Deseret Evening News | 1897-10-13 | Page 5 | Copper Helt Discovered

Cnppcr licit llle en creel A I dispatch from nawllns Wyoming says there Is I considerable excitement among tit in Ing men In that vicinity over the discovery of a copper belts situated about t belt-s mites northeast of the gold min 08 In the Semlnoe minIng district and home ten miles north of IlItwllll lip to the present time two Shafts have hon small to a depth of forty feet exposing a four foot vein otJ copr and a small amount of gold The formaUon of the country Is I granite porphyry anti limo An old abandoned shaft over 200 feet deep was also discovered near by with several I nballdonp1 find ruined cabins und mining Implements which would Indicate that the I owners had been driven off bv the Indiana or masSacred masSa-cred long before the Settlement of the country