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
__________

  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

Miners at Summerville District near Woodside Utah.

SALT LAKERS SECURING 

FOOTHOLD IN EMERY

__________ 

  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. 

__________

Eastern Utah Advocate 

February 11, 1904

Salt Lake Mining Review
February 15, 1904

Wild and Wooly Woodside.

Accused of Awful Crime at Woodside

____________

   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. 

________________

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