Show BOX ELDER COUNTY MINES john cleghorn an experienced miner and millman who has been devoting devolin g some time of late to the mineral possibilities of box fider county was in the city a few days aro ago and favored the mining Alini ncr review with a pleasant call mr cleghorn is much impressed with the future outlook in a mining t way of the section named and lie he feels feel s confident confide confident Dt that in the near dear future the mines of that locality will make splendid records its as heavy producers and ro regular ular dividend payers for some time past mr A cleghorn has been in the employ of the grouse greek creek mining co company of ogden opera operating titio in cotton thomas basin forror four or five m miles les south of the old mine in ashbrook district the grouse creek property is but a as yet and still it is a proposition of excellent promise the crop pings ot of the group ar are i e very ery st strong rano r and prominent the formation being a contact with limo lime for the hanging r wall and quartzite for the foot in the devo development loument of this ground a tunnel I 1 has been driven in on the vein for a distance feet occasional kidneys of ore being encountered showing encouraging encourage values in copper and silver NI within fifty feet more it is anticipated a body of pay ore will be uncovered the indications being that it will be found on the foot football vall side of the vein work has been discontinued for the winter but active operations will be resumed in the spring The mine of ancient fame is is on the sai same ne contact which can be easily traced 1 1 across the country of the mr ali cler cleg J horn speaks in most enthusiastic terms and in his opinion it will eventually open out into one of the greatest silver producers in this western we country already he says the company has blocked out immense bodies of ore which is hi high arli in grade the values mainly 0 oc burring aurrin in the shape of horn native and wire re silver at the present time a 1000 foot tunnel is being run to get below the shaft workings ings operations ope rations being carried on and facilitated by the use of compressed air and machine drills while it is understood that in the spring the mine is to be equipped with reduction works costino costing in the neighborhood of which will handle the immense tonnage tonna e of low grade k ore blocked out in the mine workings s mr Cle cleghorn oborn also spoke most favorably of the century gold mine in park valley owned by a salt lake company in tins this property the avera average ge width of the vein is from four to ten feet the ore being all 4 pay rock which yields readily to the amalgamation and cyanide processes of reduction i the little mill at the mine from a daily run of about f fifteen tons on crude ore turning out about monthly in the neighborhood of the century there are other prospects which promise good things with development the indications being that in time the century will vill have as company or consorts a goodly array of other gold producers |