| Show DRAPER DISTRICT IS SCENE OF ACTIVITY TY Eastern Capital Enlisted In InI Inthe Inthe the Development of l I Old Properties ON BINGHAM AL ALTA TA ZONE Ely Bell Company Starts Driving Driving Driving ing b 1000 Foot 1000 Foot FootT T Tunnel The Thc Draper mining milting district is Js ex- ex pet dicing som something ot of a boom this tilts 8 season While hUe tills this Is an old district district dis dis- most of oC the valuable properties properties prop prop- have havo been held b by Individuals who located th the ground ro years a ago o and were Inn unable hiI to 0 ral raise e sufficient funds to f develop II it H. The Tho district Is Isrea rea really a part purt of oC the tite Alta AHa district but It was cut off oC from Alta AHa several sc years ears ago ogo and the dividing dl line now is 1 Little Cottonwood canyon canon From Irom present Indications Draper will come conic to the front Cron t. t I Eastern rn parties have taken over o the Great Copper King the tho Verna anti and the New w Virginia properties s and are doing eoens extensive development work They have hn ordered a It compressor and other machinery and nul Intend pushing the lill r King to till the production point The sum Rum of oC 1 1000 will 11 be expensed expended at once In ht equipping the mine with whit up to machinery They are taking nl out splendid ore nt at the pre present enl time 1101 which was recently ol opened tl up in a shaft on the top of the I ledge d ge T They are RIl preparing to drive a lunn tunnel I to lo cut the LIlli ledge at a depth I of 1200 to lo 1500 1501 feet feel C gl Kly lly ISHI Oiling Busy The rhe m Ely Bell Dell Mining company conwan which owns north of nC the C Copper Copper Cop Cop- pJ p- p J per r King I and on the same ledge In InDr Dr Dry Cre Creek lc canyon is also getting hus busy A tunnel is Js heln being driven en to cut tile the led ledge e at about 1000 fe feet t depth It Is Js estimated that the tunnel will have to tobe tobe be ue driven from to feet and it Is believed that as soon sons as the ledge e is cut cul the mine mite will be he a shipper ship ship- per The Ely Bells Bell's property is between the Great Copper King and tor New Nw NewState State Stale which has hos just made a strike In a l tunnel driven about 1500 1510 feet The New Nw Slate is a 1 consolidation of the New State Stat an and Jefferson mines and the thc property properly Is In the Alta AHa mining dis lIR- Just across Little Lit 11 0 C Cottonwood canyon and anti a little lower down Iowa the mountains than the Ely Bell properlY prop prop- I erly erty The Ely Bell Dell company's situation is Ideal It has plenty of ot water within a few hundred feet of or the mouth of or ortho tho the tunnel and an abundance of or timber timber tim tim- ber all over o the property The water water water wa wa- ter supply Is hundreds o of l horse port pow OIse r I going to waste every everyday everyday da day over the toot foot falls Calls Mining me of or this district claim that thal it will eventually prove to be bea beIt a It second Big BI ham a as it lies directly opposite th U 3 great camp and adjoining adjoining ad nd- the ch ich Alta AHa joining which nag lias Jn many millions and still has million n f f dollars in sight Tho The Columbus 1 J ed one ono ono- of of r. r the tha thein greatest ir m in l ls tah is 8 In ht Attn Alta On t t finer ln Zone Park Git CIl h Vita Uta Draper DIaler and anti ham It Is p plc 1 ted led out the tro all I. I In In-a In a u dle dl- dl lino Oil on 1 e C same Jell hell It seems that when a he ho mountains mo were thrown up In process of or formation formation formats forma forma- tion ore s s ts Its and deposits were shot hot up all r ig g a contact occurring at Intervals from one to five miles along the su sud c ce cc T Tills This upheaval can be he traced all nil t the e wa way from iron Park City to Alta AHa then her through the Draper district district district dis dis- acro across s tho the valley to Bingham then on across the ran range e to Mercur I and the great reat Tintie district While considerable mining lias Ras been done In the Draper district In the past development le Is In its Inanc Infancy The Copper King has hns had a big pile of or ore on the dump for tor several years but has been heen unable to gel get it down downto down downto to the smelter smeller on account of or not n tI road over OVI which to haul it This Tills however Is being remedied a good road down the mountain Is being built and slipping shipping will twill b be begun Inn in ina ina a n short time A number of or Salt Lakers Lak ers representing Eastern capitalists capitalists' are negotiating for or property In the district and an era of or activity Is predicted pre pre- |
