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Show IMries anb IBerL PROVO MINING NEWS. Last Tharaday H. C. Smith and C. K. douthworth discovered a six-inch vein of fold-bearing- quartz near Castilla. A sample sam-ple was taken from the croppings and an assay made by A. J. Kroupa gave a return of $53.58 gold. Messrs. Smith and South-worth South-worth started men to work on the prospect yesterday. H. J. Smith and P. H. Beesley of Provo, J. H. Lee of Fish Springs, W. H.- Walker of Heber and others have made what they believe be-lieve to be a valuable discovery in the northwestern north-western part of the territory. Tbey have a tweaty-two-foot ledge of blue quarts carrying carry-ing cold; an assay of the ore taken from a fifteen-foot shaft shows 119.82 gold. The formation is limestone and the hanging and foot walls are well defined and almost perpendicular. About twenty-live claims have been located and a district organized with J. H. Lee, recorder. His office is iu Holladsy's park. It is not expected that much development work or prospecting: will be done till next spring on account of the snow. The district is known as the I. X. L. district dis-trict and is bounded in the following manner: man-ner: Commencing at the Smith and Morehouse More-house fork, tbence north to the Wyoming 2JIt ia aaid that Captain Hugo Deprezin bas bought ail the treasury stock of the North Eureka that had not been otherwise disposed of. The near presence of mineral is counted on, judged by indications la the shaft. Strike on the Diamond. Bos Tweed in shape for a winter's campaign, a good road having been built up to the property. On the Herkimer, owned by Matt and Pat Condon, but operated under lease and bond by the Herkimer company, is an angina, air compressor and hoist like that ia use on the Centennial-Eureka before the recast improvements im-provements were made. A force of eighteen is employed on the Herkimer at present. Erection of the new machinery for the Keystone is greatly facilitated by the new Rio Grande switch recently put in. The plant is now being; set up rapidly. The Miner emphatically denies the reports circulated through the Salt Lake Tribune to tbe effect that there Is destitution among the families of miners in Eureka, Hoisting works are being erected by the Retribution company. Development in the shape of a shaft and drifts goes forward vigorously. vig-orously. - Plsial Coanty. The Jack Babbit mine, twenty -on miles south of Casa Grande, owned by General Tuttla of Colorado and others, is proving a valuable property. The miners found that what was supposed to be the footwall has proved to be, after breaking through, a large reserve of ore that runs an average of $18 per ton and other portions gave an average of $40 per too. Two miners are said to hare kept the mill running twenty -four hours on ore they took out. From J. R. Slack's new find in Chanparel gulch, two tons of ore are said to have ran from $700 to $S00 per ton. This ledge can be traced for 8000 feet on the surface aad is eleven inches wide on top of the ground, gradually increasing in width as depth is reached. On the tLide mine, belonging to B. P. Brittlngham, a tunnel was driven 800 feet and tapped the ledge at a depth of eighty feet, where the vein shows a solid streak ot ore more than two feet in width, which averages av-erages $70 per ton in silver. The vein carries car-ries horn silyer, aud when sorted, rich shipping ship-ping ore is obtained, considerable of wbieh ia now npon tbe dump, besides over 100 tons of secend-grade ore. l is the Eclipse ledge, npon which are located the Gray Eagle, Eod-enburg, Eod-enburg, Junior and other valuable mines. .. line; thence east to the government monument monu-ment at the northwest corner of the Uintah laser ration; thence south to Bald mountain; moun-tain; thence east along the dividing ridge to the place of beginning. The nearest railroad point is Wanship. FROM TiNTIC Yankee Girl, at Silver City, shows another large ore bodyl More man are to be set at work on the Victoria, that was bonded for Julius Thompson Thomp-son and other Colorado operators by A. A. Waggoner. A whim has been put up on the property thst belongs to the McChyrstals. Captain Ryan is making good progress with a shaft on ground west of the Bullion-Beck. Bullion-Beck. Prospecting goes forward on the Eagle and a quarter of a ton of gold-bearing rock, that runs $400 to the ton, is daily taken out. The Ifintr reports that forty feet below where a rich or body pinched out two years ago, that netted fgOOO to the ton, a similar dcpoeK was struck a few days ago. The vein is two feet wide and the ove said to be fully frfiual in richness to the old strike. It is surprising how rapid'y tbe dumps around the Keystone and the Beck mines have grown. The ground that the Union Faeffio and R. G. W. fought for so stubborn Jy last sprlug is now covered with a dump twenty feet high, aad nearly all the vacant ground is la use for dumping purposes. JU ( Three eight-hour shifts are working on the Eaoraoaeato, and Em lie Wirz, who has the property under bond aad lease, is aaid te feel encouraged, at the outlook, not regret- j ting the large sftaount sipended in opening |