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Show Bear Lake and Bear River. A mining district has been organized organ-ized ntar St. Charles, Bear Lake, called tbe "St. Charles Mining D:a-tricL" D:a-tricL" Tbe hills in that vicinity contain con-tain copper ore assaying from 60 to 80 per cent, and "native" copper of great parity. The copper deposit can be traced thirty-five miles. Galena is also abundant, and eome assays have shown 7S per cent, nf lead and a small per cent, in silver. The ! Duchess, copper mine, the Brown ,Jack and Ghee galena mines are in operation, besides several others not yet named. Many 'rtp.itie hve been made, but the assessments have not been kept up on them. Prospectors often forget that their tenure to a location muBt be secured by performing perform-ing a oertain amount of work each year. There have been no indications of gold as yet. is iuuuu in large quantities on Bear River east of Bear Lake, and of a fine quality for cokeing and for furnace ubc Thera are no railroad facilities existing to transport it, and it remainsundeveloped. Messrs. Collins & Goee have one mine open at Smith's Fork. .The Messrs. Bell have one on Twin CreekB, and the famous "Mammoth Mine" Btill Bhowa a vein seventy feet thick of clear coal, and with adjacent veins, separated by thin veins of clay, will aggregate 200 feet in thickness. These valuable deposits remain undeveloped, I awaiting the means of railroad transportation. |