Show 0 SOUTHERN UTAH AWAKENING southern utah is just now awakening to the fact that it is a mining country as well as a stock growing and farming section A short distance from st george there is the old silver reef mines that at one time were the largest producers of silver ore in that state at the barbee and walker mills over tons of tailings are spread over the flats the average of which is about six ounces silver a trace of gold and nearly 2 per cent copper in the mine the copper is now the dominant metal and with greater depth there is no question that it will show big in the red metal the mine is really one of the curiosities of the geological world in its old were found trees that were and then changed to the sandstone material of the vein all the ore was a sandstone and much of it was wonderfully der fully rich in silver old trunks of trees were plastered over with horn silver in one of these a tree sixty feet in length was broken up and run through the mill south of st george are many veins rich in copper and while these are not sandstone the enclosing walls are all sandstone the veins being lime and quartz west of st george is another excellent vein of copper and farther down in the virgin mountains are other veins in the granite that show excellent copper values with proper prospecting and the entrance of a railroad into that section it would at once become one of the big mining districts of the country the railroad would be the happy medium through which the opening of that section would be accomplished miner aliner kingman King nian ariz |