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Show SALT LAKERS 01 MAGNIFICENT GROUP Biscuit Mining Company Has Been Quietly at Work Cleaning Up. RAILROAD HAS SOLVED THE HARDEST PROBLEM Large Tonnage of Silver Ores Awaiting Shipment to the Local Market. Perhaps no other city in the country coun-try lias been so favorably affected by reason of tho great revival of mining in Cherry Crook than Salt Lake, this city containing scores of investors or operators oper-ators whoso interests in this wonderfully wonder-fully mineralizod district, of White Pino county, Kovada, aro legion. Among tho most fortunate must uo counted tho stockholders In the Biscuit Mining company, com-pany, from whose possessions several Salt Lakers of prominenco have just returned. A party consisting of A. E. Hyde, Jr., P. J. Cannon, "0. Wciscr and John JDorius has returned from an inspection visit to tho Biscuit properties, proper-ties, and the members are greatly pleased over the showings mado m this group. Mr. Hydo stated Wednesday thnt the Biscuit properties could no 'longer bo considered in tho prospective class, the developments of the past few months hnving demonstrated m the most positive posi-tive terms tho fact that the Biscuit company is in possession of one of tho greatest mining propositions in that State. The group consists of fourteen full claims, and cannot bo considered in tho catcgor of prospects even had tho present season ot development not been attempted. The property was ono of tho earliest and heaviest of White Pine producers, and has paid to former owners a total of $1,200,000 as dividends. divi-dends. Tho group is surrounded, in fact, by properties which havo. records of heavy production, and whoso dividends divi-dends amount to tho sum mentioned up to seven millions of dollars. Long and Rich Vein. Mr. Weisor, under whoso superin-tendency superin-tendency the campaign of development will be crowded from now on, stated Wednesday that tho formation of tho Biscuit ground was ideal in every way to mako a great mino. There crosses the group for a distance of 4500 feet tho contact vein from a small nroa of which, and from shallow depths at that, tho former owners were enabled to pay dividends under tho hard conditions condi-tions then existing. Tho values in silver sil-ver on this group havo run from 200 ounces to 15,000 ounces per ton, and tho company at this time is working in oro wnien will avorage between 100 and 250 ounces in the white metal. When tho Nevada Northern railroad became a certainty, the Biscuit company com-pany began quietly to clean up their premises, tho old "workings woro explored ex-plored and placed in a condition for future heavy production, and while praotically nothing has been said about these operations, a great amount of good work has been accomplished. Tho deepest working upon the group is an 800-foot shaft, and on each level thereof there-of there is an abundanco of ore carrying car-rying silver which will be productive of a most remunerative campaign under un-der tho present transportation facilities. facil-ities. At the lowest level of this shaft tho vein shows extremely strong, being better bet-ter in 6izo and values when compared with what was disclosed on tho upper levels. The company is breaking down ore from several different levels, and when tho shipments to the local market mar-ket begin, they will be maintained with a faithfulness that will distinguish this company even among the magnificent propositions with which it is surrounded. surround-ed. The only vein which has boen explored up to the present time is that upon which the .former owners worked, but paralleling this vein is a second one whoso appearances show that equally as much can be expected from it as from the one already demonstrated. Own Big GoldProporty. This Cherry Creek proposition is tho property of Salt Lakers, tho present owners having had it in their possession for tho last" fifteen years. The same people, but under a different company, own a group of twclvo claims, known as the White Pino Mining and Milling group, tipon which considerable development devel-opment work has shown an extensive deposit of gold ore. Thero is ready for the market at this timo a great tonnage of oro which will caTry from $18 to $C-i in tho yellow metal. Mr. Woiser will have cliiarge of this property prop-erty also, and under present conditions the company can begin marketing a vast resource, whose values were Tong under ban, owing to tho difficulties or. transportation. Thero are few regions in the Wost, stated Mr. Ilydo on Wednesday, that can present a greater historical charm than Cherry Creek. One can drivo for twonty-fivo miles through a fascinatingly fascinating-ly intorosting country, and see on all sides ruins ol old mills, whoso former owners aro preparing with all their might for tho present reopening of tho district. Within tho district nre points mado famous through historical characters char-acters liko Genorals Eosocranz and O'Connor, while ono can visit a battlefield battle-field where tho white and' tho red man strove for supremacy during tho early days of that region. Salt Lako Principal Office, Tho Ophlr Tunnel company filed an amendment to Its articles of Incorporation Incorpora-tion In tho County Clerk's ofllc'o Wednesday. Wed-nesday. Tho amendment provides that tho principal place of business of the company will bo in Salt Lako City hcro-after. |