The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-31
Willard County Mining News.

| The Willard County Blade gives the
following mining news:
Ten thousand pounds of Utah ore
from Fish Springs came in on Monday
1t is rumored that the Utah people are
intending to increase their ore ship
ments.
Sidney Black reports having uncov-
cred fine body of copper-gold ore on
lhis claim, the Lone Pine, which adj
joins the Alto in the Detroit district.
David Crafts left for Detroit district
on Monday, where it is his intention to
lremain a month developing his mining
property in and around Drum noun
tain.
Professor Williams and Colonel Heff-
ran, of the hex, went south to Frisco
on Tuesday, returned yesterday, and
will go out to the hex today.
Another important find of copper-gold
ore has been made in the Beaver
range, east of the Beaver bottoms. The
lucky finders name is Kelly. j. NJ and
Warren Moody will go down in a day
or two and do some prospecting
superintendent Ed. Stewart made the
Blade office five minutes call yester-
day morning and says the hex smelter
site has been definitely located at Lean
iington. That the shaft between the
lliOoIil VI lOliliSl Gnu OlQ WOTkS on the
hex is down forty feet in high grade
ore, varying in width from five to
twenty feet. That the face of the tun-
incl is daily reaching in towards the
ore, and that Albert Petty goes out
with Mr.. Stewart to begin work on the
new boarding house, office, etc.
The sales which were contaminated
last week of the Rather and Mehan
groups of mines, in the Detroit dis
trict, to Saint Paul parties, have great
ly encouraged the mining fraternity in
this part of Willard county. Within the
past two months from three groups the
parties selling have realized SIP. 900.
This, when considered with the fact
that the parties who have purchased
The hex property are now engaged in
erecting camp and boarding houses. to-
gether with offices, for business and
assaying, assures to other property
holders lively camp in the future. one
that will be a personal benefit to every
citizen in this part of Willard county.
1t is the intention of the company to
work corps of miners large enough to
extract from sixty to eighty tons of ore
per day as soon as the smelter at
bennington has been constructed.
The question of the location of the
hex smelter seems to have been de-
termined upon. At least our latest adj
vices indicate bennington as the point
selected. The supposition is that the
company favored bennington on ac-
count of its close proximity to iron,
and other fluxing ores, which, in that
locality are found in almost endless
quantities. While this places the
smelter fifteen or eighteen miles farther
away from the mines, it is evident that
other advantages gained counterbal-
ance the extra distance necessary to
transportation. The ore from the hex
group will be hauled to this place and
shipped from Oasis station, and when
it becomes necessary to construct a
branch road to the mines, Deseret and
Oasis will yet remain shipping points
on account of the saving of the extra
distance in construction as we'll as the
cheapness of the same from this point
to the Drum mountain range, the land
intervening being an almost dead level
to within short distance of the mines.
This branch, when completed, will
shorten the wagon haul from Fish
Springs and the Deep creek country at
least thirty miles.