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Show Search for Metals Requires More Capital i tM w ' i-U-lT . - i v ' - ' ' . ''V - ' I ' 'l ' '-'i " ' k s 'Fi More underground work such as these men are doing is required in present day mining. The popular conception that mines were developed from the grass roiits is far from fact. True, some of tiie great mines were found at or i:;r.r the surface, but today prospering calls for the expenditure expendi-ture of hundreds of thousands of .dollars for exploration. Many millions of dollars have been poured into prospecting and exploration throughout Utah, that brought no ore returns, and rany millions more spent upon strceSs-ful strceSs-ful seeking of ore. An example of this is the Silver King Coalition at Park City, which brings to mind men so well known that theirs are household names today i n Utah Messrs. Keith, Kearns, Ferry, I vers and Judge. They were not rich men in those early days; in fact, they knew want j and privation as they struggled, with a lease on the old Mayowez' claims. Tenaciously, desperately, ! these men sunk a shaft. Hiring others when they had funds; work-a work-a shift for wages in adjacent properties prop-erties at times, and then duplicating duplicat-ing their efforts on their own workings. work-ings. 1 By their stoic determination and sacrifice they overcame the advers circumstances and finally succeeded succeed-ed in sinking a shaft to the 70 foot level and ore. This was th beginning of Silver King, a min that has been in almost continuoul production for over 75 years. Theii accomplishments presents a challenge chal-lenge to present generations. |