The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-25
CHICAGO MAN
On THE WEIMER
Old Expert on the P. L. Kim
berIy Staff Samples Low
Grade Dumps.
SAYS THE MINE is BIG ONE
BUT DECLINES TO DISCUSS SIG
NlFIcANcE OF TRIP.

t. R. Jones of Chicago. who for TWEEN
ty years or more was on the staff of P.
L. Kimberly, retxned from a several
days trip to the Weimer Copper COM
pany's properties in Fremont county. Ida
no, yesterday morning. Mr.. Jones has
been examining the property in behalf of
himself and other operators, and he
leaves for Chicago again this afternoon
highly pleased with the result of his in
designations. The significance of his visit
Mr.. Jones declined to discuss.
Il did not do a great deal of sampling 8"
said Mr. Jones, when seen yesterday aft
ernoon. The proposition appealed to me
as being a big one, and 1 was interested
TO know, not how the first-class ore would
run, but what might be expected from the
loW-grade stuff. I took good fair sam
pie of the waste dump at the Valley View
workings. and this afternoon got returns
OF Is per cent copper from that Then
1 sampled the Valley Views second-cIass
or sme.ting dump, so-called and got re-
turns OF 2.4S per cent copper, while still
another sample of low-grade material
went 375 copper VIII Stephenson the
company's metallurgist, also took sam
pie of the Valley View smelling dump and
got per cent. which is rs per cent IN
der my sample.
Fooled in One Sample.
Il only one took one sample of ore that
was considered anything more than low
grade. 1t was secured in the new north
open cut on the Paymaster claim, north
or the large open cut where so much
mining has been done, and where there
is great deal of second-grade ore cord
ed up. The company has been shipping
ore from the new cut, and Mr.. Stephen
son and each took a hand sample to
Cneck against each other. Mr.. Stephen
son had his sample tested at one assay
office and l took mine to another His
went SO per cent copper and mine ran
just IS per cent Now, If this was a
gold proposition, I would be inclined to
think that Stephenson, or somebody about
the mine, had sailed my sample. 1t de-
velops, however, as shown by some of the
rock from both samples, that 1 happened
to get hold of some ore that carried
myriads of small beads of native copper,
beads so small as to be almost invisible
to the naked eye. while StephensOn'S rock,
or that portion saved from the sample,
showed no native copper at all"
Mine Is a Big One.
Mr.. Jones admitted that the PROPOSE
ton looked a great deal bigger to him
than he had any idea it would do previ-
Gus to inspecting the ground and he re-
turns home confident that the Weimer is
going to make one of the biggest prOduc-
ing propositions in the country. Being
the first man to operate a steam shovel
in the iron mines of the Mesaba range,
1t is natural that Mr. Jones should eX-
hibit little interest in anything that did
not suggest big tonnage. so when he
comes back admitting that the Weimer
has earmarks of ranking with the big
gest copper mines in the country, skeptics
at home and abroad have something on
which to draw cold-blooded conclusions;
and it may be added that these are the
only kind of conclusions that Mr.. Jones
training and life work would permit him
to draw, no matter how he felt inwardly.
Mr. Jones is a pleasant man to meet,
but he doesn't impress one as being the
kind of an expert that anyone would feel
comfortable in trying to steer up against
wildcat or a sailed mine.