Show Fiisco Findings The contract for running the second hundred feet on the Gxampion tunnel wil be completed in about ten days The incline i down 135 feet a further depth of fifty feet his to be sunk to reach the tunnel level Tne vein improves as depth is attained and gives evidence of permanency Four hundred tons on tbe dump We are pleased t learn that William liam Burmson has struck ore in the Champion Mine Preuss District five fv miles west of this place Mr A G Campbell is associated in the nro r perty Tbe shaft is in ninetythree feet and has now reached a body of carbonate ore which gives premise pre-mise of permanency Blue Mountain Mining District was organize on the 9th inst by Messrs John Forgie Charles Morrison and P 5 Martin the lat named being elected recorder of the district It lies sixteen to eighteen miles south of Frisco and comprises an area six miles square We hear favorable reports of same of tbe properties in South Star Tho Magnolia owned by James R Lindsay Lind-say and Dan McNamara is turning out some fine ore In sinking on tie incline rich pockets of carbonate are opened which assay high in silver and tbe ore on tbe dump will yiell well in lead and silver I We wire favored with a call yester day from Professor M E Jonep of Iowa who is making a brief sojourn in Friaco on bs annual botanical tour This noted specialist has been studying the flora of Southern Utah the present spring nod summer and baa gathered over 1000 varieties of plants from our drouthy EO 1 thirteen of which are new specie unknown to botanists List summer and the I summer preceding the proiessor I in Colorado and spent Eastern Utah I during which time he discovered twenty new species Among other objects of pursuit Professor Jones gathers collections of the flora of this western region for several European universities Ho departed the same evening to pursue his researches in Juab In Star District we understand the Denslow location worked by Mitchell and Denslow is looking very encouraging encour-aging The vein of ore reached is small but exceedingly rich assays showing S376 to 400 in silver The Golden Era an excellent prospect owned by Campbell Compson and Cojk is situated on the foothills one and J half miles southeast from North Star At a depth of 230 feet they aro working s rich ledge which gains in siza and shows 1 fine grade of carbonate Ore baa been followed from the surface down and it is pronounced pro-nounced one of tbe fin at appearing permanent ledges in Beaver County The damage done to the Horn Silver Smelter by tbe collapse of the two heavy water tanks has already been so fa repaired tbat the works are running again The injury done to the steam pump cut 08 the supply of water but this has been tempor aril remedied by putting in a walking walk-ing beam A sufficient supply of water is thus obtained to keep two stacks running the furnaces have been lighted and both will be in full blast this afternoon The walls have aeen rebuit with greater regard to strength and a staging erected for the two heavy water tanks which will not be apt a second time to give way Southern Utah Times I |