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Show SANDSTONE 3IINING MATTERS. Biff Strike on the North Extension ou the Barbee Si Walker. The strike made by Wilson & Phelps on the north extension of the Barbee & Wralk-cr, Wralk-cr, last week, is the most important discovery dis-covery that has been made in the Silver Reef sandstone deposits for a long time past, says the Southern Utah Times. . The claim is an old location and considerable prospecting was done on it in the past, but the ore found was of too low grade to pay for working. About thirty feet from the ledge on which the late strike was made and running parallel to it, is a strong, copper-stained ledge which carries car-ries a small percentage of silver, assaying assay-ing from three to fifteen ounces per ton. It was on this ledge that all the work was done heretofore, while the ledge in which the ore was discovered last week, although al-though cropping out plainly a few vards away, was never before touched "by a prospector. The ore was struck on the surface about 1,000 feet east of Main street, on ground that waa trampled over by hundreds of chloriders and prospect- ors since the Reef was discovered. The shaft, at this writing, ia down between be-tween fifteen and twenty feet from the surface. The ledge, which is fully four feet thick, underlies a heavy strata of yellow sand rock, while the bottom of the incline runs over a bed of. green-colored soap-stone. The ore is a soft, iron-stained sandstone, carrying horn and native silver, sil-ver, specimens of which will assay up in thousands. A fair sample of the pay-streak, pay-streak, which is five inches thick, assayed iw uuma, vi nue me wnoie ledge no doubt carries a good percentage of silver The formation is the same as that in the Tecumseth, Savage,- California and other mines on the Buckeye Reef in which was found tho richest ore. The scene of the late strike has been visited by all tue leading mining men and experts in camp, and the universal opinion opin-ion is that it is one of the biggest and best strikes that has been mA ; Silver Reef country for years past. It ia the first time this formation and this character of ore was found on the White Keef, and is a pretty fair indication that the best ground in tle Barbee & Walker Bonanza, Leeds and other, properties on that Reef, remains to be prospected |