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Show i SILVER REEF AND FRISCO. Favorable Horn Silver Advices Ke locating New Year's Eve Idle Wen at the ISeef. - John A. Kirby has been engaged to take charge of the Campbell mill at Mil-ford. Mil-ford. The ore body intheAdeha mine, North i Star, holds out well and is yielding good returns. It is expected that 100 miners will be added to the Horn Silver force on the 10th instant. The Comet property has been attached by the Morrison Brothers and sheriff sale notices are posted. Mr. Cox, of Beaver, an Oxford graduate, gradu-ate, has been engaged by the Frisco school directors to open the district school. . Silver Reef is overrun with idle men going from the north. The bastile was occupied several nights last week by financially busted strangers. The scene on Main street, Christmas afternoon and evening, was the liveliest that Silver Reef has experienced since the sandstone diggings were struck. The saloons did a rushing business, while the sidewalks were crowded with hilarious men. There were some eight or ten scrapping-matches reported, but . they proved to be of a trifling nature and no one was seriously injured. There mustj have been favorable advices ad-vices sent from the deep workings of the Horn Silver mine to have given it a boom. -There has been more prospecting done on the property within the last nine months than has been done since the mine was discovered. A commodious three-compartment shaft , is now down nearly'1,400 feet, with connecting drifts and winzes on every level, and there is reason to believe that ore shipments can be resumed at anytime, and will be soon. Notwithstanding the fact that" New Year's Eve was a nipping night, the mountains around Frisco were covered with prospectors who were camping upon their own or abandoned claims waiting for the midnight bell to mark the hour for posting notices of location. It was a hard night on the boys, but the possibility possibil-ity of thus easily renewing their hold upon lapsed claims and securing abandoned aban-doned ground, lightened up the gloom. For years, many of these poor prospectors prospec-tors have camped on their claims in the hope of some time selling out at a good figure, and in the end they will walk out of camp and leave them for some other poor devil to lose sleep over. |