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Show v MINING MATTERS. The Roads at the Park Drying Up Dips and Spurs' 4 The latest reports from Park City are to the effect that the weather has settled at last and the roads are drying up rapidly. This means that heavy shipments will begin at once, and that the number of men at work, which had to be cut down because it was impossible to ship ore, will be imreased and the great camp will soon be booming. Dips and Spurs. The Keystone, at Tintic, is closed down, and theie are a great many idle men in Eureka. Eu-reka. The Grant Tunnel comnanyhas completed a survey for running a 3000 foot tunnel at Tintic, which will crosscut the Godiva, Ga-tro Ga-tro and Mammoth mines. A rich find Is reported in the Casper mountains moun-tains near Casper, Wyoming. It is iu the eont.ct between lime and serpentine rock, and carries about "5 ounces in silver and 30 per cent lead. The discovery has caused a stampede. Ollie Dilion has returned from Salt Lake City, says the Aspen lttaftj and is again directing di-recting developments on the Last Dollar, whose lower levels, lie predicts, will restore that property to the prosperity of its most palmy days. Charles Frederick, a German, claims to have made a discovery of a rich nickel deposit de-posit 100 miles north of Cheyeune. The find is forty feet under the surface, and beneath thirty feet of iron. Founteen shafts have been sunk into the rare beds. The vein of nickel and accompanying cobalt is fourteen feet in thickness. Assays made abroad and in America are highly satisfactory, and the discoverer shows some fine specimens Frederick Fred-erick was not looking for what he has found. At the iron bedrock he picked up a piece of bloom cobalt, but did not suspect its nature until, upon taking in oxygen, it became heated. He says there is 400 acres of the nickel and cobalt. |