The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-17
STRIKE PUTS DEEP
CREEK IN L|MEL|GHT
Western Pacific New Ore
Body Even Larger Than at
First Thought.

Tho big copperlead strike recently
made In tho property Of the Western
Pacific Copper company at Deep Creek
is creating much interest in the posi-
bility Of that part of the state.
Some of the wideawake and
progressive men who have held inter
ests in that section have always main
taincd that il was only a matter of time
and the expenditure of the necessary
money TO demonstrate its mineral
wealth, and the development OF the
large body of orc IN the Western Pa
cific property will 20 q long way In es-
tablishing the fact.
Il. s. Hileman. who has Just returned
from Deep Creek. had an opportunity
to thoroughly examine the big orc
body, and he pronounces it one of cX-
traordinary size and average richness.
He reports ii even larger than mt first
thought, but moro work had been done
than when the first report was made
to tho main office in tho Brooks Ar
cadc building.
Mr.. Hilemau says the ore is of a uni
form grade for the full width Of the
Vein, and that the company can begin
to ship IN quantity as soon as the
heavy snow disappears in the spring.
body gives 24.4 per cent copper, 23.S
per cent lead. one ounce OF silver and
the ore carries about 20 per cent iron.
Such values are entirely satisfactory,
but the managers Of the property pre-
dict even richer values at u greater
depth. This belief is based upon the
fact that the ore body shows consid-
cradle lcnching, but in portions OF the
vein that have escaped the teaching
process. rich oxides are found, and ma
tive copper is also occasionally encoun-
tered. A fine specimen of native cop
per is on exhibition at the office; also
several hundred pounds of the average
ore, some of the samples weighing fifty
to seventy-five pounds.
The ore makes in a stratum OF dolo-
mite lime, which dips TO the west at
an angle of something near forty de-
grees from the horizon. This lime belt
is something like fifty feet in width,
and the ore bodies arc found on the un-
der and upper sides of the line. The
large body of ore recently opened is
footwall part of the vein has been fol
lowed from the surface for approx
mately go feet from the apex. The
lime lying between the foot and hang
ing wall orc bodies is highly mineral
lied, and with depth will probably all
20 to ore. This lime belt Ind never
been erosscut to the hanging wall un-
til after the discovery Of the big ore
vein in the cave. The caves make
along the fissure, but the cavities are
made in the south wall. the north side
of the fissure being but slightly af-
fectod. The reason for this condition
is that the fissure runs along the side
OF the mountain and the water that
runs down the hillside strikes and
tricklcs down that side of the fissure,
and has formed a system of caves sew
eral hundred feet in length.
The fiSsurc bisects the vein, but is
not thought TO have had any particular
Influence in the deposition of the ore
bodies found in the dolomite lime belt.
Below the bottom of the lower cave
system. the fissure is closed, and it is
not improbable that ii will he found to
contain considerable ore, concentrated
from the nearby ore bodies, and the
highly minerali2ed country rock.
The north side OF tho fissure. having
been but slightly affected by the wa
ter, shows almost a clean break. Even
the ore body that has been cut by the
fissure shows but slight indications of
teaching. The continuation OF the ore
body to the south of the fissure has
not vet been explored, bat. without
doubt. it Will be found TO correspond
with the ore vein on the north side,
because the ore body on the north side
of the fissure shows a face of ore al
most perfect to the line Of the fissure.