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Show twill be so direct Iv and immensely I benefitted by their proper devclop-jmentasthe devclop-jmentasthe people- of this City. ; They, tlierei'ore, are the. ones to as-i as-i sisl in the development which j will bring our minis to the front. Some .Salt Bakers looked over t he j new mines yesterday and pronoun-j pronoun-j ced them good. They will likely I buy in. j Samples from this region are now on exhibition at Tin-: Bloi.ek oiliee. U'e were informed last night that some local parties with consider- : able capital;liave become interested j in this region and that money for pushing the developments will be forlh-eoming. (Jood-; this almost insures success to our mi uing boom. Iron and a Mammoth Ledge of Copper Discovered 2 Miles from Britain City. I Bat the biggest thing of all. the wonder of all beholders, and the firm foundation upon which this j ii.i..ing lejion will be built, is the marvellous copper belt which passes through thce;:tire mountain. A well defined ledge dippingdownward toward to-ward the north-east, which is several yards in width, ha3 been traced from the topof the mountain, at -'Copper Belt," through "Quartz S.te No. ." past "Prospect Mill," and through' "Si Iver Mound," "Snow- j tlake," and '"Cold Peak." It is j actually several hundred yards in j length." 1 I ! The assay of the croppings j taken at random from this main-; moth ledge showed silver !f'o,ol. gold-, l,o0 and copper if 17,55, This assay was made by John McVick-cr. McVick-cr. one of the most reliable assayed assay-ed of tf;dt Lake. T he o w n e ras of this g re a t belt are elated over the result iha nw.-.ny U lL-w ttr snowing is not nig on top, the in-I in-I dieations are that a little devolop-i devolop-i mont will unearth and reveal the huge belt to possess a world of wealth. Croppings that show even (be slightest trace of gold, silver, eopner and iron, are always looked upon os unusually rich and valuable; valua-ble; these shown in the jumbo copper belt being merely the stained stain-ed doors leading to tha countless i fortunes most likely stored within the recesses of the earth below. There is no question whatever but that a great mountain of wealth exists here. We have been in Bear Gulch and in the hills for miles in almost every direction around about it, but no mineral signs, except at the very mouths j cf the developed mines, will com- pare in the least with th ise found ; .11 ASSAYS 10W BIG. About Twenty Claims Located in Two Days. 331C:iAM, SU UKE & FBDYO MEN 1HTHESTED A KlcK Ledge SvvPral Hundred Yard 1.1 ng t'liUiid-iVuiDrriiun TroHi-cc-tjra In tho Adjacent IIUU. 'Pm;Ult than anything I have 1 a-en i'l-nm La Plata." is the remark j which dr ippcd fnun the lips of nut- A thf uld: st Salt lake assaerd, Tiics-lay, as he conduutd an examination ex-amination of some r.ick from the ntMv'y discovered mineral belt only two miles cast of Briglmm City; "I i v.uld rather have it than any-I thing "rom booming La Pla-a, even I if the cropping do not UH.sny quite fio high." The name uf this well-known well-known assayer is withheld, but has been mado known to this oflice and the report is reliable. For the past two weeks, experienced exper-ienced prospectors from Park City, Dutte and other celebrated n ining campfl, and al.so a number of Salt Lake and local men, have been ye.Jiiriripr the hiJla north, east and om .-.-ory 8-ce .i h.s al; p- Ti e surface of the hil side and th.-groundd th.-groundd about are literally alive Wi.n miiR-val bearing tioat indicative indicat-ive of the minerals above mentioned. mention-ed. Greatj formidable ledges, somewhat screened by the crumbling crumbl-ing hand of Time, prutrude from the ground us if inviting man to come pluck f.n tunes unto himself. The newly discovered j-cgiou lies in such close pr.txi uity t the well traveled county road, almost overhanging over-hanging it; so near our City; b convenient to the railrjad: which conveniences combined, tend tn make ore in that vicinity so valuable, val-uable, that every nine prospectus out of ten would drive along at the foot of the ve.-y hill itself, and dancing carelessly at it would ! mutter inward'y: 'oo many pros- j ta-.t-.ro '-- - l .nrr ImrA lip- i H. re me. that if thupe mountains did contain anyt .i ig of any account, ac-count, it u-wiihl have heen discovered discov-ered long ago." In that way hundreds hun-dreds of miners have passed it by. But last week as two men were returning from L:i Plata, and passing pass-ing ahing the road just below the copper belt, chanced t ) see a copper cop-per ytainrd rock by the wayside. One of the gentleinr-n dismounted and picked up the piece of U at. 'I have not eeeo anything that good outside of the Sundown in La PlatM," was his remark. So next day they returned and discovered dis-covered the great belt. A chute u uld be c instructed f-r : :i trille. fr un any of the chiiius t I the e unty read l-ehsw. The ore Uuild bese.it d r.vu these; -a;Ied it the lower eirl ii.to w;ig:..i;s and hauled to the mil way shit inn, .very f 'ot of wiiiih is down hill for almost nothing, eoaiparatiw ly speaking. Uut, to e;irry the enterprise enter-prise still further, which the future - a.intli ot lirigham City in search ol mineral wealth. Although several important finds were made several d iys ago, the discoveries, for ubvi-mis ubvi-mis realms, have been kept (juiet. It Hccms tlnit the richest striken have been made almost at our very doors; in Box Elder canyon; but ril'teen". minutes1 drive Ir.im this C ity ." The iiuun runs beautiful specimens of lloat and croppings Brought to town from these mines were apparently rich in copper, iron, gold, silver and very good indications in-dications of horn silver. Tluassays received from Salt Lake this week confirm the conjectures. Between fifteen and twenty claim-- were located lo-cated on one mountain side last Fi'jeh-y and Saturday. 1 A lii oi.F.n reporter vi.-ite.l the ' p'a-f- t'ois week. He f .uiol a moun-iai moun-iai '1 of prospective wealth, whose 1 ends at the county road, the sum 01 it reaching 3,"A0 feet iut" the clear, blue heavens. From the I. ase to the top. the slope is gradual. The whole side of this particular part of the muuntnin is well d ,Ued witli rock monuments, which show that numerous claims have been taken up. There is nothing striking in the iDpearance of this invaluable mineral region, until you begin it-: it-: -emit on foot. Here you pickup a .eeuliar piece of mineral staimd II. iat; there you find an .ther thai claims your attention: ; n I still an other; und before you have ascend c.l the mountain a th msand feet you stop and ejaculate entimsiast ieallv, "Wliy, the whole uiountai is literallv covered with minera: tl .ut!" A'nd, in fn-.-t, so it is. Ii one start t down the hillside licnl on carrying with him all the lim specimens of copper, ir n, silver nod g'dd-beariug rock he run U'l'osi he will be so weighed d wi before he reach. 'e his eonvevaiMH in the county road at the f ,..t ! the hill, that he will invariably cal lor a cart or a pack-h use. Severa' .vili likely do tor us. there is am- ! pie level ground at the foot of the hill by the roadside, upon which to construct mills for refining purposes. pur-poses. Box Kldcr Creek, mshing by, would allbrd unlimited water oower for the running of the ma-diinery. ma-diinery. It appears ns if nature had d-mc her level best and even outstripped h r.-'e!f in cmtriviug everything toward assisting the development f this mineral region. U n.jues-ti n.jues-ti uiably g i d mineral; convenient 1 .cation; excellent water povor; unsurpassed roads and splendid railroad facilities make an aggregation aggre-gation almost irresistible to the mining capitalist, and display re-s re-s -urces and natural facilities sel dom found tog- ther. The mim s, all situated in Box Flder Mining District, can not nelp but turn out big. The niin j nl is th to; the re. -nisi to advantages advan-tages are tin re; they must be itiliz d: nature, hv herh.vish fav interested parties, in paying th-place th-place a secoml visit, earrhd a sac along for convenience in c ll ctiej-innumerable ctiej-innumerable specimens, of the tin float. But the wealth of the mountain does not lie in its astounding amount of god float only; the croppings or ledges which throw off tho lloat. have been traced out. They show indications of immense even unt"dd wealth below. On '"' i tarU Site N . 1'' a g'ea 1 lg.' of handsome gold 0,0 art; w:i ;cover'd Saturday. The el .a; lite ojuartz is porous and h.iit' snviU crevices being w, ll li 1 W ! v. ith the light, vellowish u ! ring d'lst. This is sit .ate -nut l.-'U'l f"ct above t'ne r ad 1 V intua ami is no of the best 1 v , ns in the region. A few hundred vards north 1 0 0." "Quarti: Site N.'. l."-L-ou !u a 1-uMitd. There seem- Ihu'v to 1 ; c'v't'ing" .'f a g"eat 1? e 1 ruf Ol of al n "-t m-e ir - 1 . li.it t'r- h'ae!- r ' W i- ll"t ''Ct knor.'il. b :i ;. .v b ten liigh. probably 75 per ce t t- n or oven higher. rs, demands it. Bef re tho.m-on changes, if vi ry f t f ground for miles a r iund this bonanza isn't troddei ny anxi- us pr ispectors and scon s of new claims located and recorded we shall miss our guess. The people peo-ple of Brigham do not go much on nining. and th: rcf re are seld-m ulii.-t. d with the f. ver, but if a ..'lodmanv ot th an d ui't shaki ut t!ie;r tMV leg-', sh wider a pie-md pie-md -di vel and s areh ! h-adjaeeio :n tint lies fo ' the min -rals in. , I u" t d'.y st id lb ein. tb.ey ma; j aiss f ad mes r.':d n". 1 'aving it t j otsi-le 1 a 'tal that will step i ' I head a- d g- bble th m un. I Tln-re i- talk .-f or-. a dio-i dio-i pat.y ;-ivl si ,king a oU f :afi n h.ld p: atC e'abu. (): i z e"-;p 1 1 - fr m Ti 1 ie u b a e am;n d Ci niot-tai.. ti.i e; . ':V ,'ieh W rk W ''lis -;-' ; " t -p s methici: big. aod ; r 1 I ' . s m thii'Lr n,nna"y ?ie'i - j 1 rigiui u C tv eip la i-ts ' |