The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-27
OPENING GREAT MINES
IN BEAVER COPPER BELT
Cactus Leads All in Development of Sensational
Bodies of Rich Ore.
Backbd Imperial Comet and Others Also Make Splendid Show
ing and All Likely to Become Big Producers

Great sums OF money have been ex-
pended i'm the mining districts Of
Beaver county during the past twelve
months and much in the way Of prov
ing the worth of the mines has been
accomplished. The management Of the
Newhouse Cactus property has demon
strated that the mine is worth easily
twice as much as the estimates placed
upon it one year ago, when the amount
of ore blocked out measured up more
than S6000,000, and for all that the
ground has hardly been scratched as
yet The operation of the Majestic
companv's smelter has shown that the
company has ore I'm It's mines which.
when properly developed, can be relied
Upon TO provide big dividends. and the
fact must lend encOura cement to the
companies and individuals owning 9TH
or properties along the great copper
belt In that county. Internal dissensiOn
IN the Majestic company has had the
effect of placing a damper on the eX-
ploitatiOn of new enterprises through
the creation OF a suspicion that the
cause rested in the properties them
selves. With the phenOmenally sue
cessful run Of the smelter during the
past ten weeks that false notion has
been dissipated and the country will
now forge ahead at a pace little
dreamed Of in the years gone by.
Beavers Copper Belt.
The Beaver copper belt is present.
nentIy q field for the operation Of great
big enterprises. The lodges are uni
formly large. and, as compared with
other cOpper-produCing regions. the
values rank high. This is most clearly
shown in the development of Mr.. New
houses Cactus. where the first ledge
opened has proven to be over 100 feet
wide, with the ore averaging easily 3
Der. cent copper to a depth of 500 feet
and along the strike Tor even a greater
distance, or as far as explorations have
gone. During the year, In running out
from the bottom of the shaft to meet
the adit being driven from the mouth
OF Copper gulch, a second ledge, even
larger than the first one, has been en-
countered, and as far as possible eX-
plOred, with the result that the ore
bodies have been found just as strong
and rich as those uncovered in vein
No. I. The method Of development in
this property has been one that all
other companies might have patterned
after with profit to themselves. Every
in either the opening up OF the ore bod
les or in providing the means of their
rapid and economical extraction when
the real work of mining begins. The
work has been planned and carried out
by NJ. M. Johnson with the same at
tention to systematic detail that has
characterized his development Of the
Boston Consolidated company's mag
nificent property at Bingham. While
development of the mine has been in
progress Mr.. Newhouse's business man
Rger and chief Of metallurgicaI staff.
A. 7. BEETLES, has worked out the plans
for concentrating the ores and looked
after the building Of a splendid water
works system, which was secured in
the purchase Of the famous Wah Wah
Springs. about ten miles across the val
ley from the mines. Water Is now be-
Ing delivered through a fOurteen-inch