The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-30
NEW COPPER CAMP.

with this brief explanation of what
has been done in Bingham, the reader
is invited into another OLD camp where,
but a few years ago. experts who had
been persuaded to go there and make
examinations had come out with the
declaration that there was nothing
worth bOthering with. That camp is
Frisco, Beaver county. the home of the
Horn Silver mine. Less than three
years & A. b. Lewis came put from
Chicago, ard having the possibilities of
the section brought to his attention, he
set quietly 10 work gathering up the
great acres of territory which were fin
ally made the basis of interpretations
whose aggregate capitalization is $I2,-
O0J,OOO, and which today give every
promise of making the biggest copper
producing mines in the state, and that
IN the not distant future.
First the Imperial company was
launched on ground adjoining the Horn
Silver or the north west, and covering,
with other territory, the old Solomon
group long known to be rich in D
but lacking the encouragement of cap
ital to open it and handicapped further
by the repeated turning dOwn of learn
ed experts who would not believe what
was afterwards Observation-Disclosures
one u the greatest copper-bearing
in the country was located right
there air. Lewis was convinced, how
ever, and during the past year his COM
pany has demonstrated that its claims
cover a veritable mountain of copper
g~Old-bearing ore that more than
doubles in average value the ores Of
the great Highland Boy at Bingham.
Capitalized at $4,000. 900. with some of
the Wealthiest men IN the country be-
hind it, the company has been working
steadily during the year to open its
ground. An occasional shipment of ore
has been made to keep in touch with
the mines of the different characters of
rock encountered, and that work on a
more extensive scale is warranted has
been -cOnClusiveIy hOwn.
With the requirement of the famous
Cactus property, on which a French
company made a great sDlurge several
years ago and then went to pieces
through q wild disregard of business
principles in managing its affairs, Mr..
Lewis and Gill :. Peyton. who assist
ed in acquiring additional territory a
few months since. completed the details
which eliminated in the formation of
the S6,000,0Q0 Royal Copper company.
with possessions extending from the
northwest boundaries of the Imperial
on in the same direction into Copper
guIch, its ground beginning about two
and a half miles from the Horn Sill
yer. The property is already equipped
with a large concentrating mill, com
plete in its appointment, and d smeIter
as we'll, both erected by the French
Cactus company. Great bodies Of ore
are already developed, and regardless
of the fact hat much of the ore eX-
posed is very rich, it IS more than
probable that all the ores viii be treat
ed by concentration at the mines be-
fore shipment, 10 save the extra cost
in freight. Manager Robert J. Cole
mar has said that tests made of the
ores show them To be peculiarly well
adapted to concentration, SO 1t may be
taken for granted that the great mill
Will be utilized for that purpose. The
company is backed by unlimited
wealth, all of the stock is pooled. and
the treasury stock. or as much of it as
the company saw mt to Hberate to carry
the extensive plans Of development
mapped out, vas taken up by one man