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Show DOG IHG IS Company Takes Hold of Property Discovered 30 Years Ago. llnti.uHo of a new organization Into tho1 American Fork district 1h noted In tho -o-tuily of the Cog Mining company, now operu I In , I w ilvo claims lor a te I con Unions Uni-ons to the I'a.-ifir group oil tho eaHt. Thtt pvope: tv was discovered somo thirty odd I eais u o and worUod nuito extensively I at tho tone, but it ban only been In the pa t two months that George E. 1 b'iup-hil! b'iup-hil! and associates have taken hold of the claims nnd are now mining yhlpplnc; oro from a three-foot lcdo that Ives n.uys up lo almvc Jut'i) per ton in gold, llvt-i had and oopper, and It. is stated that an 'an laments have been competed to run I a w 01 klmc tunnel to cut the four highly nd-n ralued flsuivs extending through the I pronerlv ut depth. I "In my opinion." said Mr. Hemphill. ! who Is president of tho company as well I a.t its general m inai-er. when seen at his i offices in the Alias blo-k, "we have the j m.Uliu: of one of the largest producing, m ines in the American Fork canyon. 1 h,i e know n of the proper l v for years, hut it 1 as onlv been In the past few months that 1 "have be. mi enabled proper) prop-er) v to take hold of it- John 1 . Hlu Jr.. banker ami broker of Cedar tiapids. and l. :!', together with our associates, closed the deal for the propel l y, however, how-ever, la st fent ember, nnd we organized the !og Mining company uu September IT. "We imrii.di.itely Peg an working with a force of men and our ei forts almost im-mediatelv im-mediatelv met with sin, ess. "VW betan :our L'pora tiotv in t!ie old tunnel near the . top .it lie mountHln and hud ywr-; reused but a few eet when we encountered a If'Ue of hUh-grmle ore. three feet across the ta. e. n this we are sinking a winze land nave already taken out a carload of j ore which is now irnlng forward to the ! smelters. Ticked assays from this ledk'O ! have run as hich as d2 oin''es in stiver, sti-ver, with a gold value of $14.'J'k together with a lead and copper content. This Is ;l ery remarkable showing, considering the fact that the ledge on which we are working ts cut at u depth of approximately approxi-mately fifty feet." |