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Show WKDXBSJAY'SS M UTAT.S. Silver CO. Llld $4';!5- Casting Copper 17 cents a lb. MIXING M'-VVS. A load of firebricks and elay for the Dixie smelter arrived Friday. R. C. Lund and Chas. Lytle were in town Tuesday, making the final arrangements ar-rangements on the bond of the Home-stake Home-stake claim in Doei-lodge. Lode. Clarence K. McComick, of Salt Lake has purchased one-half of .7. C. Gitfiths' interest, in the Dixie Mining Co., giving him a one-twelfth interest in the lease and bond. Captain Adam Paul returned from Bull Valley last Sunday, where he went with Charles F. Dodge to examine the Gold Bug. He will visit Bull Valley Val-ley again next week, C. D. White of Beaver returned on Thursday from a visit to his mining property, the Copper Mountain mine south of here. Eight hands are employed em-ployed at the mine, and it is intended to further develop it by sinking another an-other shaft. In the meantime no more ore will be taken out for shipment. A quantity of ore is piled up in the Co-op. yard here which, with two more loads on the road, will make a carload; this will be shipped at Modena for Salt Lake. Mr. White is enthusiastic over this property. He left for his home at Beaver yesterday morning. James G. Wilder, August Kuhn, W. O. Harris and Cole Harris, comprised a well-equipped party from Silver Reef that passed through here Thursday en-route en-route to their mining property at Bull Valley. They expect to remain there, for some time prosecuting work on the Vulture, a gold and copper proposition. They have already sunk a shaft 17 feet and intend sinking it 50 feet, when they will cross-cut. They are making a shipment of five tons of ore to Salt-Lake Salt-Lake from the Pickadilly, which, from several careful assays made, the' believe be-lieve will run about 45 per cent lead, 35 ounces silver, and $10 in gold to the ton. A telegram was received by Mgr. Old of the Dixie Mining Co. last Saturday Satur-day advising him to continue smelting, that more firebricks were on the road. Dr. J. C. E. King, one of the owners arrived last Monday and will remain during the absence of Mgr. Old, who left on Tuesday for Salt Lake on business busi-ness connected with the Silver Summit near Eureka, of which he is manager. The smelter will resume operation next Tuesday. Dr. King is figuring on having hav-ing the smelting done by the water jacket process at the old smelter site at the "point" in this city, and a more direct road from the mine than the present one has been looked over this week. Mgr. Old expects to return about next Saturday. |