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

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  

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

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 

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Claims in Cottonwood Wash.

In Eastern and Southern Utah

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  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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
 

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

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

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

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

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 

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