The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-11-18
GREAT COPPER
VEINS AT CONTACT
Numerous Bodies Of Hioh.Grade Open
cd at Surface; Permanent
Camp

Fourteen years ago Isaac Reed went
into Contact, New; has stayed with
the camp ever since. and still thinks
1t has a great future.
"When | went in there found
about dozen men making surface
cuts and digging prospect holes. Some
have STAYED. and some went away
Since then number OF good proper.
ties have been opened up in various
parts of the district"
Mr.. Reed is resident director OF the
Nevada Copper Mining, Milling &
Power company, which owns the Blue
Bird and Mammoth groups. The Blue
Bird has thirteen claims; the Nam
moth fifteen, From the Blue Bird and
Palalto Mr. Reed has shipped $50 tons
ore which averaged % per cent cop
per.
There is a 1OO-foot shaft on the
Blue Bird. and 1t showed six feet OF
25 per cent ore" said Mr. Reed yester-
day to The Herald-Republican. There
are now 500 tons on the dump which
will run 10 per cent copper. On the
Palalto there is a 30O-foot shaft cut
ting three-foot vein OF 5 per cent
copper.
Rich Ore Bodies.
"On the Mammoth. from 7ofoot
shaft n crosscut fifteen feet wide Is
ali in ore which Will run nearly 20
per cent copper and $40 In gold and
silver
At the Summit property a crosscut
OF sixteen feet in a thirty-two-foot
shaft shows 10 per cent copper. This
property, on the divide, is strongly
mineralized showing big chunks of
oxides with copper bearing iron ores.
"On the Magnolia. fifteen-foot cut
shows a vein carrying . per cent cop
per The Rather shows twenty feet
OF per cent siIicious ore in a sur
face cut twelve feet down and twenty
feet of prosecuting.
"Sulphides have been found on the
Brooklyn and Bonanza groups On the
Brooklyn, a seven-foot ledge of sui
phides has been opened In 200-foot
SHAFT THIS is patented ground, and
has been idle lately The Bonanza
ore body is seventeen feet thick. ay-
craging 6 to 7 per cent copper. A
tunnel is being driven to tap this
cCosscut
The Delano property, owned by Sc
attic people, recently shipped out a
carload via Rogerson. They have a
powerful showing. They have an ore
body as wide as big room The
company also owns Lucky Boy group
four miles west OF the Delano. There
is q 3O0foot tunnel on the Delanos
Copper King claim showing five feet
OF high-gradc. II will run from %
10 so per cent copper, and some OF
1t shows sixty ounces silver, and $40
gold. The company is 6guring on
putting on a traction engine In the
spring.
over near Salmon river. on China
mountain, Twin Falls people are work
ing eight men driving an SOO-foot
tunnel to cut at depth a vein OF out.
cropping high-grade
The United States smelter people
did considerable work on the Ivy VII
son group below the Bonanza and
Lucky Boy this year. ] understand
they cut several bodies OF rich ore be-
fore they pulled out of the camp.
"We are patenting the Contact
townslte, and expect TO stay With It,
Our company is now figuring on put
ting on a traction outfit in the spring
to haul ore to Rogerson. from which
point it will be shipped to the Salt
Lake smelters. where We find we re-
ceiye very good treatment
The reason Contact has not made
n better .aCWing the past few years
is on account of its being so TO Go
miles from a railroad. The branch to
Rogerson reduces this TO forty miles
Bnt We have good prospects of this
branch being extended down through
our district, as we'll as a chance that
the Western Pacific will put a feeder
up through our country from some
point near Wells. Some day Contact
VIII he heard Of 1t needs only rail
road facilities. and IL could at once
send out TONNAGE OF high-class cop.
per ores which would make other
Nevada camps sit up, and blink their
ewes"