The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-29
BEAVER MINES LIBELED.
Editor White Replies to Attacks On
Copper Properties.
Salt Lake City, May IS, 1899.

Salt Lake City, May IS, 1899.
To the Editor of The Herald:
Last week an article appeared in the
Eureka Republican containing libel
Gus reference 10 the business of stock
brokerage in this city. and incidentally
to the mining interests OF Beaver
county, which was copied and favor
ably commented on by the Ogden
| Standard in its issue of May %, and
which I beg the use of your columns
to refute.
After a long and meaningless haran-
| que about certain mining stock gam
| bling games" and its effort upon "a
gullible public the Republican says:
| But as serious as were the losses to
these school teachers. widows and
| clerks this game was merely prellml-
nary to providing the money necessary
| to bring a large quantity of copper ore
! from somewhere with which to salt
an alleged copper mine of ranch-llke
magnitude in Beaver county mining
district in Beaver county, Utah. This
big scheme for the capture of capital
lists is now in process of incubation
and the public may expect at any mo-
! ment to hear of d sale of this alleged
farm of ore to money monarchs OF
Europe for many millions.
IF now, the public press, in its min
ing pages, realized the necessity OF do
ing its duty in behalf of the mining in
dustry it would open a broadside fusil-
lade upon every rotten mining fake
that comes to the front to prey upon
the confidence of the investing public"
The author of the above has shown
his ignorance by naming a mining dis
trict which exists only in his imagina-
ton. There is no such a mining dis
trict in Beaver county. nor in the state,
as the Beaver county" mining district;
I,,,t ho4 &c of pNcant
to temper the amount of credence TO be /
placed in the balance of the statement.
l do not know what mine or mines is
referred to in the article and, as cop
per ore in large quantities and of high
grade is being produced in Rocky, Star,
North Star, Beaver Lake, San Francis
co, Granite, Lincoln and Bradshaw
districts, and from some of them regu-
lar shipments being made. it would be
useless to even guess at the mine re-
ferred to.
The fact that the imagination had to
be drawn upon to create even a min |
ing district in which to locate the rot !
ten mining fake" and the further fact |
that no names could be given of either |
mines or men, shows conclusively the 1
animus and dishonesty which was az |
the bottom of the article. The fact |
that the immense copper deposits of |
Beaver county are attracting capital I
which the Republican desires to see /
invested in the district which it so
feebly represents, accounts fully for
the libelous screed which it aims at
those who are trying to place its merits
before the public.
The absurdity of the sailing propo-
sition will be apparent to any practf-
cal mining man. 1t is possible to
salt gold or silver mine where tests
are made through shipment of a few
of l,r1t in taS 10 I
copper ores, where the nature of all
the ledge matter containing the copper
must be determined in order to arrive
at it's value, large shipments must be
made, as has been done in every in
stance where shipments have been
made from Beaver county. In view of
the fact that within the last six months
there has been over 100 carloads of
copper ore shipped out of Beaver
there must, indeed have been
"a large quantity of copper ore from
to salt the mines so
well. and the Oregon Short Line peo-
pie are no doubt wondering how it
reached there, as they have yet to haul
their first car of ore south over The
Milford branch. 1t is well known
fact that Beaver county has contrib
lted over $40 600, 600 to the mineral out
put of the state. and that a great many
IF the big producing mines of a few
years ago were compelled to close down
because of encumbering copper, which, {
Until very recently, detracted rather :
han added to the value of the ores
Even the great Horn Silver mine pass
ID copper lodges on the 900 and 100
DOT levels over twenty years ago ana
vent down 1000 feet below. but are
low uncovering and extracting copper
IRE at these levels.
But the fact that copper values exist I,
n Beaver county is becoming SO we'll
lnown that it is unnecessary to carry !
he REPUTATION of this article to the !
ength of going into details.
But begging little space to go out :
ide the subject, allow me to recon- I
truct the last paragraph of the Repub-
lean article and at the same time offer
he public little wholesome advice:
f. now, the public. realizing the neces-
ity of doing its duty in behalf of the
mining industry, would open a broad Z
ide fusillade upon all such rotten
journalistic fakes as the Republican T
nd Standard. they would be doing tie +
ountry a good turn. {
Yours for justice to one of the great a
st mining sections of Utah, s
w. NJ. WHITE.