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Show MINING EDITION BEAVER COUNTY NEWS HORN SILVER HAS PRODUCED MORE THAN Is $40,000,000 One of the Historic and Most Famous Mines in Beaver County Has Much Good Ore Now Blocked Out. Perhaps there is no other property In the State of Utah that la better known than the Horn Silver mine. The fact that It la so well known throughout the country makes it difficult for us to say anything new about the property. This mine has been a steady producer for years and has netted Its owners neat profits each year. The Horn Silver was located in 1875 by Samuel Hawks and James Ryan who later sold their holdings to Allen of ore and today it Is producing over fluO.OOO worth of ore per year. The property is equipped with all the mod ern mining aparatus and is capable of handling a very large tonnage of ore without any additional equipment. This historic property is situated in the San Francisco district and about tbree-fourtli- s of a mile from the town of Frisco. It has direct connections with the Frisco branch of the Salt Lake Route which gives it excellent PAGE 5 and it i (inly the question of attaining K. IS GOOD PROPERTY its value. The Success depth to is now worked in a small way but it is Carries Values of 40 Per Cent several iin--qtiii,. iiki.y (hat a force of sill be put on in the not far distant future. This property is Lead and 70 Ounces. Silver readied by i;ood wagon road from Miat 1 36 Feet Depth lford and the railroad can be reached by a distant of about six miles. The from hill Success is among the several Weaver On the east side of the is district Lake properties which are destined to In Star the Elephant canyon located a group oi seven claims known come to front ami make good in Rearas the J. K. This property is owned er county. by Chss. T. Birchard and Dan H. Ferguson and ia operated under the title of the Boeton-UtaCopper Mines Co. made friends with mouse The development work on this properPatient Nature Lover Acquired s ty consists of two rhaits, one of which ef Small Denizen of has been sunk to a depth of 136 feet the Wild. and the other to n depth of 5ft feet. of the feet In the bottom I was salting at the drumming log 136 foot shaft a fine lead ore vein haa of the ruffed grouse for the bird to been followed, assays on which carry come and perform before me. My values of 40 per cent lead and 70 place of concealment was in tbe ounces silver. This property la situ- branches of a fallen dead apruce. I h" not waiting long before a ated about five miles from Milford on the main road to the Star district the branches onmouse appeared among the ground almost un mines and has splendid shipping facili- der me. the prosties. At the present time It was interesting to see how freely pects look favorable for the opening he moved from plare to place, appear-itinow bore and now of a large body of ore at depth. Thft there, all the J. K. la considered one of the most while traveling under the snow, which had many caverna formed In it by tbe promising holdings in the district and ami, for It was early spring. it la the intention to soon equip the Another mouse soon made his property with a hoisting plant aod pearance. and l watched the two ap for commence active operations. some time as they searched for food. It waa not long before one of the mice was nibbling at my shoe, but the THE 8UCCE68. slightest movement of my foot, which was rest big on the trunk of the tree, In the Beaver Lake district, about sent him scurrying to the shelter of is Milford of twelve miles northwest the branches below. adlocated the Success mine. This is one vances, however, 1 wasIJy patient able to touch of the old time properties of Beaver the little fellow with tbe tips of my County and has been a good producer extended fingers, and five minutes inin years gone by. At the present time ter I was stroking his bark as you this property has a splendid showing might stroke a kittens- .- Si. Nicholas. THE J. Conti-dene- For-fiftee- g . A J The Horn Silver Mine, San Francisco District O. Campbell, Malt Cullen, Dennis Ryan and A. G. Byram for (25,000. These men worked the property for several years at a profit and also built a smelter at Frisco from where the bullion was hauled to York on the line of the Utah Southern Railroad, near Nephl. In 1880 the property was sold f v; fV. .... I THE CUPRIC IS ONE OF THE COMING MINES Of DISTRICT Property is Well Equipped for Heavy Mining and an Active Campaign Will be Conducted this Summer ill i(upni' shaft, a disl.ime of over 5000 dislti.t of !'ci-!- . There are a number of veins Weaver I'uunty. is oniu-by the Tup cu'oitg across this contact, all of tic Minos Co. Tins company own a shi.U are well mineral! rod and some tin in have produced shipping ore. ami Die ore group of sixteen claims about in these workings carry pood one half miles westerly of the fauieuc whies iii tooper, lead and silver and Horn Silver mine itetir Frisco. The 1i! property is destined in become proieri.v is reached by the Misco one of tin host in the district. Vents ago this protcrty produced branch of tbe Sail Lake Rente and ha excellent railroad facilities. Orig- ups arils of (Sii,i(ii worth of ore, and inally tile properly was owned by the at ilte present time is in a fair way to Washington, Frisco Mining Co, and even do better than that. The Ittpric waa taken over by the present com-pan- is well cqiiipiied for heavy mining, in May, 190S. There lias been a having a good steam hoist, an air comlarge uinimnt of work done on this pressor, a blacksmith shop and everything necessary for rapid and ecoproperty and iniieli valuable or taken out. Tin twain shaft is nomical work. The ('itprie Mines property lias alt down to a depth of about 5(H) feet from where a drift haa been run to catch ilic features of a legitimate inlutng tile ore. Recent ly a rim and valuable proposition of more than ordinary The principal stockholders luidy of ore was broken into in tills promise. drift and now an active campaign oi in litis properly are also heavily interested in ilte famous Horn Silver mine mining is being carried on. The general lortnaiion is n large which lias yielded upward of $40, 0(H, contact vein with montconiie footwalls (Mia and is still producing at a depth and limestone hanging wall. Tills vein of tino feet. The (.'ttpric is on the I is faulted in plnces hut can he easily same ore one as the Horn Silver and traced from the shaft on the Washing there is no reason in the world why it ion No. 1 claim to and beyond the ' should not prove a great producer. Tito Iupiic mini, which lii' Satt Francisco loi.tti-- i minim-- , io v has-bee- 1 railroad facilities. The ore produced carries good values in copper, lead and silver and there is large bodies of this ore now blocked out in the mine. While work is continuing in the mine taking out ore there is also a force of men kept busy at all times on the prospect and i 'I- - ' C'V ":V. .. k ki - i Horn Silver Store, Frisco, Utah by these gentlemen for the handaome development work. In addition to the mining property price of $5,000,000, and since that time tne company has a large mercantile it has been operated by the Horn ver Mining Company. establishment In the town of Frisco There la perhapi more workings on from where the employes secure all this property than on any other in the necessities of life. The accompanying cut, while It has Beaver County and- - valuable ore le now being taken out at a depth of been reduced to considerable extent, 1600. In early years the Horn Silver gives some idea of the magnitude of produced upwards of $40,000,000 worth this mining proposition. The Works of the Progressive Mining Co. in the Star District f drifts! promising properties of the Star dis- rut. Several hund n-A PROMISING PROPERTY trict. This properly adjoined the Ki. and cross nits have been rim in tlir and good veins Marys and when work was suspended course of in many encountered of nr, f1' " goiid shipping ore was being taken out. is located about The places. property , With Active Mining The Progres-- Much valuable ore hss been taken;1 . nine miles Irom Milford and is only from this property and there Is a g.wl lhon lliri.0 sive Will Develop Into a m;llll li)1(. mlrtl fmiI1 of it resuming operations in of Hie Sail J.ako Route. A good wagon prospect Big Mine, ihe near future when sn active mm road Imds to ihc shipping point. one of the first in th6 district to be THE REBEL MINE IS been con and worked has to palgn of mining will be eoiiducled. The There is no quest Ion but lliat the pm patented The Progressive mine, while si Hi property is worked by means of a shHft grossive will make good if depth in ni IN A GOOD TERRITORY Biddable extvnt. A shaft Is down to a depth of 200 feet from which point a present time Is Idle, is one of the as will' be seen by Ihe areompanying t (lined. il it has he m run for a distance of This is One of First Claims Lo- 130 feet, and this is now in a most ON ANDEAN MOUNTAIN ROADS promising mineralised territory. The INK THAT THE ROMANS USED C HUNTER, M. D cated in the Foothills of the ore Is being hoisted by means of a bucket and whim, hut when the ore la Journey That Would Hardly Bs En- For Writing Permanent Records PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Star District joyable for People with Norv-ou- o reached It will take hut a short time to Stylus and Wooden Tablets Ware Trouble. 1tali Milford Then in Vogue. equip the property with a good hoistlUmrnik, MW kr W. M. V.l Tliis property is one of the Matt ing plant Adjoining thtls property In going over one of tbs mountain The ancient Romana commonly Cullen holdings and in considered one Mr. Cullen also owns a couple of roads on the way to the crest nf the wrota with a metal point (stylus) on of the promising mines of the district. claims which he calla the Twins and Andes tbe traveler has need of steady wooden tablets covered with wax It Is located in the east f jjthllli of at the present time work Is being done nerves. A passage In The Andean (tabulae), but permanent records Land," by C. S. Osborn, describes the wcVe written on parchment with n Journey: . reed pen and liquid pigment, nr luk. The road la narrow and rocky end near In the At Hallem Westphalia, yr- and ir.'ct ciirnplole rutty and steep, with no wails tc site of the Aluao fortress erected by (.arrica Hitpeak of except tumbledown ones Druaue In the year 11 B, C., waa restock nf everything in that Increase the danger by their false cently found a bronze vessel containsuggestion of safety, and in one place ing a dried black mass, which the wagon would fall 2,000 feet if It Prof. Ressner haa decided to , should roll off the edge of the moun he Roman ink. The masa was tain. ESII and and All Kinds oj found to consist of chiefly of sons L The road has no graceful sweep and tannate of Iron. It- - also conCURED MEATS or round, easy curves as It takes its tained smaller quantities of ferric oxway up the Titanic heights, hut rather ide, copper oxide, clay, magnesia, gypIf thorn is anything yon want, wo have it, It slgsaga like the teeth of a saw. sum, phosphoric acid, carbonic arid, FRISCO, FTAI1 and can supply yon at riubt prices. ascending in short stretches and alkalies and sand. These ingredients doubling hack at sharply acute an- prohabiy represent chiefly accidental gles, leaving very little room for s impurities which have found their way team and wagon to turn in when driv- into the old inkstand, but some of them en slowly and carefully and two may be due to the chemical action of abreast. the Ink on the bronze vessel. Now imagine, If you ran, the horses The presence of an aromatic subdriven madly in a gallop, no trot; that stance suggests that the Ink was imwould he slow; hut In quick, short, ported from Italy, where the use of pool filmed Ink waa common. Scientific Jerky Jumps, such ss the mustang-likanimals would make under the asddlc American. in when pressed. The short. hgh roach follows the Achilles Confesses. cavorting horses. Jerking, careening doctor had informed Achilles Tic and sail a like boat small springing - Jaw. tluii his wound was not at all serious. Into a wildly choppy sea. Ing - ' "It's only In jour heel, general,'' Ton perceive that the wheels are he. "You may limp a little for a strong, and the springs, loo, and the zStra?,?--r rir ,v!s whole rig evidently Intended for char- wdiUe, hilt-- " Jt No, doctor," moaned Achilles. iot racing. j I am inert ally Is a!! un with me. The driver whistles Milford of West groans, Miles yells, The Rebel Shaft, Five shrilly, rracka his thick rawhide whip, Luro utul c ommodtous accommodations Nonsense." said the doetor. "Why lashes Ills horses and does everything Hiet-cut at The is claims. 4 herewith from fur tin convenience of tourists and Raveling are no vital organa in your feet." the Ktsr district about five mit he knows that Inspire fear and thi re of tb gallows frame and hoist of the Induce speed. There were in mine, doctor Milford and adjoins th Htirr'ieton-men. All (lie latest magaines and iiajH'rs i All this yon hrrome arrustnmd to I ii soldier. "Fact since this dinged ry tn'ne. The Rebr, claim "as Rebel. in a measure on your dash up the nar- oi scrap began ive been going around are in mir reading room. my heart In inv hoots."' row road, dug Into and blown, out of tbe giant ribs nf the lowering nmnn hereupon he turned over' an I e -READ THE BEAVER COUNTY NEWS tains pi ed. l Aim the j Ad. Gun C , ft . L GRIFFITHS - Groceries !! ' Dry Goods, Miners Supplies Hi For a sociable game of billiards drop at i e or THE OXFORD sd 1 li'-L- 1 e-'- c'" |