! The development at the property con-i con-i .... .. nn tout nf tunnel sjhls, in ine rim in, -m -v , lately driven that has already cut ine main vein, forty feet wide, that can be traced on the surface for 300 feet Dr Brodbeck says there are at least 130.001) tons of ore In sisht, with hlfrh Jcom.n2er" cih.1 values In copper, silver and gold, a conservative estimate placing the copper content at from 6 to 7 per cent, while 4U per cent copper, with as -high as lo" ounces in silver, lias leen fovrml in some of the small veins, that, fanlike, branch out from the priclpfU ore body. Dr Brodbeck said that he was preparing prepar-ing to install immediately a Forrester erinder and a Dvkes concentrating plant, to have a capacity of about fifty tons per day and to go into commission within stxty davs at the outside. He added that plenty of water at the millslte could be secured by sinking a shallow well, while water for culinary purposes could be obtained ob-tained only a short distance farther away. |