Mining Claims near Desert Switch.

FRANDSEN PROSPECTS ARE

SHOWING UP SPLENDIDLY

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  Peter Frandsen of Castle Dale and Johnny Allred of Ferron are working their group of mining claims, eleven in all, about three miles north of Tidwell's cabin, and about ten miles southwest of Desert Switch.  They have opened up the vein in several places and found ore at every point.  A tunnel to develop the whole group is to be driven this summer.  The ore runs wuite high in silver and copper.  

  R. H. Smith, the abstracter, and L. V. Snow all of Salt Lake City, Paul and John Judd, James Peterson and George N. Kofford, all of Castle Dale, have located a number of claims apparently bearing gilsonite or ozokerite, some forty miles southeast of Castle Dale, and within a dozen miles of Desert Switch. 

  The claims show a large deposit of the glistening black was mineral, some of which was sent to Salt Lake City last week for an analysis.  

Eastern Utah Advocate 

April 8, 1905

Body of 55 Ounce Silver ore.

UNCOVERS A BODY OF

55 OUNCE SILVER ORE

  Peter Frandsen of Castle Dale is apparently opening up a mining property in Emery County some eight miles southwest of Desert Switch that will soon develop into a producing proposition.  Recent tests of ore from the property made from samples shipped to the U. S. Smelting Company at West Jordan show the ore to run as follows:  

  Sample No. 1 - Gold 0.02 oz, silver 55 ounces, copper 7.6 percent, iron 1.5 percent, silica 83.6 percent.  

  Sample No. 2 - Gold 0.01 oz, silver 23 ounces, copper 3.4 percent, lead 38 percent, iron 31 percent, silica 79.7 percent. 

  Sample No. 1 shows ore worth above $30 a ton and sample No. 2 goes better than $25 a ton.  Mr. Frandsen and his son-in-law Johnny Allred have located several claims and have opened up the property both by shaft and tunnel.  The deepest shaft is but 15 feet and a tunnel has been run on one vein about the same number of feet. 

  The ore body appears to be a wide one but not enough development work has been accomplished yet to ascertain its real extent.  No other development work has been done in the same vicinity so that future value of the property depends wholly upon what develops with further exploitation upon it.  Mr. Frandsen has two men at work there now.  Several visitors have looked at the property and all are well pleased with the present showing. 

  The smelting company has offered Mr. Frandsen $12 per ton for the ore laid down at Desert Switch basing their price from tests of samples sent. 

  Negotiations are now pending with other smelters.  Offers have been made but none as yet have been high enough to meet their ideas of the value of it. 

Eastern Utah Advocate 

December 23, 1904