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Show XEW COPPER DISTPaC'T. O. B. Nay Describes it in Southwestern Utah. Correspondence Tribune. Cedar City, May 18. In reading your valuable paper, I find that you take great interest in mining matters, and I think you will be pleased to learn something of an important belt of very high grade of copper ore which I have visited a few days ago. This belt is in the Southeast corner of our State, and at the head of the west branch of Beaver Dam creek. Some of our leading citizens, Woolley, Lund and Judd, Anthony Tvins, Mr. Dodge and others have mined here for gold and silver for years, but the copper cop-per belt has only lately attracted attention. at-tention. On the 10th inst., I, together with several others, visited and prospected pros-pected this copper belt, and found a large quantity of high-grade, gray copper that carries gold and silver. Some assays go as high as 5(i per cent copper and $28 in gold. In a few days I will return to this loeallity with men and outfit,' and develop this section of country. The copper belt lies between dolomite dolo-mite lime and prophyritic granite, which is a very promising formation. Yours truly, O. B. NAY. |
