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Show Old Utah Producer - r Responds to New System the surface down to the 700-foot level and yielded In gross production produc-tion In the neighborhood of 154.. 000.000.00. The accompanying photograph shows the Horn Silver and In the background tho huge glory hole from which the ore was taken. This huge glory holo Is mute evidence evi-dence of the uctlve days of the past when the mine was one of the state's largest producers. The Horn Silver la not through. Tho mine has produced intermittently intermit-tently since the original ore body was believed to have been mined out. In recent months efforts to When Mother Nature moulded the earth and Its crust she mixed In a certain quantity of mineral substances. sub-stances. Utah was fortunate in her share of endowment ot minerals, nnd the state today Is one of the greatest producers of base metals. in many instances tho minerals outcropped on the surface and as a result the early settlers found rich deposits with comparative ease. Today, however, the nurfaco deposits have been pretty well prospected and the modern miner must go deep into the bowels ot the earth and depend upon geological geolog-ical and geophysical science to find ore. It la therefore more difficult to find and more expensive to produce pro-duce ore. One of the most striking examples ex-amples ot surface discoveries is that of the Horn Silver mine, situated sit-uated about 14 miles west of Mil-ford Mil-ford in Heaver county. The Horn Silver ore body was discovered In the early sixties when prospectors found outcropping on the surface a huge deposit of lead ure. This discovery led to the open-j open-j ing of one of the great mines of the west and the establishment In the early days of one of the largest Industries in Southern Utah. The ore body was followed from revive the mine have met with gratifying degree of success. In addition to proving the continuation continua-tion of the old original ore body la some places new ore discoveries have been made. Today the mine Is producing two carloads of ore daily and furnishing employment for about B0 men. In reviewing the old mine, however, how-ever, it has been necessary to search fur into the underground sounding out new theories of geology. geol-ogy. The old mine Is a fitting example of the development and expenditure necessary in an effort to develop a profitable mine in modern mining . |