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Show Record form, lying in porphyry, lime and sandstone. It was low grade with some rich spots in it. Nearly all of our operations on the property consisted of surface work and it has never been developed so that the length, depth and breadth of the deposit has been de-termined. It has been worked some since I left there, at which time its lowest workings were probably fifteen feet below the sur- 5343 face. We made some open cuts on the surface and I know that the deposit extends over possibly three hundred acres. The average of 5344 the ore body was from one and a half to three per cent copper. It is a splendid concentrating ore according to reports of the Denver assay office and reduction works. As a mining engineer it is my judgment that with a proper mill that ore could be successfully and profitably concentrated. I know of several very limited deposits of vanadium in the vicinity of the Green River and below the town of Green River. Some of these deposits are within four or five miles of the river on the east side. There is also a vein of uranium ore assaying one and a half per cent, which covers several hundred acres in the vicinity of the copper mine of the Utah- Nevada Copper Company. No attempt has been made to develop the uranium vein. 5345 We built two scows to be used with the Wilmont for the pur-pose of hauling copper ore. The largest scow was thirty feet long, with a twelve foot beam, and the smaller one was about twenty feet long with an eight foot beam. When we built these scows we put a fourteen horsepower two cylinder engine in the Wilmont. We hauled several tons of copper ore in the Wilmont to the town of Green River, but I am not sure that we took any scow loads of ore up to the town. When I became manager of the copper company that com- 5346 pany acquired an interest in the Wilmont and the scows were built by the company. I made several round trips to Moab and to the cataracts after installing the fourteen horsepower engine in the Wilmont, all of 809 |