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Show j . SOUTHERN UTAH NOTES. " i Several Old Districts Looking- Cp-i Cp-i mines and mills at the Beef. ! Work upon the Horn Silver extensions is progressing favorably. . . V " t. j ; The Star mines are 'yielding considerable consider-able quantities of ore for shipment. There is nothing of importance yet regarding re-garding underground work at the Horn Silver mine. - - - Large consignments of custom ores :are made daily from Milford, the product of Star, Lincoln and Bradshaw camps. . The Silver Reef leaching works are nearing completion, and will be ready to begin work by the 15th of December. , Johns Bar bee shipped five tons of good grade ore from the old Bonanza mine on the White Reef to the Christy mill this week. . : - r Al. Hartmaff and Jack Pierce have struck a bonanza on the old Leeds eround. They have three feet of ore, four inches of which averages over 100 ounces. Their lease does not expire unti 1 January 1st, and they have over twenty tons on the dump. There are more than seventy-five chlo-riders chlo-riders at word in Silver Reef now, and the number is constantly increasing. If capitalists knew one-half as much about the value of the sandstone silver deposits as the miners do, Silver - Reef would be the best camp on the coast. . As it is, the Reef is getting to the front in good shape. , A few weeks agoa blue-colored sandstone sand-stone was encountered in the ledge in the uprise on the 500-foot level in the California Califor-nia mine at Silver Reef, which is attracting attract-ing considerable attention among experts.-The experts.-The ore has not a sign or mark to distinguish distin-guish it from common country rock, although al-though itrjwirries a good percentage of sil-yer sil-yer Yhere is probably a big body of it, as it runs across the bottom of the drift and is eightfeet wide in the stopes. . . . I .Mining men are learning every day, and the more they. - learn the stronger comes the conclusion, that the only way to distinguish between ore and barren rock in a sandstone formation is by a fire assay. There i3 no doubt that in the past thousands of tons of pay rock have been thrown in the waste piles and many good ledges passed through unknown, simply from a neglect in making sufficient assays as work progressed. The Reef's most experienced mining men are just beginning begin-ning to understand how to manage that peculiar country. Southern Utah Times. |