The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-23

x He copper Ranch Mining COM
pany is organized with q capital
of S500.O0O in 100000 shares. of
this $4,000 shares are in the
treasury for development purposes
Tt has a group of seventeen claims,
situated in the Rocky district about
five and one-half miles from Milford,
and not to exceed one mile from the
Frisco branch of the Short Line.
The group adjoins the Montreal mine
a property Of the GLASGOW & Western
Exploration company
the main VEN OF the property eX-
lends in a direction from northwest to
southeast with north and south cross
assures jntersecting. The dip appears
TO be 10 the northeast although there
are no workings of sufficient depth 10
distinctly determine the ultimate
course
The east end Of the property includes
the western point of the spur which
marks the limit of an uphea -al IN thar
direction almost at right angles with
the course Of the main vein of the old
Hickory.
An the veins in this vicinity are Of
enormous width and the naturalization
Is SO generally pronounced with vast
bodies of lime spar and decomposed
granite formation which form a part
of the vein filling and which are so
inpregnated that the whole mass car
ries from / 10 . per cent copper dis
seninated through it.
IA a saddle of the range, close to
the foot Of the Montreal claim, an IN
cline has been driven to depth OF
sixty feet. from which a carload Of ore
~ 8 shipped which yielded 632 per cent
CONFER. four ounces silver and Sl-S9 IN
sold. IT was not closely assorted,
streaks Cf ore being found that carried
from . to 80 per cent copper
The indications ct that point are eX-
client. the ore being found in strong
body. resting on a lime foOtwalI, with
practically nothing above il 10 the sur
face but vein filing, with punches OF
ore scattered through IT,
Fine Smelling Ore.
The ore is Of an excellent class for
smelling. carrying its own lux. and, as
EXPRESSED BIZ the smelteTmen, 1T melt
ed like butter
snort distance further west and
ON the apex Of the main vein, an in
cline shaft az ar angle OF about 20 de-
erees follows a strong vein Of iron IN
its din 10 the northeast. II is an Ole
working TO a depth of only forty feet,
but the showing is such that Il ought TO
be further developed.
Farther west and just over the crest
of the range q shaft has been sunk
eouippeS with a Whim. 10 depth OF
156 feet vertically. Started on the lower
side of the vein, il passes out OF IL into
the footysl at the ffty-fooc level A
crescent here twenty-five feet IN the
vein did not disclose the hanging wall.
At 100 feet deep a crOsscut 10 the
south Of thirty-eight feet, found the
vein twelve feet from the shaft and
went through To the hanging wall
There were indications here that she
vein vas turned 20 the north on us
din and that the hanging wall is 10 be-
come the foOtWall at greater depth. AZ
300 feet deep the vein was encountered
Win the footwau perpendicular and
vas f.Il0Ued to $50 feet deep. where q
erosse,l. was being driven into the vein
which al the time of our visit was II
aft-en feet. The vein had become very
CONTACT and streaks Of hne ore werS
encountered
over this entire range there nave
beer openings made and acrcss tbs
'7,ver slore Of It open cuts have beer
maize through The disintegrated surface