The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-15
MINES Of BEAVER
PROGRESSING FAST
Southern Copper Company Now
Going Through Tale Rich
in Minerals.
LOOKING FOR COPPER
AT WATER LEVEL
Properties Are Proving Worth
Despite Theories of the
Many DOubters.

capt. Ed. WIG, manager OF the South
ern Copper company of Beaver county, Is
In the city direct from camp. He reports
considerable activity in mining in Beaver
Lake district, The shaft on the Southern
Is now down $50 feet. In sinking they
went through 200 feet of reddish tale, oil
carrying gold, copper and silver The last
seventy five feet has been through pretty
hard rock, but the formation is changing,
becoming softer. and three distinct ore
veins from five TO eighteen inchee wide
have been encountered. Upon these veins
the shaft Is being sunk. Tho indications,
as predicted In these columns, are that
this hard formation Is the cappins OF the
Sllphlde copper veins that exist below
and which viii be found when water level
is reached. IL Is upon this theory that the
management is developing the mines and
already conditions apparently justify the
wisdom OF the efforts being put forth.
To Work Wasatch King Group.
The object OF the Captains presence in
Salt Lake al this time Is TO mike ar
rnngements 10 start work on one OF the
richest and most promising mining claims
yet found in that district. tho Wasatch
King group. IL Is Il business proposition
exclusively and VIII be conducted alon6
scientific lines. the sole object being the
making of money by ore shipments by
the most economic route known To the
experienced miner The ore values run
from $50 and upward 10 the ton, princi-
pally lead and silver. Work on the Wa
satch King Is mainly devoted To tho run
ming OF drift from the face of the tun-
mel In AIS feet. to intersect the great gold
When this work Is accomplished, which
Will be within the next sixty days, 1T Is
not extravagant to predict that the Wa
satch King company will figure as ono OF
the richest In Beaver county
Silver Crown Busily Engaged.
rrl.-
rated work on their new possessions in
Beaver Lake district The Silver Crown
Mining company Is a recent corporation
1t owns some very rich silver-lend prop
erty, and under the personal direction OF
j. G, Brownfield and Frank Lane. for
mer owners, earnest development work ls
being lnaugurated. Tho Silver Crown Is
close neighoor of the Black ROCK and
Skylark mines Development work on the
Skylark is showing the mine up In flnc
shape, The richness and great possibili-
ties arc not yet appreciated by the people
who are fortunate enough to hold stock
In the company, The Skylark group of
mine claims Is situated in the very cen
ter OF the great ore-bearing zone or
Beaver Lake district. The ore, OF which
large bodies have been opened up is, In
places, OF very high grade. running over
70 per cent copper and 1t can be treated
stockholders Will realize thot they have a
big proposition In the Skylark
Estella Rich in Gold.
Tho Estella mine. in Star district, as be-
ing developed by Superintendent S. A.
Tarbet, Is worthy of more than passing
notice. The Estela Gold Mining com,
pany owns group OF claims situated
about FIVE miles southwest OF Milford. the
ore In which Is principally gold. The
peryision OF Mr.. Tarbet for the past four
or Ave years, a good portion OF the time
under conditions which would have dis
couraged n less careful, prudent, courage
n home
who thought the mine could not be made
a paying proposition, and In the Judgment
there was OF it-could not bo made to
yield to treatment, and that In their
opinion the orc veins were small and not
Indicative OF permanency; In the face, OF
all pesslmietic preaching, however, Mr..
Tarbet kept on developing the mine and
piling up ore until he had enough on the
dump and In sight to Justify the erection
OF mill and cyanide plant. He built the
reduction plant flve-stamp mill, over
a year ago. The mill worked well and
to the utter astonishmont OF tho doubt
reduced. He has recently enlarged the
plant to twenty-five stamps and has
adopted the method as prncticed In Colo
RADIO with such signal success that most
OF the ore values recovered. There
is ore enough blocked out and in sight In i
the mine, that Will run from $40 to 81 to
GRAFTON for the neXt year or two
Ore In Permanent Veins.
In addition, the mine Is In process of
systematic development. shaft Is be-
ing sunk vertically 400 feet, II Is now
down 900 feet. at which point a drift Will
be run 400 feet to tap tho great porphyry
dyke, which traverscs the country east
erly and westerly, and to open up the
great contact vein which lies between the
porphyry and granite. The success of the
Estella mine Is OF vast moment to that
portion OF the Star district. as 1t demon
strates the existence OF bre In permanent