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
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