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Show GREAT SHOWING OF REDjOP MINE One oi Ki' Claims Purchased for a Hundred ami Thirty-Pive Thirty-Pive Dollars. HAS TWO MILLIONS OF ORE IN SIGHT Dirk Colburn, Formerly ol Salt Lake, Heavily Interested in the Mine. When Charles D. Taylor purchased for five claims northeast and almost within a Stone's throw of this city, of Which the ,d Top WU8 one. pulled down the former monuments and erected hi own, he droye one of the xhrewdest bargains bar-gains and accomplished one of the most profitable day's work in ihe annelx of mining, pays the Qoldfield News. Undoubtedly Un-doubtedly s large elejhent of luck entered en-tered Into the purchase of a claim for in which probably could not be secured today for five thousand times that amount and in that connection Mr Tay- lot Is not the onl Holdlleld resident who Is benefited thereb) Of the entire capitalisation of the Red Top company, under whose management the mine i being be-ing developed, over 7i.nri shares are held In this lt In blocks of from UKi I,, Imi.tMsi Thousands of Sacks on Dump. More that! J-'.iKs),00u worlh of ore Is In sight in the Red Top workings at this time and the management expects to mine and market rock of an aggregate Value of $Shi.'iu within Ihe next three month. There are stacked Oh the dump bettl r than X) sucks Of shipping ore. Two extensive ore shoots are being Worked, one at tin- fifty and the other at the 100-fOOl level. The former Is lo-caleil lo-caleil about sc entv -ti e fei-t north and the latter 1 To feet north of the shaft. As the distance between th-m is ninety-five feel it i- demonstrated concluslvel) thai they are separate and distinct or. bodies. All of the rock thus removed from them has been milled III the courKe of devclop- mcnt solely. Upraise Started. An upraise was recently started on the shoot at the laa-foot point, and the ore body Is now showing therein four feel In width. tWO feel of which returns average values of I6B00 In gold to the ton. Th" vein ls composed of blue iiuartz. considerably con-siderably seamed and honeycombed, and along side if It runs a streak of soft, dark brown talc In which the 16200 values ate Secreted The ipiartz offers mi Visible Visi-ble evidences Of ihe precious metal, but In the tale t abounds In spirals and blotches The talc hardens quickly On being exposed to the air and then presents pre-sents the appearance of dark brown jasper. Five Dollars a Pound. Two bundled sacks of the latter, Valued at t't per pound, are stored below ground, picked samples of which are valued nt 1" per pound The quart I assays as-says better than f'jnn per ton nnd like the talc Is sacked as rapldlv ns It Is broken DIcR Cblhtrrn, fOrmerl) of Salt Lake City, Is heavily Interested In the Red Top mine. |