The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-13
WORK BEING DONE
WITH MUCH ENERGY
Granite Mining District Is Show
ing Up Some Very Fine
Results.
Special to The Tribune.

BEAVER CITY, Utah, July 12.-De-
veiopment work in the copper mines or
the Granite district, ten miles west, Is
being conducted with Nigor and with
much encouraging results. Roplnson
Bros. continue to take out for snip
ment generous quantities Of high grade
ore In the Oak Leaf mine at a depth
of over $50 feet, at which point the pay
ore vein is between 3 and feet wide,
and appears to grow stronger with
sinking. 1t is already a settled fact
that the Oak Leaf property is the
making of great producing mine, and
the work now being done is to demon
strate that the output of ore can be
made to meet the expense OF develop
ment, and more. too, with the aid or
a modern hoisUing plant. which the
owners hope to install before the sea-
son Is over. What Is true of the Oak
Leaf is equally true in greater degree
of several other mines in the district
now In process OF active development.
AS has been said heretofore, there Is no
more Inviting field to be found any
where for sure, profitable mining In
Nestment than that offered In the
Granite district.
Great Bismuth Mine.
About eight miles northeast Of this
city Is the one genuine bismuth mine
by James Boytin ct al. of Beaver. and
has been opened on the slrface for q
long distance. The vein lies between
Granite and porphory and is shown to
be 3R feet wide for a distance Of over
300 feet. Samples taken of this prod
uct gives an average of 1874 per cent
bismuth and 60 cents gold to the ton.
There are no other metals in the rock,
unless IL be a percentage OF cobalt,
which rare metal is usually found TO
be associated with bismuth. nickel. etc.
Steps are being taken to have this
product analyzed. and if 1t be found
that 1T contains cobalt in considerable
quantity, the attention of the inventor,
7. a. Edison, Will be called TO the fact,
as 1T is known that he has found a
new use for cobalt In the production Of
physical energy.
Edison After Mines.
1t is fact that Mr.. Edison, during
the past year. has been making in
qulries for cobalt mines in the State
of Utah and elsewhere 1t is not there
FORE out of the possibilities that
Beaver may yet become headquarters
of the greatest cobalt-producing sec
ton Of the West,
one OF the most promising surface
showipgs for gold mine of gigantic
proportions has recently been discov-
cred about ten miles southeast of
Beaver and Is owned by Tom Foster
ingham and others, who are preparing
to do some development work on the
property. The vein on the surface Is
60 feet wide and has Jeen traced and
opened I'm places for a distance of half
mile. Assays from the quartz on the
surface go from 81 to s6 in gold. This
great vein lies between granite and
lime and from appearances bids fair
to rival any gold mine In the State in
Quantity, and undoubtedly depth will
give 1T greater value. 1t is as fine u
looking property as any found on the
surface Of Gold Mountain, the home OF
the Annie Laurie, Sewer Consolidated
and other great gold producers. and
may be said to be a distant neighbor.
as 1t lies some miles due east OF Gold
| Mountain.
Will Sulaply Iarna Mil