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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Winterquarters, Utah post office robbed.




  Winterquarters--The post office was robbed of $655 by bandits according to a report to Denver Police.  

  The postmaster at the time was my Grandfather, Nicholas Peter Pettersson.  There actually wasn't any confrontation with bandits.  The money simply turned up missing.  Nicholas and the family had to work extra hard to pay the money back.  A co-worker was suspected. 


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Davis County Clipper
June 23, 1922

Monday, December 23, 2013

Claims Located Two Miles South of Cottonwood Wash.

In Eastern and Southern Utah

Emery County


  Walter M.Rutt of Woodside was a business visitor at Castle Dale this week.

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  Peter and Lars Frandsen have located a dozen mining claims, bearing gold, silver, and copper, about two miles south of Cottonwood Wash, some forty miles east of Castle Dale. 


Eastern Utah Advocate
October 31, 1907


Sunday, December 22, 2013

Claims Located East of Cedar Mountain.

Snap Shots at Local Events

  There is a little doing right along in the mine locating business in this county.  During the past few days George T. Stenhouse, A. W. Warrington, Lorenzo Stenhouse and George W. Richmond, all of Salt Lake City, have had entered for record five claims in the vicinity of the Copper Boy mining property, two miles east of Cedar Mountains.  Henry Wade, Lars Frandsen, R. ace and George Frandsen of Price have located three claims two miles south of Cottonwood Wash and V. L. Acord of Castle Dale has located a claim in the most southeasterly portion of Buckhorn Flat. 

Emery County Progress
January 26, 1907

Salt Lake Herald
January 30, 1907 


Friday, December 20, 2013

Mine Locating down in Emery County.

Snap Shots at Rural Events
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  Mine locating in Emery County is lighter this year than usual.  The only stir so far is three claims located about 14 miles south of Green River town and about four miles northwest of the junction of Green and San Rafael Rivers by F. L. Acord, A. G. Livingston, James Petersen, H. S. Larsen, Ray Jensen, John Aiken and A. Livingston, all of Castle Dale.  The land bears manganese and other minerals.  R. Pace and Al Pace of Green River have located a claim in Cottonwood Wash one mile northeast of Hoyt Springs.  

Emery County Progress
January 12, 1907



Improved Methods of Extracting Values from Low Grade Copper Ore Leads to more Claims Located.

TRUTH AND GOSSIP
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  Emery County Progress has this reference to parties well know in Carbon County:  E. T. Wolverton, Fred T. Stearns, A. Tuttle, William Floyd and other are plastering the country about Cottonwood Wash, Keg Springs and Monument Hill, all lying between Castle Dale and Green River stations, with location notices.  Some of this territory has been indifferently prospected in years past, and some openings a hundred feet in length, or depth, made.  The property so worked has long since been abandoned.  The mineral showing is mostly copper, but the ore is of very low grade.  With the rising price of copper and improved methods for extracting values from low grade ore no doubt there are mineral deposits in that section of country that would pay to work. 

Eastern Utah Advocate
September 24, 1903


Thursday, December 19, 2013

Copper Claims in Cottonwood Wash and San Rafael Country.

Emery County
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  T. E. Norton and the Price boys have located thirty-eight claims in Cottonwood Wash.  The ore is high grade copper, and is about twenty miles southwest of the Lesieur mine.  They have also taken up a mill site on the Muddy.  
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  Report has it that James Jeffs has been offered $3000 for his copper claim, located down in the San Rafael country.  

Eastern Utah Advocate
June 15, 1899 


Wednesday, December 18, 2013

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


Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Flattering Reports in Copper, Gold and Silver from Summerville Mining District.

OIL AND ORES
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  The most flattering reports are received from the Summerville Mining District some 5 miles east of Castle Dale.  The Hecker Mining Company and Harvey Hardy have opened up a considerable body of ore assaying high in gold, silver and copper.  Other prospectors also claims to have claims that give indications of soon becoming profitable producers.  

Emery County Progress
January 25, 1902

Monday, December 16, 2013

Hecker Mining Company is Incorporated

NEW INCORPORATIONS
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  The Hecker Mining Company with a capitalization of $30,000, divided into 300,000 shares.  The officers and directors are Harvey Hardy, president; Sidney Hecker, vice-president C. B. Jack, secretary and treasurer, J. S. Daveler, C. F. Wilsie and S. M. Stenhouse.  The company owns the Eagle group of claims in Summerville District, Emery County, this state.  

Salt Lake Mining Review
December 15, 1901


Sunday, December 15, 2013

Mining Activity near Woodside Utah.

MATERIAL RESOURCES
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  Peter Petersen and Felix Pressit, two long time residents of Woodside came over Sunday to lay in a few fall provisions.  Besides being a fine agricultural and horticultural section, said Mr. Pressit to the Progress man, Woodside boasts of some good mineral.  Of course all the surrounding country is staked off as oil land and experts tell us that the indications for striking flowing oil wells are as good as any place in Utah.  However we have copper and silver and ex-Sheriff Harvey Hardy of Salt Lake has resumed work on his Mayflower and Sheep Ranch mining claims some 11 miles west of us.  He has a shaft down on one of these claims over 100 feet deep and has opened up a vein showing good ore.  He says the showing is very pleasing and that development work is to be continued.  My brother Louis has interested some eastern capitalists in an adjoining property to Hardy's and called the Mammoth.  He has opened up a long vein carrying high grade galena ore.  Three miles east of Woodside Messrs Peer and Ensign are opening up one of the finest seams of coal in Emery County.  They are in about 65 feet on the vein which shows a body of high grade coal 10 feet thick.  

Emery County Progress
September 1, 1901


Saturday, December 14, 2013

Copper Boy Mine in Promsing Condition.

PERSONAL MENTION
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  S. L. Boggs, who recently visited the Copper Boy mine in Summerville District, Emery County, states that this property is in a most promising condition and that new disclosures are being made with pleasing regularity as work progresses in development.  

Salt Lake Mining Review
August 30, 1899


Friday, December 13, 2013

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 



Thursday, December 12, 2013

Claims Located near Woodside and Lost Springs.

TRUTH AND GOSSIP
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  Clyde Fullmer, O. F. Hall, Willard Hall, Matt Warner, F. P. Fullmer, E. L.Underhill, G. W. Middleton, E. D. Roberts, J. E. Walton and Seph Pace, all of Green River, have located nine mineral claims in the old Summerville District, twelve miles west of Woodside and within four miles of Lost Springs. 

Eastern Utah Advocate
April 9, 1908


Wednesday, December 11, 2013

More Mining Claims added in South Fork of Neversweat Wash.

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  The Kaiser Mining Company of Salt Lake City has added nineteen more mining claims to its patented property in the old Summerville District, east of Cedar Mountain, and more particularly in the south fork of Neversweat Wash.  Extended development on this property is contemplated in the immediate future.  Plenty of low grade ore is in sight, carrying copper and silver. 

Eastern Utah Advocate
February 22, 1906


Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Recent Location of Claims in Emery County near Mexican Bend and Sulphur Canyon.

IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN UTAH
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  L.C. Moore of Provo has located a half dozen mining claims in the vicinity of Mexican Bend, on the San Rafael River, and some about two miles west of Buckhorn Flat Reservoir.  Assays show the ore to contain copper, silver and gold.  Other recent locations are those by Harvey Hardy, Jr., of Salt Lake City, who has staked out five claims in Sulphur Canyon, two miles west of the mouth of Glover Canyon, one mile south of the Price River.  

Eastern Utah Advocate
March 16, 1905


Sunday, December 8, 2013

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


Saturday, December 7, 2013

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 



Friday, December 6, 2013

Harvey Hardy Headed for Zion.

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  Manager Harvey Hardy of the Hecker group of silver and lead properties down near Woodside went through Price the first of the week, headed for Zion.  He told The Advocate that a small force of miners is being worked right along in development, though no small amount of ore is being piled on the dump. 

Eastern Utah Advocate 
July 12, 1902

Thursday, December 5, 2013

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
Page 3

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Two Shafts Sunk by Hecker Mining Company.

THE HECKER IS GREAT
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  J. S. Daveler and C. F. Willsie of Lake City last week made an examination of the workings of the Hecker Mining Company, and they report the mine as being in a most gratifying condition.  This property consists of a group of five claims situated nine miles from Woodside, and is being developed under the supervision of Harvey Hardy.  Two shafts have been sunk within the past few months to a depth of sixty and forty feet respectively and from these shafts numerous crosscuts have been run clear across the vein, which is forty feet wide, and the entire distance has been through what is believed to be shipping ore, and about a carload of the ore is now in sacks ready for shipment.  Assays from hand samples which have been taken with a view of obtaining an average of the vein have yielded all the way from 30 to 62 percent lead, 4 percent copper and 68 to 238 ounces of silver to the ton.  

Eastern  Utah Advocate
May 8, 1902




Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Kaiser Mining Company Incorporated in Salt Lake City.

MINING AND OIL  NOTES
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What is Being Done in the
Development of Western
Mineral Wealth
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  The Kaiser Mining Company has filed articles of incorporation in the County Clerk's office at Salt Lake City.  The company owns the Copper Boy group of four claims in the old Summerville District in Emery County and is capitalized for $300,000, divided into shares of the par value of $1 each.    The officers of the company are J. A. Grose, president; S. W. West, vice-president; C B. Jack, secretary and treasurer.  

Ogden Standard Examiner
April 5, 1902

Salt Lake Mining Review
April 15, 1902

Monday, December 2, 2013

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



Sunday, December 1, 2013

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


Saturday, November 30, 2013

Fine Assays from Ore.

DIPS, SPURS AND ANGLES
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  It is learned that some very fine assays have been obtained of late from ore sent in from the Hecker Mine in Summerville District, Emery County.  Colonel Harvey Hardy is superintendent of this promising property.  

Salt Lake Mining Review
January, 15- 1902

Friday, November 29, 2013

Sheep Ranch Mining Company incorporated.


NEW EMERY COUNTY COMPANY
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The Sheep Ranch Incorporated For
$3,000 Yesterday

  With a capital stock of $3,000, in 1 cent shares, the Sheep Ranch Mining Company was incorporated in this city yesterday to develop the Sheep Ranch group of three mining claims, situated in Summerville District, Emery County.  Henry Harker is president; D. H. Wenger, vice president; C. B. Jack, secretary and treasurer, and these, with Harvey Hardy and M. Hardy constitute the directors. 

Salt Lake Herald
September 9, 1900  



Thursday, November 28, 2013

Work progressing at the Copper Boy Mine in Emery County.

COPPER BOY MINE
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Developments Progressing Satisfactorily at
this Emery County Property

  Work is said to be progressing very favorably at the Copper Boy Mine in Emery County under the direction of S. L. Boggs.  No stir is being made about the matter but a very good grade of ore is being encountered which carries good values in gold, copper, silver and lead.  About 1,000 feet of workings exist on the property which is located in the Summerville Mining District.  A small fortune of $6,000 was taken out several years ago from what might be called an open cut.  The ore then obtained carried 12 percent copper 40 percent lead and 119 ounces in silver per ton.  The work of sinking in the new shaft has been diligently pursued during the past few months until the present depth of 140 feet has been attained.  The indications are said to favor the belief that with depth a big body of ore will be obtained.,  In an old shaft which was sunk to a depth of 120 feet on the dividing line between the Uncle Sam and Lee claims a body of ore 6 feet wide has been exposed.  It is said, between well defined walls.  Some of this ore is said to run nearly 30 percent copper and to carry 66 ounces in silver to the ton.  A great deal of low grade ore also exists on the property which will prove a fine proposition for concentration should a mill ever be built upon it. 

Deseret News
January 25, 1900

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Claims in the old Summerville District.

OLD SUMMERVILLE DISTRICT
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The Emery County Camp Shows
Signs of a Revival 

  J. B. Taylor, the well known mining engineer and chemist, has returned from an extended trip into the old Summerville Mining District in Emery County, where he has been engaged in making some exhaustive examinations of the geological conditions as found in that section.  
  The above named district, according to what Mr. Taylor has to say, was established in 1881.  About that time some large deposits of silver, lead, copper and gold ores were discovered in the sandstone formations, but the ores proved not to be sufficient high grade to pay the expenses necessary to conduct it to the valley smelters.  The distance from the mines to the smelters was about 150 miles, and the only means of transportation at the time was by wagons.  The building of the Rio Grande Western later removed all these difficulties, but when the old conditions prevailed the country was almost entirely abandoned. 
  During the last few months, however, signs of prosperity have put in an appearance, and Mr. Taylor says the country is becoming active with every indication that the camp will become the most productive in the state after it has been sufficiently developed. 
  The main ore veins in the district run from the east to the west and generally dip towards the north at an angle of sixty-five degrees.  The character of the ores at the surface is a bromide, sulphide and chloride of silver, while the copper deposits lie in the form of halco pyrite, malachite and oxides, frequently associated with copper in the native form.  
  At the property owned by the Copper Boy Mining Company, numerous openings have been made on the surface where the ore crops out.  The development work done consists of shafts and open cuts and in no place, Mr. Taylor states, has the vein been found to be barren.  Assays taken from the surface ores have shown values ranging from 2 5/8 percent copper, 26 ounces silver, and 5 percent lead to 28 percent copper, 198 ounces silver, $7 gold , with traces of lead.  The vein ranges from six to twenty feed wide, and the paystreak measuring from four to thirty-two inches in width, lies between a quartzite footwall, a line hanging and a siliciouos gangue. 
  No depth of any consequence has been attained as yet, the deepest workings being not to exceed thirty feet, but all the developments done have been made in ore from the surface.  
  On the Sheep Ranch, owned by ex- Sheriff Harvey Hardy and others, which lies a half mile from the Copper King, the same vein appears, while the formation is some different, there being a dolomite lime foot and a blue lime hanging wall, strongly impregnated with iron.  The group consists of three claims. 
  Louis Presset owns a promising group adjoining the Sheep Ranch on the south.  There are five claims in all, and shows up values in copper ranging from 5 to 29 percent, silver ranging from five and a half to 300 ounces, and gold from 40 cents up to $4.  
  Further on to the south Dr. Dart of Salt Lake owns a group of patented claims lying in a sandstone formation.. Assays taken have shown the ore to contain values, Mr. Taylor asserts, from $40 to $100 to the ton, this of course is not an average.  
  The Midland group, located at the head of Stowe's Canyon, has a true fissure vein exposed of a good width, with a favorable showing of pay ore on the footwall, carrying copper values as high as 25 1/2 percent, gold up to $7 and silver up to 196 ounces to the ton.  The property is situated about six miles from Cedar Station and ten miles from Lower Crossing on the Rio Grande Western Railway.  
  The country is conveniently located close to fuel and water while ample water power for all purposes can be made available from the Price River.  The country is contiguous to a good farming community, and supplies from that source can be gotten cheaply.  

Salt Lake Herald 
September 27, 1899 
 


Tuesday, November 26, 2013

The Copper Boy Mine.

THE COPPER BOY MINE
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   Under the magical influence of the rapid advance in copper quotations, the active demand for the red metal which has been so apparent of late, many of the old camps of Utah and the west are being born again, as it were, and in their resurrection, give every evidence that it will not be long before they will drop into line as heavy producers of the precious metals and that their old and abandoned mine will respond so readily to  the quickening touch of capital and labor that in the near future they can be classed among the bonanza propositions and dividend payers of this inter mountain region. 
   Twelve or fifteen years ago Summerville Mining District in Emery County, ten miles west of the Lower Crossing of the R. G. W. road was looked upon as one of the most promising camps in this western country.  In fact, Summerville enjoyed the distinction of being a lively and red-hot district and quite a little mining town sprang up as if by magic within its environments--a burn boasting a population of 400 or 500 souls, who found shelter in tents, stone cabins, while even tasty homes embellished the camp, which boasting of its stores, supply houses; as well as of four saloons, generally the true index of the prosperity of any mining region. 
   It was as Summerville that Sam Gilson made a stake when the camp was in the full flush of prosperity, and it was here that many property owners found the wherewith with which to increase their bank accounts, as heavy ore shipments ere the order of the day there and many a consignment of the precious metals found their way to the market from Summerville which were sold on controls showing values of from 50 to 1,500 ounces in the white metal, 40 percent lead and well up in gold to the ton, to say nothing of the copper contents of the mineral, which would amount to a considerable sum now but which then brought the miner nothing, or worse than nothing, as in those days the producer was often times required to pay for what copper occurred in his ores.
   With the decline in silver quotations a few years ago, the heavy drop in the price paid for lead, and the little value placed on copper, the promising district of Summerville began to lose its grip and like a frost-bitten rose it soon began to be known as "one of the have beens,"  only here and there a dismantled cabin, an abandoned mine, a neglected prospect being the only tangible evidence that in the past a lively mining camp had once found existence there, only a few claim-holders keeping up their annual assessment work, confident that in time the wave of prosperity would again surge over that section.  
   With the unprecedented demand for copper which has characterized the financial circles of the world for the past year or two, cane the turn of the tide, as far as Summerville was concerned, for old mining men, familiar with the mineralization of this section, returned to look u old mines and to locate new ones, and it as for copper, not gold or silver, that they were looking for and it was here that they found it in encouraging quantities, the ores of the district carrying paying values in the red metal.  
   With the resurrection of Summerville came its transformation from a gold and silver camp to a copper producing district.  From the ashes of the past a new camp sprang into existence, the merits of which have already been as a lodestone to the capitalist and investor, among the first attracted by its promising copper properties being S. L. Boggs, of this city, who, with a few friends carefully investigated its mineral zones, the result being that associated with acquaintances and with men who are always on the outlook for meritorious mines and prospects, a group of claims was secured, being the identical property on which Sam Gilson had made a raise years before, and a few months ago the property formed the basis for an incorporated organization designated in the articles of incorporation as the Copper Boy Mining Company. 
   The mineral belt on which the Copper Boy is located, THE REVIEW is informed, is prolific in its ledges, its dips ans spurs, the formation being in immense quartzite dyke, the principal ledge being true fissures with an east and west strike. 
   The most work and development, however, and this is limited, has been done on a six foot vein of blanket formation, from which, in the early history of the camp, the former owners of the property made shipments of four cars of ore which netted them something like $6,000, the mineral being sold on control assays showing values of 42 percent lead, 12 percent copper, 119 ounces in silver and $4.50 in gold to the ton. 
   The illustration of the mine given herewith shows the shallow open cut from which this small fortune was taken and also sows where the company is now sinking a shaft on a vertical vein.  This shaft is now only down below grass roots; it is only 20 or 25 feet in depth, and yet the bottom is in a nice body of mineral which carries encouraging values in silver and gold and which is heavily impregnated with copper, the belief being, and the indications showing good cause for the assumption that with depth the fissure vein will lead to a large body of pay ore in which copper will predominate. 
   Overlapping the blanket vein above described there is a large deposit of oxide gold bearing ore, which, it has been found, leaches well and can be successfully treated by the cyanide process of reduction.  
   Almost on the dividing line between the Lee and the Uncle Sam claims, embraced in the Copper Boy group, is the Hutch shaft which was sunk several years ago to a depth of 135 feet and it is stated that in these old working a six foot body of ore is exposed between well defined walls, one half of which, by careful sorting, will carry values of 29 percent copper, 66 ounces in silver and $1.50 in gold to the ton, while the balance of the ledge is a good concentrating product which can, with a mill, be handled on the ground at a good profit. 
   On the Lee claim, about 1,500 feet east of the Hutch shaft, the ledge outcrops boldly and at the surface there is a foot of mineral which assays 23.8 ounces in silver, 80 cents in gold and a strong trace in copper to the ton, it being evident, when the vein was first thrown p, that it carried excellent copper values, but which, with the action of the elements and years of exposure, have leached out, but so promising is the showing at this point that during the present season Manager Boggs will do some systematic development there, his time being fully occupied at the present time in sinking the new working shaft on the Uncle Sam claim as rapidly as possible, and also in sacking ore for shipment at the old Hutch shaft.  
   Quietly and with no whoop and hurrah, Mr. Boggs and is associates have been hard at work this spring in the development of the Copper Boy.  They do not claim that it is a mine, but they are convinced that it is a most promising prospect and good enough to warrant a little money in its exploitation, feeling confident that with development it will open out into a producer and a paying mine. 
   In his report on the Copper Boy, C. L. Gilson, refiner at De LaMars Golden Gate mill at Mercur, says: 

     "The property of the company consists of the following claims, viz: Lee, Uncle Sam, Silver and Rattler, or about eighty acres of land; these claims are located end to end along the outcrop of the vein for a distance of 6,000 feet or about 1 2/2 miles on the vein, which shows values in either gold, silver, copper or lead the entire distance." 

   General Formaton of the country--The Cretaceous in this region consists of a series of peculiarly resisting quartzitic sandstone (Dakota) at the base, succeeded by several thousand feet of clay shales, with a few sandstone and limestone, all of marine formation, (Exact from Geological Guide Book to the Rocky Mountains, by S. F. Emmons.) 
   Ore Deposits--The footwall of the veins is in an immense quartizite dyke running almost east and west, rising through stratified limestone and sandstone.  The mineral matter has come from below along the contact of this quartzite dyke to the stratified rock which forms the hanging wall, and all indications are favorable to the existence at a lower depth of an immense body of high grade ore, proven almost positively by the thorough mineralization of the outcrop of the vein, in gold, copper, silver and lead, all of which are found giving very high assays the entire distance of the outcrop. 
   Shipments--The discoverer of this mine shipped four carloads of ore, taking it from the outcrop along the vein on the Silver claim and in no place going down ever three feet from the surface.  Average smelter returns on this shipment, viz:  

Gold........................................................................$4.50 per ton
Lead........................................................................     42 percent per ton
Copper....................................................................     12 percent per ton
Silver......................................................................     119 ounces per ton

which netted him a little over $6,0-00, after paying mining, freight and smelting charges.  There are now very bright stringers of high grade copper and galena ore in the crevices from which this shipment was made.  From information received from the original locator of the mine and men who worked in the 135 foot shaft on the Uncle Sam claim, shipments of very high grade gold, copper and silver were made from the 75 foot level carrying higher values than the shipment made from the outcrop of the vein on the Silver claim' this should go to prove up the ground and show that at present there i a vein of very high grade ore for a distance of at least 1,500 feet, and also to prove that with depth the ore increases in value.  There cannot be a particle of doubt that an ore body exists, for all along the outcrop of the vein for a distance of 6,000 feet small pieces of ore can be picked up assaying $100 per ton. 
   About fifty pounds of chloride of silver was taken from one place that assayed 1,500 ounces in silver to the ton.  
   One of the great advantages of the Copper Boy mine is that it is not dependent upon the demand or market value of any one particular mineral, as its ore bodies carry gold, copper, silver and lead, and if one mineral is not in active demand the other is sure to be.  
   Active work is now going on at the mine.
   The company is capitalized for 300,000 shares of the par value of $1, with 100,000 shares in the treasury. 
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Salt Lake Mining Review 
June 15, 1899






Monday, November 25, 2013

Incorporation of Copper Boy Mining Company in Summerville District.

NEW MINING INCORPORATIONS
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  The Copper Boy Mining Company with a capitalization of 300,000 shares of a par value of $1 each.  The officers and directors of the company are George Moore, president; D. J. Kelly, vice-president; S. L. Boggs, secretary and treasurer, E. B. Critchlow and W. J. Barrette.  The property of the company consists of the Rattler, Silver, Uncle Sam and Lee claims in Summerville District, Emery County. 

Salt Lake Mining Review
May 15, 1899

Salt Lake Herald
May 11, 1899



Sunday, November 24, 2013

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

Saturday, November 23, 2013

Emery County Marble.

EMERY COUNTY MARBLE
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  Expert opinions lately obtained on samples of marble from the claims located by Ira and E. S. Day of Lawrence together with several others are very encouraging.  There are said to be as many if not more varieties of colors in this new marble find than can be found in any other marble property in the United States.  The coloring too is said to be of the prettiest uranium tints.  So far however there is no pure white but it is expected that this may be encounter with further development work.  The stone dresses nicely.  Mr Hayden, an expert eastern stone cutter, is now engaged in making some pretty ornamental work at Huntington.  He too pronounces the Emery County stone the equal of any he has heretofore seen.  There are several ledges of the marble exposed on Lost Spring wash east of Cedar Mountain and about 27 miles from Lawrence showing the deposit to be of great quantity.  An effort will be made to get the stone on the market and secure the endorsement of some prominent builder in Salt Lake and elsewhere.  There is enough of the material in Emery County to build several cities and it is expected that a good industry will soon be established about the stone deposits along the eastern edge of Cedar Mountain. 

Emery County Progress
August 2, 1902







Friday, November 22, 2013

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

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Uncle Jesse Knight interested in Emery County Mining Property.

  Castle Dale Progress:  Uncle Jesse Knight of Provo, who is both a sagacious and lucky mining man, and one who is not afraid to take a chance, may become interested in Emery County' mining ground.  He has had assays and an examination made of Peter Frandsen's copper property near Desert Switch.  The assays run away up and it is believed the property is just as good.

Salt Lake Mining Review
July 30, 1907

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Silver and Copper Ore near Desert Switch.

ORE RUNNING HIGH IN
SILVER AND COPPER
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  Peter Frandsen came in from his mining claims about eight miles south of Desert Switch, this county, to spend New Year's with his family here.  Himself and brother Lars Frandsen of Price and two miners are putting in long shifts sinking a shaft on their claims and at the same time getting out a car load of ore to be sent to Bingham Junction.  According to Mr. Frandsen some ore recently sent in to Salt Lake assayed as high as 176 ounces of silver and 20 percent copper.  If the carload to be forwarded goes as high in value as anticipated Emery County will have a steady shipping mine for some time as there appears to be a good sized body of smelter stuff. 

Emery County Progress
January 5, 1907

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Mining Clams Showing Values.

NEWS OF TOWN AND COUNTRY
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  Peter Frandsen of Castle Dale was a Sunday visitor in Price.  Several mining claims which himself and associates are working down below Desert Switch are showing up fine values in the precious metals, including copper and lead.

Eastern  Utah Advocate
February 25, 1909

Monday, November 18, 2013

Gold Reef and Platinum Mining Company is Incorporated.

OF A MORE OR LESS PERSONAL NATURE
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  Articles of incorporation of the Gold Reef and Platinum Mining Company of Price were filed with the Secretary of State last week.  The capital stock is placed at thirty thousand dollars, divided into 300,000 shares, valued at ten cents each, which is fully paid up by the taking over of twelve mining claims situated in Emery County.  Peter Frandsen, President, and Lars Frandsen, secretary and treasurer.  The other directors are Hyrum Frandsen, John Allred and R. W. Crockett.

Eastern Utah Advocate
December 17, 1908

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Claims in Cottonwood Wash.

In Eastern and Southern Utah
__________

  Lars Frandsen, W. F. Olsen, and Rasmus Frandsen of Price have located four mining claims in the vicinity of the Dr. Hoyt Spring, about fifteen miles northwest of Green River in Cottonwood Wash. 

Eastern Utah Advocate
April 23, 1908

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Copper and Mineral Claims filed in Emery County Utah.

IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN UTAH
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  Since the first of the year mining location notices have been dropping into the county recorder's office quite regularly.  Peter Frandsen of Castle Dale and Lars and Hyrum Frandsen of Price have located twenty-five copper claims near Cottonwood Wash.  J. R. Roberts, Walter Ruit and G. B. Milner have filed on four copper claims in the old Summerville District and Ed Stewart, Susan K. Frandsen, Henry Empey and Mary Stewart have located mineral claims not far from the same locality. 

Eastern Utah Advocate
January 23, 1908

Friday, November 15, 2013

Peter Frandsen in Salt Lake City.

IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN UTAH
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  Peter Frandsen of Castle Dale spent the week in Salt Lake City on business connected with his mining property in the eastern portion of the county.  A sample of ore taken from it gave returns of 56 per cent lead, besides showing good values in silver.  

Eastern Utah Advocate
June 14, 1906

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Miners sink Shaft.

EMERY COUNTY NEWS NOTES
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  Peter Frandsen has engaged a couple of miners to sink a shaft on his mining property recently located some four miles south of Hoyt's cabin. 

Eastern Utah Advocate
March 9, 1905


Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Lost Springs District Mining Claims sold.

NEWS OF TOWN AND COUNTY IN BRIEF
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Jack M. Whiting has sold his interest in thirteen mining clams in the Lost Springs District, near the Peter Frandsen property, to J. G. Calloway and J. D. Boyd of Price.  Whiting is going to Nevada. 

Eastern Utah Advocate
March 22, 1906

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Good Mining Property.

LOOKS LIKE GOOD
MINING PROPERTY
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  In the old Summerville district some forty miles east of Castle Dale more prospecting has been done than elsewhere and there the ore carried some gold and considerable silver but no one ever found enough of it to make mining pay there.
  Peter Frandsen of Castle Dale has opened up some copper ore that runs quite high in the red metal some ten miles south of Desert Switch, a station on the Rio Grande Railroad.  Mr. Frandsen expects to ship a carload of the ore to a Sandy sampling works in a short while.  If that ore is found to pay and the Copper Globe continues to come to the front it is likely that some sort of a mill or pyritic smelter may be put up on the San Rafael River and the ore treated locally.  If ore is found in paying quantities in the Copper Globe the face will give a great stimulus to mining in Emery County for there is a vast territory of as yet unprospected ground that shows fully as good surface indications as
the Snyder and Frandsen territory.  

Eastern Utah Advocate
December 16 1905


Monday, November 11, 2013

Good Ore.

GOOD ORE IN SIGHT
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  Peter Frandsen of Castle Dale is back home from his mining property nine miles south of Desert Switch.  A shaft has been sunk to the depth of 79 feet and the vein is so wide that it was necessary to drift to catch the footwall.  The vein now shows 36 feet of mineral across the breast.  The company (Gold Reef and Platinum Mining Company) was incorporated last fall under the laws of Utah with a capital stock of $30,000 and Mr. Frandsen is the president of the company.  It is now proposed to put on a steam hoist in the near future and an effort will be made to get some sort of concentrating plant to handle the ore. 

Emery County Progress
February 13, 1909

Eastern Utah Advocate
February 18, 1909 

Salt Lake Mining Review
February 28, 1909

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Pleased with Showings

PROSPECTORS PLEASED
WITH THEIR SHOWINGS
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  Lars Frandsen came back to Price the other day from the Cedar Mountain country, where he left Ed Stewart, R. Pace and Jack Whiting working several claims recently located by himself and others.  They have a fourteen inch vein in place on one claims, says Frandsen, and this will be sunk to considerable depth.  The crowd will take up about twenty claims, locating among others the old Hoyt mine, worked as far back as 1892. 
  The twenty-two tons of ore recently shipped from there to Salt Lake City by Peter Frandsen of Castle Dale gave an average value of twelve dollars to the ton, says Lars Frandsen.  Provo parties were down there last week, figuring to put in a mill or leaching process, for the treatment of the ore, which carries lead, silver, gold and copper.  
  Lars Frandsen's claims are located about six miles west of Desert Switch.  There is plenty of water for milling and mining purposes.  Good springs of water flow the year around, while wood and coal may be had in close proximity. 

Eastern Utah Advocate
March 8, 1906




Saturday, November 9, 2013

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
 

Friday, November 8, 2013

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


Thursday, November 7, 2013

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

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Lease of Claims in old Summerville District Emery County



  With a capital of $10,000 in 2 cent shares the Azurite Mining Company has been organized to develop under lease and bond the Mammoth and Protection Group of seven  mining claims situated in the old Summerville District, Emery County.  G. H. Morley is president, Allen T. Sanford vice president, Hyrum Groesbeck secretary and treasurer and E. D. Woodruff and G. W. Richmond are the other directors.

Eastern Utah Advocate
November 7, 1901

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

First Locations at Recorder's Office.

PURELY PERSONAL
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  The first mining locations to appear at the county recorder's office at Castle Dale for this new year are an even dozen made by Harvey E. Hardy, Harvey Hardy, Jr. and M. H. Odell, all of Salt Lake City, in the old Summerville mining district, south of Woodside. 

Emery County Progress
January 14, 1904

Monday, November 4, 2013

Fortunes near Woodside.

PRICE PEOPLE SEEKING
FORTUNES NEAR WOODSIDE
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  Lars Frandsen, R. Pace, Ed Stewart and Jack Whiting pulled out of Price last week for the Cedar Mountain country, where they expect to make a mine and a fortune along with it.  Supplies were taken along to keep several men at work for a considerable time.  The property gives assays of gold, silver, copper and lead and the claims are most encouraging as far as prospected.  They adjoin those of Peter Frandsen, the latter having recently shipped out a car of twenty-two tons to Salt Lake City, and which, it is claimed, it will pay to work.  The nearest shipping point is Desert Switch.

Eastern Utah Advocaate
Marach 1, 1906



Sunday, November 3, 2013

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

Saturday, November 2, 2013

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 

Friday, November 1, 2013

More on mining near Woodside Utah.

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Hardy Makes Strike

  Word reaches here that Harvey Hardy, who has been working in the Woodside district for two years or more, has made another strike on Cedar Mountain.  Some years ago a man named Brandon from Leadville located a claim on the east slope of the mountain, and was grubstaked by the railroad operator and pumpman at Woodside while he and a man named Eldridge sank a forty foot shaft on the claim, all men owning a fourth interest.  The Leadville man died and the property was abandoned.  Since that time it was located by Hardy, who has lately had a couple of men on it doing the annual labor.  A few days ago they encountered a rich paystreak at a depth of fifty feet that runs extremely high in silver and carries some gold and copper. 


Eastern Utah Advocate
November 13, 1902

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Samples from Hecker Mine near Woodside Utah.

 The following is another article from old newspapers about the Hardy workings as my dad called them or the Copper Boy as it was known in the Salt Lake Mining Review.  This mine is in the Summerville Mining District in Emery County Utah.  I will have more articles posted to this blog in the future. 

THE HECKER MINE
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  Another lot of samples from the Hecker, near Woodside, have been tested at an assayer's in Salt Lake City,  The returns show from 93.5 to 119 ounces silver and from 43.2 to 48.5 per cent lead, with an average of 95 ounces silver and 45 per cent lead per ton.  This was derived from five assays.  Returns from samples of chloride were no less satisfactory, the average reaching 53.8 ounces silver and 37.89 per cent lead.  Of the latter Harvey Hardy reports a breast of seven feet in the cut by which the vein has been opened up, and to get it to moving to market 200 sacks have been forwarded to camp.  The shareholders are all rejoicing over the result of the assays, while the outlook cannot but stimulate interest in the camp.  


Eastern Utah Advocate
February 13, 1902

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Miners at Summerville District near Woodside Utah.


SALT LAKERS SECURING 
FOOTHOLD IN EMERY
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  In the old Summerville mining district, south of Woodside more lode claims are being located than ever before, and the Kaiser and Hecker mining companies are preparing for a season of great activity.  Castle Dale's Progress says Harvey Hardy, S. M. Stenhouse, C. B. Jack and other Salt Lake parties, who have been doing more or less development work in that locality for several years, have lately been adding to their mining possessions by securing extensions of already partially developed lodes and taking in additional territory. 
  Louis Pressit of Woodside and associates have also been quite active in the locating business, and have added some choice looking mineral lands to their holdings.  J. B. Millburn, a Price man, and others have located mineral lands seven miles east of Hatchet Rock, and Attorney Allen Sanford of Salt Lake has interested himself in several claims in the old Summerville district. 
  Wyatt Bryan has made some locations west of Sinbad, and J. H. Barton, Charles A. Perry and Fred N. Miller, Miss Millie Cook, all of Ferron and Mrs. C. B. Snyder of Provo have placed their names to locations on ground twenty-five miles southeast of Ferron, in the vicinity of the Copper Globe property. 
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Eastern Utah Advocate 
February 11, 1904

Salt Lake Mining Review
February 15, 1904

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Wild and Wooly Woodside.

Accused of Awful Crime at Woodside
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   Frank Randall of Woodside, aged about 30 years and a ranchman, was taken to the county jail at Castle Dale Monday in default of $2000 bonds demanded by a Green River justice for his appearance for trial at the next term of district court.  Randall is alleged to have attacked John Carswell's wife, the mother of six children, on the evening of March 3.  
   Randall was intoxicated at the time.  Mrs. Carswell was unconscious and incoherent for twenty-four hours after being found and would have died from her injuries had not a posse of citizens found her shortly after the attack.  
   Mrs. Carswell says that she was returning to her home a couple of miles from Woodside depot when she was attacked by Randall, who left her unconscious.  She was found by her husband and neighbors, who had become alarmed at her prolonged absence and instituted search.  A pair of gloves and a bottle of whiskey, said to belong to Randall, were picked up near the place where the victim lay.  
   Carswell was formerly engaged in mining at Sunnyside, but moved to Woodside six years ago.  Randall, it is alleged, is addicted to hard drinking.  He has lived at Woodside nearly all his life. 
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Carbon County News 
March 22, 1912

Mother of six is attacked by Brute
http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/odgen15/id/37958/show/37789/rec/38

Evening Standard
(Ogden Standard Examiner)
March 20, 1912

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Tribute to Newton School Children. I just love this video.


I actually saw this video on the program America's got Talent and loved it.  I didn't know at the time that it was a tribute the the Newton School victims. 



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jJ8r67fjdE&sns=fb 





Sunday, August 25, 2013

Honeybee Facts.


http://www.backyardbeekeepers.com/facts.html 






ROYAL JELLY FACT SHEET


Royal Jelly is the substance that turns an ordinary bee into the Queen Bee. It is made of pollen which is chewed up and mixed with a chemical secreted from a gland in the nursing bee's heads. This "milk" or "pollen mush" is fed to all the larvae for the first two days of their lives.
   
The larvae chosen to become a queen continue to eat only royal jelly. The queen grows one and a half times larger than the ordinary bee, and is capable of laying up to two thousand eggs a day. The Queen Bee lives forty times longer than the bees on a regular diet. There is no difference between a queen bee and a worker bee in the larval stage. The only factor that is different between them is that a developing queen bee continues to eat only royal jelly.
   
Scientists decided to try feeding the queen bee's diet to other animals with surprising results. The life spa of pigs and roosters showed as much as a thirty- percent increases. Fruit flies fed royal jelly increased in size and in rate of production. Chickens given royal jelly laid twice as many eggs, and older chickens began to lay again.
   
In France, there have been reports of women fed royal jelly during menopause, showing complete remission of their symptoms. Some were even able to become mothers again. France also claimed that their studies showed royal jelly to have rejuvenating and sexually stimulating effects on both men and women. Canada has approved royal jelly as a natural dietary supplement for its athletes. Royal jelly is not a drug, but a nutritious, quickly assimilated food.
   
In Germany, Drs. Chochi, Prosperi, Quadri and Malossi (in separate studies) used royal jelly as an aid to badly undernourished and premature babies. The infants fed royal jelly increased in weight and health. Another doctor, Telatui, reported that neuro-psychic patients given royal jelly regained normal weight, a more stable nervous system, and a greater degree of stamina for physical and mental work.
   
Chemical analysis of royal jelly found it rich in protein and the B vitamins (especially panothenic acid). However, analysis of royal jelly fails to break it down into all its different components. It cannot be synthesized.
Royal jelly has proven to be a potent bactericide. It also acts as a catalyst, stimulating intercellular metabolic activities without significantly modifying normal physiological activity. Thus, it hastens cell recovery with no side effects. Royal jelly has been known to speed up healing of wounds and to reduce the amount of scarring.
The beneficial effects of royal jelly seem not to depend entirely upon its vitamin content, but upon some type of enzymatic or catalytic action of an as yet unknown factor; or perhaps, the known factors working in combination with a co-enzyme through a process that has not yet been defined.
   
Since the action of royal jelly seems to be systemic rather that one which affects a specific biological function, it has been recommended for a great variety of purposes: to retard the aging process, for menopause, correction of under-nutrition, for arthritis, vascular diseases, peptic ulcers, liver ailments, nervous instability, skin problems, improvement of sexual functions, general health and well being.  

 

Sunday, August 18, 2013

Magpie Invasion


This is about an invasion of magpies on my street.  There was about 8 of them.  I got a couple  of them in one picture being stalked by an old black and white cat named Oreo.  I got five of them in the second picture.  But I missed a really good video.  In the second picture there is a chain link fence and a wooden fence.  Shortly after I took this picture there was another cat came from inside the chain link fence area.  I was waiting for the magpies to get closer to Oreo for a chance at a video.  The second cat appeared near 3-5 magpies.  Before I could analyze the situation and decide what to do it lunged through the opening of the two fences at the covey of magpies.  The cat didn't capture any but it gave them a good scare.  They were very excited.  Or was it angry.  They stayed a few minutes, left and haven't been back.   The invasion was over. 











Saturday, August 10, 2013

New evidence about Lost Dutchman Mine.


http://www.desertusa.com/lost-dutchman/lost-dutchman-1.html



http://www.desertusa.com/lost-dutchman/lost-dutchman-2.html



http://www.desertusa.com/lost-dutchman/lost-dutchman-3.html



Many tales of the Lost Dutchman mention an Apache curse which protects the sacred burial ground of Apache Indians. This curse also protects the treasure of the Superstitions, whose secret location the Apache are said to know.
The legend of the curse traces back to the early 1500s, when Jesuit priests from Spain began to build missions in the areas now known as Arizona and New Mexico. During this period, the Jesuits established relations with Native Americans, who worked to mine the gold, much of which was sent back to the King of Spain.

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The legend includes details on how the Peraltas buried the rich mines with rocks to hide their discovery. Some also believe that after the Spanish miners left the area, the Apache removed up all evidence of mining by filling holes, mines, tunnels, etc. with dirt and rocks.

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Well one night Dave, a frequent hiking companion and I had just finished a rough trip over Malipais mountain from Peters canyon and had rappelled down a cliff into LaBarge canyon somewhat above the Labarge Box.

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While some of the stories regarding the Peralta Mine (a.k.a. The Lost Dutchman Mine") reflect that the moonlight through Weaver's Needle point to the entrance of the mine, Jacob Weiser's Journal tells a different story. While the State of Arizona protected the area of Weaver's Needle and Superstition Mountain by making it a State Park, it appears that the mine may be located outside of this area. Although a successful businessman, inheriting roughly $7.2 million (American) from the gold sent by Jacob Weiser to his sister in Germany, I am not a prospector and I'm not interested in searching for the Peralta Mine (a.k.a. "The Lost Dutchman Mine") or working the mine for its gold. I'm more interested in proving the legend.


Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Novak Djokovic’s Diet includes Manuka Honey from New Zealand.


http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/tennis-busted-racquet/novak-djokovic-diet-lesson-strict-commitment-being-best-171756387.html

Want to roll like the world's top men's tennis player? Start by drinking loads of warm water all day long, as well as shakes made with pea protein concentrate. Avoid dairy and stay away from alcohol during tournaments. Eat lots of avocados, cashew butter and very little sugar. Banish caffeine, other than the occasional energy gel bar before matches. Be sure to get seven to eight hours of sleep a night, meditate, do plenty of yoga and tai chi, take melatonin supplements, hook yourself up to a biofeedback machine that measures your stress level and, when you have a free moment or two, keep a diary. Feel free to unwind with a cup of warm licorice tea.

Okay, so no coffee, no beer, no dairy and eat a lot of manuka honey from New Zealand? Even A.J. Jacobs thinks this diet is strange.

Monday, July 15, 2013

Taking Lemons and making Lemonade.


I believe that the greatest example of making lemonade from lemons is what God can do with a human being. 

Friday, June 28, 2013

Backyard Garden.


I had plans of growing acres of cantaloupe, goji berries, and cherry tomatoes this summer but I wasn't able to make it happen.  I have over 200 plants in my backyard though so I am practicing or learning in case I can grow acres of these plants later.  So far I have plenty of goji berries, but not many charentais or petit gris melons.  I will get cherry tomatoes but likely not as many as I had hoped.  Out of about 30 melon plants I only have about six melons.  There may be some hiding still though.
timely transplanting and tilling compost into the soil seem to be keys to a good crop.  I just have to settle for backyard gardening rather than acres of plants.   

Monday, June 17, 2013

Put the Aronia Berry on your Radar.


http://shine.yahoo.com/shine-food/aronia-berry-superfood-164100257.html



If the aronia berry is not yet on your radar, it should be. This North American "superberry" is gaining a reputation as a disease-fighting superfood that rivals the Amazon acai, the Austrian elderberry, and the Patagonian maqui with its levels of natural anti-oxidants.

Thursday, June 13, 2013

My goji berry plant growing experiences.

I got a late start last year growing goji berries.  I bought a few plants some of which already had berries on them.  So I knew it may be relatively easy to grow them.  This year I got an early start.  I even brought a plant in the house to try to get berries early.  That was a fail.  It still does not have berries on it.  It grew a lot of branches but not berries as yet.  I'm still early in my experiences with goji berries as they have not had time to mature.  But I am getting berries and there is still a month or two left in the season.  In a year or two they will be mature enough that I should be getting pounds of berries off of them.  I don't know if I will get enough to sell, which is my intent, but I should get enough to keep me busy eating fresh, drying and freezing for my own personal use. 

In my travels I did try to find a goji bush in Springville that a had a reported location of.  I did find the one in Castle Gate and I am pleased with that one.  I have tried to take cuttings off of it but I have not had much luck.  I think I need to take the planters with me and plant them promptly.  The first time I was there it was raining and I got a lot of cuttings and they kept well but they did not seem to take.  I also got some cuttings from a place in Lehi that I did promptly plant in top soil but they did not as well as I had hoped.  I did have some success.  The bag of top soil or potting soil is not one I would recommend.  I do believe in compost though.  Till in the compost before you plant. 

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Dugway meteor(ite). Still looking.


http://bonnevillemariner.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/hunting-for-meteorites-proves-fruitless-though-hope-remains/

here’s meteorites in them there hills!

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The adventure began just after midnight on November 18 when a bolide meteor– possibly a stray from the Leonid shower– streaked through the night sky over Tooele County and sparked a public frenzy.  The fireball, which was seen as far away as California, hit Earth’s atmosphere with such intensity that it had to be measured in terawatts.  Those fortunate enough to witness the event were treated to the light show of their lifetimes.
The above is a compilation of several clips from Salt Lake City area security cameras that captured the falling meteor.  The following originally appeared in the December 3, 2009 edition of the Tooele Transcript Bulletin.
Silky clouds crept over the Stansbury Mountains and began spilling rapidly into the range’s western canyons.  An unrelenting wind tossed large tumbleweeds helplessly across Skull Valley.  The scene might have been ripped straight from an epic western film– one with a major science fiction twist.
My sons Bridger (8) and Weston (7) and I marched along a bare stretch of terrain, our eyes trained on the ground, scanning every inch of dirt for remnants of another world.  What would a meteorite look like?  We didn’t know exactly.  But the prospect of freshly fallen space rock was too appealing to pass up.
Our method wasn’t scientific.  Most of the technical legwork had already been completed by astronomers and devout meteorite hunters the country over.  Tap that mass collaboration, I thought, and we just might have a shot.
The adventure began just after midnight on November 18 when a bolide meteor– possibly a stray from the Leonid shower– streaked through the night sky over Tooele County and sparked a public frenzy.  The fireball, which was seen as far away as California, hit Earth’s atmosphere with such intensity that it had to be measured in terawatts.  Those fortunate enough to witness the event were treated to the light show of their lifetimes.
Regional seismograph stations recorded vibrations that seem to have been generated by the meteor’s sonic boom.  The event was captured by several Salt Lake area surveillance cameras.  Footage was given to media outlets, who promptly broadcasted it and posted it online.  Astronomers recognized the phenomenon and scrambled to calculate the details.  Local experts estimated that the meteor exploded at about 20 kilometers above the earth’s surface and its fragments dispersed somewhere over western Utah.
Like the fireball’s appearance, the response by meteorite hunting groups was both intense and brief.  News of the “witnessed fall” quickly reached Mike Bandli, founder of Historic Meteorites, a private meteorite collecting and hunting organization based in Washington State.  He immediately called his hunting partner, Rob Wesel, and told him to take some time off work.  In the last year Bandli and Wesel have recovered meteorites from three separate falls and were ready to spend their Thanksgiving scouring Tooele County’s deserts.  With the help of meteorite modeling expert Robert Matson, the team began to aggregate data.
Step one was crowdsourceing.  Bandli posted a request for eyewitness accounts in the comments section of a Salt Lake Tribune article about the event.  The team then turned to the video footage.  The flash lit up surrounding mountains, revealing the cameras’ angles in relation to them.
A fresh meteorite has a charcoal-like fusion crust with a chipped off portion revealing the bright interior (courtesy Mike Bandli, HistoricMeteorites.com)
The team used the camera locations available online to map each location in Google Earth.  Using five accurate camera angles, Bandli and crew determined that the meteorite distribution, or strewn field, was somewhere on Dugway Proving Ground.  Other groups arrived at this same conclusion, which one anonymous Internet poster called “statistically unfortunate.”
And so the effort screeched to a halt.  Fellow meteorite hunters that had been dispatched to Utah tried unsuccessfully to collect more information.  Seismic data gave only an expansive area where the fireball occurred, and the fall failed to register any usable Doppler radar data.
Bandli and Wesel, who were ready to fly into Salt Lake that day, contacted Dugway but were denied access.  Dugway spokeswoman Paula Nicholson confirmed that some groups had contacted the facility to gain access but were denied.  She said there’s no evidence yet that anything landed there, but promised to keep the public informed of any findings.
I came across Bandli’s Tribune comment while parsing media reports.  I contacted him and he was happy give me a peek at the complex world of meteorite hunting.
“We often work in small teams that consist of people we trust or work well with,” Bandli told me.“It is important that the data we collect and information we release be managed in a controlled manner. We don’t want irresponsible would-be hunters trespassing on people’s land or creating a spectacle.”
Once the team identifies a portion of the strewn field, the hard science takes a back seat to simple visual analysis.  “We rely heavily on our eyes,” Bandli said.
And instinct.  Some hunters carry magnetized canes to probe the ground (most meteorites attract magnets), but experienced hunters like Bandli can identify meteorites visually.
“They’re black, burned rocks that look out of place.  In many cases they are chipped or broken revealing a bright or grayish interior,” he said.  The team walks in a gridding pattern to accurately sample areas.  When meteorites are discovered, they begin to map the strewn field.  Smaller meteorite fragments lie toward the strewn field’s tail and grow in size toward its head.  Finds are meticulously detailed to maximize their scientific value.
“Dugway is a hunter’s dream,” Bandli lamented.  “Looking for black rocks on a flat and bright salt floor– it could have been a historic recovery.”
Still, Bandli understands the security situation at the facility and hopes the military can conduct its own successful search.  “There is good reason to keep people off that property,” he said.  “We respect whatever decision Dugway makes.”
But the meteorite hunting community may not be entirely out of luck.  Bandli said some data suggests that fragments may have broken off of the meteor early and landed in rugged terrain immediately northeast of Dugway.  Calculations proposed to Paula Nicholson by the Discovery Channel also place the strewn field northward.. Despite recent reports placing the termination point even further west, Bandli remains confident in his Dugway triangulation.
“Basically what we have is a huge search area,” he said.  “The only way we’ll know for sure is for somebody to find a piece.”
The boys and I had chosen a flat area on the flanks of the Cedar Mountains a safe distance north of the Proving Grounds.  We walked a criss-cross pattern, finding a few rocks looked out of place but that didn’t match Bandli’s description.  We left empty-handed but hopeful that somewhere in this no-man’s-land lies a trove of otherworldly fragments, waiting to be discovered.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Many prospects of Green River.


Green River is well know for its watermelons and cantaloupe.  Apparently that is not enough.  There is a group trying to put in a nuclear plant near there.  They are looking into CO2 sequestration nearby.  There was even talk several years ago about an oil refinery at Green River.  The nuclear plant and CO2 sequestration I know were to be between Green River and Woodside.  Not so sure about the oil refinery.  There is much speculation here which I'm sure has spilled over a bit to Woodside.  Among all this speculation I am going back to the beginning.  Or even the future.  The beginning being growing cantaloupe.  The future growing berries.  I hope to be able to plant a variety of berries with the main berry being goji berries.  Goji berries are well known and may bring a higher profit.  These days more people are health conscious and I have several berries in mind to grow that are high in antioxidants.  

Monday, May 27, 2013

Logic of Woodside.


The logic of Woodside to me is about my dad's choice of location for property to farm.  Starting about 2005 I looked at real estate and  vacant land all over Utah.  I could not find a place as good for farming as the location my dad selected at Woodside.  It has a nice pumping point, an irrigation ditch in place, a garden spot that at one time was cleared and is pretty level.  There is also water right for over 7 acres.  That is hard to come by.  There is a family that has over 700 acres at Woodside.  They have been trying for years to sell this for over $5,000 an acre.  Much of it is only worth $50 an acre if that because it is just tamarisk and is in the flood plain which gets flooded 2-3 times a year.  Once in a while these floods are humongous.  That is why all the farmers left Woodside.  Their crops kept getting flooded.  That is one thing that is so good about my dad's property.  No tamarisk to speak of and the garden is well away from the flood plain.  That's logical to me. 

Monday, May 13, 2013

Extortion 17 and the loss of lives of seal team six. Was this the result of a corrupt government?


http://m.youtube.com/?client=mv-google#/watch?v=rqtJrJ40Cio

Extortion 17.  They let them die.  They gave them over to the enemy.  They is our leaders.  The current Obowma administration.  Watch the video.  This even bigger than the Benghazi cover up.  Pretty sad when you really can't trust your own government in America. The video brings out some alarming ideas that if true does not speak well for or of America's current leaders. 

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Will Rogers said that all he knows is what he reads in the paper.


Will Rogers said that all he knows is what he reads in the paper.  This is OK if the news reports the news in an open and honest method.  When the papers, radio, TV or Internet news reports what they want you to hear all you get is brainwashed.  You may know a lot but what you know may be false or worthless.  That may be what is happening now with a biased news media.  There are reports of many news outlets reporting the news with a strong bias.  Many people can see through this and are smart enough to figure out the truth from what is reported.