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Show PROSPECTING BRINGS ACTIVITY TO WAYNE Richfield. April 8. According to D. N. Hickman, former bishop of Tor-roy, Tor-roy, Wayne county, that region is just now experiencing a real mining boom. Over 300 men, he says, are now in the field prospecting. Two hundred of these, he estimates, are on the Henry mountains In Wayne and Garfield counties and over 100 others are in the hills about Torrey and around tho Miners' mountain in Wayne county. Several sales have already been made. The most important of those is the old Nixon mine near Fruita, twenty miles east of Torrey, bought by J. S. Free and H. B. Cole of Salt Lake. The Hatches, on the Henry, have sold, it is sald for $10,000 to J. W. Young. Both these mines arc said to bear rich carnotlte ores. Tho old Nixon mine was located by a man by that name in 1901 and Into it he sank all that he was able to get, and do. for about eight years. Finally he sold out to some local parties, par-ties, who made the sale. Needless to say that business In I that region is now experiencing one of the few rush periods that it has ever known. One store, the Wayne Umpire, Um-pire, reports sales that far exceed anything since it began business four years ago. Several freight teams arc kept constantly on the road between that place and its railroad station at Richfield. Before the boom they used to send out one wagon every month nnd it had to solicit other freight to make up a load. |