Show LOST JOSEPHINE MINE Operations to Be Resumed By the Owners Notwithstanding all the disparaging talk regarding the Lost Josephine mine and surrounding prospects in the district dis-trict back of Kamas Summit county such well informed men as Captain Timothy Eagan and Charles E Hudson have no doubt in the world that a splendid splen-did gold producing district is about to be opened up there S Ill admit said Mr Hudson who Il has just returned frym an inspection of the Josephine with Captain Eagan that it is 1 peculiar proposition but that the property contains gold and that the mine has not been salted there is no question at all Neither is there any question but that at sometime some-time or another in the long ago the ground was worked for the mineral It contained Everything about it goes to show that the Josephine is an old mine Skeptical people ought to see and examine ex-amine it and they too would be convinced con-vinced that what I say is true Last year Mr Hudson and his associates asso-ciates did considerable work at the Josephine Jo-sephine and only ceased at the end of the year when the snow became too deep to take up supplies They are goIng I go-Ing to resume operations again in 1 few weeks and explore the regions below the present depth attained in the old mine For ninety feet from the bottom of the incline which runs into the mountain a vertical shaft goes down and opens Into a large cavern or chamber and from this another shaft or incline goes still deeper how much Mr Hudson says they do not know as it is not sufficiently open to admit of the descent de-scent of a man but a stone started down can be heard to rattle against obstructions for a long way At Mr Hudsons office a whole bundle bun-dle of assay certificates are on file and they represent tests made on the rock from all parts of the present workings They range all the way from 248 to 192 in gold and none of the rock Mr Hudson said showed free gold The whole proposition is in lime and that is the peculiar feature of It but the owners care nothing for that a long a It contains the values Mr Hudson says William Bird owns some claims adjoining the Josephine on the west and his ground contains free gold as does some other prospects in the same vicinity and everything points to the opening up of a rich district Samples were brought in by Messrs Hudson and Eagan on which returns are expected today |