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

Lease of Claims in old Summerville District Emery County

  With a capital of $10,000 in 2 cent shares the Azurite Mining Company has been organized to develop under lease and bond the Mammoth and Protection Group of seven  mining claims situated in the old Summerville District, Emery County.  G. H. Morley is president, Allen T. Sanford vice president, Hyrum Groesbeck secretary and treasurer and E. D. Woodruff and G. W. Richmond are the other directors.

Eastern Utah Advocate
November 7, 1901

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

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

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