Show THE NIL DESPE A AG G burritt of blackhorse nevada formerly superintendent of the san pedro mine in this growing and popular gold camp and who made the first shipment of ore from this prospective bonanza was in salt lake last week and favored the mining review with a pleasant call mr burritt is much interested in the growth of blackhorse district and that his judgment is not at fault as to the merit of the mines and prospects of the new camp is proved by the numerous new strikes which have been made there of late and by the satisfactory manner with which development work is being carried on besides the san pedro mr burritt is identified with a number of blackhorse properties including the mabel in which a sensational strike was reported a few weeks ago one of the latest enterprises in which he is interested is the nil Despe group of twenty one claims now owned by a company of this name the nil Despe joins the buchanan group and through its entire length the great ledge of the district can be plainly traced the company will soon begin systematic and intelligent development and hopes ere long to open up something that will give the camp added luster during the last two months several new companies have been incorporated upon blackhorse properties included in the list being the millard gold mining company the denver consolidated gold mining company the white jack mining company and the iva gold mining company mr burritt had with him the usual budget of camp gossip and among other things of interest informed the mining review that dan clays so well and popularly known in utah mining camps had made a big strike on his lucky boy group just south of the nil Despe the ore going 25 gold 24 ounces silver and 54 per cent lead to the ton W B wedell one of the prominent citizens of ogden who is at the head of the blackhorse townsite company has secured a bond and lease on the blowfly and black crow claims joining the san pedro mine on the north and will soon begin work in their development associated with mr wedell in this enterprise are hon david eccles and the browning brothers of ogden some time ago an application wa was made for a postoffice post office at blackhorse to be called blackhorse after a month or so of waiting the department notified the applicants that the name of blackhorse could not be grant ed A meeting of the residents of the camp was then called and by almost un unanimous aninious consent it was decided to call the p postoffice post Os office burritt and a petition urging the same has been forwarded to washington mr burritt is a most modest and unassuming man inan and the notoriety thus thrust upon him causes his bronzed cheeks to take on a still deeper hue but still he feels honored and pleased during the past few months blackhorse has made a steady and substantial growth f and the satisfactory manner with which its I 1 mines are responding to development has already almost assured the future of the camp |