The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-05

so, then bends around to the north. where
il becomes merged In a quartzite and
limestone contact, and further on into
contact with eruDtives To the north OF
a line Of faultiug IN which the visible dis
placement is about 800 feet. Prospect holes
ten to twelve feet deep along the line
OF faultfng, and which Is also tae contact
between the erupfiyeE and limestone. re-
veal the work of ancient hot springs
whose waters deposited enormous beds OF
tufaceous limestone. Sheets of copper
blossom" are frequent IN the vicinity.
~ seins and beds of iron ore In one of
the last named the Nevada Gold Butte
Mines company has Just completed
twenty-foot shaft and In which I'M
proyement with depth Is not a theory.
soutehrn Nevada Copper.
A couple of thousand feet northwestern
ly from the locality just described, and
out in the tiltee and intensely altered
limestone. is a large outcrop of hematite
IN which occur pipes of copper. Globules
of. native copper are also not infrequent.
On this promising outcrop the Southern
Nevada Copper campeny has six claims
Harry Bennett and others of Biackfoot,
Ida, hold the n-rol. and T. s Coffey is
the resident superintendent.
Following the before described escarp-
ment and contact around to the north
some three miles one suddenly comes onto
Copper City. lively little camp of some
within the last three or four weeks The
Iamentable affray Of last evening. in
which Fremont Cobb shot and killed
Jack Warde, has caused temporary
shutdown of work in Copper City in ad-
dition to sending a thrill OF, horror, re-
greet and sympathy throughout the dis
trict
The cobb copper mine" about which
so much has been reported and of which
so little is known, was. the foundation of
Copper City. Jack Warde and Philip
Judasey then went in and found copper
in the contact. Brig Whitmore, j. A
Benson and c. 9. Almgren followed and
the stampede for copper was on. A few
days since. with Mr.. Cobb as guide. the
writer visited the property owned by
Charles and Fremont Cobb of Moapa.
It occupies a northerly and southerly
brecciated zone well up on the west side
of Lime mountain, the strata of which
descends to the east on dip OF about
70 degrees Along a distance OF several
hundred feet northerly and southerly and
below the principal deposit copper is Ia
! evidence The original find. which Gre
ated much excitement, consists of sew
eral car lots of copper ore that viii av-
erage fully 40 per cent. Underneath that
body a tunnel was run and winZe sunk
| 20 a depth of twenty feet. Lenses of very
rich copper are are in evidence and would
seem 10 indicate a descent of values
Some Of the top rock yields upward Of
| SIS gold per ton.
Woman Engaged in Mining.
| Perhaps one of the most interesting
! psychological studies in all the world Is
4 woman in mining. In all things, as
| rule, women feel more intensely thar
men and when one of the really gentlel
/ sex gets into mining her enthusiasm !:
! simply a marvel to some of us who have
| been ''bumped' into condition o
''dreary skepticsm." Mrs Dora Sproat
a charming little woman of Copper City
/ is the happy owner OF the Star A. Star B
| Susie and Silver claims. Joining the C0bl
property, and better still, the claims show
/ copper. There are wild rumors sfloat o
veins of copper a hundred and fifty fee
wide, but time would not permit an in
vestigatioa of the reports.
| IN addition 10 the copper assets of Cop
per City there is a prospect of lead ant
| silver. Just back OF the camp is stronl
| LEDGE. recently opened, IN which silver
| lead ore crops along a distance Of abou
| 20o0 feet.
| Some three miles east of Granite Spring
| the American Mica company, with F. A
Alsop in charge. is doing a proffabi
| business mining mica The company Is
! New York concern. - Some three mile
east of the Mica is the -talked-o
nfngs OF Salt Lake, who owns the Gram
| Cuieh copper mine. II, as currently re
ported. the Bonilli has eight feet Of J
per cent copper along a distance of 600
| feet IL is surely whale"
| Except for the assays. which, or course
are mostly secondhand. the foregoing /
a truthful statement of conditions In thi
new Eldorado.
Alta meeting of the miners on the 24tl
inst the district was named Gold. Butte
and Mrs. NeI1i Perkins was elected re
corder Three stores. a postoffice, ga
loon and gambling dive are in full blast
J. F. GIBBS.