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Show COMEBACK OF OLD FRISCO BOOM j y DAYS SEEN IN ORE SHIPMENTS The driving of two headings by a i force of fifteen miners is progressing ! with optimistic tendancies at the Lu-' Lu-' lu mine, Frisco, Utah, with an indication indica-tion that something will be learned of an interesting nature in about two weeks, according to A. H. Means in charge of development for the American Ameri-can Smelting & Refining company. Operations by this large mining concern at Frisco, noted old mining camp, is being watched with absorbing absorb-ing interest, as are the operations by the Tintic Lead Mining company, which took over the old Horn Silver mine two years ago and are now in ore bodies from which values are being be-ing removed resulting in heavy ore shipments. In the same district recent interest is being centered in the workings of the Carbonate and Rattler mine, two miles north of Frisco, which has not operated for several years, but which some mining engineers are of the opinion now will be susceptible to new development. Frisco is being mentioned confidently confident-ly soon to be in a position to stage a comeback as one of the four great mining camps of Utah and an earlier realization of the camp boom is being predicted. With ore bodies indicating new and greater life for the camp being discovered, dis-covered, especially in the heavily mineralized min-eralized holdings of the Horn Silver mine, now amounting to 10,000 acres of which 300 acres are patented, thei future is reported to be exceptionally brilliant. L. N. Morrison and W. H. Child, connected with the Tintic Lead Mining Min-ing company, which is operating the Horn Silver, who have made recent repeated trips to the mining camp, declare de-clare that the future of the properties should attract consuming interest. The story of Frisco is interestingly told by Mr. Morrison, who was there in 1S75 just after it hail been opened and until recent years. He claims that Frisco had a population of more than 1S00 people at one time. For many years Frisco has been practically a ghost town, but Mr. Morrison declares declar-es that with the present outlook a resurrection re-surrection is bound to be staged earlier earl-ier than is expected. John Hayes Hammond and Dr. Lindgren of the federal mineral survey, sur-vey, both of whom visited the camp when it was in its heyday, commented on the fact that the Frisco area was one of the heaviest mineralized mining min-ing sections in Utah. From their con- , i elusions mine operators are of the op- ' inion that the camp is now ripe for , modern mining machinery and an at- "" tending development which should ' place it in the ranks of one of the N. , largest camps in the state. This is at least the aim of Mr. Child of Tintic Lead and the forces of the American Smelting & Rening company, com-pany, whose operations in the district date early last summer. Heavily mineralized ground held by the Tintic Lead company on the Horn Silver property, which is not part of the, old workings, being operated at present, miay be negotiated for on a purchase plan, according to a recent decision of Tintic Lead directors. In other words known and proven mineralized areas in the Horn Silver vast holdings of more than 10,000 acres soon may result in the development develop-ment of a great many small mines, with possibilities of producing ultimately ulti-mately on a basis of when Horn Silver was in its glory. Regardless of the fact that Horn Silver has produced $54,000,000 up to the present time, it is claimed, the result of recent developments of that mine, that the territory has just been scratched and that there are big fortunes, for-tunes, now made accessibly by modern ' " machinery. Mining News. |