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Show LOST SPANISH MINE CEKTiniB FOUND ! Ancient Placer Workings Were J Vainly Songht Alter I Many Years. j 1 Over a century ago, tn what afterward j bocamo known as rhe Uintah Indian res- j orvatlon, some Spanish operators worked an immense gold placer proposition, cm-ploying cm-ploying hundreds of men. Not mtich is known of the history of these operations, opera-tions, although records wore found in a monuntcry in Old Mexico several years ago. The most positive records of this early-day activity, however, are provided by tho cxtcnalvo workings at the mines, for thoy were found after the lapse of over a century by means of maps rescued res-cued rrom the dusty archives of the monastery. Lee Kennedy of Springville was In Salt ! Lake City yesterday on business con-I con-I nected with the Lo3t Josephine Mining company- Tills is tho organization now owning this old placer mine, ami Mr. Kennedy, with P. H. Bcaslcy of Prove wna the discoverer of the spot nfter a long search. Mr. Kennedy told The Tribune yosterdny that the old map stated the mine was located three days cant of the Big Water, and not until j later years was it realized that Utah lake, and not the Great Salt lake, was tho Big Water alluded to in this ancient , document. Mr. Kennedy stater, that within tho coming three weeks tho Lost Josephine company would begin to develop anew this abandoned field of gold. Tho Spanish Span-ish operators drove two long tunnels, paralleling ono another, and proceeding In a northerly direction from their portals por-tals one and ono-hnlf m!le3 in length. I The average widtli of tho pay streak Is 300 feet, and so thoroughly were the early operators employed In their fascinating fas-cinating pursuit, and thoir tailings dumps became so immense, that the water of Current crook could no longer bo utilized for sluicing purposes Without artificial assistance. So several largo storage reservoirs res-ervoirs were constructed and ditches extended ex-tended so as to bring Current creek into available form. It Is the plan of tho Lost Josephine company to drive a shaft down to bedrock, bed-rock, and at the point whore the Spanish Span-ish miners left off. The pay streak is thought to continue indefinitely in that vicinity, and that many millions of dollars' dol-lars' worth of tho yellow metal arc awaiting extraction. Tho company owns S00 acres of ground, the rrilno being located lo-cated at the head of Current creek. This lost proporty. states Mr. Kennedy, Ken-nedy, has been the object of search for years. It was about thirty years ago that the documents giving tho location of tho proporty were resurrected in Mexico. Mex-ico. Mr, Kennedy has ovary confidence in the proposition, and intends to utilize the reservoirs of the anclonts in bringing bring-ing to light the gold left In the streak. Boston Mining Stocks. James A. Pollock & Co.. bankers and brokers. 6 West Second South street, furnish fur-nish the following Boston mining stock quotations, rocclvod over their private wire yesterday: BOSTON COPPER RANGE. I Salos-I H. L. ICiso Bingham Con I 772 05c 75c 95c Boston Con 503 121 111 12s Butto Coal 0S0 20i 10B 201 Butte and London.. 550 50c 50c 50c Calumot and Ariz .. 15 101 100 100 Con Mercur 200 3Sc 37c 3Sc Cop Rang 400 651 65 65 Cum Ely 1,710 Si Si Si Ualv West i t) S3 fl Davis Daly S50 3? 38 35 East Butte 49 U 4il Giroux Con 3 3ii 3J Granby Con 1 95 00 05 Greane-Can 265 SI Sa S& Nev Con 400 11 81 HI Hi Nevada Utah 315 4 4 I Niplsslng 600 68 63 68 North Butte R72 581 . 524 53i Trinity 206 132t 13fi 135 Unit Cop com" 100 li) 7. 7i U S Smelt com 55 36i 36i 3CJ do preferred 68 30? 30a 30 Utah Con 150 33S! 3S 38 BOSTON COPPER CLOSE. Bid. lAsked. Amalgamated .... 591. j 502 Boston Con 12 ' 12j Royale 185 104 Corbin l'Jl! 12 i Adventure ; -...!... li 2 Arcadian 3& 3J Atlantic I. ....... 01 10 B. Coalition 201 203 C and If i.: 62!i 635 CM '. 36 -10 Daly West f .. S3 1 0 Granby .... .' 90 I 05 Mass 2J 5 Michigan : 11 M C C 75c ?1.00 North Butte : 53 531 Osceola -....4.. Sli S2 Qulncy .. Sli' Shannon ...-v -US 11! Trinity ... v. 135 133 011 OS 10 Victoria : I ...... a - 34 Wolverine 125 130 Utah Copper 20 30 Ahmo'ck .:...".. 50 60 Dominion Copper .'.,'.' .... 2 21 East Butte : . li IS Giroux 3J 3J Raven H 1? MaJcstU- HI li S and P ..:..'...,.. , .I2g! 12K Troy .45?;.... 1 65 70 Hancock .'. 61 61 Niplsslng 5 v.... 01 6fc Lake 7? S Xlnc : 23 ! U S S common .....- .... 36i! 37 do preferred ., 30: 30i AlloueM - 24 i 25fr Arizona Commercial .... .. IS IS. Bingham r0c 51.00 C and A - ton 101 Centennial ...'..... 21 211 Copper Rangt 65 1 651 Franklin 7 -75 g c ..-..:..) sj; 88 Mexico Con ill 'l Mohawk 48i 4!) Nevada Con .' Hi 112 Old Dominion ............. 34 35 Parrot ..f.... 17J 18 Santa Fe 18 H Tamarack ..... 60 62 United Copper 7 11 Utah Con 3R 3S Wlnonn l 0 La Salle 132 131 Davis Daly '....-...,. 31 F B and L . . . : 48 .50 Cumberland Ely Si Si ICew 45 5 G a and S . 30 32 Globe ' 7& Yukon '. ... i! -tr Nevada Utah 3513 15-1C Helvetia 22! 31 Apex I 33i S? Giroux Bonds. James A. Pollock & Co.. bankers and brokers. 6 Wost Second South street, furnish fur-nish the following, received over their private wire yesterday afternoon: Minneapolis wires Minneapolis and Denver capitalists have underwritten flic bond issue of Giroux Consolidated to an extent which fully assures the success or the entire Issue. Ono million dollars is the Issue, and this sum will be used in pushing the development of the property, especially in installing the new pipe llni from Steptoe valley to tho mine, assuring an ample supply of water for all purposes. pur-poses. Work on the concentrating plant lias progressed rapidly and the plant will be In operation within thirty days. The Alpha shaft has been recovered and work Is being pushed on the 1000-foot level. . Motal Market. The metal quotations for Wednesday, posted by McCornick & Co.. were as follow: fol-low: Silver, 541c; lead, ?i; copper cath- nil.11. IJZrt. . V |