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Show MONEY READY FOR THE LA SAL MINES Chicago Syndicate Has Scut Expert Ex-pert to Investigate Promising Prom-ising Field. Special to Tho Tribune, BASIN, La Sal Mountains. Oct. 29. R. A. Mcndenliall, a 'noted mining man froni Colorado, arrived In camp today and will give this country a thorough Investigation In tho Interest of a Chlcngo syndicate having In view tho Investment of consldorablo capital In somo property here, ostensibly tho High Oro mlrfo and tho Casllo Mountain group. Mr- Men-, denhall oppresses himself aB well pleased with tho district and wonders why It Is not further advanced. Ho says tho showing of gold and copper values no far as he has seen would Indicate that the La Sal country wn3 worthy of a more advanced state of development and attention at-tention than Is now shown. Will Study Placers. While hero ho will devote considerable tlmti to tho Investigation of titer placer mining resources along tho Grand river, believing that there Is an excellent opening open-ing for operating several dredging machines ma-chines between tho mouth of tho Dolores river at Dowcy and Moab, a dlstanco of fifty miles. Ho states that about two months ago an expert dredgo man of OrO-vllle, OrO-vllle, Cal., xnada a qulot and systematical Investigation of this country and reported favorably upon Its river cars, to which the attention of his Chicago people have been favorably turned. They havo a dredgo In Montana which they will bring hero and place In operation on tho Grand river If ravornblo arrangements can be made. Strike on Mineral Mountain. Kd Wolf and Byron Davis, who havo tho bond and lease on the Florence and M. G. F. mining claims on Mineral mountain, moun-tain, havn found some of tho richest gold and copni'i- ore ever discovered In this country in the Florence tunnel. Free gold can bo plainly seen In tho heavy black oxide of copper, which covers tho cntlro breast of the drift. To all appearances ap-pearances It resembles the ore recently found In tho High Oro tunnel and Is Hiippoeed to be tho same vein. They aro prepared for work all winter and will be able to make some largo shipments In the spring, but not at present on account ac-count of the lateness of tho season. Sov-eral Sov-eral hundred pounds of tho ore will be sent to the Salt Lako smelters to test Its value and get bids for tho product. They claim to bo able to tako out flvo tons of this oro per day. In the prosecution prosecu-tion of development work In extending the tunnel Into tho M. G. F. ground. Outlook Encourages. Mining matters throughout tho entire La Sal country seem to bo entering a more encouraging era of prosperity and thy coming winter's work will undoubtedly undoubt-edly reveal somo startling developments, guaranteeing something of Importance for tho coming year. The aasuranco of reduction works tho coming Benson In this district Is giving tho mine-owners much encouragemont. and capital Is being be-ing moro liberally contributed to thoso who have good property and aro willing to opon It up. Gold Hill, Minora! and Castle mountains promise to bo thJ centers cen-ters of much activity from now on. |