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Show BLACK HORSE IN NEED jOE ORE-HAULING TEAMS "The rapid advance of the Black Horse district keeps on apace," aaid M. V. Clays, who came in yesterday feeling more enthusiastic than ever regarding it. "But we are handicapped much," he explained, "because there are no teams to haul our ores out of camp. The San Pedro ,mine wants to ship, but cannot; can-not; there isn't a team in sight that is available. As soon as the ore can be hauled the San Pedro will send out a car of very rich stuff. "The Mabel company, which adjoins the Black Horse, has a new strike on claims about which there is no dispute, and is working every man that can be secured. This is the second strike on the Mabel, the first having occurred on the Mabel Fraction, and claim to this strike was made by the San Pedro company, com-pany, whose officers said their Cyclone side-line took it in. In that strike, 'Glory Hole.' there is a big body of ore worth $100,000 per ton; but it was covered cov-ered up by Fred 8chrott, the discoverer, soon after it was found, partly because unless he had done this the ore would have been carried away, and also as a matter of protection until title to the ground was settled. Schrott is up there now. I met him going in with a crowd of very wealthy looking investors, who have taken large interests in the Mabel stock, which is selling for $1 per share on the streets of Black Horse, when anybody feels like letting loose of any, but that is only occasionally. "From the Buchanan, where a strike was reported two weeks ago, they are bringing gold in every day. It is a very free quartz which pans out readily, and will afford working capital enough from mere mortar operations if the owners feel like securing development funds that way. "There are eight frame buildings in the town of Black Horse already, and would have been more if the lumber could have been secured, but it has been impossible to get it hauled in, and another an-other thing, the dealers in Salt Lake and other places could not furnish us with much of the kind wanted plain lumber. Therefore the local sources have been drawn upon. There is a mill not far distant at Osceola, known as the Mariott, and Burritt & McFall have contracted for all it can saw between now and Christmas. "The Tillford boys have bought the mill at Snake Creek, and have contracted contract-ed for its entire output to people needing need-ing lumber in the district to such an extent that they can run for a year without taking another order. "Fred McQueen, who came here five weeks ago and ordered a $12,000 stock of dry goods and general mining camp supplies, has been very much handicapped handi-capped with building his store for lack of lumber, but he expects now to have it ready by the 1st of October. "I bought lumber in Frisco for my new building, but cannot get it hauled in as yet. All the buildings completed are for businesss purposes. ,We need a hotel building to accommodate the crowd of visitors, miners and investors. The hotels and restaurants are being carried on now in tent-houses, but I am sure the hotel will be built as soon as the lumber can" be secured. There will be plenty of business there soon for several hotels before very long. "It should be remembered that there has already been far more money taken ta-ken out of Black Horse than has gone in, and that speaks well for it." |
