The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-13
The FerriS-Haggerty Mine In Grand
Encampment.
SMALL FORTUNE IN SIGHT
ORE RUNNING sa1k PER CENT ON
AN AVERAGE.
Trumble Mountain Copper-In Tintic
Haunts-ophir District Reorgan-
ized-Down In Sanpete-A Mar
row Escape-The Queen of Sheba-
a Good Suggestion-Mining Notes

The persistent search and inquiry for
copper mines is rapidly bearing fruit,
and almost every day. Of late, reports
OF important discoveries in this direc-
ton are received from almost every
nook and corner of this intermountain
region, the latest coming from the
Grand Encampment district in Wyom-
ing, according 10 d special TO the Den
yer News, which says:
A shaft eighty-five feet in depth-a
drift of forty feet at fifty-foot level and
another OF fifty feet at an eighty-five-
foot level-a vein of copper ore aver
aging over seven feet in width, and
yielding at Chicago and Denver smelt-
eTs 3352 per cent in copper, $l.96 in gold
and one ounce of silver to the ton in
carload shipments-this, in brief, is the
story of the Ferris-Haggerty copper
mine of Grand Encampment, Wyo.-a
copper mine that even now in its in
fancy is shipping more than $1,000
worth of ore d week, and is believed TO
have at least $400O0e worth of the red
metal already in sight, after only five
months Of actual mining work.
II is the first really great discovery of
copper made in a new district in years;
and with the price of copper steadily
advancing, a great copper mine has be-
come more desirable in the miners eyes
than the richest of golden bonanzas.
The Ferris Haggerty is believed by
many to he the richest copper pros
pect' in the world, and this belief is
seemingly not unwarranted. 1t was
only during October last that the first
wagonload of FeTriS-Haggerty ore was
hauled over the mountains to Fort
Steele. Wyo.. on the Union Pacific rail
road distance of sixty miles from the
mine. Then followed quickly other
,1f.,f afga1.a inc
fourteen and one-fourth tons of pea
cock copper ore was sent to the Chicago
Copper Refining company's smelter at
Blue Island III Chicago. This ore was
largely surface. but thc fourteen and
one-fourth tons brought Il check for
S66i above all transportation charges.
This shipment averaged 33.1S per cent
copper, but no returns were made by
the snlelter for either gold or silver.
After this shipment the force of men
working at the mine was increased
from eight to twenty-sevel, and other
carloads OF ore were shipped to the
Chicago sme!ter ali showing copper re-
turns of about 3S.5 per cent, the ore
getting richer with depth.
Recently six or eight carloads of the
ore have been shipped to Denver and
run through the Argo smelter, the ore
averaging d little more than 81 per cent
pure copper to the ton. The last ear
load shipped to the Argo smelter ran
over 30 per cent copper, $1.96 in gold
and one ounce of silver 20 the ton. For
this carload a check for 81, 435 was re-
ceiveG
Owing to the great depth of Snow COW
ering the mountains of the continental
divide, the mine is now being worked
under almost Alaskan difficulties. The
ore at present is being hauled on sleds
TO Grand Encampment. and there
transferred to ore wagons and sent on
to the Union Pacific railroad, fifty miles
away. Only a small force of men can,
as yet, be kept at work, as the develop
ment is still too meager TO permit more
extensive operations.
Ed Haggerty, a poor prospector and
sheepherder of Rawlins, Wyo., is the
discoverer and part owner of this bo-
nanza copper property. Associated with
him in its ownership are Willis George
Emerson of Denver and Robert Deal,
George Ferris and 1. C. Miller of Raw
Inns.
On the first of the present month a
dividend of IS GOO, or II per cent on the
capital stock of 81 900 900, was declared,
and it is estimated that there is enough
ore cat the present price of copper at
the smelters) in transit from the mine
and in the ore bins and on the dump to
pay seven monthly dividends equal to
the dividend paid on March l.
At last Wyoming has emerged from
the prospecting period of her swaddling
clothes into a producer of the precious
minerals. and practical mining men eX-
press the belief that at no distant day
the big western state Will take a front
rank among the gold and copper pro-
ducing states of the Union.