Show OPERATIONS IX OSCEOLA DISTRICT Some Good Clcnmiim nt the Placers 5 Near the Crimp 5 Nephi Blade H t Clark of Boston who is operating in Nevadas gold camp was I guest of the Deseret house on Monday and from him we glean a few items of interest regarding Osceola The Osceola Placer Mining company has this summer been renting some of the water heretofore used by i to various var-ious individuals who lave been successful suc-cessful l in washing out considerable of the yellow metal Thomas Watkins cleaned up about t 1000 in a short run and others have done equally as well or better T B Tilford who owns his ground and water has done well as usual S usual The Cumberland company has been experimenting with the tricone mill and i is believed have abandoned I and will now put in a Crawford The I success of the Cane 8pring company in the use of the Crawford in the Deop Creek country ought to have been an object lesson to those Bostonians who have tried cyanide and the tricone on the Cumberland Osceola and other claims with no success They have several as fine properties as could be wished for and It would have been a cheap and easy matter to have sent a tenton lot over to the Cane Spring mill and learned definitely what it would do Messrs Millick and isiins are making some fine developmentsover on Willard creek and Mr Clarks opinion is that a great camp will be made of that district dis-trict as soon as capitaltakes hold of i The recent great strike is in the Gold Demand which joins thfe Osceola Dr Whitney of Salt Lake and another I gentleman own the property and have three men at work developing A fifty foot shaft was sunk in gold ore samples of which ran away ufr into the hundreds hun-dreds and the vein will sample 30 to 40 per ton A tunnel ll now in on the same vein about seventy feet is all the way in the same class of ore Whenever capital awakens to the value of Osceola as a Sure field for investment in-vestment that country will surprise the mining world |