Show OLD DYER mm MINE SOLD the mines of the uintah copper summit lt company have been purchased by james C oates gates work will begin this month the old dyer mine has changed hands again and the best part of it is IB that a force of prospectors pros will be put to work june prospecting the property for another pocket of copper mr gates of milwaukee who at one time purchased the old dyer mine at auction here in vernal for has again agai n secured the interests of the stockholders who have kept the mine closed down for a number of years ile he writes to nate hunting the watchman at the mine mine and anda smelter that he is again in control ard and proposes to open up another pocket of copper and put life into the old deserted camps at both mine and smelter lie he still has faith that this property is not worked out and in this opinion he ts Is not alone as nearly every practical miner who ever worked there is satisfied that there are more and even larger deposits of the rich copper ore in that hill it is 13 a well known fact that over carloads of ore were shipped from this thia mine that averaged 50 60 per cent copper hauled by wagon a distance ot ol 95 miles to carter station on the union pacific and then paying a handsome dividend later after the smelter was awit coke was freighted in from that point over a rough mountain road with which to operate the smelter it is also a well known f fact act that this mine has paid in dividends something over when the last pocket of copper was waa worked out and a little scratching around failed to uncover another pocket atthe the mine was shut down even then the ore was so rich that the old dumps were sorted over and enough float picked up on the side bide of the mountain below to make another smelter run now copper mines are worked at a profit that average from five to ten per cent copper the dyer hill has only been penetrated a few hundred feet which would only be termed surface workings in borne of the big mm min r iba camps where ore is 13 taken from hundreds reds and even thousands of feet beneath the surface alys A ill be good news to the people 10 ill who still have faith in there being a mine there arid and can not credit the story atory that the mine is worked out already they believe that a little intelligent tell igent prospecting instead of so much theory by practical miners who have lived and worked in the mines of this thia state all their lives will open up other pockets and bodies of just as rich ore as aa was ever taken from this property i |