Show AROUND THE STATE X 1 g american fork citizen the owners of the bond and lease on the silver glance prospect in the head of the major evans gulch are still energetically following up the discovery of a four foot vein made on that property a few weeks since it is the intention of the operators to commence the shipment of ore from this property in the near future american fork citizen it is the intention of the silver flat company to install a working force of men at once to follow up the four foot vein of ore which they encountered late last fall the ore is rich in copper assays essays from an average grade show 2 23 a per cent this property is now known as the copper king having been formerly known as the old nebraska it is an old canyon prospect and has before it a bright future ogden state journal W D has returned from a trip to the burnham mine north of ogden and states that the property is showing up in fine shape two eighty foot shafts have been sunk when water was encountered necessitating the driving of a tunnel to tap the shaft work has temporarily been suspended but will be resumed at once about a half car of ore is now on the dump and the management expect to make a shipment next month mammoth record work on the new pump house at cherry creek is being pushed with a force of sixteen men the new building is to be of stone with adobe partitions and will be feet A rock quarry has been opened up within a stones throw and a natural cement has been discovered near by which does excellent work it is hoped to have the new fireproof fire proof structure completed within the next two months it was at first contemplated to use adobe entirely but as the weather was not favorable it was decided to build the entire walls of stone and use the adobes acobes already made for partitions logan republican H C hansen general manager of the amazon mining company has returned from a trip to the mine he reports a most important change in the ground in fact he says that the end of the tunnel has penetrated no less than ten feet of milling ore this ore lies on the foot wall side of bf the fissured zone and would indicate that the large vein for wh ch the company has been driving is near at hind hand the discovery was made at a vertical depth of feet and about goo feet in the tunnel mr hensen was quite conservative in regard to making any statement for publication at this time as he expects to hear something more definite within the next few days vernal express J W watson called this week with samples of the rock from th tha new discovery on brush creek moun mountain tam the ore is principally galena and carries several ounces in silver and same gold ens cne assay giving as high as nine ounces the claim on which they are working is a short distance up the creek above the big brush creek cave and is in the sime same strati or formation as the old parsonville Par sonville prospects and the bassett mine the ore from the latter resembling that of the new discovery they have cleaned out the cut or tunnel for about forty feet first sinking a shaft to it fifteen feet deep and all along in the bottom of the old tunnel find pieces of the tha lead ore pie he thinks it is undoubtedly an old spanish mine from the crude workmanship of the old cabin mentioned in this paper WO two weeks ago and from the tim timbering berin found in the tunnel they have haab found sa same in e ti timbers in the old tunnel which resemble abs tbs props used in a coal mine being bein placed liere here and there under han haning hanging t ing rocks 4 |