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 

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

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

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

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

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