The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-10
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THE UNAwEEP EXCITEMENT.
New Mining Camp Not Far From
Grand Junction.

/ The Denver Republican tells of the
discovery OF a new mining camp in
western Colorado. not far from Grand
Junction, as follows:
a recent discovery of ore bearing
copper and gold in Unaweep canyon
gives promise of opening up a copper
district in the western part OF the state,
near Grand Junction, which will equal
in production any of the great copper
belts of the world. The canyon is only
% miles from Grand Junction and Is
miles from Whitewater station on the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad. Only
three weeks ago the camp was prac-
tically deserted, while now scores of
men are rushing in every day. Grand
Junction IS wild with excitement over
the new discoveries, and many outsid-
ers, some from Boston, Mass, are be-
coming interested.
A test OF $50 pounds of the ore was
recently made. 1t gave d return of
$25 in gold and $51 in copper, though as
the test was made in the Grand juno
ton foundry cupola, which was not
constructed for that purpose, it was
far from being satisfactory, much of
the values being lost. Thirty tons of
better ore are now ready for shipment
from the Last Chance group, ana
many other claims show shipping ore.
News of the new camp leaked out so
quickly that the situation in Grand
Junction is peculiar. Not a pound of
powder can be procured there, and ev-
cry pick, shovel. drill or other imple-
ment for mining has been bought. G..
z. Clark was obliged to come all the
way to Denver TO procure supplies for
operations or the Last Chance mine,
and Mr.. Clark says that many have
been deferred from going to the new
camp solely on account of the impos-
sibility of securing the necessary sup
plies.
Incident to the new district, two
town sites have been laid out and two
lines of stages between the Unaweep
and Grand Junction are now IN opera
ton. There are now 800 miners and
prospectors at work and claims are be-
ing rapidly located. Mr.. Clark brought
the first authentic news of the new
find to Denver yesterday, and also
brought some fine samples of the Last
Chance ore which will be on exhibition
at the miners bureau for a few days.
The formation of the country is red
and gray granite with true assures
that can be traced for miles across the
country. There is now little snow on
the ground, and not enough timber to
interfere with prospecting. 1t seems
remarkable that such o rich deposit OF
copper within so short a distance of
Grand Junction should not have been
discovered before, the existence of cop
per in that region having long been
known. The fact that in the early days
the prosecutors lool . l for silver alone
and turned their attention to gold may
account for the. failure to open this
territory that has been ,orospected
more CT less for more than 20 years.
The demonstration, however. of the
existence of copper values far in ex-
cess of those of many of the great cop
per producing regions of the world has
finally attracted attention, and the re-
suit is the present stampede of miners
and others off the western slope
Assays of the rock show that it runs
from 9 to 40 per cent in cooper, from
10 to i ounces silver in most of the
ore, and from S25 to SSS in gold The
lowest assay made ran $22.50 in COP
per. The ore lies on the surface in the
district. and very little work is neces-
sary TO bring a claim into q condition
for the commencement of shipments.