Show RICH CAVE IN RALPH CLAIM disclosures and discoveries in tintic gintic district utah have made happy many business and mining men of provo men who hold in their grasp many of the really good things of this almost incomparable district at the present time the majority of the producing mines of tintic gintic district are owned or controlled by provo inhabitants some of these are bonanzas some are just entering the productive stage and yet others give every promise of making makin good at an early date in the last named list being the property of the east tintic gintic development co in whose property on the ralph claim a rich cave has been encountered of late concerning which the provo herald says manager ralph kellogg of the east tintic gintic development company came in from the mine yesterday morning with some fine samples of silver lead ores taken from a cave on the foot level that was broken into the other night of course it is too early yet to give any estimate of the value of the discovery but there is every reason to believe that it means the opening of a big mine ore similar to that brought in was found on the foot level thirty five feet east of the shaft and the vein appeared to dip easterly about one foot in five A drift to catch this vein was run from the foot level and the cave was entered fifty two feet east before entering the cave the drift passed through blue limestone and several feet of manganese in the opening in of the cave are large clusters of crys spar such as generally appears in the rich ore caves in the district in the direction of the vein the company has feet of the vein on its ground and the stockholders many of whom are in provo are jubilant over their prospects for a paying mine in fact it may be said that they have a paying mine for of late the ore taken out has paid the expenses judge M M kellogg of this city the president of the company has been persistent in his eff efforts orts to make a mine of his companas comp anys holdings and it seems now that he has been successful attorney duff cluff who is one of the company went over to look at the mines last night and returned today he states that the cave so far as explored is 70 by 30 feet and looks most prom promising ising 11 |