Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-10-11
The CLAIRE PROPERTY.
A Mining Concern That is Attracting At
tentlon.
Fine Showing Made by Recent As
says Induces Talk Of Leaching
or Smelling Plant

A new mining field which has at
tracted great deal of attention in Salt
Lake Of late months is that near Mont
pelier, Ida. Some OF the principal bus
mess men of this city have interests
there, notably In the Claire Mining
company, I'm which Bishop Romney,
Geo. T. Odell, Il. X. Cutler l.. c. Miller
and others are stockholders. Interest
in the property has been revived dur
ing the week by the arrival of some
ore samples and accompanying assay
sheets; the reports made By the as
sayers are Of very gratifying char
acter and there is already talk of the
erection OF teaching or smelling plant
near Montpelier to handle the ores.
The assays, which are made by j, w.
Currie and w. A. Hodges Of this city,
and T. II. Manning of Boise, show that
one lot OF the ore went l5ia per cent
"copper" 2els ounces silver, and lilo
ounces gold. Another showed As lilo
per cent copper, $40 ounces gold, and
Il ounces silver.
The Claire company consists OF three
claims, the Claire, the Sunday and the
Iron Duke. The Claire is situated
about eight miles southeast of Mont
pelier and there Is a first class wagon
road leading TO all three claims. The
formation is Of lime hanging and
porphyry foot walls with trap rock
lying between the two formations. The
walls are about 900 feet apart; the veins
appear in the trap and stand at an an
gle OF T6 degrees, and can be traced the
entire length Of the claim. Various
openings have been made from one end
TO the other and all show ore.
On the Claire" claim an incline shaft
OF 20 feet deep has been sunk showing
ore from ! inch wide at the surface to
10 Inches wide at the bottom Of the
shaft A tunnel 200 feet long has been
run on one vein showing the ore from
inches to Is inches wide. Enough ore
is now in sight to Justify the putting
up OF small teaching or smelling
plant The ores are said to be very
free. and to present an ideal teaching
proposition.
The Sunday Is developed by a shaft
20 feet deep, showing ore all the way
Gown over ~ inches wide at the bot
tom of the shaft. The Iron Duke" has
only had assessment work done but II
shows up we'll
Those best informed say that there Is
a beautiful site for a plant about one
and three-quarter miles from the pro-
perty, with an abundance Of spring
water. II would be located about two
miles from the q. S. l.. railroad. II Is
confidently thought that % ton plant
would net the company at least $4,000
monthly. and that when the property
s more fully developed $4,000 to $50. 900
monthly would be a conservative sum.
In addition to the claire" mines
there are quite a number OF other prop.
critics in the vicinity that will be glad
TO furnish ores for treatment, so that
there Will be no danger that the plant
would not he kept running The ore
OF the locality all run well in copper
and silver, and from 80 cents 10 s621
gold. The capitalization Of the rClaire'
Mining company is 100000 shares OF a
par value OF 30 cents each. 100000
shares have been issued. and the other
100000 remains In the treasury II Val
not be issued at less than the par
value, and the proceeds will be used
20 install the teaching or smelling
rlant.
The officers Of the company ate
Charles Hof, president; l.. G. Miller.
vice president; A. ID. Young, secretary
and treasurer, and these with j. u.
McDermott and +. w. Rose form the
board OF directors.