The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-19
LETTER TO CHAS. E. GRAHAM
POINTS or SPECIAL IMPORTANCE
IN NEW COPPER COMPANY.

Colorado, Speaks of the Development
Physical Features, Adjoining Claims
and Eastern Copper Mining Company
Much interest has been aroused II
New Haven lately over the formation
of the Bingham and Eastern Copper
| Mining company, of which many wei
| known business men of this city are the
| officers. Charles f, Graham, the presl
| dent of the new company, is wei
| known and successful business man, the
| son Of ex-senator James Graham OF
| West Haven; Israel A. Kelsey, the vice
president and treasurer. is very wei
| known in connection with street rail
roads. and the secretary, w. S. Tucker
| is also a well known local business man
The directors comprise men who have
regulations as men of shreWd business
capabilities, and the company, though
young, is on very firm basis and Is
being strengthened every day.
The prophesies of j. d. Rockefeller,
Captain DeLamar, Eben Smith, Samuel
Newhouse and other millionaires that
the Bingham camp is the richest copper
camp in the world is enough to arouse
the most profound interest of everybody
not only in this city but elsewhere.
A letter to Charles D. Graham, the
president of the company, from Orland
S. Isbell, an attorney and counsellor at
law in Denver recently received gives
a description of the claims, their loca-
ton, development and physical features.
Mr. Isbell's letter is as follows:
Denver. Aug. 7, 1899.
Charles f. Graham, President Bingham
& Eastern Copper Mining Co., New
Haven, Conn:
Dear sir: AS suggested at our recent
interview concerning the property of
your company in Salt Lake county,
Utah, l herewith send you summary,
as brief as possible, setting forth the
points of especial Importance at that
time discussed and some others which
We're then omitted. AS I examined not
only the title to the various mining
claims. but also, on two separate occa-
sions, the claims themselves, I trust
that my comments may be of value to
you both in obtaining clear compre-
hension of the situation and in mapping
out the course of future development.
Location.-As shown by the map
made by your surveyor (whom l &C.
companied), the various claims are sit
uated in compact body, SO that no
hostile interests can intervene to cat
off one claim from another
The ore first to be encountered in
driving the tunnel hereinafter mention
ed will probably require treatment by
the process known as concentration.
This, If the ore is encountered in suff1-
cient bodies, may require the erection
of crushers and tables at the mouth of
said tunnel. There is at present. | be-
lieve, sufficient unappropriated water
crossing your claims to operate such a
plant successfully. There is abundant
room upon your own ground, or upon
neighboring ground which could easily
be acquired, for the erection of such a
plant. If at greater depth you should
encounter copper ore such as is found
in your neighbors, the Cuba and the
Highland Boy, you would probably be
obliged to ship directly to a smelter.
Two excellent smelters, thoroughly
equipped with the most modern i'm
provements and both of considerable ca
pacity, are easily accessible by rail only
a few miles from the town Of Bingham.
AS Bingham is connected by rail with
salt Lake City, and the mine is situated
only mile and half from the termi-
nails of this road, it will be a very simple
and economical matter to obtain sun
plies and such rails, cars and other ma
chinery as may be desirable.
Physical Features.-The claims COM
prlsed in the group which you have
purchased lie upon very steep hillside
lntefsected by two deep gulches at near
~ right angles to one another: in fact
the clalms cross both gllches and ex
tend some distance upon the opposite
sides. This fact renders the problem Of
economical and deep mining verv sim.
pie one.
The tunnel already begun and n,shed
some little distance on the LITTLE Cottnn
wood claim, will, when completed dr.ir
an the other claims fer considerable
aepth, ana, when connected with the
upper workings of the Jersey Blue
clailn' furnish an excellent supply of
fresh air for the entire mine.
DeVelopmei1t.-Beginning with the
X L. claim, which Is located nearest Ia
the top of the mountain. there ie q
crosscut tunnel, about 100 feet in lenetb
extending from the side line of tbo
claim TO the vein. On the vein itself arc
drifts, extending east and west about
70 or 100 feet, showing excellent con
per stains and the existence of other
more precious metals. The west drift
is connected by shaft or winze win,
the Jersey Blue tunnel about 100 fent
peloW' This tunnel upon the Jersey
Blue penetrates the mountain se,,aro1
hundred feet, and has, up to the nresent
tlfne, furnished most of tie orc tb,Y
mas been taken from the property IF 10
entirely upon the vein running nearly
horth ana south. Judging from the
strike, dip and character of the ve,n ~
seems probable that it is the same vein
round in the Cuba on the north ana
the Highland Boy on the south
About 300 or 400 feet below the Iarsa,,
Blue tunnel is the Little Cottonwood
tunnel, beginning at a point near the
bottom of the guleh of Carr Fork and
extending thence westerly upon the
cottonwood vein about 12OO feet Tho
breast OF this tunnel shows the exist
ence OF a strong east and west vein
we'll 0Dinaraljza6 op5 c,,;tal