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

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 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
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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

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

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  

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

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

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
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  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