Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-05-31 | Page 14 | Big Find Reported at Western Utah

I FIND REPORTED IT WESTERN UTAH important Discovery Made in Deepest Workings of Property. I Another big ore discovery In the Gold Ilill-Clifton mining district has been iLade In the property of the Western Utah Copper company, according to re-Hi re-Hi forts which Is further proof that deep lining operations promise greater re-l.-ards than the. shallow work that has larked tho district in (he past. The litest dlscovei-v has been made m tho fcepest workings of the Western Utah roperty, though the depth gained Is sill iv above the elevation of tho ground t-atcr level of the district where it is xne'eted the most persistent bodies and etter grades of ore will he found. The re body was entered Sunday and addj-onal addj-onal work has disclosed a width of ten et with the walls being found to be trther opart as additional depth Is ttnod. Some of the ore is copper glance, hieh Is one of the highest grades of ipper ore, carrying a high percentage or le metal. The discovery promises to ut the property to the prominent posi-on posi-on It occupied as a heavy producer and llpper last year. fecbrding to the annual report of the v'estern Utah Copper company for the list fiscal year, shipments were begun i March last year, and totaled 32,022 ns which yielded 1,710,981 pounds of ppper, 371,418 pounds of lead, 150,767 mens silver and 70 ounces gold. Dur-IliE Dur-IliE tho period covered by tho report the ilompany expended $47,5111 for equipment, itmildatod an Indebtedness of approximately approxi-mately $10,000, and declared a dividend of lVA cents a share, representing a dis-J!lirsement dis-J!lirsement of about $37,000, tho company if dug Incorporated for 500,000 shares. Previous to tho Inauguration of ship-Ill ship-Ill icnts tho principal mine of the com-iany com-iany was estimated to have 200,000 tons I I' ore doveloped, but a considerable por-l por-l on of the main copper ore body proved IJ he too low in grade to he shipped. II tnco that fact was discovered the rate HI' production and shipments have been l'Wer, while more attention has been (liven to exploration of tho undeveloped i jirtlons of the property, which havo Ill-omlsed good results for some time past. : ho company is giving employment to iHitween thirtv and forty men, and ship-tiling ship-tiling at the rate of ono small carload of II e a dav. 1 In addition to the principal mine, situ-Ill situ-Ill ed about one mile east of the Gold Hill IB wnslte, the company owns the Cala-',iras Cala-',iras group, about two miles south of lij wn, and a number of scattered claims, Jl of which are patented, and formed a lljirtlon of the holdings of the late IMWonol J. F. Woodman, tho remainder of s holdings now being owned by the i oodmun Mining company. Most of tho IIJ her claims of the Western Utah have luien the source of some production, and IN me of them are counted as among the liost promising in the district. Gold Hill landard.