Show J DIXIE MINE AND SMELTER With HP Apex jr6up of claims owned liy tifcf DIxre Mining company near St George that speck upon the mlnenO j bearing zone of Utah has forced ahoad with unprecedented stride during the year and 1300 promises some most Important Im-portant developments The Dixie Itself is 1 an old proposition but was developed only In desultory way until new blood began to gush through its arteries This camn when It WOK taken hold of by thc the organization of present company G Grif which was promoted by John fith W W Old and a few othprs An old smelter that was on the ground whtn theso gentlemen acquired pos gosslon served for demonstrative pur poe p while the high grade copper bearing ores provided for the balance From the Ilrst It paid Its own bills and not a few consignments of copper bullion bul-lion hare helped to swell the output of that meta I for the season Then tho company decided on a new plant nnd a c Bit > at St George from which the mines all > about eighteen miles distant was = pl lortod Ujion this a new smelter capable r ca-pable of handling about twenty tons dally was erected and has been In per p-er lion since the onrly part of last I month The quality of Dixie ore om that Is miiiM Jar favorably with any the but attract In Utah and cannot to the berloua attention of mining men region During the year the company has smelted and marketed about 200 and the bullion 4 t ftfl pounds of copper proceeds have been very satisfactory The Sniml Gulch group owned by Jennings Bras of Salt Lake and located within the Arizona I ed south of St George also attracting attention to zona line Is the southern country During the past marketing some few weeks It has been mark Very highgrade ores that are teamed i a distance of ninety miles to Modena on the Utah Paclllc railway and this year promises some very energetic work The owners have enough ore on tho dump to pay for machinery and that the Grand Gulch will afford dividends divi-dends this season s assured From Its mineral resources lone the region of which St George Is I the depot should I derive great bentOlt JD 100Q II I I |