Show SANPETE MINES PROSPEROUS PROS PERU US Steady Increase of Interest Shown in Mining f MANY CLAIMS WORKED t CITIZENS CITIZENS INTERESTED ALSO TN m OUTSIDE PROPOSITIONS 4 HB YEAR just closed has haa wit witnessed THE ne greater interest in the th e mining min industry in Sanpete coun county county county ty than any previous year ear in its his history history tory The Interest became manifest early last spring and unlike the usual spring raining mining excitement it has eon con continued tinned to grow steadily until today the citizens of this county are not n t only deeply interested in local properties but have holdings in nearly nearl every min rain ing lug camp in the state here are a great many promising mineral prospects pro in this county that tha t are at present pre ent lying dormant for lack lac of capital to develop them The own owners owners ers ems in every instance are men who have not the necessary means to do d their own development and arid thus fa fathey far r they the have been unable to interest cap cat ital in their propositions All they are able to do themselves is to keep up the assessment a work necessary to t hold the claims Chief among these properties are the Viking claims located about seven miles mUes west of Ephraim This is a 8 lea lead silver proposition assays from which have shown as high as SO 60 per cent lead and twenty Ix tx ounces of ot silver sliver r with small gold values lues to the ton A shaft hatt has baa ben been fen sunk on this property proper ty to a depth of forty feet teet at the bottom bottoms i of which is an incline extending an another another I Iother other forty feet A tunnel about thir thirty thirty ty feet teet in length has been driven lower down on the property and this will be extended several hundred feet Into the mountain to tan tap the vein at a a death of 01 several hundred feet There is s a large quantity of low grade ore In this property over sev tons being bell piled plied up on the dump The coming year will wUl probably witness the devel development development o of this property negotiations 6 looking to that end being now pending Extending along the same belt of o country from Wales Vales on an the north to t ManU Manti on the south are many promis ing prospects which need only the magic wand of capital to make them the producers In some same of these claims claim mineral has been found during the past pas t year that assayed over ver gold be besides besides bedes sides si des a good percentage of copper In Gooseberry Valley In the Gooseberry valley In the th e northeast part of the county a big bl g flood which came down last summer r uncovered some veins of fine looking n nore ore It created quite an excitement t in Fairview at the time and people from that town staked off ail the whole country No development work to speak of has been done on the claims s but ut the mineral found assays well ingold in ingold Ingold gold and silver silverA A group of claims was naS recently lo 10 located in ManU Manti canyon which are re reported reported ported to carry good values in fn gold gokl M Met Meli elt of means have acquired an inter intern n ea in the property and its worth willbe will willbe willbe be determined by actual development The west Weilt slope of the Sanpete moun mountains mountains ains in Little Salt Creek canyon has been the scene of considerable activity during the past season The country is te reported td to t be rich in coppers copper and gold and some of Sanpete leading citizens have nave acquired interests there here Moroni parties are reported to have bonded one group of claims in that hat district to the Snyder syndicate for tor or Ephraim parties who own the he Gold Child G ld King group in the same sec section section tion ion have recently sent a force of or men then over ver to sink sick a shaft on their property Two wo other Ephram Ephra rn companies have located deposits of marble in the same country that is pronounced by experts to o be the fittest finest quality of marble ever found cund in the western country The coal mines of Morrison continue to turn out their usual supply of coal and a II new prospect found further up Six Mile canyon by Sterling parties a short hort time ago is now being developed and it ft is freely predicted that it will H make a valuable mine The coal is an excellent quality and it ft is exception exceptionally ally free from rock rack Coal Mines Nines at Work The old Sanpete Valley mine at t Wales is being worked under a 8 lease by Henry R Thomas ot of Vales Wales a and d i It furnishes mel fuel for that section of the county Two coal prospects pro recently discos discovered discovered ered eyed in the mountains east of Mt bit It Pleasant are now in n process of develop development ment meat One is s in Pleasant Creek can canyon canyon yon you and the other in Twin Creek can canyon yon Jon Both are low down in th the canyons and are easily accessible in incase Incase case the veins prove to be of sufficient size to warrant working them On the Pleasant Creek prospect a tunnel is already in n nearly feet and th the vein continues to grow steadily Work In n the he other canyons only began a 8 few weeks ago but surface Indications indication there are said to be the best An Any Ang assay y of this product shows show it to contain over 90 per cent bitu bUu bitumen bUum bitumen men m n Besides these e home propositions San Sanpete Sanpete SanPete pete county people have this year ac acquired acquired large holdings in fn the Golden Reef and Francisco properties in n the Frisco o district the Iron Mountain Copper company near Cedar City the Silver Sliver Cave Golden Ridge and Moun Mountain tain taut Queen groups groUp at Marysvale the Enterprise group and other properties on Gold mountain and in numerous and Park City properties |