, 1902-12-04
THE DEWEY COPPER NINE,
Work to Begin Shortly on the Develop
nsnt Of That Property Carries Gold
Al Well as Copper New Blood Coming
Into the Company and q Nine to be
Made Of the Property.

Fifteen miles southeast of Sar-
atoga is situated the Dewey Cop
per mine. 1t was discovered sew
eral years ago by John LundgIen,
the veteran prospector. Work
WAS done i'll the way of sinking an
incline on the ore and consider
able depth was obtained, as well
as a body of good copper ore OPP
ened up, when it was determined
by the owners to sink a perpen-
dicular shaft, a short distance
from the old one, which would
cut the vein at a depth of about
lao feet. This shaft was sunk to
a depth of lis feet, when work was
abandoned on account of lack of
funds.
The ore taken from the old
shaft assayed Is per cent. copper.
The vein is eight feet six inches
in width and the pay streak,
which is copper ore, is three and
one half feet in width. This is
what the old workings show, but
it became impracticable to contin-
ne further work there and SO the
new shaft was begun. In the new
shaft a stringer was struck, speci-
mems of the ore of which assayed
SAT in gold. 1t is estimated that
the vein will be cut by the new
shaft when it is sunk 25 feet deep
err. 1t may be that it will require
greater depth, especially if the
vein Strengthens up, which it is
liable to do.
There is a good plant of ma
chinery at the nine and the work
can be prosecuted without unnec-
cessary delay. Contractors went
out to the mine today to look
it yer and the present manage
ment will let a contract to sink
the shaft until the vein is struck.
Mayor G. P. Clemmons has re-
Gently become interested in this
property and he and j. H. Multi
Sol have made Il proposition to
purchase the interests of j. G..
Teller. If they succeed in the
purchase they will own three
quarters of the stock of the COM
psny, The mine is stocked for
$4Q0, GOO, divided into 100000
shares of 81 each. OF this stock
100000 shares has been placed in
the treasury for purposes of de-
velopment work, but it is intend
ed to only dispose of 10000 shares
at the present figure, 10 cents, af-
ter which time the stock will be
raised to 25 cents per share.
The foot wall of the Dewey is
red granite, while the hanging
wall is diorite, changing a little
distance away to a syenite forma-
ton. The mine is located right
on the open prairie, miles from the
timber, an ideal place for the de-
velopment of u mine and it is the
opinion of mining experts that
the Dewey will develop into one
of the best mines in the whole
copper region.
G.. X. Topping, a miner of wide
experience in Colorado mines,
who was employed in directing
the sinking of the old shaft on
the Dewey, said to the writer
some time since, at the time of
the closing down of the works.:
81 am sorry to see the work on the
Dewey stop, as l believe it could
be made a mine second only to
the Ferris Haggarty in import
ance with a little more work. If
the owners had let me gone 25
feet deeper l am satisfied that we
would have cut the vein and, at
that depth, there could have been
but little question but what we
would have struck the vein deep
enough to have come into ship.
ping ore. l even offered to work
ten days longer free of charge if
they would let me keep on sink
ing. 1 believe the Dewey will
yet develop into a copper mine
when the work of sinking the
shaft is continued on until the
the vein is cut"