The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-11

Carver City, Utah, Aug. 9.-Carver
City is at the present time nothing
more than a townsite, but if indications
do not fail TO materialize it is likely to
become a fiourishing mining town of no
little Importance in the course Of few
years.
The town derives its name from the
venerable @. S. Carver, the pioneer of
the Beaver Lake district in Beaver
county. Colonel Carver has been in the
district for years and has succeeded in
ccrralling just about the best mining
properties in this part of the country.
He is the king of the camp. and has
been outside of the district but a few
times since the early days. He at
tended the Jubilee in Salt Lake and
that was the first time he had been in
Zion in % years.
The colonel is very fond of Wild
animals, and around his cabin can be
seen a small herd of chiDmunks which
have become SO tanned that they Will
come into his cabin and eat food from
his hands. There is a lizard which has
It's home among the rocks around the
colonels house, that has a decided
fOndnesS for the old gentleman. Very
food, and viii crawl all over his arms
and shoulders without the slightest fear
of being injured. He has a pet jack
rabbit that win also come at his calling.
a great deal has been said and writ
ten about The Beaver Lake district in
the past few months, and as repres-
entauve of The Herald the writer came
here to ascertain from personal OBJ
Servation the truthfulness of the very
fattering reports that have been sent
from here from time to time.
II is the belief of the writer that too
much has not been said about the
Beaver Lake district and judging from
the highly mineralized condition of the
country here it is certain to become,
after few years OF development one
of the greatest copper camps in this
country.
Copper seems to be the predominating
metal However, all of the copper ores
found here carry good values in silver
and gold.
Energetic development work has been
retarded for the same reasons that are
found to exist in the Antelope district.
Prospectors and men of too limited
means to carry ON development proper
~ came into possession. of the proper
ties here. Had these parties not been
unreasonable in their demands when
capital sought investment, the district
would have been farther advanced than
it is 81 the present time, and in the
place of being simply prospects their
claims would have been developed into
mines.
The formation of the country is prin-
cipally granite and the contact walls
can be easily traced along the course
of the ore bodies.
BEAVER LAKE MINE.
The property of the Beaver Lake Cop
hills of Wasatch mountain The prop !
erty IS almost entirely on level ground
ard every portion OF it can be reached
by . team and buggy.
The surface shoWings on this property
ere exceptionally good. Ten distinct
veins can be traced across the surface
TO the north of the shaft.
Twenty-Five openings have been made
on the. property, and at each one of
them ore has been taken out.
The claims were originally located by
o. s. Carver, T. n. Sacket, Phil Bentz
and y. 5. Anderson The present COM
pany began development work on them
in May last and at the present time a
shaft is down tc a depth of about IS
feet From the surface to where the
men are now al work IL veins have
been cut, which have assayed from 10
TO 70 per cent in copper besides carry
ing good values in silver and gold.
The company now has four men at
work and it is the intention to crosscut
for the ore bodies from the 100 level 1
when it is expected some good ship |
ping ore viii be taken out and market
ed The company has about two tons !
OF ore on the dump now all sorted for
shipment, but it is not expected that
any shipments VIII be made until some /
drifting is done on the veins
The Beaver Lake companys property !
viii certainly turn out TO be bonanza |
whenever depth IS attained. When the /
water level IS reached, which viii prob |
ably be somewhere near the 500 level, |
an immense ore body can be looked for. |
Should the company decide TO do some I
unsystematic mining, the mine could !
be made to pay from the grass roots.
COPPER MOUNTAIN.
Adjoining the Beaver Lake property I
on the north is Copper mountain, which I
is & low hill standing separate from /
the range OF mountains TO the west. {
All along the north side of the noun
tain great body Of copper ore can be
traced Tor several THOUSAND feet, which /
dips into the hill and IN the same di- /
1ection as the veins of ore which cross
the Beaver Lake company's property.
Numerous openings have been made by
the original owners along the course of
the vein, and ore has been taken out
of every one of them which would pay
well 10 market. \ smart mas Deen sunk
on this property TO depth Of 30 feet,
which shows coed ore all the way down.
ore has been shipped that averaged 20
per cent copper. The present owners
Of the property are Messrs. Bentz,
Carver and Anderson
THE MILAN B.
The Milan B. group is an extension
of the Copper mountain ground on the
west. This property has a surface
showing Of two distinct veins which
narallel the claims. Several openings
have been made exposing vein matter
and a shaft has been sunk to a depth of
about 80 feet, from which ore has been
shipped. The property is not being
worked at the present time, but it is
10 be incorporated at an early date,
end active development work begun.
THE BEAUTY GROUP.
The Beauty group IS owned by J. H
Douglas, w II. Joseph and A. S. An
derson. On this property a shaft has
bean sunk to a depth of 40 feet on an
incline in a vein Of good ore from which