Show LETTER PROM STATE LINE A Story of Fabulous Wealth Told by I Two Prospectors State Line Iron County Utah July I 4Thday is the Fourth of July in State Line The traditional small boy and his firecrackers are not numerous but the shooting goes on by prospectors on the different hills with an occasional occa-sional broncho race to enliven the crowd I Mike Monahan and Jesse Jones of Beaver came in last week to do assessment as-sessment OTI the Tenderfoot and other claims of theirs in this camp I Emerson and Tilley have started to sink j 100foot shaft on the Crown Point one of the best showings in the romp The Creole is beating her record in quality and quantity and the ore dump is growing beautifully larger Burns Sons of Sauna are running atunnel 50 feet on the Alice a southern south-ern extension of the Creole mine wtii good prospects of developing It into a paying proposition as they occasionally occasion-ally find free gold 1ne Hidden Treasure owned by John Smtttison shows up better with deptia The shaft is down 40 feet and at 50 feet he will begin to drill He has a splendid snowing for a mine the vein will average 5 feet all the way Wehad two prospectors in camp last week they came in from the Bull Valley Val-ley country about 65 miles south of here They came to this place to get I assays on a quartzite rock which they I i claim is from a ledge 50 feet wide It lays between lime and granite and is j I similar to the DeLamar quartzvte Tom Lynch the efficient assayer of I this place gave them values of SSO gold 110 ounces in silver The rock was I a close grained quartzite stained inseams in-seams with a peacock iron fume While talking around the camp fire in the I evening your correspondent heard a story from Truman and Barnurp the I aforesaid prospectors which flavored I strongly of stones he heard around i camp fires before all over the west of j Breyfogles Peglegs and Lot Cabins I It runs in this wise Late last fall an old man a peddler coming from Si CifetT e lost nis horses and teaiched I five days before finding them While looking for them he found rock m the i I r nB east fork of what is known as the Beaver Bea-ver dams about one and onehalf miles from the old placer diggings He came Ito I-to State Line and from there sent three I assays to Salt Lake one to McVicker one to Officer and one to Bishop two of the assays varied very little and ran up to 46000 in sold 7 ounces in siivei the onier t6uUU in gold The old man went back and there being I i some prospectors in the hills he came j away in the meantime he broke his i leg and has been laid up for repairs in Marysvale since last spring His partner part-ner gave the snap away to some cf his friends and several ranchers and prospectors pros-pectors have been watching for him for two months to trail him in We have a man in camp wlio will vouch i I for the assays I Dick Rich and partners have struck I a body of high grade ore on the north 1 i extension of the Ophir ground Thfe 1 ore is identical with the Ophir A G j I Bast of your city acquired an interest I in the claim when he was in here John Smithson has bought Dan Bakers I interest in all his property in camp I The consideration it is said is 1000 I i cash i |