Emery County Growing in Favor as a Mining Section.

AROUND THE STATE

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  Emery County is steadily growing in favor as a mining section.  She's coming all the time, without pushing or boosting.  There's scarcely a mineral one can name that is not found in some parts of this county.  Heretofore it was considered that our mineral deposits were of too low a grade to profitably develop and work, notwithstanding the fact that low grade mining propositions have been the greatest dividend payers.  The Hecker property, however, in the Summerville District, east of here, of which Harvey Hardy is superintendent, promises to change the color of outside opinion respecting mining conditions here.  The Hecker is producing more really high grade ore and reports say there is plenty of it.  A sackful of ore, gathered from 200 feet of the outcropping ledge, was assayed this week and gave returns of 233.2 ounces of silver and 67.1 percent lead.  Several other tests with almost as good results had been heretofore made.  It begins to look as though the mountains east of us contained tons of treasure. 

Salt Lake Mining Review
February 15, 1902

Operations Reumed on Hecker Silver Group.

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  Harvey Hardy with a force of men from Salt Lake City and a strengthened treasury has resumed operations on the Hecker silver group down at Woodside and hopes to bring around a paying proposition for its backers before the snow comes.  The shaft on one claim is down over a hundred feet with a splendid showing almost from the start. 

Eastern Utah Advocate
August 6, 1903

Hecker and Kaiser Have Lead Silver and Gold.

SUMMERVILLE DISTRICT

WILL MAKE GREAT CAMP

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  Superintendent Harvey Hardy of the Hecker mine in Summerville District, Emery County, is in from the camp today.  He is particularly please with conditions there and says that within another year the camp will be one of the best in the state in production of lead-silver ore.  

  The Hecker property has just closed down until after the holidays, when the company expects to resume work with an increased force.  The development work accomplished this season has opened up a large body of excellent concentrating ore and the company has now under consideration plans for a plant to handle the product, which Mr. Hardy says will average 15 percent lead, 25 ounces silver and $1 gold per ton.  Of this ore there is an immense body, almost at the surface.  In the drift from the bottom of the 100-foot shaft a strong  vein is opening u which carries no less that 176 ounces silver and 25 percent lead.  

  At the Kaiser, a property of five claims in the same locality, which in early days shipped ore bringing returns of $1500 per car, a force of miners will be put on early in the year.  And a number of other properties in the district are being steadily worked.  

Salt Lake Telegram
December 15, 1902

Salt Lake Mining Review
December 30, 1902 

Harvey Hardy has Dislocated Shoulder.

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  Harvey Hardy, manager of the Hecker group of mines down near Woodside, went into Salt Lake City the other day with a dislocated shoulder, sustained through the overturning of a cart along the road.  

Eastern Utah Advocate
May 8, 1902
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Harvey Hardy has Good Ore in Two Mining Properties near Woodside.

GREAT SHOWING MADE

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Harvey Hardy's Intelligence and Perseverance 

Rewarded by Ores in Two

Properties

  Superintendent Harvey Hardy of the Sheep Ranch and Hecker mines, down near Woodside, was in Salt Lake City the other day to secure a whim for the first named property, which has now been shipped.  He reports that the bottom of the Sheep Ranch shaft, two hundred feet down, is in a vein from six to eight feet between the walls, the contents of which show horn silver in nearly every piece.  The showing is a magnificent one and an ample reward for Mr. Hanly's faith in the property.  Of the Hecker, he says that in the progress downward it looks better every day.  Apparently a great camp is about to be developed in this district. 

Eastern Utah Advocate
March 27, 1902

Mining near Woodside at Cedar Mountain.

THROUGH THE KINGDOM OF EMERY

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  Felix Presset was one of the Woodside delegation in town early in the week and spoke enthusiastically of the mining outlook in his section of the country.  He confirmed all the good reports published concerning the quality and quantity of ore Harvey Hardy and his associates are getting on Cedar Mountain, five miles west of Woodside, and further informs us that the Azurite Mining Company, of which George W. Richmond of Salt Lake is manager, is also sacking a quantity of lead ore on its property one and one half miles south of the Hecker property.  The Azurite people have three men at work and the Hecker fold five.--Castle Dale Progress. 

Eastern Utah Advocate
February 27, 1902

Spring mining at the Hecker.

THE HECKER

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Starts Work Again on Its 

Woodside Claims

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  Harvey Hardy and a force of miners from Zion went down to the Hecker company's property near Woodside last Saturday to begin the energetic development of a three foot highly mineralized streak to the vein which was encountered while crosscutting to the hanging wall of the ledge on the 100 foot level.  Some very choice pieces of ore have been taken from the streak, and the management expects it to turn out well. 

Eastern Utah Advocate
March 5, 1903

Conditions at the Hecker near Woodside Utah

HECKER NEVER LOOKED BETTER

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Good Assays Obtained With 

Very Shallow Depth

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  Superintendent Harvey Hardy of the Hecker mine down near Woodside is particularly pleased with conditions there and says that within another year the camp will be one of the best in the state in the production of silver ores. 
  The Hecker property has closed down until after the holidays, when the company expects to resume work with an increased force.  The development work accomplished this season has opened up a large body of concentrating ore and the company has now under consideration plans for a plant to handle the product.
  Mr. Hardy says it will average 15 per cent lead, twenty-five ounces silver and $1 gold per ton.  Of this ore there is an immense body, almost at the surface.  In the drift from the bottom of the 100 foot shaft a strong vein is opening up which carries no less than 176 ounces of silver and 25 per cent lead. 
  At the Kaiser, a property of five claims in the same locality, which in early days shipped ore bringing returns of $1500 per car, a force of miners will be put on early in the year.  And a number of other properties in the district are being steadily worked.



Eastern Utah Advocate
December 18, 1902