Show PROF WEBER VE EDER ER LIKES PROPERTY Finds Prospect of Valuable Mine at Promontory Point IS lS IN BLANKET FORMATiON FORMATION I Mineralized Zone About Sixty Feet Thick Lies Near Surface ol J. J H. H Weber the geologist and a mining expert of national reputation tation who is visiting his brothers William and Lewis Weber oher of Ogden has lias made two trips to lo the property properly o ohe of he the Lakeside Copper company on Promontory Point within the Iho last ten tenda da lays s 's with results most encouraging to o the tho stockholders lers of that company On the lie seco second of these theRo trips tho ho greater part pait of three days was vas given s1 to o a moro more thorough examination of or tho tim property or ty Tho The mineralized zone Is In blanket forma formation lion according diu ding to Professor r U report on the lie property Jn Ln fact act the entire district comprising ing Point is made of or up a sedimentary deposit The Thc mineralized mineralized mineral- mineral zed zone is about 60 feet In thickness lying ying In very cry near nem the thc surface perhaps ot lOt mote more than ten to xi GO feeL ceL The hc abrupt declivity lly towards the till lal lake o on the he 10 west vest and northwest exposes here nu and nd there here th ore oro which Is deposited regularly irregularly throughout hout a wide extent of tho the blanket et vein eln T The Tle e copper was dc deposited by precipitation from waters that were brought from a distance durin during a remote period The rue distinct cause of the precipitation in jn this lo locality Jo- Jo was the presence of or large quantities of vegetable matter As tho the vegetable matter was more prolific In some places than in others the copper Is to be bc found more or less In separated separ separ- atod beds There are some conditions on the surface indicating the locality of thc these e deposits deposit The highly mineralized mineralized mineral mineral- bcd character of or the quartzite exp exposures ex ex- p rc as s well a as the tho o configuration OL ot tOO may ue oc a as s guides Indications of Copper Glance The abundance and character of the tho there there O Ore re s and the high grade Jrade q quality of them in places aro are Indicative indicative indica Indica- tive lye of lar large e deposits of or copper glance which assa assays s 's 79 S 10 per cent With the he uncovering of oC these deposits there theres i is s great promise of a mine nillie of or this high g grade Jrade rade ore A carload at present prices will vili net eight to ten thousand dollars It Is all but a certainty that the these e. e c copper opper beds are to be he found foun In the oro z zone one covered ered b by tho claims of the Lakeside Copper company and tho the chances nances are arc as ns seven en or eight of or ten of f opening up a great mine On these grounds tho the properly pan can an anbe be bo said lo to bo be only a prospect but the professor M does docs not nol he hesitate to say a that It t Is one prospect out of a thousand Professor Weber eber has made valuable sug to the thc managers as to the most economical methods of de clop meat nent amon among them being the tho Important Import Import- ant suS suggestion estion of or using the thc common churn hurn drill Instead of sinking shafts shaHs a method which is comin coming into quite general use uie In formations of oC this character such as that at Ely and other places The rhe cost of shaft shan work b being I g about 10 to 12 l a foot while the he the churn drill will probe the tho ground at a cost of less than 1 a foot fool This suggestion ug alone ma may bo be worth several thousand dollars to the Company In its U development work Other experts discouraged discouraged dis dis- tho the use of the drill Quarrying ag Operations Possible The cost of development will hevery bo he bovery cr very low 10 compared to tu tho the outlay usually necessary y In iii pro prospecting and opening mining properties The Time nearness near nets ness of or the time blanket formation to the the elo close o proximity or of th the railroad th tho short haul to the smelter and the time fact that tho tim formation tills flU S about l i 15 degrees so that the thu extrac Ion tion of the OLe ote can be carried on b by quarrying and handled b by gravitation I Iare aro are facts which assure economy conomy In ir 1 operating Indeed it would be L lo to find anywhere In the country all nil tl the conditions so favorable to bolh boti I economy of or developing a n prospect ant and 1 of operating amine 1 Professor Weber declares it to be he r n I property of oC great promise und and is per pel personally personally much interested in its ILs future U Ho sa says that but two properties In this thi S Spart part of uC the countr country have ha exacted o ol oi f him any special Interest t. t rhe They arc th Copper Mountain property properly on the tim Nevada Nc line and the Lakeside |