The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-11
REPORTS
ON MAJESTIC
Makes a Remarkable Showing
For the Company's Mines.
SHELTERS AND PRODUCERS
LITTLE HEADWAY MADE ON
Low GRADE CONTRACTS.

TITS report on the mines Of the Ma
jestic Copper company practical
~ finished, William A. Parish,
the mining engineer, left for his home
in Denver yesterday noon. As indi-
Gated in these columns a day or two
since, Mr.. Farish's report is one that
cannot fail to impress Majestic share
holders with a sense Of security con-
corning the investments they have
made. A glance over its pages reveals
the fact that each Of the cOmpanys
seven separate groups Of claims, in
Guiding no less than 107 locations and
covering more than 1000 acres of
ground, have been examined and their
values estimated with a regard TO de-
tail that could only have been done
by a man fully awake to the RESPONSE
bilities attaching to the report that
must, should it prove inaccurate or
overdrawn, reflect on his professional
standing
The report is altogether too volum-
inous for it to receive more than pass
ing notice, but to give the shareholders
and the mining fraternity generally an
idea OF Mr.. Farish's opinion Of the
mines, few brief extracts are repro
have held back the mines Of Beaver
county. Mr.. Parish says:
THE development OF the mineral re-
sources and particularly the copper in
terests. have long been retarded by the
long railroad haul and until within
the last year or two. the absolute re-
1usal OF the shelters Of Salt Lake to
handle copper ores. OF any other ores,
at anything like reasonable charges
Further along, his report says. I
have given the smelter subject particu-
lar consideration. A smelter located
on your site at Milford would command
all the ores Of all characters in the
districts referred 10 above. and you
have within your own properties all
the necessary ores for fuxing pur-
poses. I believe that a large custom
smelling works plant could, within one
years time, be run to full capacity on
outside ores"
- fffecr reciting the physical condition
or the compdny's various mines, he
draws the following conclusion.
II cannot see any difficulty in sup
plying LOCO tons Of ore Of all grades
per day at the reduction works, and,
with electric power, the entire property
can be worked for less per ton than
any mining property in the state"
To Illustrate what the report has to
say on the o. X. mine, it may be in
teresting to know that it contains a
clause showing that the waste DUMP"
containing about 10000 tons. was thor
Oughly sampled and that the returns
showed it to contain sc per cent cop
per- four ounces silver and $1.60 in gold
per ton.
AS compared with other mines" the I
clause states. these results show that
even a low-grade material average
from this mine is unusually high"
OF the Old Hickory. the report shows
the mines I'm the group to have between
forty and fifty openings where ore is |
exposed. carrying all the way from 5
% so per cent copper. every claim in
The group being elassed as valuable.
the c6hadien being described as "a }
very remarkable showing"
These properties Mr.. Parish also
reports. SHOW many thousands Of tons (
Of iron assaying 40 per cent" a most /
valuable item in connection with the !
smelter proposition proposition that |
Manager Lewis says win shortly be /
taken hold Of in earnest
In winding up his report, the engineer |
says. My conclusions as indicated |
above. are that IN these mining prop /
critics are developed i'm a systematic /
manner, and are properly equipped and /
operated under good business and mine /
MANAGEMENT. they are destined to be 4
numbered among the great mines Of i
similar character in the United States" /
The smelter site. the millsite and /
their equipment. as well as the COM 1
pany's electric power plant scheme on /
the Beaver river. are all treated Of in /
the report and their Importance fully /
illustrated. but to understand their full !
importance the report which is prob /
ably the finest ever gotten out on an /
embryo bonanza. must be consulted.