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Show MIMES HIGH COPPER ODE 1ST CflSTLETDN James McWilliams Reports Values of 38 Per Cent for Shipment. James McWilliams, a veteran mine operator op-erator of Moab. with numerous holdings in Grand county, the Uintah basin, also with some large interests in Idaho, who lias been in the city for several days, said yesterday that he would soon have a car of high-grade copper ore from his Grand View claims Nos. I and 2. The property, he said, is located three miles out of Castleton, at the west end of the La Sal mountains, and has been developed devel-oped only near the surface, the deepest workings being but 100 feet. The ore, said the owner, is found in a vein five feet wide that carries average values of 17 per cent copper, with a little silver, but by sorting an exceptionally high-grade value Is obtained. "The ore that my miners are now taking out for shipment," said Mr. McWilliams, "will average 3S per cent copper and 1.41 ounces in silver. I am working all the men it is possible for me to obtain and expect to have the shipment of a full car at the smelter before the 10th of next month' Mr. McWilliams said that he also held control of a group of high-grade manganese manga-nese claims south of Thompson and lying in close proximity to the Needles Manganese Manga-nese company. He is also interested to the extent of holding the control, he reported, re-ported, in 3000 acres of oil sand territory, terri-tory, lying twelve miles from the rail-nuid. rail-nuid. out of Crescent. This sand, said Mr. McWilliams, Is shown by government tests to yield twenty-nine gallons of oil to the ton. and the owner expects to see the project actively developed within a short time. The veteran mining man added that he was extensively interested in numerous other properties, both in Utah and Idaho, but said that under existing labor conditions con-ditions it would be impossible to state with deflniteness when he and his associates asso-ciates would be able to develop their holdings. |