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Show NEW BEAVER COUNTY COMPANY STARTS OUT The Gold Crown Mining & Milling company, composed chiefly of local men, has been organized with the following officers: A. L. Cullimore, president; C. G. Johnson, vice-president; James Kirk, manager; William Yardley, assistant manager," says the Lehi Banner. "These men, with R. t P.. Thome, constitute the board of directors. Mayor S. L. Swenson is secretary of the company." "The company owns a group of seven claims and a bond and lease on another in the Star district, near Milford, Mil-ford, Beaver county. In one of the claims they have opened up a vein of ore that assays 46.4 per cent lead 236.6 ounces in silver and $1.44 in gold. The vein, which at a depth of 100 feet, was only a few inches wide, has since opened up to a width of over three feet and is growing wider wid-er and richer with every shift. The property is causing considerable excitement ex-citement in Beaver county, where experts have pronounced it a second Horn Silver mine. "Several years ago a company owned and operated the property, but lost the vein and gave it up. Two years ago Messrs. Johnson and Kirk relocated it and in less than a day Kirk picked up the lost vein. The old incline was then down 100 feet. He, with Yardley, has been working the property since and sunk the shaft an additional eighty feet, with the result re-sult above stated. "On the patented claim under bond, is a two compartment, well-timbered well-timbered shaft over 200 feet deep. By running a 150 foot drift from the bottom of this shaft the vein will be cut at an additional depth. "This the owners propose doing just as soon as some deals now pending pend-ing for stock are consummated. The ore lies between dolomite lime and porphyry in a big twenty foot vein, all of which is highly mineralized and which mining men say will turn into an ore body at depth. The property prop-erty is only two miles from a railroad and of easy access with a wagon. All the conditions are favorable for a big mine and the owners propose pushing its development with all possible pos-sible speed." aV . |