The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-25
SALT LAkER'S
COPPER STRIKE
P. D. DeImaS Claims to Have
Richest Discovery Ever
Made in Nevada.
80 TO so PER CENT METAL
SAYS 1T is A PROPOSITION FOR
BIG MEN.
80 TO so PER CENT METAL

Perry D. Delmas of this city has what
he declares to be the biggest and richest
copper proposition in the state Of Ne
vada for the amount of development work
done. He was here a few weeks ago get
ting material and supplies to take out
to camp with him. but at that time he
was unwilling to say anything about the
property, as he wanted to do some more
work first. His properly is located in
the head of Lee canyon, in ElkO county
not far from the line dividing that coun-
ty from Eureka county and east of
Evans station on the Eureka & PaliSade
railroad. which is something like twenty
miles south of Palisade. on the Southern
Pacific. He has six claims and writes
that he is driving a tunnel on what he
designates as the Sweepstakes South
claim He says that ore has been eX-
pressed to The Herald in order that folks
here can see for themselves what he
has found. Here is the story as Mr.. Del
mas tells it himself:
Great Bodies of Rich Ore.
1.-The tunnel I am driving looks like a
railroad bore. 1t is seven feet wide.
eight feet high and is in solid ore, ore
that is exposed on all sides. This is the
greatest ore body l ever saw in my life
of such high grade. | am sending sam
pies of it just as it is broken down at
the face. / have filled SO sacks with
this ore and have 100 tons on the dump
that will go so per cent copper. l have
done but little hauling yet, on account
of the difficulty in securing teams. but
1 expect to be hauling steadily in a few
days.
"But have the mine, and that is the
main thing. The vein is from 50 to 100
feet wide and in one place il is 200 feet
wide. Two of the claims end each other
and you can see ore for the entire 300,
feet through them in the shafts, WINES
h.
ledge long ago. The ledge is a contact
between lime and granite, the fOotWall
being lime. The ledge filling is garnet,
lime and some pOrphyry. The groupings
show copper for eighty feet wide and
they stand up thirty feet above the sur
face in places. The tunnel that l am
driving will open this ledge TO a dept
of about 500 feet and the ore now being
mined is a gray copper and copper glance,
most of which carries between 80 and
60 per cent copper.
A Proposition for Big Men.
This is a proposition that ought to be
handled by Newhouse, Heinze or a
powerful combination that could go at
it right. If I could get a big company
on this ground to do what | would like
to see done TO 1t, l am sure IL would
rival the greatest mines in Butte, as
there is no question but what the ores
go down. If a big company had this
property il could run a tunnel 600 or lOt
Ieet below the one am uilNlhS III ore
all the way and tap my ground at a
depth of LOCO feet, at least. 1t is going
to cost me $40 per ton TO get the ore
hauled the seven miles to Evans siding,
when it ought 10 be done for not over s
per ton.
Joseph Lipmann, J. Z. Beveridge and
a Mr.. Page, a mining engineer of Salt
Lake, as well as A. J. Anderson, super
intendent of the Gold Quartz property al
Tenabo, have all seen this ground and
know something about it. There is moth
ing about il to conceal and any one com
ing in will find some of my teams al
Evans siding every day. Come and see
it."