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

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

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 

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

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 

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

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

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

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

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

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 

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

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

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

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

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 

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

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

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

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

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

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