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Show PROSPECT! BIGS ACTIVITY TO HE Carnotite Discoveries in That Region Have Greatly Stimulated Business. Special to Tho Tribune. RICHFIELD. April S. According to D. N. Hickman, former bishop of Torroy, Yvayno county, that region is Just now experiencing a real mining boom. Over 300 men. he sayw, arc now in the field projecting. Two hundred of these, he estimates, arc on the Henry mountains in Wayne and Garfield counties and over 100 others are in the hills about Torroy and around tho Miners' mountain In Way no county. Several sales have already been made. The most Important of these Is the old Nlxon mlno near Frnlta. twenty miles cast of Torroy, bought by J. S Free and II. B. Cole of Salt Lake. Tho I latches, on tho Henry, have sold, it Is said, for $10,000 to J. Vv. Young. Both these mines are said to bear rich carnotite ores. Tho old Nlxon mine was located by a man by that name In 1901 and into it ho sank all that ho was able to got, and do. for about eight years. Finally ho sold out to some lloeul parlies, who mado the sale. Needless to say that business in Llmt region is now experiencing one of the few rush periods that it-has ever known. One store, the "Wayne Umpire, reports sales that far exceed anything since It began business four years ago. Several Sev-eral freight teams aro kept constantly on tho road between that place and Its railroad station at Richfield. Before the boom they used1 to send out one wagon every month and It had to solicit other freight to make up a load. |