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Show ESQUIRE MAGAZINE HAS ARTICLE ON UTAH DREAM MINE In the May issue of the Esquire magazine appears an interesting article by Samuel Taylor entitled, "Time And The Dream Mine." The article, in part, states: On the 17th of Septemer, 1894, a party of six men climbed the face of a mountain east of Spanish Span-ish Fork, Utah. The leader, John Koyle, selected a spot he had seen in a dream, and they started to dig. But they did not find paying ore. Today, almost fifty years later, the Dream Mine is still in operation. opera-tion. Koyle has blasted tunnels and shafts totaling almost a mile and a half into the rock of the mountain. -A 60,000 dollar flotation flota-tion mill of gleaming white concrete con-crete has been erected. No paying ore has been produced. According to impartial assays, the ore has been practically worthless, says the article. But operations continue. con-tinue. Yet, continues Mr. Taylor, this is no rich man's folly. John Koyle started digging, a poor man; he is still a poor man. The mine has Been financed entirely by hard-headed hard-headed stockholders, who today number around 5,000, scattered over the entire United States. The stockholders are not at all per. (Continued on page ten) by this method. Koyle says that he went completely through the mine and explored the ore vein before the first pick was laid to the mountainside in 1894. Koyle is a man given to predictions, predic-tions, and the number of things he has predicted that came to pass is astounding, says Taylor. One of his more outlandish predictions came years ago when he pointed across the sagebrush to a desolate spot and foresaw a big manufacturing manufac-turing plant. The place is isolated, isolat-ed, on rocky ground above the ir. rigation level, far from human habitation. But came the war and today a powder mill stands on the spot. Koyle is a slight old gentleman of seventy-nine. Big things are now in the offing, he claims. The time is very short, and the story of the Dream Mine will be a good one, when John Koyle gets ready to tell it, the article states. DREAM MINE... (Continued from Page One) turbed by the lack of the usual incentives for investment. On the contrary, they are filled with an almost rabid enthusiasm. The story of the Dream Mine is a good one, the article further relates re-lates ... and it's too bad it can't be told, yet. Big things are supposed sup-posed to be breaking, but the time apparently hasn't arrived to reveal them. John Koyle avers that every ev-ery obstacle has been overcome. Another boom is on. The Dream Mine does produce a certain ore. Scoffers say it is worthless. Dreamers say it is practically prac-tically priceless. On the face of it, it would seem the thing could be settled once and for all by an impartial im-partial assay. Such assavs have been made and according to them the ore is without value. This does not in the slightest deter Koyle and his Dreamers nor dampen dam-pen their enthusiasm, says Taylor. Koyle simply claims, and his Dreamers believe, that this ore is unusual and that all the metals are burned out of it by ordinary methods of assay. A dream? asks Taylor. Well, you can call it that, though in Utah, and in fact throughout the country, some people call it divine inspiration, and it is a matter of record that some extra-ordinarily rich mines have been discovered |