Show F I T I Lk tIIttijy61 b I 4 z II 6 PUMICE STONE DEPOSITS Large Quarries of This Commodity Commod-ity Near Alii ford PARK RECORD JOTTINGS THE VALEO LOOKS BETTER TODAY TO-DAY THAN EVER The Great Ontario Magnificent y Bodies of Ore Below the 1500 t Shipment of High Grade Anchor Ore Sensible Mining Regulations L Regula-tions ByLaws Adopted in the f New Randsburg District Gossip From EurekaToo Many Idle Hen Now in the Camp British Columbia ActivityRich Strikes at Slocum and Around Rossland Nevada Experiencing a BoomNo Occupation More Usetul or Honorable Hon-orable Than Mining Mining Notes and Personals a Milford Feb GSeven miles east from this town there is what should 1 be developed into one of the richest iX Pumice quarries in the United States > The deposit lies on the north end of a granite mountain of considerable extent ex-tent and is easy of access I is downhill down-hill fron there to the railroad and enormous loads may be hauled by team The deposit underlies decomposed granite and is itself underlaid by a formation soine feet in depth of a I chalky substance which has proven to be in its natural state a very good I l polish for the rougher wares and by putting it through a grinding and bolting process manufactures a polish unexcelled by even the celebrated t Tripoli itself The pumice is of a ery white color and ranges from a fine four to a coarse grade thus furnishing furnish-ing all th > i requirements for a complete L commsrcial product the only two or three other good mines of pumice in the United States either being too coarse or too fine within themselves to be a success An expert in this line has visited this place with an idea in view of purchasing it for the purpose pur-pose of mixing some of the finest grade products from elsewhere which s coarser but no satisfactory agreement agree-ment could be reached Stone like this has a market value of something like 50 per ton in its rough state and when afreight rate xif 9 or 510 will place i on the market i looks as if some one ought to be interested in thi article The property is owned by Milford men who of course will let go when they get enough The polishing polish-ing material is abundant and easy of manufacture J H Erickson of Salt Lake City arrived ar-rived in town this m rning and quiet departed for the Rocky district five miles out and is once more working on the ground surrounding the little hole 18x20 feet in dimension from which he took 528000 in gold > in a couple of years since He brings grub and outfit for a summers work and is sanjruine that he will strike another pocket or two like the one which made him wfllfixed Not for ten years has this country been soaked from top to bottom as it Is now The wagon roads are almost Impassable on ill sides for miles Allover p All-over a section ranging from the Dela mar divide tHrough the southern sec xlion of Utah from Cedar to Deseret l 3nd north the moisture has fallen in o unusual ouantiticF Here in the i fcrd district the ground is soaked until it wijl hold no more Teamsters are putting on six horse teams where four A horses have taken the loads before AH freight is i delayed on account of bad roads The mails do not make regular connections at all times and the Delamar bullion stages were late this week thus delaying the shipment here in Milford nearly 24 hours The railroad track is softening and the spring thaw ha come The certainty of amne water for all < 1 al farming purposes pur-poses during the coming season lightens light-ens the hearts of the residents up and down the valley A number of civil numbfr cvi engineers arrived in town on one of the early morning trains this week and began to stack 1 arras and outfits up against the depot t de-pot The question soon settled down ito where will the new depot be situated sit-uated I uas tin n only a matter of a few days when the locomotive should be ploughing its way south through the desert ladened with the perfume of wool and sheep dip The older heads wanted us to hold on for a few days They had seen such things before Had not the rails once things laid ten miles on south from Milford This had no quieting effect on us and the men who were unloading a car or cinders for the Union Pacific insisted that they were preparing a place forth for-th new depot The animation however how-ever was of short duration for soon the engineers began piling their outfits into a twohorse wagon and left town for the southern country Men breathed easier and some said with rca that this was only a few Zarette smokers sent out for a bluff Irhe surveying party is somewhere in I VLb south The boys were very mum as to their business Milford receives the mention of railroad extension with interest and about the same feeling as the preachers boy accepted his fathers t injunction to refrain from marrying V H Gifron returned last night from his trip to the Salmon River mining dis trict in northeastern Nevada about Oo 1 riiles north of Huznbnldt Wells the nejir et railroad point He Is in love wltfi the i district rnd brought some fine samples of ore from some of the claims which aver ages over 17 per cent copper and some gold and silver His partner Mr Clifton ivo was in Vernal last winter has located lo-cated ight claims |