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Show MINERAL WAX. Big Deposit "With Rich Contents, Now-Engaging1 Now-Engaging1 Attention. Samples with which C. L. Maxwell came In from his homo at Scofield yesterday yes-terday morning and that aroused not a little interest In the resources of that region, denote the presence of a deposit of mineral wax that, with equipment, promises to enrich every Interest. The samples, said Mr. Maxwell, were taken from a deposit no less than 70 feet In width, this fissured with lenses of wax that afford as much as 8G per cent in that substance, with S per cent naphtha, naph-tha, while tho conglomerates In the ledge afford an average of about 32 per cent wax, that, upon reduction, shows a clean product ready for the market-In market-In developing It the owners have already al-ready dropped down 70 feet In the deposit, de-posit, and from a depth of 50 feet havo extended drifts into It n distance of 130 feet, the ledge showing no sign whatover of diminishing. At present the management Is conducting experiments experi-ments with a view to putting up reduction re-duction works and with this equipment the production of wax on a commercial scale will follow. The deposit Is known as the Colton wax mine, the product worth from 18 cents to 35 cents a pound. On the West Desert Mr, Maxwell has a group of locations, the float on which shows copper glance. He will begin prospecting It the present season. He left for the south again last nlght- |