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

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 

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

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