The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-12
GRAND GULCH MINE
SHIPS $4,000 ORE
Three Carloads of So Per
Cent Copper Bring
That Sum.

one car just marketed AT S6S.1O a
ton. bringing q tOta OF s3.l65.S3 for the
loadi another carload now at the Utah
ore SamDling company; and a third al
MOapa station on the Salt Lake Route
IN southern Nevada awaiting shipment.
total valuation OF approximately S10,-
200, Is the record being made by the
Grand Gulch Mining company OF Mo-
nave county, Arizona, according TO re-
turns and advices received by Manager
W. +. Jennings OF this city
The last carload showed values as
Ioliows, Silver, 4-S ounces. copper, 361
per cent irOns per cent. The car at
the sampler and the one now being
loaded VIII probably equal these val
ues- The company averages about a
car month of this high-grade copper
ore, making the output of the mine be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 a year. Three
carloads coming in a bunch is on ac-
count OF the recent washOut. The mine
has been producing for ten years, but
the present management has been in
charge only four years, since which
time IL has kept up its remarkable rec
ORD This little mine has a total out
a million.
Railroad Prospects Good.
The Grand Gulch mine is still labor
tns under the great disadvantage Of a
av-mile wagon haul, but the indications
now are very favorable OF a branch
the valley 10 ST. Thomas. a distance or
twenty-five miles. reducing the long
wagon haul 10 Iorty-IiVe miles, and
cutting out the worst part of the road.
FROM 81. Thomas in is along a fertile
valley, and in rainy weather the roads
are almost impossible Tor the big ore
wagons loaded TO the guards. With
this extension completed. which now
months, as the farmers have just
egreed 10 fan TO and help do the grad
ing down the valley, the level country
would make construction easy and
be cut in two, adding materially TO the
profits of the mining company.
Most of the rich carbOnates found in
Grand Gulch are making ia blanket
veins out IN the lime, states or sand
stone, varying from few inches TO
several Feet some bodies being almost
pure malachite. IL is seldom that any
ore under 30 per cent copper, is ship
ped. There are thousands of tons of
10 and 20 per cent copper ores now
resting on the numerous dumps await
ing the railroad or concentration.
Tourists Shouge Specimens.
Sometimes upwards of 100000 pounds
of the ore are loose and dumped in
sacks on the platform at Aoapas and
when the through passenger trains stop
there the tourists. attracted by the
bright colOrs Of the aZurites and mala-
chltes, Vie with each other 10 see who
may steal the choicest specimens. In
this way hundreds OF pounds. doubtless
OF the rich ores. are lost 10 the COM
pany.
Few copper properties in the inter-
mountain region, or perhaps in the en-
tire country, have a record equal 10 that
of the Grand Gulch mine. They could
perhaps be counted on the fingers Of
one hand. as usually il requires for
tunes and big ones at that, to bring
a copper proposition 10 even self-sup-
porting stage. LabOring under a 20
mile wagon haul and several hundred
miles 10 smelter. add 10 the wonder
of the performance of the Grand Gulch
Mining company.