Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-07-16 | Page 14 | Annie Laurie Lease Has Bonanza Rock

ANNIE NNIE l LAURIE UmE lE LEASE SE SEH H HAS S BON BONANZA ROCK HOCK With Wealth in Sight Am Am- bilious Miner Meets Fi Final Final Fl- Fl nal Summons Prosperity and pathos arc blended In on an ore pile awaiting shipment from the Annie Laurie Lauric mine at Kimberly Utah This ore was to insure lifetime lifetime life UCe- time comfort for two miners am and their families fa whether or not not- they ever worked again Hard Theirs was as a year one plan work and frugality practiced persistently persistently persistently persis persis- for a few months they calculated calculated calculated cal cal- would bring what would be bea bea bea a fortune t to men of or their simple tastes A sufficient tonnage of or high grade ore a 0 shipment t to the smelter a settlement with the lessor and the thing would be accomplished They knew where t to get tho the ore Had they not for years studied the geology of oX the Annie Laurie Had they not learned how to make the mine yield its ore at minimum ex expense expense ex- ex pense Though the rich seams were narrow one who knew the trick could save rave ve the gold and at the same time discard most of or the waste that Ja lay laj with It The result of a. a days day's labor looked pitifully small In volume but the thc Curnow brothers Je lessees ees were not bo bothered they bothered they knew the value alue was vas big Fortune favored them In other 1 years cars high returns had bC been n secured 1 but this year ear the pay streak was I thicker and than any they had encountered The Time pile gre grew v faster than ever before Thc They could coul hope to finish their one year one ear plan in hi 2 sevc seve nor eight months And then came the unforeseen blow While John Curnow watched Jubilantly jubilantly Jubil jubil- antly the narrowing period that la lay between him and his fortune a n. chill hand touched his heart Outstripping Outstrip Outstrip- ping Fortune came Death The carefully carefully carefully care care- fully husbanded wealth in the Curnow Curnow Curnow Cur Cur- now ore will go to John Curnow's heirs and the brother Nicholas Curnow Cur Cur- now who worked with him The precise value alue of tho the ore ex extracted ex- ex from tho lease Jease is not able Unless the old eld timers of the district who have known th the Annie Laurie Lauth from her cradle are much mistaken the shipment will compare compare com corn pare favorably with the bonanza ores celebrated in Jn song and story during the halcyon days das of Cripple Creek and Goldfield Making Maling a rough roush sue guess s experienced mining men of Kimberly Kimber- Kimber ly Jy y put the worth of or the ore oro at a thousand dollars a ton Though it m may rny y fall short hort of the more hopeful hope hopeful ful estimates it will unquestionably b be rich enough t to stamp the Annie Laurie as a a. live U one In spite of th the neglect to which the she has been subjected subjected sub sub- in recent years ears