Show IN EMERY COUNTY castle dale progress somerville is a new mining camp located about thirty five miles east of this city where considerable prospecting and some substantial development work is now being done the country has heretofore been mostly prospected for copper with satisfactory results more recently however ho vever salt lake and other parties have opened up a lead and silver proposition the metal apparently oozing to the surface where in some instances it has caked to a thickness of two inches on one claim sanford richmond and have sunk an eight foot hole in which is exposed a well defined vein carrying galena ore that assays essays as high as 60 ounces ounce s in in silver and 60 per cent in lead the average value of the pay streak which is from ten inches to two feet wide is about half the above the next big mining boom may occur in emery or dra grand n d dou counties n ties some of the finest white marble to be found in this country is to be obtained in emery county thirty five miles east of castle dale A specimen of this chis pure white stone can be seen at petersons Peter sens store the property from which the sample was taken is located on the east slope of cedar mountain and is owned by A oman hening olsen jr A E smith andrew christensen charles A hyde V L acord george bruno and peter johansen these gentlemen have located acres along the vein which can be tra traced ed at least four miles the vein is a blanket formation and in some places will yield marble eight feet thick experts have pronounced it equal to the vermont marble oman and olsen are now working the property and expect to soon have atso it so opened up that they can put the product on the market the quarry is within fourteen miles of the railroad at woodside and in a section of country that is comino coming to the front in a mining way |