The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-18
MINING ON THE
RESERVATION
Country Thrown Open Last
Year as a Fine Surface
Showing.
BIG HALEY MINES SOLD
THE INDEPENDENCE PROPERTY
GOES TO NEW YORK CROWD.

A c. Hatch of Heber City has been
making a roundup of the Ciutah reser-
Walton country which was thrown open
10 the settler and prOspcct0r al year ago.
He was particularly impressed with the
showing on the UteIauu Mining company $
property and declared the country in that
portion of the old reservation had the
most remarkable surface mineral show
lnSs he had ever seen ana This year he
expects to see number o. new mines
discovered ami opened UU. 10 iuC Wa
satch Wave AIr- Hatcu SAID
This country is Du5 ding mp rapidly
I visited ali the settlements being built
Oh the reservation except cJOCNmOre-
Homes are building up rapidly and many
irrigation projects are beng pushed with
CnerSy- In my opinion, tins Is going 10
he great agricultural country as soon
as these enterprises can be completed
and homes built There are aCCUmmOUa-
lions Tor travellers i'm all of these settle
meHts where they can obtain feed and
Sraln for their teams Between here and
Theodore there are stopping places every
lew miles where a person can obtain dC-
commodauons and feed for his team
Il visited the CteIaud mining proper
~ situated about two miles west from
Green river in the southeast corner of the
former reservation The Itelaud com
pamy has the eastern One-thlrd Of the
mining property granted 10 the Florence
Mining company prior To The opening of
the reservation 1t comprises 2D0 acres
This country has the greatest show
ing of mineral ON the surface have
ever seen. The values are in copper, sill
Yer and gold. but the principal value Is
copper They have had assays running as
high as fifty ounces silver and SO TO =.
gold.
-Tne company sent 100 pounds of the
ore to Waterbury teaching plant at New
house, Utah They received returns at
The rate OF los pounds of copper TO the
ton of ore. being nine and Jwu-tenthS per
cent copper with d 90 per cent extraction.
Under the able management of Colonel
George f TImmS. president of the com
pany. a force of men Is now at work
developing the property with "a view u
determine the extent or the ore bOQleS
i'm order TO determine the capacity Of the
plant TO be erected at once for the re-
dUctiOn of the ores at depth also Tor the
purpose of aSCeTtalulng the quality of
The ore, 50 as to ascertain what kind of
a plant would be most desirable
This property appears TO contain the
main copper deposits of that section al
though copper ores are found at differ
ent places in similar formation for dis
lance of fifteen miles
Mr.. Hatch seems to think that dur
ing the coming season there Will De a
great many mines opened UP In different
Tarts of what was formerly the Indian
Teserva ton. aside from those OF the Ute
land. as there are many prCSpectorS now
securing the country who are only dt-
terred from working their claims ny Ted-
SON of the exceedingly high water which
makes il practically impossible To travel
through the mountains
The coal and iron deposits there upon
which there has been considerable WoTk
done Will eventually be a great source
of wealth to this region as there are some
of the finest coal veins and richest iron
daposits in the west located I'm the Tin
tab mountains