| Show CACHE VALLEY COAL the black jack mine mice sear near franklin Fr anSlia is sho elming yida up silver sils aw T IL latest reports have it That Recent developments have caused a an u excitement nicita the like of which ha has s not cot bee been there for 2 20 0 years Y ear H I 1 I 1 from the oneida st standard in oard we take the follow following ing artial we hope is ia true in every every pa particular icolar the first genuine excitement that this section has perien ced in in many many years occurred wednesday when it became known that the owners of the Blackf blackjack black jack mine baine had made a rich discovery I 1 for several hours a all I 1 kin of rumors were rife and the vs bo e country actually went wild people from all over the valley mad a grand stampede for the diggings and in two hours after the strike had been reported the hills in the of the mine was alive avith w ith people many tramped the hills bills all day long 0 and by night the entire country within several miles of the mine mine was staked oil in claims the mine is between bourand four and five fire miles from areton and is owned by franklin and Rich richmond par parties tiel the mine was first looted as a coal prospect and was thought to be a good one it hp has s W been tep wor worked k e d off and on as time for beveral years until a shall has been sunk to the depth of several hundred feet monday last one bf the own ers noticed some fine ne ore on the dump and he Fatle gartered gat ered red up a small sack ack full and wn i tit T it T lo 10 0 V e an aft th J V mr ers r anent rit t the he 6 report came back that the ore assayed ounces to the ton silver the owners of the mine were greatly y excited at this and thought that 4 P surely a mistake mic take had been bee 6 made so another sack was wag shipped off to salt lake city A certificate came back from there announce anno announcing ng the same result and as aa soon eoon as the re port got out the country went wild with excitement A number of old miners have examined the mine and express the he utmost confidence in ih it they say that all the indications are most favorable and believe that the ore is practically unlimited and that the vein will increase in in size and richness with depth the ledge on which the mine is is located is traceable for fifteen or awen twenty ty miles and the cro pings throughout are similar it is therefore bonfi dentally ten tally believed tha tha t the whole region i is is rich in in mineral min eyal heretofore the standard has not had much to say concerning be ae mines in this section bebau because z be so many promising promising prospects had find failed to hold goo good d when aben developed but now there is no que question tion of the character of this disco discovery very and we do not of hesitate to predict a great mining boom during the he summer W WB con congratulate the discoverers and sincerely hope their fortunes are made yesterday Test erday it was rumored that had been refused for a half interest and there is no occasion to doubt the truth of the rumor with half a dozen paying mines in operation this section will be one of the richest and most prosperous in idaho or utah we have waited a long time for something to turn up and finally our hopes have been realized it is the jack of trumps and no mistake |
