Show ChiefT THE OLD VIPONT Rich Vein of Ore Discovered I This Ancient Mine Regarding the old Vipont mine in Box Elder county this state and owned by a Salt Lake company the Alma correspondent cor-respondent of the Albion Times says Hurrah Hurrah for Almo Thanks to the managers of the Vipont mine were going to have a big boom in the spring A rich vein of ore has been struck in the mine and a carload of It will be shipped each week starting i with this week Some of our townsmen i towns-men have been given the contract to do gven the hauling of this ore to Kelton In I the spring a large force of men will be placed in the mine Our people will find a sale for all they can raise With the Vipont at our front door and a supply of snow in the hills to insure us an ample supply of water we cannot can-not help but have a boom L G Hardy of Salt Lake City was a Almo visitor last week Mr Hardy is connected with the Washaskea mine at connete te Standrod Ida 6 Sale of the Big Buffalo A special from Grangeville Ida to the Lewiston Tribune says The town is all aflame with enthusiasm tonight over the sale of the famous Big Buffalo group of mines at the Buffalo Hump Sam Silverman representing Spokane capitalists ha secured a bond on this property for 500000 He is given thirty days in which to make the first payment of 10 per cent and the other payments are to be made in rapid succession suc-cession I is understood that all conflicting claims have been settled and Mr Sil verman and his associates will have I undisputed title to the property The offer made by Captain De Lamar for the property was 500000 but this was refused on account of the payments pay-ments being unsatisfactory Neither to the sale will give party present wi any further information than the foregoing at present but it is definitely stated that not a day will be lost inopening the property and completing the transfer trans-fer ferThis This is the largest priqe ever paid for an undeveloped mining claim a far as the entire record of mining transactions extends Bowers Extension Strike Silver City Star I was reported in mining circles Wednesday that in the property of the Bowers Extension at Diamond twelve inches of galena resembling that in the Joe Bowers proper have been uncovered un-covered the ore running high in silver I W J Gray left Salt Lake for the property I prop-erty the first of the week to superintend superin-tend the erection of the companys new hoisting plant The machinery Is probably prob-ably on the ground by now Gnd will be in position in about twenty days Mining Notes Silver City Star At Diamond the Midnight Mid-night shaft is going down with three eighthour shifts A of the Four Aces and Murphy ces Superintendent Super-intendent Buckle of the Sunbeam both promising Silver City mines spent yesterday yes-terday In Salt Lake The Mercur Mercury says that In the tunnel being run at the Little Pittsburg khne i llhli a cave has been broken into l the sides rgr which are highly mineralized The cave Is 140 feet from the mouth of the tunnel tun-nel Payson GlobeHeader Captain De Lamar La-mar the mining magnate we understand is negotiating for the purchase of an interest in-terest in some copper mines out west of Moab owned by Lester Taylor of this city and others Argonaut Elko Net Colonel S B IMillncr arrived on No 2 last night from Salt Lake City and departed on this mornings stage for Tuscarora to b pres I ent at tho turning on of the new power at the Dexter plant the expectation being be-ing that the Jack Cresk line will be completed com-pleted in a few days The colonel was accompanied by Hugh Jones and Sydney Smith Davis County Clipper Several Boun tifulltes have been prospecting in the hills east of here during the fall and early winter but we do not know what success suc-cess most of them had however Messrs John Lawson and A L Buckland have found some rock that indicates something good when the prospect Is properly developed de-veloped I is an eightfoot vein of ore containing copper gold and silver Judge S K King says the Provo Democrat Demo-crat is interested in an attempt to reIncorporate re-incorporate the Undine property in TIntic Incoiorate down to Silver City Thursday evening to look after the arrangements for the new company He advises us that matters will start out in firstcla tat wi style and as we know the property Is all right we feel no fears but that the winner reorganized Undine company will be a |