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Show John Cleghorn Guts I Belorphan Fissure I WSTUmEOOPNTTO OUB INTER. I The host news that has conio out of the Canyon since tho I nnounccincnt of Peter Miller's cutting tho Pacific fissure, was I fho announcement Saturday that John Cleghorn had broken I fn tho Belorphan fissure and was taking out lead and cop-I cop-I ncr 'glance ore. Samples that were brought down bear a ro-I ro-I nmblcnce to tho general class ore that is now being mined in I tho Pacific. One assay shows values in silver and copper of 4405.19 per ton. I Thc bin vein has ca cr0BS cut I ,or twelve feet without yet reaching to hanging wall. It Is nil filled with m bearing material apparently yof I milling grado with rlba of lead ore I ll samples of gray copper, unciucs- tionably running high In Bllvdi-. No -1, cstimnto can bo mado of tho strike mi tbo hanging wall is reached and the vein has cn drifted on. Tho I first thing to ho dono will bo to rnlso I j feet to tho surfneo for air, after I which tho mon will run a drift to tho I north. Manager Cleghorn went to Silt lake, with samples of tho rock for I issay, and may put men to work both I drilling and upraising when ho rc- I tonis- .. . For tho past four years Mr. Clog- I torn has been searching for this oro H ud hla many friends will congratu-H congratu-H hie his roward for patient prospect-I prospect-I lug. Mr. Cleghorn made a fortune In. H SeTen Troughs and spent It all In tho I nlnlng game. If tho Ilclorphan strlko H holds out his Seven Troughs luck may prove to bo but a tithing of his luck H in Mary Ellen Gulch. Old timers glory In telling how, In H the early days, hundreds of thousands H ol dollars worth of lead silver bould-H bould-H era oro picked up In tho I.lvo Ynn-H Ynn-H tee Gulch and shipped to tho smelter. Every year since tho early settlors H tint found this rock miners have been H mating tunnels Into tho hills vainly H trying to locate tho sourco of this H ere. Finally they camo to tho con-fl con-fl elusion that tho oro had been mado V la tho f olualilo llmo which being crod-fledawaylmd crod-fledawaylmd left tho ore, lying In tho S dirt. From tho fact that tho Old Mlllor Hill, closo by had produced $2,000,000 H (rem bodilliur In tho lime, mado tho aB average Canyon prospector think that H tte lime was the only formation that H produced ore H Peter Miller camo into tho canyon two years ago and commenced drlv-H drlv-H Is; his long tunnel Into the qunrt- ( H lite, and when ono year ago, ho open- Hedthc Pacific fissure 400 feet docp In i B the quartzlto, ho upset nil tho old thcorics ns to where ore was to be found. At tho timo Miller commenced work, Cleghorn was mining I.lvo Ynnkco surfneo gravel, and that year shipped several car loads of high grado lead boulders, ono of which wclghod C7 tons. All this tlmo ho wns trying to find tho sourco of tho Ynnkco ore, and Miller's success caused him to search for It In tho quartzlto. Ho ran a tunnel "Just below whoio the highest boulders wcro found nnd last fall opened a Northeast Southwest flssuro which was 15 feet wide, containing con-taining samples of galena similar to that found In tho over burdon bolow, and four feet of which contnlnod samples sam-ples assaying 1S5 ounces In silver. In tho mcantlmo Mr. Cleghorn by pur-chaso pur-chaso and location had secured a group of lfJ claims surrounding tho Ynnkco on tlirco sides. Thoso ho organized or-ganized Into tho Ilclorphan Compnny, nnd Inst fall stnited n tunnel near tho Yankee sldo lino to cut tho flssuro. Never for a momont hns ho doubtod his ultimate success, and for tho pnst povo-al months this paper has been telling Its readers that tho Ilclorphan would bo tho next big mlno to bo op encd in tho ennyon, nnd hnvlng mado n careful oxaminntlon, wo now bo-llovo bo-llovo that tho Bolorphr.n will rival the Pacific flssuro as to size, length nnd richness. Others who nro acquainted acquaint-ed say that tho l.avaun on tho north, nnd tho Globo nnd Knrl-Eaglo on tho south will got tho snino flssuro and probably bo equally ns blgmlnosJUHt ns the Copper Glnnco on tho north nnd tho Miller Hill, Whirlwind nnd Dutchman Dutch-man on tho south of tho Pacific nro Buro to got tho Pacific vein. Kveryono in tho Canyon will wnleh with keen Interost tho developments of tho Ilolorphnn strike. If It proves John Cleghorn's theory to bo corroct, It will bo tho means of doubling tho Interest In American Kork Canyon ns ono of tho Stnto's best camps, and will glvo nn electrical Impetus to forty others who nro opening properties hnvlng mineral showings. |