The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-08
INDIAN QUEEN SHoWINGS.
Beaver County Property Rapidly AS
suming Most Ideal Proportions.

Lorln Morrison. about the bcst-informed
man on mines and mining In Beaver couh-
~. in this state. having spent lne sredIea ,1d
portion OF the last thirty years III tne
mines OF that region, came up from ms
own field OF operations, the lnuiun queen
mine in PrcusS district OF whlch ne Is
the active superintendent, on saturday.
OF conditions at the Indian queen no
speaks most optlmisUcally me mldule
and upper workings are responding gen
erously to development. The ore being
mined is of high-grade quality carrying
silver, lead. gold and copper, SNIP
ment Will be sent TO the smeiters TINS
month The principal object OF working
in the shaft and where the ore is being
extracted is to demonstrate the strength
and pcrmanency OF the contact VEN,
which lies between porphyry and lime, TO
intcrsect which q tunnel has been run
over 500 feet, the face OF which Is so near
the vein that 1t is liable to be broken into
at any time.
Will Open Large Body.
This tunnel will tap the ore vein at
distance of $50 feet below the surface ana
will open up n stopping ground of go fcet
of n large vein OF rich ore. The work OF
running the tunnel has been hard. difficult,
and at times discouraglng, but results.
as now being Enthusiastically Indicated,
demonstrate the wisdom OF the undertak-
ing In speaking OF the mines OF Beaver
county, their merits and possibilities, Mi
Morrison incidentally adycTted TO the Blue
Bird group, with which he is familiar;
The group consists OF twelve patented
claims situated UNe mics SOuln"SSl VI
Milford, and n near neighoor TO the Har-
rIngton- Hickory mino on the east Tho
ore In the Blue Bird is principally copper,
containing n little gold and silver. with
an iron gangue
Vast Ledge Disclosed.
The ledge on this property can be
traced Enthusiastically on the surface for
distance OF over 1000 feet, and Will ay-
eraGe in width from IS to l25 feet On
the Blue Bird proper q great deal OF de-
fArly hoe han
Quantities OF iron-copper have been
shipped TO the smelters In past years, In
the mine today Mr. Morrison says there
are not less than 90 000 tons of copper ore
blocked out. and that at depth Of 100
feet nothing but a solid mass Of iron-cop-
per ore exists while above and toward
the surface countless thousands of tons
OF ore which. when the right kind of pro-
cess is employed for Its reduction, can be
made to pay handsomely
One Successful Process.
The process of successfully reducing
this class of ore. and in fact all the cop
per orc which exists in tho mines of Bca-
yer county above the water level, has
| been met by the Waterbury process, a
| trial plant of which ls now In operation
| at Newhouse 1t Ia claimed for this pro-
| cess that ore carrying one and a quarter
| profit 1t is Mr., Morrlsons opinion, and
! he has seen tho Waterbury mill In oper-
! alton, that this process Will rcyolutionZe
| copper mining in Beaver county, and
| make OF such mines as the Blue Bird, Old
| Hickory O. X, the Montreal group and
| hundreds of other low-grade copper pro-
| ducing mines paying bonanzas.