Show MUCH MINING ACTIVITY kane countes Coun tys paria river section being actively worked much machinery being taken in there beems to bo much mining activities in southern utah in kino and garfield counties during the beir leave been exploiting ing the pana region in kanc county and other capitalists ire in alio auriferous bare in tho colorado nver below dandy crossing and leos ferry the sun it lias long been known that aro great of copper along the pana river samples 93 per cent pure have frequently been displaced here in various companies have attempted to develop these prospects and considerable machinery has been to the river the long distance from a railroad has handicapped development work ind no fortunes have ever been brought out of that wilderness other metals gold silver and uranium also have been found along the pana but alie region is isolated and has been but little all sorts of possibilities and opportunities await the advent of capital and rail raids along the pana river the past summer many placer been made and at least two companies backed by ample capital are on the ground hundreds of tons of costly labor saving machinery have been freighted by 0 teams from marysvale Marys vale the nearest railroad point more than miles distant camps have sprung into being on the river and stores and commiss aries are being operated there has been a great of mining and money ed men into tha district and is plenty of work for the aking at an of the camps the sand of the pana like those of the colorado carry quantities of fine gold and to save the yellow metal recently patented machinery is being given a try out beav dredges are soon to bo put at work in the pana and streams and ere long the pana region is destined to become one of alie liveliest mining centers in utah the same state of affairs exists along the colorado river south from hito hundreds of men are working alio sandbars in quest of gold and m my of them are successful in extracting the precious matai from the binds crude appliances that save infinitesimal per cent of the glistening hakes and ct agite enough to make it profitable to alio operator of i machine barges and dredges will soon be employed in the nver and modern placer mining will then be put into motion the possibilities arc limitless one of the big companies operating on the colorado has a steamboat in on the avei the craft alas freighted in sections from the railroad across mountains and deserts by teams of oxen to its destination ti A boiler weighing pounds mas ie of the heavy sections that teamsters and oxen were obliged to with the pana region and the colorado remote from accurate information from these recent scenes of mining activity ig hard to obtain and alie details are more or less distorted ere reaching biere tho particulars are gleaned from travelers ho have recently the bounto and meager though they be in substance are accurate |