Show AMERICAN FORK I II I MINING NEWS What a Few Live Properties in ina ina ina a Live Camp Are Doing This Winter American Fork Pork K Feb b 11 8 Considerable ac activity acUIty activity in Camp Bird stock has been the thc feature of ot the American Fork canyon canon mining stocks the past two or three days Thu Tho miners who have been beell working there thore came down with a report that the property was looking exceedingly good and that thai some ore had been encountered Large Larg Lar blocks of or this stock are held by min mining minIng mining ing men and they have hare ha li I tn n quietly pick picking log Ins up all the stock they the could at prices around 2 t cents The property lo Crt Is to located immediately across the gulch from the tiit Dutchman mine and the owners think they have Itac the live extension of ot the ore bodies from that mine But little is being said of or orthis tim this extent of or the strike but one that ia ix supposed suppo d to be on the Inside says that It ii Itis ItIs is something that may ma surprise a good goO goOman many man when it becomes generally known Superintendent George of the Ute Pacific came down from the mine a afew afew afew few days ago no He lie states stales that during the month of January Januar the miners bad ball driven through eighteen feet of ot sulphide ore that thai assays assas seven ounces silver and 15 Ii per cent lead load This is an average of the vein eln Picked samples go sixty ounces silver and about 45 4 per cent lead This property in LI inin LIIn IaIn in the very veo best of shape shap and a d there thero is Ia but little doubt but that the stockholders will willbe willbe willbe be drawing down dividends before the season sea ion is very cry far advanced That the Dutchman strike made a few fe weeks ago abC is holding out and gelling big bigger bIgger bigger ger all the time is practically admitted a by the tho leasers The Tue strike was made from froma a sew tew tunnel fifty feet teet below bolow bolo the Ule Wild Brothers workings working From this tunnel a crosscut was vas IlS driven for tor a distance of or feet f t where the ore was en encountered encountered encountered countered the full tun face of or the drift be being beIng betag ing tag in high grade carbonate ore This was opened up for a distance of six feet teet when the tho miners were put to work on an another another another other crosscut fifty feet teet ahead in the tun tunnel tunnel tunneL nel Word Vord ord comes from the mine that the tho theore theore ore are has also been encountered in this tIlls crosscut This proves that they the have hac a avery avery avery very large body of or the goods good that will wilt put money mone into the pockets of ot the he leasers and the company compan compano No o new reports have hae come from the Whirlwind mine during the past week with the exception that it was still sun look lookIng lookIng lookIng Ing good and that the miners n ners were ex cx expecting expecting to open up an ore body at any shot They ar ln the white while spar and the black mangene e that is characteristic of Ute the large ore bodies in that district and it itis Itis Itis is stated by miners that it is al almost almost almost most certain that they will wilt get the ore shortly This Tills property is 15 owned by local people and to get a large body of ship shipping shipping shipping ping ore In the mine would mean the hen ben benefiting of ot more American Yorkers than tile the opening up of any other property in inthe Inthe Inthe the canyon The Knight Interests in American Fork Jork canyon under the management of J C Jenson are making a heroic attempt to keep the tho roads open to the Mineral lIneral Flat property and up to the present time they the Have succeeded fairly well The danger of ot being in the canyon canon this time of or the year Is la well known by all alt the mining men in this locality and It is no small under undertaking undertaking taking to get ret men and teams to make the tile attempt The road from the mouth of the canyon to the old smelter site alto is a fine sleigh road but from there thero up the snow snowdrifts snowdrifts snoWdrifts drifts and slides into the road and fills filla fillat It t up and it must be shoveled out to en enable enable enable able the teams to get through Reports from the Mineral Flat workings are very 00 encouraging and miners who hare 1110 been working there state sute that it will wilt be one of the big producers the coming corning season The miners who have he been down for tor the past two weeks from the Silver Sliver Flat mine returned to the mine Thursday last This Is s a property properly on which development work is anxiously awaited and it is ia thought that news of ot an Important strike will be forthcoming in a very short time |