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Show MOUE LTJC2TS SALT LAKTS3. The fortunes of Nevada mines may be extended to several Salt Lake people peo-ple that have never heretofore dabbled in the mining business, but who ap- ear to-have gotten in right opoa their rst Ventures. . a - Early this .year T. J. and B. A. Lemon' J. 11. Mahon. Lewia Barretts, Dan t. Smith,. W. F. Hills, C. A. Me-Clur Me-Clur and Bichard, A. Bip aeenred the Morning Star group of twentv-seyen elaima in the Gold Mountain &etriet, twenty-five mile aontheaat of Ooldflald. Prospecting of the croup has shown Tallies in far larger degree than tner anticipated, eeaaune it waa WP'"1 aa a prospeet whose future would i-'7 be aa enonnous .low-grade propootloft, npoa which a mammoit mnl couM be erected, and the history jjoaaibly o great Homestake mine of Sontb DakoU repeavtod ultimately. The average values val-ues f the ores ftom the rarioua ledges are now ahown by assays to be $128 per ton, while aamptcs of the richer strike carry as high as 0440 csnces of silver, and $131.35 in goli . ' Inasmuch as there are bnt eight owners own-ers in this estat and they have been assured bv Mr: Riepe that it can be at any time eold wholly or in part to an' English syndicate, .each of them is feeling quite independent respectively. Mr MeClure, cne of the fortunate possessors of an eighth interest, is em- S loved in the gent's furnishing goods epartment at Ko-tn-O'Bnen's. |