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Show Twi Peaks Iron lioes Are Promising Deposits Long Overlooked by Prospectors Pros-pectors Are Being Opened Snow at Marysvale. Special to Tho Tribune. MARYSVALE, Utah. March 2G.-Marya-valc presents another example of the almost al-most boundless mineral possibilities of this great mining State. For perhaps thirty or forty years the prospectors havo run over tho Twin Peaks at Sago Flats, noar tho boundary of Sevier and Pluto counties, and tho ground at different times was located for gold and silver, but Jiulo work performed. Finally, about a tV"0S arS-'nt. 11 young man of ffi"na,; 1f0lm'1 ,s0.mc ""on lloat on tho Peaks and located for Iron. Frank Dal-tcm Dal-tcm of Daiton mine fame, became Interested Inter-ested and. by faithful, courageous work, has developed a great Iron mine, and it Is almost demonstrated that tho Twin I eaks and a large territory of the surrounding sur-rounding country, is underlaid with largo ....1,1 . , ,u i' "''" ami oest iron In tho , Ab0l1t a carload per dav is being shipped to and used by the UtjIIccI States famelting company as flux. Hundreds of acres have been located and G F, Daiton. Dai-ton. Max lirotkl of Richfield. Jacob Sargent Sar-gent and William E. Whllo of Marvsvalo and othors hnvo promising ground, which they are developing. Iron experts declare that a rich and extensive Iron field that had escaped tho keen evo of the prospector pros-pector for forty years Is now being opened. It Is reported here that Henry Outzen. an extensive mining operator of Richfield, Rich-field, will soon commence the development develop-ment of the Outzen group on tho south Tork of million creek, and as the surface showing is excellent, good results are expected. ex-pected. A dozen or so of Marysvalc's miners and prospectors went to the Goidfield region re-gion during Die winter, but nearly all are back, willing to tako another chance at the base of old Mt. Baldy. Mining operations hero oil the higher mountains have been almost at a standstill stand-still during the last two months, because of excessive snowfall, there having been from four to ten feet of snow on the level. The Log Cabin people have outlined extensive ex-tensive work and have been trying to buck snow preparatory to the Installation Installa-tion of mining machinery, but with no very encouraging results, as the trails refill re-fill every night. Mllau Packard of Sprlngvlile has. let another contract on tho Gold Bullion tunnel, and Intends doing - much work near tho falls on Bullion creek, J S. Baler, lessee on tho old Webster property, has a force extracting ore and Is. making shipments to the smelter. B T. Ashby is prosecuting work on the Aldebaren, hear Cottonwood creek. lie finds some of the pure metal, both gold and silver, and. also large bodies of low-grade low-grade ore, and Is expecting daily the arrival ar-rival of Congressman Dougherty of Missouri, Mis-souri, who is comlnsr to Inspect tho property prop-erty and outline next summer's work. Because of the difficulties incident to tho snow blockade. William E. White has sus-pontled sus-pontled operations on the Hope properties, but will resume as soon as the disappearance disap-pearance of the snow will permit. |