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Show STAR. DISTRICT, UTAH. C. H. Bcckwith, Esq., superintendent superintend-ent of the Washington and Creole, returned re-turned on Wednesday from a visit to this camp, now creating considerable stir in mining circles cast and west, and for the purpose of furnishing our readers with reliable information, we got possession of the gentleman before his arrival in town, and the following is the result of the interview: Star district was discovered in June, ISTO.by Matthew Cullen and company. Among the most noted discoveries is the Bevens, owned by captain Pritch-ard, Pritch-ard, which has a shall down ISO feet, and a fine body of ore in sight. Next in importance eome the St. Mary's, the J upiter and the Illinois. North Star district was discovered by J oseph Glassford in March, 1ST 1 . Among the most prominent minca recorded re-corded in this distriot are the Midas, Shenandoah, Oais, Harrington, Mer-rimac, Mer-rimac, Rebel and others too numerous to enumerate at this time. Tho Sho-nandoah Sho-nandoah and Rebel wcro the first discovered dis-covered in the district. In Middle camp are situated the Last Chanco, Bellcvue, Eureka and Vulture. In West Camp aro the Wild Bill, Temperance, Clipper, Lookout and Mary of Argyle. In Granite Range is the Copper Glance, Lone Tree and Lake Superior. In Base Range wc have the Minne sota, Cortez, Chief of the Hill and Lady La-dy Franklin. J. W. Schoonmaker, well known to Ncvadans, has oight claims, principal among which are the Shenandoah and Midas, on which shafts have been sunk from fifty to sixty feet through good ore. Oro averages $100 to the ton. Mr. B. is informed that Mr. Schoonmaker Schoon-maker is about closing a trade with San Francisco parties for the sale of a portion of his interests in Star, and assures the parties in interest that they can rely on a clear title and good bargain. Major Gallagher, formerly of Virginia Vir-ginia City, is working the Temperance and Lady of tbe Lake, owned by Gen. Connor and himself. The Medusa, owned by the samp, is a splendid mine; has a shaft and tunnel. The Lookout mine, in West Camp, is a i'ree metal mine, with good prospects. pros-pects. The Hickory Jack Doylo, superintendenthas superin-tendenthas a shaft down sevonty feet, and let taking out very fine ore. The Harrington Fred Fuller, superintendent super-intendent looks well; shaft down forty feet in paying ore. Tho Last Chance is situated about a mile and a half southwest of the town of Shenandoah or North Star, and is considered one of tho best free metal mines in the oamp. A large amount of ore has been taken out, which assays high up in the thousands, horn silver being plainly visible in nearly all the ore extracted. Mr. Beckwith considj ers this the leading mine of the di2-trict. di2-trict. The Hidden Treasure is rich in galena ga-lena and silver, and the ore can be easily extracted in large quantities. A number of other districts exist within a radius of 15 miles of Star; San Francisco, Lincoln, Rocky, etc., but were not visited by Mr. Beck with. The town of North Star contains from twenty to thirty buildings, two of which are occupied as stores, two restaurants, res-taurants, two assay offices and a blacksmith black-smith shop ; a large livery stable is now being erected. Water has to be convoyed from Beaver river, about four miles. There is a daily line of stages running to Minersville, and another an-other to connect with the Salt Lake and Piocho line of Gilmer & Salisbury. The Utah Southern railroad, according accord-ing to the Beaver survey, will run within four miles of the town. Star district lacks a custom mUl, and Mr, Beckwith thinks there is no doubt but a mill could find constant employment, employ-ment, as free and base metal exists in large quantities. About fifteen miles west of town Gen. Connor and Mr. Gallagher have a large body of timber land. They are about to erect a sawmill, saw-mill, when lumber will be plentiful and cheap. They have a number of choppers chop-pers in the timber and about 100,000 feet of logs out. The timber is generally gener-ally large, some measuring two and a half feet in diameter. Mr. Bcckwith met J. H. Cooke, owner own-er of a number of claims; Mr. Adams, foreman of tho Hickory; Ed. Connolly, formerly of the Collins House, and late of the Salt Lake House; J. W. Schoonmaker, Schoon-maker, a prospective millionaire; and Lloyd Tizzoll, lato of Virginia, and a host of other gentlemen, among them W. H. Lighthall, district recorder, who is always ready to give visitors information infor-mation concerning the camp, titles to claims, etc., and a man who will not record re-cord two notices for tho same piece of ground. It is tho opinion of Mr. Beckwith, based on an examination of many mines, and the information derived from sources deemed perfectly reliable, that Star district will provo to bo one of tho best and most lasting of the many rich mining districts of Utah Territory. Ely Record. |