Show FORK ACTIVITY american fork citizen american fork mining district never looked so bright as at the present time the great activity being shown and the high valued ore being found far surpasses the prosperous days of this camp in the when the railroad run to the canyon more than fifty teams were counted on the canyon road monday among this number were about thirty five ore teams hauling from the miller hill wyoming mine and the wasatch range property the other vehicles encountered contained mining men and capitalists who were hefe here to look over this promising district the days of american fork mining district as a prospecting field are past and the reality of large ore bodies are being proven more every day at the present time there are about seventy five men working at the wyoming and the three shifts are taking out on an average of 1700 sacks of ore each 24 hours this ore runs about 20 sacks to the ton and carries a value of from 50 to GO 60 hence the value output of this property runs over per day the mountain dell property recently consolidated soli dated from the goodsell and imperial companies by judge R N baskin J H wootton and other mining men is now taking out a shipment of good grade galena ore on a visit to their camp thursday eleven tons were sacked on the dump ready for the teams two carloads will be shipped the latter part of the month C D hanks has charge of the mountain dell property the pacific company who struck a vein of carbonate silver ore about two weeks ago are now taking out ore for their first shipment two carloads will be sent to the smelters shelters sm elters the latter part of august the as says on this ore show silver values from 70 to ounces michael fitzgerald who has been working the north star on a bond and lease discovered after he had taken out considerable ore that he was on the wasatch range property satisfactory arrangements have been made with the latter company and mr fitzgerald with eight miners will continue to extract the ore for the satch range A carload of ore from the mine is now at the railroad yards ready for shipment jacob greenwood stephen woods and J J mercer three of the principal owners of the whirlwind were at the mine this week to verify a report received here monday that the miners had struck ore at two different parts of the mine the strike is a fact and several samples brought down for assay look as if the property would be a shipper before the summer is passed dr J H holden of cleveland ohio and other eastern parties have a force of men working on the bog property which won such euch prominence last season by a strike of carbonate ore carrying 1500 ounces silver the men are now working on a four foot vein of rosin zinc ore that carries high silver and gold values two carloads of this ore is now on the dump and the extent of the ore body would justify the conclusion that the property will have a long career of usefulness to its owners the mccall patented claims is another property that has very flattering prospects this company is composed mostly of salt lake men it is located in the silver lake district where so much rich float was taken out during the early days of the camp ray stewart of salt lake with a force of men went to the mine monday with supplies sufficient for a three months development campaign the clipper silver king and the silver flat are both working t with sufficient encouragement coura gement to enthuse their stockholders in the belief that they will ship ore this season |