Show f FHE PARADISE A rich thing prospective bonanza in cache county J r F squires joi howell jas squires keo geo and alma wilson and neils keils kraft the lucky bricky men 1 I 1 the B luebell bluebell mining camp a future name for the lie district around paradise the names of the men mentioned in tho the boad headlines lines of this ibis column are owners of a great copper aermine mine from all appear appearances ances in an interview isi with th mr J P F squires the assayer the gentleman entlemann made the following statements one year ap ago while I 1 was assaying in the agricultural college a wilon boy camo came to me with wilh a piece of ofick rack full of copper lie ife w wished to have it assa assayed y ed and prof widtsoe and myself made the first assay lie he for copper and myself for silver arid aud gold in copper we found about 40 per cent and the silver and gold although in iii small quantities was not lacking we at once in investigated vestil gated the place is here he had picked up this small email piece of float and the more I 1 assayed the more convinced 1 became of the richness of the ore this wilson boy afterward sold out to his bro therland ther sand and the ret rent re t of ofus also became claimants after we had our claim recorded we kept the thing very quiet others cime acme in and accused us of jumping their claim bul bui no papers could be found to ju justify s tiby this claim and the matter dropped this year we determined ter teri mined to investigate the thing more closely and a proper assay found it to average underestimated from froin four to thirty pe per r cent copper seven dollars of go gold d to every too ton and eight oun ounces c e s of silver to the same proportion tl i cl n na we visited the mine last week in company with mr tones jones a man of 35 33 3 years experience in I 1 mining and lie states that the indications are better than any other mine he knows of the famous anaconda 1 copper mi mine ne that has pair paid millions of dollars in dividends averages but 8 per centano cen tand the bluebells bluebelle Blue bells assays essays show at least 25 per cent pure copper the only question in mr Sl alir squires ir mind is whether it will pay to ship the ore to salt lake or not he thinks if there was lots of capital behind the enterprise the conditions are favorable for a smelter in the bluebell 1 district like all good strikes it is situated in an outlandish place for a road and it will take considerable labor to make a road to the ledge 7 mr 11 squires save they have tunneled about sixty fiet feet and contrary to other cache valley finds the ledge broadens instead of closes others have prospected on each side of the claim and hae base found the same game stuff so from all appearances the supply is inexhaustible haus tible the company will soon ship a ton toll or two to the sandy bm miters elters and will sill then know exactly what they have found we ills always knew cache valley anin mining property was a good thing but it needed pushing along since this find mr ir squires has had several specimens to assay and they all seem to be of fine quality |