Salt Lake Herald | 1899-03-30 | Page 6 | Working the Ophir

WORKING TH OPH Contract Let For th Development of the Independence The Statelne correspondent of the Iron County Record in speaking of the cap in genera says Work has commenced on a small scale at the Ophir since the new management man-agement has ten charge We understand under-stand all the paper in reference to the title of this property have been accepted ac-cepted so that nothing now stands in the way of pushing development work A contract has been let to Messr Blakely and Larsen for 400 feet of work on the Nugent group at Pikes Diggings This property was recently incorporated at Salt Lake City a the Independence Gold Mining company and a working fund of 5000 placed in the treasury with which to begin work With some financial backing we may expect to see this property placed in I the column of producer soon