Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-09-05 | Page 8 | American Fork is Going to be Busy

l;HSfj : AMERICAN FORK IS jr ;i jjy J going to be busy "(:.' '' j I ..' J Local circles are keeping their weath-'l weath-'l t . ; M 'i-,'- or eye on the American Fork mining ,.. section these days, for the "Wizard oi i ' : L- .1. Tintic,. Jesso Knight has corralled J ' - .many of the most likely looking prop-: prop-: I (' f . r V', 1 erties up that way. Ir. Knight alreadv I t -f :V : i , lias registered one big success in tho p ' 1 (l'l camp, for on. tho Mineral Flat terri-i terri-i j : . 1 tory a splendid ore body has been de- ' i j ; velopcd on the upper levols of the prop-, prop-, '; , ?t 1 1 erty. A visitor from American Fork . ' IriL stated Friday that the Mineral Flat l - t IT '!Jr ore raD2e c'050 to 60 per cent lead, S ,, I' I'D vj' an 175 ounces silver per ton, and the l ' fKf !rfl management is now going after tho f , ' .y. i " "body from lower .down the mountain, I , "-',. S ' -with every indication of ultimate sue- If 'it1' oeES- expects the Mineral Flat to V ' ! " I' make a great mine during tho winter. I .; ; j;, 1 'Ho states also that Mr. Knight is I , i i ; the owner of between 300 and 400 I l' J i, J claims up tho American Fork canyon. I i, ' J I ; ' ono knows exactly how many loca- R ; J; ;:). v A' I tions he does own. and as he went about k ,j' 'jV? t 1 their acquisition in a measured and in- K " '.;fi f it '. telligent way, there aro good chamjes '. I ' "'i fl'"' -that he will open some might3' likely rf tr 1 U W- ' looking propositions before tho snows H i 'f' i y fl 1 si of uext winter melt. The erection of '.j! V L. (, l I 1 tho power plant by Mr. Knight -will ' 'tr '" j ' mean much, to tho district, and Amcri- !iv 4 k f IV r" can 1r Gives every promise of being nj ' I I UM' l- one of the big interest centers of min- A I r fel l '"ft ; i"g during 197)8 9. -