Show 1 TO MAKE MINE IN NEWFOUNDLAND Salt Lakers Expect to Bring Another Neglected District to Notice Work which promises to direct atten atton attention aten tion ton to another of neglected rain min mining lug ing in districts distrct is to be b undertaken by a crowd of Salt Sl Lake mining men which has taken over the Yellow Jacket and ad Yankee Yanke groups grUps of claims in New dis die district distrct dietrict and Is incorporating the New Found land Island Mining company The incorporators Incorporator incorporators of the new company are Jacob Jacob Hunter J R H Clawson Frank Hunte J JW JW JW W and ad W R It R Hutchinson The properTy which has been taken over was Th worked out a dozen years ago by former lormer owners who drove a tunnel 5 feet f t on a strong vein yielding ore The ore was not rich enough however to stand the long haul to railroad which has since been ben material materially ly reduced by the building of the Lucin cutoff and the Western Veter Pacific railroad Since the work was wa done the tunnel has caved In and is now Inaccessible That good goo ore or was encountered is attested by a carload of rock on the dumps which Is said to average about abut 75 i a ton in gold and copper The purchasers of the prop property prop property erty further satisfied themselves of its It value by b sinking on the vein until the same kind of ore oro was ws encountered In place Outcroppings indicate a vein of great size and permanency geat Mr Clawson who Is to be manager of the new company intends to go to the camp next week to Inaugurate an active campaign of development development The old tun tunnel tunnel nel net is to be b cleared cleard out before definite plans for permanent work will wi be laid laid The Theore Theore Theore ore on the tho dump will wi be b shipped to mar market market market ket and it I Is not unlikely that extending the tunnel will wl provide further shipments at not Infrequent Intervals The New district distrct comprises a a group of mountains west of Great Salt Sal lake lak a neighbor of Silver Siver Island both bot having been islands In the ancient sea which covered the Great Grat American des desert desert desen ert ert en New is not unlike Island in formation and general aspect and it I has even eyen longer been ben recognized by mining men as a district of great gat raIn min mineral eral possibilities j |