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Show " ACTIVITY ABOUT TINT1C Ex-Mayor Kit Oarson of Aspen has a Lease and Bond on the Golden Chain. HILLS fULL OF PKOSPEOTOSS. Some Good Locations Recently Made South of Homansville Promising Claims and Work, miles in each direction north uml souths and needs but tho in-eomn of capital to bring forth as great bonanzas as thoso already so woll Known to tho public. The mines and miners of tho district have a good friend in their local paper, the Euroka Chief, conducted by CO. Spec Higgins; hue they expect and have a right to expect notice mid encouragement encourage-ment from such metropolitan papers as The Tim k.s. A new industry promises to he evolved from a lind recently made anil just ro- ported to your correspondent. Some few weeks ago a prospector Iroin Emery county caiuo to Eureka having in his possession a mineral unknown to the common local expert. Mr. Frank Hunter sent a small specimen to the Smithsonian institute at Washington fur niialvsis. and Mr. G. Brown Goode. As outlined in my last letter to THE Times, the great lime belt of this district dis-trict has been traced north fully ten miles, and discoveries of a very valuable valu-able character have been made as far south as tho desert, thirty-live miles from Eureka. Since tho date of that letter some very important discoveries have been made all along tho belt, and a quiet, but intense excitement pervades tho atmosphere surrounding the lucky locators, who, believing in tho continuity continu-ity of the pay ore in the belt, have made valuable locations.' That the Tfntic district dis-trict is rapidly assuming a front rank as a great producing region is so woll established es-tablished that few doubt the right of the assistant secretary of the institute, who has charge of tho National museum, referred re-ferred the matter to F. W. Chirk, chemist chem-ist in charge of such matters in the museum, mu-seum, who, after careful investigation,' redorled to Mr. Goode in the following words: "The specimen is magnesium sulphate" (epsom salts). Here is a good opening for some company com-pany to establish a profitable business, us the mineral salts are found in immense im-mense beds, and water is no object as a large stream (lows close by. Most of the epsom salts of commerce is now imported im-ported from England and Germany, and a liomn m ami factory. . I should think, would pay well. Information in regard to this matter can be obtained from. Frank Hunter, Eureka, Utah. people here to the claim they set up of being at the head of the procession as regards the mineral districts of Utah. A great amount of activity is dis. p layed in the neighborhood of tho Spy mine, and south of there, in Dragon hollow, and tho neighborhood of and to the south and east of Silver City. The management of the Governor, in Dragon hollow, has been adding men recently, until now there is a very respectable force employed. , The same can be said of the Golden Treasure and other producing pro-ducing mines ; in tiio near vicinity of Silver. Frank E. Miller of Silver located a fractiou 011 the Governor vein recently, which shows high grade ore ns development progresses. pro-gresses. The mine is uamcd "A Fraction" Frac-tion" and Frank E. Miller of Silver and W. C. B. Allen, George Heffernan and Attorney Hamilton of Salt Lake, are the lucky owners. Tho Golden Chain joining the Mammoth Mam-moth mine on the west, and the Copper-opolis.on Copper-opolis.on the east, which is owned by Ed O'Brien and the Phillips brothers, is showing up in splendid shape. J. C. Carson, (Kit) ex mayor of Aspon and ex-stago king of Colorado, has a lease and bond on the Golden Chain, and expects to develop another Mammoth ere many moons. The incline is now 125 feet in, and the vein matter, which has been followed from the start, looks exceedingly well. The hills are full of prospectors and locators. People here think, and rightly too,, that wherever there is a valid location along the belt, the chances are good for a mine and consequently for a sale. ' It seems strange that valuable property, prop-erty, close in to the .town, should be allowed al-lowed to remain vacant all these years, but such is the case, and locations are being made every day, or I should say, have beon made every day until recently, re-cently, within gunshot distanco of tho town, on the north and west along tho belt. Activity in this direction has be-como be-como so great for thejpast few weeks, that very little; ground can now be had, w ithin four or five miles of the town, but Major Matt Condon, who owns some of the finest -property in the district, informed your correspondent a day or two ago that the mineral belt was as gr.od and showed as good indications ten miles northwest of tho town as at the Bullion-Bock. The major is an old timer in the camp and has made the great Tintic lime belt a study for years. His -judgment is proved by the line property he now owns and that his assertions in regard to the valuo of tho country north of here is without mercenary mer-cenary motives, is plain, when it is stated that all of his property lies south and east of tho gulch in which the town is situated. Major Condon has examined examin-ed the ground carefully for miles along the belt and says that a dip occurs in the vein at the gulch between the Beck and Keystone, but that it again rises to, or near tho surface, at a distance of a mile, or such a matter, north. His judgment has been borno out in tho Keystone, which lies directly across the gulch from fho Bullion-Beck, where depth, guflicifnt to tap the oro on tho dip, had to lie a'.taiued before any satisfactory satis-factory results occurred. Now, that the ore body has been reached, tho Keystone promises to outrival its famous sisUr across the gulch. Homansville lies in the water belt, last of tho lire belt, and is noted for nothing more than a pumping station, where water for the mines and town is raised, but south of it along the edge of the oro body, some very good locations have recently been made. About a milo south of the Bprings, at Homansville are situated the Monte Cristo and Columbus two sister claims that show better than any prospects which I have yet noticed: A tunnel, which is as yet but 12 feet in, discloses a fine ore body, carrying native na-tive silver and copper, which assays away ;up in the thousands. These claims' arc owned by S. T, Schwartz, proprietor of tho C. O. I), store in Eureka. ... ( . In the vicinity of the Queen of the West, a hill noticed in my first letter, are several groups of very promising claims. Amongst the owners are Judge Watts, Hon! C. L. P.rovvn and Judire Hill. Judge Watts is an old and experienced California miner and prospector, and has, staked both his judgment anil means on the locality referred to. The Seneca group is owned by J. II. Dris-coll, Dris-coll, James P. Priscoll and J. J. Harrington. Har-rington. The Last Resort is owned bv J. E. Driscoll and J. E. Hiliery. All the claims in the district under discussion is tied to and located from the Golden Eagle, which is about two and one half -miles northwest of Eureka and is supposed sup-posed to occupy a central position on the mineral belt. Dr. H. M. Barker of Salt Lake, came to Tintic some leu days ago on a visit to his frieud, G. T. Bridges, and as a matter of course was taken out to see sme of the latter gentleman's claims. So impressed was the good doctor by the appearance of the country that he prolonged his stay from day to day and has now two fine locations west of the Golden Eagle. One he calls the Lone Hatchet, and another- in which Captain Bridges and Frank Hunter Hun-ter are interested is called the Lone Star. In mentioning all these prospects the object is to show that the mineral of the district is not confined to the big mines now in operation, but stretches for |