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Show ORES THAT ARE DARK. Com.iierubi 'Xfrcltament at Ogrten Over an Alleged Tin nlseuirery A Letter From a IVlan With Kxperienee. Tim nticgcH titi discovery at Qdsa bus creatuii considerable eXcitenient, and lias Oalled fortti tlic following letter from Fred A. Shields, president of the Weber mining district : "I haw read With much interest the hc-count hc-count uf tlie "Tin SiriUe." as it aipeared in tile columns of the Sfattsltirl and Tribniv and will, with your permission, add Home further Information OP the subject. "Some twenty years ago when Ogden M OOibing but a villni', a "Tin Diseovery" was made in the Weber district, and in the name loeality where Mr. Uribben claims to have discovered mineral. The excitement was intense. Holes were sunk in every ili reetion, and every foot of ground was slaked out for miles. I had four claims. An ae-coinmodatiiiir ae-coinmodatiiiir nsnayer, who was by trade a blacksnill b, got tin out of every piece of rock brought to him for assay, by addine; a flux, the component par's of which he alone possessed the secret. One of these mines was bonded to some Omaha capitalists fur a larije sum, and specimens of the ore were sent to assaiers and analytical chemist, east, west, north and south so that they nM compass SOttlttstQg. The returns were in every instance no fin in it, so the bubble burst, and the poet of the day celebrated cele-brated the occasion by remarking that "Furores that were dark, And fur Snxing in vaoi, The Offdeti tin ores were peculiar And the tam-' he was fr e to maintain." "Two decades passed and last fall some prospectors brought In some of this so-called tin ore for Ihe inspection of some trentlemeu who are interested in the real welfare of Ogden City and are opposed, from previous experience to raising a mining excitement without a basis of fact. Samples of this ore were sent to Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, Wash-ington, New York and Boise City. The returns re-turns wore in each Instance the same. JVo tin. The certificates of assay can be seen by the curious. In conclusion allow me to suggest to Mr. Qrtbben that whilo I in no way question hi.s integrity or his belief that he has discovered something valuable, that Btill there is attached to mid part of the chamber of commerce of Ogden City, "a committee on mines and minerals," and that should he make any valuable discovery In future ho bad better interview some of the members thereof, when he will have his sauudes assayed free of cost and bo advertised adver-tised much more extensively than he could possibly expect by privately interviewing a newspaper reporter." |