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Show Record boys still hold property in there, gold property. There was also a mill built on the west side of the LaSal Mountains for gold ore. I do not know whether the mill is still there. There are some copper properties east of the LaSal, close to the Colorado line, but in San Juan County. 4419 The Big Indian is located between the LaSals and the Blues. It is a copper property. There is an immense deposit of copper ore there. The Lisbon property, a little farther down the valley from the Big Indian, is a copper property with ore similar to the Big Indian. I am familiar with Copper Canyon. There are copper 4420 and silver properties in there. Copper Canyon is about 75 miles west of Bluff. There is also a copper property between Copper Canyon and the Navajo Mountains that I have been to. The copper occurs in a sandstone conglomerate carrying silver values. Native silver has been found in the Copper Canyon section. I know of two or three small veins of coal in San Juan County. I know of a vein of coal west of Monticello that we opened up. I was 6 feet thick. I know of coal in what we call squaw Creek, the southwestern part of the county, that faces up about 10 feet, then there are other smaller veins of coal two or three feet think. They are working a small vein of coal east of Monticello, I think about 4 feet thick. 4422 There has not been any extensive development work done on any of the properties that I have mentioned, except the Big Indian. Outside of the money spent in the Blues in the building of the mill, and the Big Indian, there has been no money spent that I know of to any extent. A. S. Woods testified on cross examination as follows: On the prospect in Copper Canyon I have made a number of trips there and taken samples from that property with a view of 637 |