The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-24
Tom Jennings Describes His Big
Arizona Bonanza.
OCEANS OF RED METAL
WONDERFUL REGION SOUTH OF
ST. GEORGE.
Salt Lakers Interested In Many Good
Properties In That Section-Re-
organization of the Northern Spy
-Bingham's Rich Placers-Dalton
d Lark Deal-Mining Notes.

Thomas W. Jennings returned yester-
day from a two weeks trip to Arizona,
where he is interested in the Grand
Gulch copper mines. Mr.. Jennings is
confident that himself and associates
are the possessors OF d great copper bo-
nanza, and judging from the samples
of ore he brought back with him there
seems little doubt of 1t.
The property is located about sixty
i've miles south of St George, and on
lee east side of the Grand Wash. The
country is full of copper, so Mr.. Jen-
nings states, and the Grand Gulch
seems TO be a great big nest of copper
ore. The veins seem to run in circle
and it looks as if some time in the
past copper had boiled up from the in
terror of the earth, as if from a huge
pot This is characteristic of nearly all
the copper prospects in that region,
and the great circle of copper ore on
the Grand Gulch measures about 800
feet in length by $50 feet in width.
The Grand Gulch was worked sixteen
Years ago by Salt Lake parties, who
operated a small primitive smelter
mere. AT that time copper was not SO
valuable as now, and The property be-
ing so isolated, it was abandoned, and
the Smelter removed to St. George.
Mr.. Jennings says he has never seen
such showing of copper as that at the
Grand Gulch, and asserts that it would
be an easy matter to extract from 90
600 TO 5000 tons of ore without going
100 feet in depth. There are between
thirty and forty tons of ore on the
dump, mined sixteen years ago. that
viii pay to ship. The property is de-
Veloped by several shafts, all under 100
feet in depth, and open cuts, from
which ore has heretofore been extract
ed. Mr.. Jennings brought up with him
samples that VIII run as high as 60
per cent copper, and says it would be no
trouble at all to make it average up
about 81 per cent, as has been done
heretofore.
The greatest drawback to the coun-
try is the water problem, but the Grand
Gulch company OWNS two springs not
lar from the mine
Mr.. Jennings visited the Savanic,
about four miles southeast of. the
Grand Gulch. A shaft is down on this
property about fifteen feet, in which is
d hve-foot body of high-claSS ore. The
property is not being worked owing
10 a controversy over the title. =
The Cunningham mine, about one
half of a mile farther on owned by
Sorensen & Co. of St George, is being
worked by a shaft, which is down less
than seventy feet.
Mr. Jennings considers the Savanic |
and Cunningham excellent prospects, |
and believes they will eventually be- |
come big mines
The Copper Mountain, about thirty |
miles east of Grand Gulch. has from |
three to five feet of high-grade ship |
ping ore. The property is an old one, |
and over $4,000 mas been expended or /
il in the past. a smelter was in oper- |
alton on this property about fifteen |
years ago, but like the Grand Gulch it |
was abandoned and the owners al |
lowed the smelling plant to be sold for
the taxes. Two carloads of bullion
was shipped from the smelter before it
was closed down.
The property is owned by DR.. Rich
ards, John Sharp. Brig and Thomas
Ellerbeck, Elias w. Smith and others.
a conflict has arisen over the owner
ship, so Mr. Jennings says, as the prop
erty was relocated after laying idle for
a long time.
Northwestern Arizona is sure TO be-
come great copper mining region. Mr..
Jennings thinks, and with the extension
OF the Utah & Pacific towards Los An
seles the country viii be opened up and
made tributary TO Salt Lake