Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-08-16
A Salt Lake Correspondent Repre-
sents itas a Fake Company.
THE ORE OCCURS IN SEAMS.
Joe iowers company In Good shape
tiunkcr nm strike Improving
The Cuggenheim Company.

In a letter. dated Aug 9. written from
this city 20 the Engineering and MIN
ms journal. correspondent, signing
himself "L," has the following II say
Of the iiuntsman company: "a hum0r-
ouH prospectus VI the Huntamah Cop.
per Mining company which has bonded
three claims In the La Sal Mountains.
Grand county Utah. Tor 10000. ~ being
distributed 10 the temporary profit u
the promoters. The company IL cnpial-
lied for 100000 10 81 shares and iQ0,-
900 shares devoted 90 treasury purposes
were offered nt Zoe. in June. Shares are
nov selling from 90 10 15ea or az
valuation ~ over 100000. Tor "a bond on
three located claims " very doubtful
worth. a prpspoCtnr % integrity and
good Judgment Hont Co look over the
ground Boz the interest 90 some eastern
Investors. reports that the articles IN
Colorado and Utah papers on this prop
urty are rank fnbrlcnuouB. that there
are not u dozen tons uf profit paying
shipping ore in sight, and that the stock
Dr. not worth half cent "a share. some
shipments Of rich ore, he says, have
bean made. but this ORE occurs In small
seams and pockets. and the conditions
are not favorable Tor finding any COM
siderable bodies o. paying rock
As described ln the prospectus the
values nre ln. a vertical vein 90 To
100 n wide and 5000 a. long. and IN a
contact. or horizontal vein the overflow
of the vertical vein, the two veins to-
Fcthcr making mountain 100 r. high,
about 5000 H. IN circumference and eov'
orlng o. acres. surface measurement.
II la practically unlimited. open cuts
from 90 10 n. deep along the vertical
vein show carbonate and oxide orvf,
native and shot copper and copper
glance IN conclusion we are told
THE great copper deposits ~ the world
are practically iuuxhauatihle. The cop
per mines NJ spain have been producing
Tor centuries. Those uf chile ana Ger
many have been worked f0r genera
lions The Lake superior mines have
been worked Tor moro than ~ years,
The liuutsmnn mines. with "a contact
vein which covers re- whole mountain
and q vertical vein 90 10 100 a. wide and
5000 n. long. which has been traced for
ia miles along the great copper belt pf
rtuh=whlCh ~ one NJ the greatest cop
per producing States IN the worll-huvc
% body OF ore in the contact vein alone
which cannot Dee exhausted IN "a ccn-
tury. and the depth 60 which the vcrtl-
pll vein may DO worked e. limited only
hy the limitations of mining opera
lions
These quotations are from the report
" Ernest q. Mllor protesting mining
engineer OF Denver. Colo.
"rhc directors " the company are
/ William Il. Weeks. president financial
] lawyer. n broadway. New York Henry
] L. Prentice. Prentice Investment com
pnny. a broad g.. New York. Peter
McCourt. proprietor NJ broadway thea
ter and Tabor Grand opera house, Den
| Yer. colo. John a. Thompson uf the
] THuHaHHFFHFH NfnmFIHH
! W. Bacon. ntt0rncy-nt-lnw, n Broad.
! way. New York. The Prentice Invest
ment company tof New York; " tht
! fiscal agent The ONCE N the company
! ia Room 500 Bowling Green building il
! Broadway, New York.
Last Saturday "a salt Lake CITY pa
/ Der had boom account % the building
| ~ an electric railroad, In the very neat
future. by the lluutHmnu promoters q
! transport these ore#-uf vast mythlca
| touunrc-to prospective terminus Of
! contemplated extension OF the N'
| grundo Western railroad. This wal
| given wide circulation. n goes wlthou
| saving that mon who lend the weigh
| 0f their names us sponsors 60 10 mlrth
proyol,lnr prospectus. such ns the on,
| quoted from. are mining and huillin.
| electric railroads only IN dre1mlnnl
| Unfortunately many rulllhlcs have pal
out good money 10 acquire this INFORM
alton.
~ believe the Engineering and MIN
Ing journal win fully respond 10 IN
request TO puuCturo this now cope
balloon. In 10 doing no reelection car
/ b, made on tho worth OF numerou
| promising copper prospects IN Ia "a
! mountains. ON the contrary, II n TO IN
| ADVANTAGE Of ALL who are presenting
these properties on their merits, &
have fakes Of the uilntemnn brand OK