Show SILVER REEF BEEF MINE ACQUIRED BY PIPS Mill Will Be Erected to Work Large Amount of Low Grade Ore The prop property of ot the Silver R Reef t Consolidated Consoli Consoli- dated 1 tInes Mines company In the celebrated Silver Reef Reet district of ot Washington county Utah has bas been taken oV over r by the Mc- Mc ra corporation of ot New York An option was taken on the property several icy sev- eral erl months month ago go and since that time a largo amount of ot low StaGe grade ore has haa been bun de de de- Th The Tb ore lies Ilea In to beds beli from two to seven seventeen I teen f feet et thick and can be most economically ull cally mined and tran transported to the mill for treatment treatmentS It Is la said raid lilies tiie of ot workings have havo opened an enormous footage ot of faces which within a short time can produce a sufficient tonnage for tor a large lars capacity mill milt Hoist have been Installed metalled at the shan shafts a power line run from the Dixie line to the rain mine and ad tr for large larce scale cede operation opera tion at both the mine and have bf hem ben n set et up At present a force lorce of thirty men Is doing preliminary work at the tho prop prop- erty etty It is ii stated that the company will win soon toOn begin the erection of a mill According to one authority sliver silver was waa dis discovered covered ir 1869 by John Kemple Kempte who found near Harrisburg a piece of ot float which assaYed assayed as as- ae- ae sayed The district owes It Its ae- ae entirely entirety to W. W T. T Barbee who went there In the summer rummer of ot 1875 1876 He discovered dis covered very rich ore on od the Tecumseh claim end nd shipped chipped d several tons ton of ot 00 ore to Salt Lake City In 11 the following November He lIe the shipments of ore to Salt Sail Lake City and end to during the following year ear This Thu cau caused d the rush to the district principally from Pioche In the summer ummer and andali fall ali of Dt 1875 1575 The fhe Sliver Silver Reef Reet district yielded liver diver annually from 1875 1175 to 1897 un when production production pro pro- ceased ceaud according to V. V C. C Heikes In fn his hi report upon the history ry and lion tion of the district In Professional Paper No Ill Production began beean again aln In l un sz and except for tor ills continued until 1909 1109 Accoma As Ac nome coma of ot tho operating companies In the district were Pere ere close cioce corporations corporation It has been difficult to ascertain what was waa paid In let divi divi- denda Mr HeIkes give the production from 1175 1115 to no DO to have been Mining men flieR who have been familiar with the dietrict district district dis die for lor years yeara estimate the production to have be bees 1 as u high as |