Show COLORADO RIVE1L PLAcERs More Activity This Winter Than Ever Before Svedal Correspondence Torrey Dec 4Considerable placer mining Is beIng done on the Colorado river this winter more than ever before slne the fIrst discovery of thc San Juan placers HeavIly laden teams pass through Torrey every few das carryIng carry-Ing with them oats and supplies A great deal of new machinery has beel1 put In this season and work generally is oil a larger scale now than ever before be-fore A great number of mineral cropplngs have of late been found In various partS of central and lower Wayne county coun-ty The pr vulIlng metal Is copper though both sHyer and gold are found The arie extent of country covered by these prospects seems to denote that minIng on a large scale Is among the futurities of Wayne |