Show AN OLD MEXICAN MINE Believed t Have Been Discovered Near Parowan A Parowan correspondent of the Iron Countv Record says I will no doubt interest your readers 1 read-ers to learn that what is thought to j be a rich mine has been discovered by I some rarties from Parowan In the red r hills about ten miles southeast of here and about 15 miles from Cedar Charlie Ernest and Alvin Norris and Alva C Eaves are ihe discoverers Their attention atten-tion was firstattracted by what they supposed t b the partially obscured opening of a cave in the mountains This excited thair curiosity and Investigations In-vestigations followed that revealed the fact that the opening was the mouth of a tunnel which evidently had been worked o years or more ago The tunnel 1 row thought to be one of the od Mexican mines that were worked when the continent was first i discovered by the whiles Development work ha been commenced I com-menced and terdeanlng out the tunnel tun-nel for 4 distance ot30 to Z fet a vein two feet nine inchesthick of what Ss ife t thought to be rich gold quartz was uncovered I un-covered Samples have been sent to Salt Lake City for assay and If the rock proves to be as good expected I J will create a boom iVs It is aeople of this place are much excited over the discovery The parties who made the rich find are better acquainted with thecalling of cowpunching than mining and it is due to this fact that as yet nothing absolutely ab-solutely certain is known as to the value of the rock roc I The discovery was made some six weeks since but i was not until recently re-cently that substantial development was commenced |