Show STRIKE GOLD COLD VEIN IN COPPER tINE MINE Southern Pacific Company in Weber County Has En Encouraging Encouraging Encouraging En- En News Just at a time when the tho quest for gold rold Is the only lure of oC tho the mine owner or prospector a property known to possess a n wealth of heavy hen copper res comes to the front with n a showing of or orthe the tIme yellow bordering on the After seven sc n years ears of or persistent exploration work worle the mine mime of the Southern Pl Pacific Gold Goltl and Copper Mining Min Mm- ing com company pan located In the Sierra Mathie lu district of oC Weber count county Utah has encountered Its ore oro bodies at depth nn and disclosed what promises to lo be bo a source of oC production which will wiil greatly augment the gold output of oC tho the state The original holdings of the Southern Pacific company con consisted of three throe claims located on the contact by by W. W J. J Burnham to whom credit for Cor the tile mines mine's present splendid condition Is hs due Since t tin nIno linn In It h. h o lin been cen acquired b by purchase all of which arc are crossed td by tho time contact or outcrops of or veins tributary to it The O first st actual work was commenced in 1000 IDOO high h on the rugged mountain mountainside mountainside side side gide where shere a foot 90 tunnel was driven and values In copper and some somo gold od 1 were obtained At about that time prospecting closer to the base of or tho the lOUp group revealed the time presence of oC the time same metals In encouraging ing proportions and aud three incline shafts worked to depths of DO 50 0 feet reet each exposing distinct veins running high In copper an and l up to 10 In gold old It was to tap lap these thele veins that the main tunnel In In which the tho recent strike was made was start started d In course of the tunnel worl workings an Immense diorite dyke was crossed for a distance of oC OO feet Ceet In which copper copper cop cop- per por sulphides were prominent but It was not until tn the assessment work worl for 1907 was being Iono done In Dec December that the incline quartz veins were ere ered At t first tests the rock in that formation showed sho an average era l e oC of In n gold but hut since then timen assays of oC better bolter than 80 have been taken taleen from front three th different sections of or tho the vein now exposed exposed ex ex- posed for 1 12 feet Ceet and tue has not yet been beets reached Supplies for Cor an active campaign n of oC development have been ben shipped to tho the ground and Manager Burnham t will leave leae within the tIme week with miners to continue continuo the work am and will commence e ethe the sacking racking of the higher grade ores Oles for Cor shipment |