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Show distance, etc existed, and the entire ' plant was to cost onty $18,000. Wood is plentiful, being cedar and pinyon pine, and can be had for $1.60 to $2 a cord. Here Mr. Nugent submitted a dozen assay certificates, the assays being taken from picked samples and from various ledges and dumps, and many are right off the surface. ' Oz. Gold. Oz. Silver. Gold val. No. f 1 7.00 8.6 $ 160.00 ' No. 2 .5a 5.9 10.40 No. 3 5.92 10.0 1 18.40 No. 4 "4.68 4.2 93.60 No. 5 2.16 4-3 . 53.20 No. 6t 2.24 10.3 44.80 No. 7 5.80 3.6 it6.oo No, 8 58.20 '444 , ) 1,164.00, No. 9 5.20 1.8 104.00 No. 10 , 0.20 . : . .40 No. 11 0.60 i.2o No. 12 45.15 4.0 903.00 , Trace . - ' " ' From this it will be seen that the , ' samples averaged 1156 ounces gold, 8. ounces of silver, and a gold value of $229.92 per ton. While these- figures seem enormous, yet 1 v Mr. Nugent has 'assays going over ' $4,000 to the ton, and' he says the' . BOUND ABOUT THE STATE. ,; Items of Interest Culled From Vari- 0 us Sources. " ! St TE LINE IS IMMENSE. Mr. R. J . Nugent, who feas just returned from a tour of inspection to the new State Line district; ' expresses ex-presses the popular verdict and says that the camp will, prove to be the greatest gold camp in America. Said he: "I have operated in Lead! ville, Silver . Cliff, Rosita and Crip-pie Crip-pie Creek; Colo., was a pioneer in Silver City, Ida., and built the first house there in 1863; in Florence and the Boise basin in the 6o's and Tip-Top, Tip-Top, Ariz.,: later, but of all the camps I have ever seen none have the surface sur-face showing that State Line has. From the formation of porphyry and trachite, T contend that the veins will carry gold to great depth' and not pincn out, and are not "gash" but ''true fissure" veins. I put in fifteen days in the camp exploring it' as thoroughly as I could till ' along came a three-foot fall of snow and cold weather, when 'l came' out to await the advent- of. spring, when I camp in his best -t judgment. .vill . ga.... nearly $15 ' from bne" end", to the other, and the possibilities of the surrounding country cannot be com- ' prehended. '' J3y actual count there are seventy-two seventy-two persons in the camp, the balance of the population having returned, to their homes till winter is over. ' All are working along steadily and looking forward to warm weather, ; when things will hum, , , Gaby & Newell are down twenty- ,( . five feet' with their double-compartment shaft, and "have an eight-foot ' vein of .-. $20 rock. Salt Lake1 Tribune. . , , -i ;,, ... ,s . ;. - , i ' ; . V '' ' ' i The Cedar City Co-op has effected a satisfactory settlement with its creditors and resumed business on . the 28th ult. One of the most touching fatalities fatali-ties occurred in Cedar last Saturday ; will return and cast my lot with .the rest of cm. By actual tape line measurements I find the veins' to be ' from three feet to forty-seven feet in width, the latter being on the Jumbo property of the Rice Bros.; who have nine claims arid all showing a good strong lead and panning gold.' Thirty-seven Thirty-seven feet of the Jumbo 'vein in the center is floral , spar.i and assays $6 to $8, and in their tunnel, now in 160 feet and giving a depth of 140, gold is to be found from end to eed. I brought up five sacks of picked samples; amounting to about 300 pounds, and every piece T think will show free gold:. In fact, I have failed to find a piece that does . not; and was utterly astounded , at the surface showing. " . ' I am wholly at a loss to know why capital has not looked into the district dis-trict and only attribute it to the enormous prices asked at present for properties, but if capital will go about it right it can get in, and the claim holders are ready for a mill. There are easily 1000 tons of ore on the various dumps within a radius of about a mile and a half, that will average from $8 to $15,' to say nothing noth-ing of the adjacent claims throughout through-out the district, and enough ore is in sight to run a ten stamp mill for I years, and, in fact, a 100-stamp mill cannot go amiss, and mill men and capitalists should look into this. Water is plenty in the district and only twelve miles west is a creek large enough to run all the mills, hoists rnd machinery that will go into the district for years, and from which, by putting in a mill and gen erating electricity, could be easily carried over to Line City. By the way, I once had a Denver firm figure on just such a plants and almost identically the same conditions as to that the town has ever known . It was the burning to death of the lit. tie one-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. , William Nelson . ' The father was '. absent, from home, having found employment at De La Mar, and the mother had just stepped over to one of the neighbor's, leaving the child fastened in its high cnair, when in some way its! clothing caught fire. In its agony the little one wriggled from its chair and crawled under the bed, fighting the flames. When discovered by the mother.it had ceased to cry," having been fatally burned. The boards where it lay were also burning, but the fire was easily extinguished. Dr. Middle-ton Middle-ton was summoned but an examination examina-tion showed that there was no hope for the little one. Almost its entire back and one side were literally cooked. It lingered an hour or two, dying Saturday evening. IroJi County Record. |