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Show iH ll j American Fork jf New Discoveries & 1 J Producer of tho Seventies Again j ' Marketing' Ore Sensational Ore 1 Body in Old Miller Mino. ! , It acorns likely tha-t tlio operations now f) being carried on by Goorgo and Francla Tyng on tho old Miller proun or claims In r Araorlcan Fork canyon will navo much to Wi do with tho regeneration of that district I Sj t which In tho early novontloa gavo forth bo si much promlso of mineral rlchc3. If i Though scarcely anything has boon ' j j mode publlo In regard to theso operatlona I f the facta aro that isinco October 1 of last (! year theso lessees havo markotod from , ' tho property nearly 600 tons of hlgh-grado jj i oro, tho result of a new strike In now f ' ground and, strangely enough, at a point jj . within twclvo feet of whero flomo old workings woro driven by Judge Baskln R and his associates In tho early Bovenlica. Tho history of tho Miller property and II . Its lato roturn to tho ranks of tho pro- It ducers Is unlquo In moro than ono ro- ,' epect. In 1S71 the Miller, Wyoming, Ton- to, Alpine, Sarchflcld and Miller Extcn-I Extcn-I elon were Incorporated under tho Inwa of the Territory and Judge R. N Baskln ' wan ono of tho Incorporators and ono of ) tho directors of tho first and all subse quent boards. After doing aomo cxplor lng work In tho "Wyoming and taking our Bomo good oro from tho Alplno, for tho product of which a railroad was built up I erected, tho oro played out and operations ; ceased. Recent developments show that had tho workings In tho Wyoming been ( pushed twelvo feet further they would havo encountered tho oro that Is now f 111- i lng tho treasury of George and Francis Tyng. In tho meantl'no all of tho original dl- roctors and officers of the company hnd j died, except Judgo Baskln, and ho occu pies tho uniquo position of being tho soll- tary director In a big mining company. ) No officers , havo boon elected for many ' years and no meetings havo been held of elthor tho stockholders or tho board of i directors, unless Judgo Baskln's commun ing with blmnolf may bo regarded ns a mooting. Judgo Baskln owns onc-slxth ; of tho stock of tho Mlllor Mining com pany, tho othor flvc-slxth being held by the estates of his lato associates, principally prin-cipally In Now York, Ono year ago a lcano on tho proporty was given to Francis Tyng and Robert M. Vnnderhoff, tho former of Now York, tho latter of Utah. Up until about October 1 of Inst year the partners worked with but slight success, when Vanderhoff sold out to Goorgo Tyng. father of Francis. But two days had elapsed after tho Balo until un-til the workings cut Into ono of tho largest larg-est bodies of silver-lead oro over oncoun-tercd oncoun-tercd In tho Rocky- mountains, according to a well-informed mining man who knows and has recently seen tho property. Slnco tho discovery approximately COO tons havo been sent to market, and tho returns by carload lots aro at tho rato of thirty ounces silver, CO per cent lead and from 520 to $30 In gold per ton. Tlio country Is described as favorablo for tho exlstenco of large oro bodies, tho formation being principally a elllclous Umo. Tho strlko of tho oro Is reported to bo nearly east and west and tho dip to tho south, and Homo rccont developments develop-ments westward down tho canvon, nearly a mllo distant lndlcato the probability of tho vein's retaining Its strong characteristics character-istics that far away Judgo Baskln owns a largo number of patented claims In B this vicinity and ho yesterday expressed his strong conviction that tho American Fork district would mako tho past performances per-formances In tho Stato on similar lines look Inslgnlllcant Particulars of tho additional strlko on Mlllor hill by Gcorgo and Francis Tyng. roported In a Trlbuno special yesterday morning, aro not to bo obtained, but It is believed by mining mon familiar with tho country that this new strlko Is In tho Kalamazoo, which Is owned by the Tvnen and tvliorn n Tinw innni m started about tho tlmo of tho strike in tho Miller. |