The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-08
RICH COPPER ORE
m DEEP CREEK MINE
Western Pacific Company
Makes Greatest Strike Dis
rict Has Ever Known.
HALF MILLION IN SIGHT
Wilson Brothers, Deep Creek
Pioneers, Prove Confidence
Well Founded.
HALF MILLION IN SIGHT

The biggest discovery of high grade
copper and lead orc ever made IN the
Deep Creek country has just been
found in the ground of tho Western
Pacific Copper company, in the Will
low Springs mining district on the
eastern slope OF the Deep Creek range,
about sixty miles little cast of south
of Wendovcr, on the Western Pacific
railroad. tho nearest railroad point.
Wilson brothers, who have offices on
the second floor of the Arcade build
ing, own control Of the company and
have Just received by parcel post a
l00-pound shipment OF the new ore,
which assays show runs 24.d per cent
copper, 23.S per cent lead and carries
an ounce of silver.
The important discovery was made
in short drift to the south run from
the bottom OF a 250-foot incline shaft
and at n vertical depth Of approx
matelv $50 feet There is fifteen feet
of il where il is cut by this drift, and
il il all of practically the same grade
as the samples sent in. The same orc
body has been cut by another working
seventy-five feet from this point, and
il is there almost identical in size and
quality.
The story of its finding is an un-
usual and interesting one. The IN
cline shaft above referred to is run on
the footwall of the vein, which dips 10
the west and into the mountains, Sew
cral months ago and at point sew
entv-fve or n hundred feet above the
drift which has cut the ore another
drift was run in the same direction.
This soon encountered a fssure paral-
leling the shaft and cutting the
vein, and here WIS found a series of
caves. On entering the one first pene-
trated il was discovered there was an
other and a longer one beneath with
the opening between barely large
enough TO crawl through. Venture
some miners hung a rope sixty feet
long into the lower cave and descended
it to explore. Here on one side OF the
cave, next to the hanging wall of the
vein, and in such position that the
only way they could secure specimens
was by swinging on the ropo and grab
bing a piece when they we're near
enough, was found face OF the rich
ore recently penetrated. II was I'M
possible to get at it from the cave to
determine its extent. so the shaft was
sunk further and the drift run TO
penetrate It as stated above. Portions
of the interior Of these caves are white
as new snow, and they are described
as being very beautiful.
Mr.. Wilson says they have practi-
cally demonstrated this body of ore 10
an extent that shows approximately
100000 net in sight after deducting
mining and smelling costs and rail
haul, as we'll as the so ton wagon
haul TO Wendover. He thinks that is
probably only a fraction of the ore
there. as the outcrop shows for
hundreds of feet. About 1000 feet
west Of the shaft and further up the
mountain Is great porphyry dixie,
which may be the source of the min
crali2ation.
The mine is not new one, the first
work on il having been done nearly or
quite fifteen years ago. There are
rwo tunnels lower down the mountain.
both aimed for this vein. One of
these, estimated 10 strike the vein at
a depth of 600 feet on the incline, is
in 400 feet, and one estimated to cut
the vein at 100 feet on the incline is
in 600 feet A smelter site has been
located at the mouth OF the canyon
and there is plenty Of water and tim.
ber.
Mr Wilson is confident they have
great mine, and declares Deep Creek
- ono of the greatest mineral regions
the greatest variety of mineral
where. And he feels certain they will
have railroad soon. either from the
Western Pacific at Wendover or the
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