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Show Successor tc WASHINGTON COUNTY I1EWS O aa Q. 6 ST. GEORGE, UTAH. SATURDAY, YOL. 3. 5ale of the Surprise Mines. Being unable to get the particulars of the sale first hand we print an extract from the Salt Lake Tribune of May 4. A half interest in the Surprise group, lying near the Dixie mine at St-- Georo-e- , has been sold by S. L. Adams of St George to .fohn MeComb of Denver, the consideration Mr. being $100,000. Adam9 and Mr. MeComb registered at the Knutsfordon the way to St. George from Denver, where the sale was consummated. Before leaving Denver the machinery for a smelter of thrty-fiv- e tons capacity to work the lead and copper ores of the Surprise group, which as owned by the Adams Mining and Smelting company, was purchased from R. J. Cary of the Mine and Smelter Bupply company at a cost of $10,000, and will at once be shipped to the mine. The machinery is of the most modern design and calculated to attain the best results from the ores. The Surprise group embraces nine claims, and through them runs presumably the same vein that has given such ore of the good results in high-gradDixie. There are two veins being worked on the Surprise property about 300 feet apart, one of which produces ore carrying about 47 per cent copper and the other about 76 per cent lead, AT SAVANAC. Shaft Down to ioo Level With Stop-in- g OPERATIONS iq Progress. After a months absence Colonel H. L. Pickett returned from the Savanae mine in Mohave county, Arizona, yes--, terday. He comes back well pleased with the progress that is being made since the new hoist was installed. The shaft is now down to the 100 level, where drifting both ways in fine copper ore is progressing. On the sixty-foo- t level a drift has been driven sixty feet, and upraising and stoping is going on at a lively clip. The Colonel is justly elate'd at the way the mine is responding to development, and no longer has he a shadow of doubt regarding its future. A carload of rich oi e left Modena yesterday, and should reach the samplers today. During his absence the colonel also paid a visit to his nearest neighbor, the Grand Gulch property, where Superintendent Joe Jennings has a force of twenty men at worK On the 200 .level they have a breast of very rich copper ore twenty feet wide and about three feet thich in the bedded .vein there encountered, and a splendid record of production is being mainlvuech At St. George, the colonel reports, the people are all excited over railroads e -- NO. 47. ST. QEORGE. THE SPIRIT OF ENTERPRISE. Recent Developments and Improvements in City and Vicinity, For the information of bur outside ing establishment, and that one will be friends who are interested in Dixie established in the pear .future L cerwe propose to give a brief outline of tain. The greatest attention" has been callthe" developments and improvements which ate rapidly bringing it before ed to this place by the sale of the Dixie the notice of the public, and which will group of mines for $200,000. The price in the near future make it the busiest is recognized as .ridiculously low Tor that property and many times that community in the state. It is only within the last two years, amount has been already offered the we might say the ia6t year, that the fortunate purchasers since their taking people are coming to realize the great possession. At this stage a score of resources of the country and take steps teams are kept busy hauling ore and towards interesting capital in Its de- supplies to ana from ttie mine. The rumored sale- .of the Surprise velopment; and than the steps taken have been ir the right direction the group of mines to Denver capitalists conditions existing in the country and the presence of those gentlemen in town have caused considerable exciteabundantly prove. Chief among tne improvements of ment. The article printed in another - - . - ore M j M :va. from 6 re I5 paimc. s ,f s u rdhVoau clyg1' Oi an i all bi'iiuing, silver. The chutes in both veins have that the Clark Road will go their which will be cumpleled by the first of xnown ot the transaction. been followed to a depth of 420 feet and ing Rich finds at Copper ATpu.ntpjpj which S. L. Tribune. August. ThL building of red sandare from seven to ten feet thick. The way. stone is one of the handsomest build- will begin to Ship ory within the next lateral extent of the chutes has not Effective .Flood Preventive, been fully explored, but these are of ings of the kind in the state. It will fortnight, and in several other places .sufficient dimension to warrant the sale It will take one or two more great contain 12 class rooms and a basement. iu TV crib err. Arizona. Keep alive the exof the property at the above figure and Goods of the Mississippi and the de- The rooms will be heated by steam. citement and hundreds of prospectors the erection of the smelter, whidi is ex- struction of a few million dollars worth The cost of the building when com- ae searching the country tor locations. pected to be running in ninety days. This property has been operated two of levees and ripraps and farm usd tow? The Grand GuGh and Sivunao mines pleted will be about $35,000. W ithtn.e and a half years by Mr Adams who property to bring the people uai was also one of the early owners of the to a consideration of the fact that winter ciimaLe Which nis secLion pos- continue to ship tneir oie to Modena Dixie. Mr. Adams, while in Denver, will no doubt in- via St. George, and bring no iiulp bad a number of assays made, one of these floods could be prevented, ac- sesses, this building which, a erystaiized lead carbonate, cording to the War Depar aent sur fluence many persons to spend the wip firade to the pip cq. yielded 87 per cent. This sale puts the veys, by the building of great storage bere 8 much for the education of The Agricultural and Horticultural cash value of the property on an equal dams at the headwaters of the Missouri. possibilities of the country are well un' footing with the Dixie, which was Tne philosopher Confucius, writing for $200 000, and one-ha- lf derstood and aie being gi ad u ally deof the purchase price has already been of the great Chinese Emperer V u, said veloped. These will be very material that all his efforts could be .summarizjpaid. canals. ed in the creation of iy helped by the new experiment e They Another Pioneer Done to dest. were an effective means of diminishing tion beautiful PreSbyterian chapel just completed, and for whicu Sister Ellen Benbow Carter passed to the destructive actiGu of torrems and an is attraction also and $8,060 was appropriated by the late leg-wi- ll just completed the great beyond Monday morning, avoiding inundations. Yet the people no doubt do much towards sustain- - ishiture through the effoits of our rej-io- g May 6, at twenty minutes to twelve, af- of the United States, several thousand the reputation of this city for nor- - -- resentative, Dayid ti. Meu-is- . years later, neglect to benent by such ter an illness lasting five years. ' Dixie raisins pod Dixie Louey wit? She was born in Herefordshire, Eng- an obvious remedy, adopted by the an ahty. of the inhabitants cient are j Flowery was houses King in the 20. and 'business 1825, Two new brick daughland, May capture the market whci-e- ; er they are dom. con as and Mary .Tones Benbow. course of erection, both drug stores, une sclfi. 3ilk culture, which appears iYrmomher of the In almost, every country in the world Lf e uY J. R. Mr a eh Urn other by Dr. Pike .with in the. last year to hate 'cme to a Church of Jesus" Clrfist of Latter Day .where irrigation- is practiced at all, by u Hi irmke hi&honu ma-standstill, only awaits porous action Saints in 1840 by President Woodruff. the water supply is subject to Govern of Provo, who ic'.Vecume a leading iviuct,T a no ve Mo'crfe the ..cldition to fit is that extensive An recognized Sister Carter emigrated to America ment control, in 1841 and was married to William where the water is of mere worth and. House, one of the jealing hotels, y.iii uopehkat the inducement which tte odors vii in .n be taxer, adCarter, December 5, 1843. She passed importance than the land itself the be much appreciated Ly the traveling country of to bring about the result. vantage through the trials which eame upon land being useless without the water accomodations have times as at The stock public, of vital raising industry which, beher church at Nauvoo. and drove her its control and use is a question hotels because .of cause the to at en hard bi oveislooued ranges and a get own team across the plains, her hus-baa- d importance to the community at large. several droughtef conditions. a notable is years, nearly died out States overcrowded first United of band the The exesp having gone with the is &nd promises under canagain of reviving Utah and was tion but in the nature things it .of nioneers who Summing up the business houses of the skillful counmanagement of the St. the firtt man to plow a furrow in Salt not long remain so. In we have 6 general merehm-dL- e the place, e Creorge.Gadt) Oo m pa uy to oecome. acuin She came with her tries it is realized that water should .Lake Valley. 1 2 notion house goods .of great importance. bouses, dry commodity, husband as a pioneer to Dixie in 1862, not be used as a 1 drug store. 3 millinery otoi-i- -, stores. lo pi edict th5 .mure prosperity of bene.and again endured the hardships ot set- .its value inuring to the supposed 1 Si. furcut2 2 harness hoe shops, George ,emo be but ?e repeat all shops, fit of one eiass to the detriment of an tling anew and desert country. le's-e- r things we have before said, for to lmsiness She leaves a son and daughter and ota efi The sooner a system of public ufe store, and several make such a prediction requires just fourteen grandchildren to mourn her supervision of the irrigation que-tio- n such. ad vantage as St. George a possesses. 2OS0. " ' Our growth may be delayed by careA woman of sterling qualities amd a jsill come a general reclamation which men. Oi number considerable iessness. but the pub..e spiritedness of igood mother she was beloved and re- will round out into perfect development bmus-j our citizens may tdo,much tofiastqp a is felt tor need iGe greatest of the West. this all wno knew her. iud s MAY 11, 1901. both caTf .10;, . fi- -. Con-g-re- ss 1 sta-,i"n- t j - K j - ' e the-olde- r spee-ulati'.- e -- i J . spected by empire - t - |