Denver Miners Interested in Silver and Lead Ore in Eastern Utah.

CEDAR MOUNTAIN IS

SHOWING SOME ORE

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  Denver mining men are doling prospect work in the Cedar Mountains--in eastern Utah. Silver-lead ores have been discovered thus far and the formations show traces of copper and gold.  

  Among the local men who have been interested in that section of the state is former Sheriff Hardy of this city.  He has acquired much of the mineral bearing land, and says that while it is some distance from the Desert Switch, he feels confident, those interested can show capitalist that they have properties that can be made to pay with the installation of facilities for treating the second class product.  

  The Hecker Mining Company has also done a considerable amount of exploitation work, and reports fairly good results.  At this time it is said to be doing assessment work, and on the strength of the showing made, Denver miners have been attracted to that region.  Almost a score of Denverites are at work in the Cedar Mountains, and they say that they will devote the greater part of the winter to opening up some of the ledges they have located.  

Salt Lake Telegram
December 31, 1908 

Good Looking Ores.

LARS FRANDSEN BRINGS

IN GOOD LOOKING ORES

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  Lars Frandsen came in last week from the San Rafael country, where he recently located a number of claims which carry gold, silver and copper, according to assay returns from Denver, Ogden and Salt Lake City.  The ore is found about fifty miles southeast of Price, not far from Tidwell's Bend, and south of Desert Switch on the Rio Grande Western some eight or ten miles.  The main ledge or vein, and which he thinks will probably carry the values, is a limestone formation fully two hundred feed wide and which may be traced for miles and miles across the country.  What work has heretofore been done in that vicinity, he says, has been offshoots or spurs of the mother vein.  Himself and associates are much enthused and they believe they have struck it rich.  There is no snow to speak of where he was and on their claims there are two springs of as fine water as ever flowed anywhere. 

Eastern Utah Advocate
February 23, 1905

Silver Lead Copper and Gold at Cedar Mountain.

MINING ON CEDAR MOUNTAIN

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  According to reports someone has started a little mining boom around Cedar Mountain.  Chris Larsen and Ervin Draper of Castle Dale were over in that direction a few days ago delivering a few tons of oats to Peter Olsen at Woodside.  They noticed about a dozen men prospecting and working in the district and ascertained that a few Denver men were in the party for the purpose of examining the territory with the view of prospecting and developing same.  Considerable work has been done there in the past by various parties and ore has been found that runs very high in silver and lead with some gold and copper.  Ex-Sheriff Hardy of Salt Lake City and the Hecker Mining Company have also done considerable exploitation work and obtained fairly good results but the distance from the railroad and the heavy freight charges from Desert Switch to a smelter point have discouraged the proposition of mining very extensively.  With some method of treating the ore locally thee is enough of it already exposed and of good value to warrant mining operations on an extensive scale. 

Emery County Progress
December 12, 1908

Cedar Mountain Claims.

THE MINING FEVER HITS

PRICE EARLY THIS YEAR

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  Ras Frandsen and R. Pace of Price have gone down to the Cedar Mountains to do some prospecting on a twelve foot ledge of ore recently located and about fifteen miles from where Peter Frandsen of Castle Dale has been working for several months with good prospects of making a mine, he thinks.  The Price men have several persons associated with them in a bunch of claims and after arriving there will ship out some of the mineral bearing stuff to a sampler at Salt Lake City and to Denver assayers. 

  Peter Frandsen recently shipped a car of ore from Desert Switch.  It went to Bingham Junction, where it is being put through the sampling works.  Twenty-two tons constituted the car load.  Peter Frandsen is now at Castle Dale, awaiting returns from the shipment.  All of the ores so far uncovered in that section carry values of copper, silver, lead and gold.

  There is some talk of the oil well near Lost Springs resuming work in the spring.

Eastern Utah Advocate
February 8, 1906