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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NOTES. Typhoid Fever at St. George Silver Mining in the Sandstone lleffion. Mrs. Kelley, Miss Caddie Clements and mother, have returned to Frisco from Salt Lake City. The machinery at the Campbell reduction reduc-tion works at Milford is now in order and a start was made last week. Alphin, Montgomery andBarbee are at work on the old Bonanza mine, on the White Reef, Silver Reef, and have opened up a large body of low grade ore. In the Orrick murder case tried at Beaver the jury brought in a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. October Octo-ber 10th is the day set for sentence. An arrest for cattle stealing, was made at Milford last week. One by one the Stock Protective Association is getting the cinch on the yap range riders and their pals. All the old machinery will be cleared out of the Leeds mill this week, when preparations will be made to put in the new rolls and tanks in position as soon as they arrive on the ground. There is not an available dwelling house or cabin unoccupied in Silver Reef at present. If business continues to improve, im-prove, the sound of the saw and ax will be familiar music there this fall. "Where shall we find a market for our produce?" anxiously asks the Sanpete farmer. At present, the prospect is not promising and those who have to sell now, will not realize the cost of production. The Silver Reef school opened last Monday with sixty-seven scholars in attendance. at-tendance. By next Monday the number of pupils will be increased to at least eighty. Mr. Stevenson has pressed Geo. Harrison into service to aid him temporarily tem-porarily in teaching the primary classes andprganizing the school. Typhoid fever is prevalent among the good people of St. George. It is said to be caused by the the decaying vegetation at Washington City, where it has also made itself dreadfully felt, especially among the children. It is carried by the water to St. George. In one family recently, five children died with the disease. dis-ease. There has been a reduction in the working force of the Christy company by a draft of ten miners in the California, but this will only be temporary, as it is the intention of the company to work a full force of men in both mines after the 15th. The new company, since it began operations a year ago, cleared off a large indebtedness, paid a dividend of ten cents per share, and has a surplus of several thousand dollars in the treasury. Judging Judg-ing from the present appearance of the stopes in the California and the large body of high grade ore opened up in the New Shaft, it is safe to say that the next year's run will be far more profitable than that of last. The Christy mill closed down on the 1st inst, and will remain idle until the 15th. While there is sufficient suffi-cient ore in the California and Maggie stopes to keep the mill running, the managers man-agers of the company thought it advisable advis-able to refrain from crushing until the donkey hoisting engine can be put in place in the New Shaft, when both mines can be worked together. . |