The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-24
GOLD HILL GROUP
MAKES BIG MINE
John H. McCrystal Visits Prop
erty in Deep Creek for the
Fifth Time.
PROPERTY HAS BEEN
ESTABLISHED BY DEPTH
Company Has Developed Large
Tonnage of Milling and
Shipping Ores.

John H McCrystal, the well-knowl
mining engineer of this city, who ha
been one OF the most sincere devotee
of the mineral resources and possibili
ties of the Deep Creek region, is bach
from looking over this splendid por
tion of Utah. Mr.. McCrystal stated
Friday morning to The Tribune that fol
the fifth time he had made close ex
animation of the old Gold Hill group
now known to the world as the Western
Utah Copper company. and he is al
the more convinced that this newly or
ganized company owns one of the great
est copper mines of Utah. One of the
most striking features of the develop
ment of this property, he states, is the
decided Improvement both In metal con
tents and size of deposits with depth.
The surface showings, however, be
states, are not surpassed by any mine
of the whole State, and no mine has
shown more general outcropping than
the Western Utah. The management
has gone down upon the vein system
TO a vertical depth of 800 feet, and
aside from disclosing all the way a
most generous amount of milling grade
ore which should give Il good profit
when handled, the management has en-
countered many deposits of rich ores.
AS far as developed along its strike,
the ore system shows absolutely no dim
mutton, and Mr.. McCrystal says that
the large end of the ore deposit is
down.
The workings of the company con-
sist of q tunnel along the ore system,
from which a Wine has been driven
112 feet, and upon the dip of the vein
a depth of perhaps 450 feet has been
obtained The assays of the resources
of the Western Utah Copper company
show an average value OF from D to 6
per cent. One very attractive feature
of the work has been the fact that
in each and every place from which
samples have been taken gold values
are shown to be present. The company
owns four distinct groups of properties
in the Clifton district, hut development
work has been emphasized only upon
the one-the Gold Hill. One recent ac-
QUESTION by the company was ranch
of 300 acres from which an lneXhausti-
bic supply of water is had
Mr. McCrvstal states that he is not
interested in the Western Utah Copper
company in any capacity, but he has
sufficient confidence in the property
and it's surroundings to have placed a
great deal of his time and money in
the ADJOINING property owned by the
Western Pacific company It will be
recalled that the Western Utah company
was recently formed in the East by
prominent Eastern and Salt Lake cap
italis1s. W. S. Mccormick is president;
Captain Duncan MacVichie is vice.pres-
ident; II. II. Green, secretary and treas
urer. F. Augustus Heinze, E, L. White,
II, NJ. Sweet and Judge John A. Street
compose the board of directors with
the above named officials The stock
of the company is closely held, the COM
pany is rushing development work most
diligently. and one of the most encour-
aging items in Gold Hill and Deep
Creek life is that the Western Pacific
railroad is confidently expected to be
at this mine by the FIRST of next June.