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Show Mining Notes. By a gentleman in from the American Fork and Deer Creek mining districts, wo havo been furnished the following items: Tho Miller mine, American Fork, is still proving tho lending feature of the district. A largo quantity of ore is being taken out, sacked and piled up at the mine awaiting the completion comple-tion of the tramway by which the ore is to be conveyed from the mines to the furnaces, a distance of two miles. The furnaces of tho Miller aro rapidly approaching couiplctioo; the three fur-nuccs fur-nuccs under construction being very line buildiugn. The town is growing rapidly, and the saw mill there is i driven to its utmost capacity to supply j tho demand for lumber, ' The Pittsburg mine, though believed :-equal :-equal to the Miller, is not so far ad-! vanced in development, and can yet ' only bo rated second to it. The Pitts-. : hurg has a vein twelve feet thick, with ! an incline down forty-five foot on an ! angle oi'forly thrcc degrees. Two hun- ; drcdton.sof ore is now out from tho in-' clino alone, assaying $52 in silver per ton, with forty-eight per cent, of lead no gold. j The Mountain Boy, Deer Creek dis-1 trict, is said to be a number one mine, ! with a large vein of milling oro, assay- I "ing from $12 to .'150 in silver ' The Silver ti lance is anorhcr line mine in tho same district, being from twenty-five to forty foot in thickness of vein. |
