Show OGDEN MAN FINDS FORTUNE IN NEVADA C. C W. W Clapp Said to Control Largest Zinc Lead-Zinc Mine in World MILLIONS OF ORE IN SIGHT Nevada ula Comm m eat i m I Properly m i Remit to tu Be BC Great Croat Producer Tl Tb Said An Ogden resident C. C W. W Clapp Is said to Lo own the thc largest zinc lead-zinc mine In the world The Tho property Is la located a tew few miles south of or Reno fieno Nevada Ne and amid was formerly known as ns tile Willow Wil low Creek Creck mine Mr MI Clapp has Just returned from a n visit to the worl workings and nd tells the Ogden Stant Standard ard an nn In Interesting interesting In- In stor story of ot the properties which vere wrt at one owned b by Governor Stevenson of ot Nevada On July 3 of or last year t ar Clapp Clap secured an option on the mines and on the st of or the thc same game month closed the neal deal Then thc mines became known as the Nevada Neda Commonwealth properties properties prop prop- and shares of or stock I were placed on the marl market ct at 5 cents a share b by I. I W. W Dumm and C. C T. T Lindley brokers of oC Kansas CIl City Mo Io The Thc original capitalization was shares of a par value of ot 1 By April 30 shares of ot stock had been ben sold old at five cents a ashare share and when on May Ia 1 the stock wits was withdrawn from the market 60 60 1 of It had been over It 1 now K quoted at 20 21 cents i At the time of the purchase of or the thc mines the workings extended feet with worth of or lead silver gold arsenic and zinc In sight says the Standard The Thc first tests of or orthe the ore made by the Western Ore Pu Purchasing company compan were unsatisfactory factory but later Mr Ir Clapp sent I samples of tho ore to the tho American I Concentrating company compan at Joplin Mo and received very flattering reports G p pOre Ore Capacity 4 A 2 ton t n mill IJ now operating 0 on Limo tho property Is to bo be Increased to tons Ore and concentrates arc now being being- shipped to the Lanyon Zinc company compan at lola Iola Kans and to the Empire Umpire Zinc company compan at Gas Kan Kan- sas There ar are now In sl sight ht tons of ore yielding from 12 I to 15 If a ton In lead leml silver and amI zinc with a good snowing showing In arsenic Drifting along the main ore bod body for about feet revealed a vein oln of oC ore from Crom 12 to 40 0 feet In width The Thc low grade ore Is concentrated by br running through h a Blake crusher Cornish rolls Impact screens submerged sieve gigs and over o Ford tables t I Two of ot the largest stockholders In Inthe Inthe inthe the Nevada Commonwealth mines live In iii Ogden The They are S. S S. S Smith and Horace Holt Foster who own shares each Mr 11 Clapp Is tho the heaviest stockholder stockholder stockholder stock stock- holder In the property and at nt tho the present market price of or the thc stock could realize a fortune of ot large largo pro pro- portions His Ills son Holla Rolla Is In charge I of or the thc fifty men at the camp during Mr Ir Clapps Clapp's absence CHERRY CREEK AS S GOLD CAMP C. Simos Shu Showing hI lug lugUI Up UI as High h Graders Rich strikes and numerous shipments ship ship- m ments of ot high grade ore ble rail rapidly Idly verifying yen veri tying ing the thc claims o of that tho the Cherry Cherr Creek Creele district will wilt yet el rank I high among the time gol gold camps of ur Nevada Among the mines showing up Ur extremely extremely ex ex- well vell are arc the Nevada Hartford-Nevada and the Joanna Juanna The Joanna recently made mad a shipment of or about five t tons ns to the Taylor laylor sampling works at Murray furra which was uvas sold to the American melting Refining company compan at a price which netted per ton Other o of the same grade of ot ore are arc to lo be he made In the near future The Joanna I Is being hein developed h by bya a crosscut cut tunnel turine which Is now In feet teet and has cut three strong veins on two of which levels have been driven from the tunnel 1 to the length th of ot about sixty feet disclosing lar large e bodies oCoro of oC oro ore from two to four fout feet reet In width and carrying values ranging from fromn 25 per ton to lo Between Veins eins number one and two the tunnel ha has cut a large bod body of ot low grade ore oro carrying values from 5 to lo 12 per ton A largo large milling mill In ing plant will vill be e required to handle this low grade output and amI the company company com com- pany will continue to ship the very rich ore to the smelter UTAH MINE Loom LOOKS WELL Strike ou on th SL Level May c Pro Y Important That the Ulah Utah r mine ine at Fish Springs Is looking better than ever over before in is tho the word brought by Charles Crismon Its IU former superintendent who has Just returned from rom a visit to the tho prop prop- erty A new ore shoot W was ws 8 encountered encounter encounter- ed Int week weck on the sixth level and although Its Ils extent had not been determined de tIe- when Mr 11 l left ft the theore theore theore ore was of good quality and anti It was believed that It might be a strike of some somo Importance The fhe last chr car of ot otoro oro uro sent ent out h by tho mine which was wa as marketed within two weeks week brought the nice sum aum of ot 56 7 The Tho loading of lr Ii another car was completed yesterday yesterday yester yester- day and teams to convey ore to the railroad for still another car are on he Iho way |