The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-18
GREAT COPPER
VEINS At CONTACT
Numerous Bodies of High
Grade Opened at Surface;
Permanent Camp.

Fourteen years ago Isaac Reed went
into Contact, New; has stayed with the
camp ever since, and still thinks il has
a great future.
when L went in there I found abb at
a dozen men making surface cuts and
digging prospect holes. Some have
stayed, ana some went away. Since
then a number of good properties have
heen opened up in various parts OF the
district"
Mr. Reed is resident director of the
Nevada Copper Mining, Milling X
Power company. which owns the Blue
Blrd and Mammoth groups. The Slne
Bird has thirteen claims; the Mammoth
fifteen. From the Blue Gi~d and Pal
alto Mr.. Reed has shipped $50 tons Of
ore which averaged % per cent copper
There is a l00-fOOt shaft on the Blue
Blrd, and IL showed SIX ieet OF % Ter
cent ore said Mr. Reed yesterday 10
The Herald-Republlcan. There are
now 500 tons on the dump which VIII
run 10 per cent copper on the PalaltO
there is a 300-fOot shaft cutting a
three-foOt vein or per cent copper.
Rich Ore Bodies.
ION the Mammoth from a f5-fOot
shaft a crOsscut fifteen feet wide is all
in ore which will run nearly % per
cent copper and $40 i'm gold and silver
-At the summit property a crOsEcut
of sixteen feet in thirty -tWo-Ioot
shaft shows 10 per cent copper. This
property, on the divide, is strongly min
eralized, showing big chunks OF oxides
with copper bearing iron ores.
Ion the Magnolia, a fifteen-fOOt cut
. shows vein carrying per cent cop
per. The Rather shows twenty Ieet
of per cent siliciOus ore ia a SURFACE
cut twelve feet down ana twenty ieet
of crOssc1tting.
.-Sulphides have been found on the
Brooklyn and Bonanza groups. ON the
Brooklyn a seVen-fOOt ledge Of sui
phides has been opened la 2OO-foot
shaft. fhis is patented ground. ana
a ar
body is seventeen feet thick, averaging
10 { per cent copper A tunnel -
being driven 20 tap this crosscut-
THE DelanO property. owned by Sc
attic people recently shipped cut a ear
load via ROgersOn. They have pow 20
erful showing. They have an ere Douy
as wide as big room. The company
also owns Lucky Boy group, Tour
miles west of the DelanO. There is a
30O-fOOt tunnel on the DelanO's copper
King claim showing five feet or hlSh-
grade. II VIII run from 20 10 50 PEI
cent copper, and some OF II SHOWS sixty
ounces silver, and $40 gold The COM
pany is figuring on putting on trae-
tiOn engine in the spring
"OVer near salmon river, on emma
mountain. Twin Falls people are work
ing eight men driving an SoO-IOOI lun-
mel 10 cut al depth vein OF outcfop-
"The United States emelter people
did considerable work on the Ivy Wal
son group below the Bonanza ana
Lucl-y Boy this year uHueIstaii III
they tut several bodies OF rich ore be-
fore they pulled out OF the camp.
We are patenJing the Contact TOW n
site ana expect 10 stay with It. our
company is now figuring on putting on
a traction outfit in the sprins 10 haul
ore TO ROgerson. from which point II
viii be shipped 10 the salt Lake shei
tiers, where we find we receive very
good treatment.
The reason Contact has not made a
better showing the past Few years IS
on account of its hing 90 10 so miles
from a railroad. The branch TO Roger
son reduces this 10 forty miles. SUI
we have good prospects OF TINS brancA
being extended down through our as
rrfct as well as a chance that the west
ern Pacific viii put a feeder up through
cur country from some point near
Wells some DAY Contact VIII be
heard of. III needs only railroad IacA-
titles, and il could an once send out a
tonnage of hiGh-elass copper ores
NVbIcb you'd make other Nevada camps
sin M and blink their eyes.