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Show THE BEAVER (Utah) PRESS Thursday, September 27, 1975 T E WEEKLY PRE INTERESTS OF BEAVER COUNTY DEVOTED TO MINING AND AGRICULTURAL Open Big Body Low Grade Ore Makes Splen did Showing on 150 Beaver-Butt- e Foot Level Put the Kibosh On Overdraft Raise 150,000 for Fortuna Development Fine Business Starts Laundry Utah Investors Scramble for First Stock Offered from New Camp Sorting ore that averages $S Beaver's Newest Enterprise across 19 feet with a higher Starts Operations Under grade streak of $18 ore, preparations are going forward at the Good Auspices Beaver-Buttnorlh of this city With $46,500 raised in ten for the test run at tha Sheep from the sale of 465,000 As indicative of the splendid days Rock mil' that is to be made in shares of stock of the Fortuna the near future.' The recent business under which the new Gold Mining & Milling Comlevel Beaver Steam Laundry inaugu work done on the pany, McGarry & Hodges of where a crosscut on the vien and rated '.perations in this city this Beaver, the recent purchaser of a drift were run has week it was stated that the re the Gondola and Lucky Boy of clothing to be handled proven up one of tha biggest ceipts at Fortuna have cinched exceeded the most sanguine groups far known ore bodies in the camp, their development campaign in and is directly responsible for a expectations cf the management the west, and every foot of development work done during the past year has gone to strengthen the conviction that some wonderful mine will be found in this section. By a fortunate coincidence the discoveries of the past few days on the Gold Queen claims adjoinSalt Lake and have sounded the ing the Gondolas, prove connew access of enthusiasm on the one item alone being 900 coliars first gun for the 1915 boom in clusively fhe justification of exwhich were run through the part of the Beaver Butle stockthe Beaver gold fields that now tensive development, on the latnew machinery with excellent holders which indicates that a appears inevitable. They met a ter and the Lucky Boy group. contract will be let immediately results. A great pile of washing surprising support from investFollowing plans announced for to sink the shaft another 50 feet accumulated from local sources ors all over the state, many of the sale of the stock developas soon as the doors were open level. or down to the whom are in attendance upon ment work will begin immediand the first business came from One of the remarkable condithe legislature, and proved con- ately and will doubtless consist is the outside pources in the shape of tions, in the Beaver-Butt- e is at last of two tunnels to be driven both clusively that Uta uniform expansion in width parcel post packages from awake to the existance of a real on the Gondola No. 3 and the It was also stated that from two feet at the surface to field in Beaver county. Lucky Boy. A considerable of Milford are already gold the hotels nineteen feet at the depth of 150 The properties in question force of men will be started feet, with the values in the ere considering sending their busi consisting of thirteen 'Claims on the old tunnel and drifting body running practically the ness here. were purchased by McGarry & will be resorted to in bo'h direc"Everything is working in on same, shown by cross-cut- s Hodges from the original locators tions on ore discovered last sumthe vein driven in every 25 feet first rate order," said Manager early in the winter, and it was mer. It is possible that a shaft of the shaft. In this depth the J. E. Lilly white," and we are here that the first discoveries of will be sunk on an excellent outvein dips out of the shaft only 6 more than gratified with the moment were made in the For- cropping existing in the Lucky feet at the bottom while along way the business is coming in tuna camp. Surface indications Boy. the drift at the present low level from the very start. The work along the outcroppings of Rocky The extraordinary response of the vein is shown up with re- we have turned out has been a Hollow were, af terwarda.-verL6e- d the state's mining investors in markable uniformity of width surprise even to us after just considerable and of Salt Lake io by development general and strike. They had two feet getting under way; and as far work which to the first real opporproves the existence - of $10 ore on the surface. They as the quality is concerned, it of a number of veins in nearly has offered in Fortuna tunity have 19 feet of $8ore on the 1E0 only requires inspection to see claim of I bese groups. In the way of a stock investment every level with a little better than a that it is just as good as any the opinion of some engineers gives rise to the belief that a foot of $18 ore along the foot-wa- ll work done anywhere. We will who have visited Rocky Hollow stock boom is on for this section bide. Owing to the splen- now lose no time in building up it is the most remarkable sur- with much development money, did surface showing on the Beaver- our outside business because the face showing ever discovered in as a result. -Butte properties where the Beaver people seem willing to I expect apex of the vein can be traced give U9 their support. in a to south a for away get trip for many hundred feet there is I which will few days during every reason to believe that a southern of towns Utah splendid ore body will develop in visit the and establish agencies, and will this property. Coincident with the proposed go on as far as Caliente and work of sinking the shaft and Pioche in Nevada in the hope of getting out the ore for the trial diverting some of their business mill test, another shaft is pro- from Salt Lake to Beaver. We Bringing specimens from three in the hemitite iron crystals jected to be sunk near the noi th- can do the same grade of work different veins in the Gold sprinkled all through the rock, and do it cheaper. I have no em end of the Beaver-Butt- e A short distance to the north Queen property all of which claims which will place it about doubt but what I can land a show free gold, R. H. Strickland tf the main tunnel is the out2000 feet south of the Sheep great deal of it. I am also con- and A. T. Burton, minhg engi- cropping vein on which work Hock shaft. The present shaft vinced that we will get the busi- neers in of the work now has just been started and which charge is nearly two miles south of the ness of most of the town? of being conducted by the Fortuna gives promise of being the rich Sheep Rock but all will be in western Beaver County" Gold Queen Mining Company, est of all. Sufficient work has Seven people are at present line and are believed to be on have created a sensation in Bea- not yet been done here to show connected with the laundry the identical ledge. This work ver with news of the best under- the true strike of thi i vein bit will also lin up with the Beaver-Gol- d force consisting of Manager ground strike in the brief his- it is believed to be parallel to shaft, a mile north of the Lillywhite and his partner Wil- tory of Fortuna camp, 12 miles the other two, and the rock with Sheep Rock and gives a clear liam Nowers in charge of the north of this cUy. All previous its visible gold is known to be conception of the extent of the delivery department; Mr. and strikes of moment with but few among the richest of the many Mrs. Brockmann, for several Sneep Rock ore zone. exceptions have been from sur- excellent surface finds in Foryears heads of different depart- face showings b"t in the present tuna. Assays taken frum this ments of the Troy laundry in World' instance shipping oro has been outcrop about. three weeks ago "Flags of the Salt Lake: O. S. Jolliff of Butte, found in two places at 100 feet gae a return of $428 in gold. Montana; Mrs. Crompton and One of the greatest mental Miss Nellie Smitn of Beaver. depth and in the third place rock "Thesa results only go to prove treats ever tendered to the Bea- Fergus Welldon has been assist- liberally spinkled with gold has my contentions of last spring," ver public will be that of next ing as extra man from time to been exposed after two shDts said Mr, Strickland, "when I from the surface on claimed that the outcroppings Friday evening, February 19th, time. the sides of in R)cky Hollow of the Fortuna Hollow. Rocky when Dr. James McLaren will The of face the tunnel now camp are among the most redeliver his famous lecture, "The A Pleasant Surprise shows driven four feet of markable surface showings to be being Beain the of the World," Flags is ore that judged shipping ore found anywhere. Since the ver Opera House. from the free gold showing al- camp was discovered nearly a This is one of the regular LyAvery pica1 ant surprise war ceum course at the Murdock given Mr. and Mrs. James A. though assay returns are still year ago what little work has to b;en done has developed better and through the Low on Thursday evening when delayed. In a sort cross-cu- t Academy, the a southeast vein has parallel showings than were found on courtesy of the Academy Faculty a party of about 25 of the membeen opened up showing three the surface, and they have cerbacked up by the commercial bers of Belknap Rebekah Lodge club board and the special No. 17 I. O. O.K. called in to spend and four feet of ore that is de- tainly always been inviting Round-ucommittee, the lecture the evening, taking with them clared to be of the same grade, nough to justify the expendiwill be given in town instead of plenty of good things to eat. The and in which the characteristic ture of considerable money on a at the school. evening was spent in playing Fortuna gold is found showing mining gamble." visit- cards nd having a jolly time. This will give round-u- p ors and the general public an op- All of those present expressed May Organize Company Assay Plant Arriving portunity of listening to one of themselves as having had an enFurnaces and other equiment the foremost speakers on the joyable evening, and Mr. and Owners of the Royal and Annie American platform today. Those Mrs. Low aid they were not for the Strickland & Burton La Rue groups of claims at For-tan- a are contemplating the incorhaving Mason tickets will ' have only surprised but were very assay plant to be established at preference to reserved seats much delighted in being so Fortuna is being received in this poration of the; Fortuna Royal and general admission will be 25 pleasantly remembered by the city and will be taken to Fortuna Gold Mining & Milling in a few days. cento. Don't mias this lecture members of the lodge. National Banks Forced to Stop the Practice Milford-Panguitc- h of-Doi- ng Stage May Start Favors In accordance with Contemplate tions from the comptroller of the New Line with the Opencurrency the First . National Ireland instruc- Bros. Bank . of Beaver, through its board of directors has just adopted a resolution directing that no officer or employe of the bank shall pay or charge to the account of any depositor any check of such depositor when there are not sufficient funds on deposit to the credit of the drawer of the check to meet the same. The resolution is aimed at the practice of allowing over-drafand is being adopted by national banks every where following the determination of the heads of the treasury department of the ing of Spring e 150-fo- ot 60-fo- 200-fo- ot . Min-ersvill- e. x par-tjcul- ar Rich Gold Queen Ore Uncovered p 14 No. Beaver City, Beaver County, Utah Friday Feb., 12, 1915 Vol. XI Prospect of an early stage line between P nguitch and Milford to connect western Garfield wfth the Salt Lake County Route was the announcement this week of D. J. Ireland of the Ireland Bros. Stage Company, h now operating between Pan-guitc- and Marysvale. ,Mr. Ireland was in Beaver Monday after a trip of inspection over the proposed route which will probably take in Parowan, Para-gonaBeaver and Minersville, and stated that it was the intention of his company to put some cars on this run as soon as some necessary road work is done on portions of the route. His trip was also in the nature of an investigation to discover if .possible when this work would be done. The roads in Beaver county are in fair shape but there is a bad stretch between Paragonah and Buckhorn and considerable work must be done on the road from Parowan Valley over to There seems a Panguitch. strong likelihood that Iron County and,. Garfield , County .may wake up to the importance- of this construction sufficiently to have the work done this spring. The Ireland Stage Company is doinsr a big business north with Marysvale both by passenger stage and trucks. They feel that the time is approaching to branch out in this direction, for they believe from all signs that tha business demands it. ts h, federal ..government, that the practice must cease. The granting of the over-draft i acuimiiuuHiiuu wiJicu lias ueeu mora or less general throughout i the country is considered objec- tionable and will no longer be countenanced by the- - comptroller's office. It is declared that the practice must cease entirely. facilitate the r ccomplishmert of this result, the subject has been taken up by the comptroller's office with the banking departments of various .states, aprt these authorities have generally agreed to take the necessary action to secure the effective cooperation of State banks "in attaining the end desired. To - If you want to keep posted on the of Beaver development to keep in want If you County; touch with the administration of public affairs in your city or county; If you are interested in the building of better roads and in better living generally, ycu can't afford to do without the L. T. Reed is convalescent Press. Fair Fearless-rF- or ever 5 cents the copy, $1.0 after several days attack of la vigilant. the year. grippe. WE "PRUDENT MAN"HAS NS MONEVN OUR BANK AND NS VALUABLES i IN illl II ' I . Nommm I,. ti Jr r ME NASNO FEAR The peace of mind, which you will get from having your jewels, heirlooms, papers and other valuables securely stored away in one of our Safety Deposit Vaults will be worth many, many times the very small sum the box will .cost you. Burglars cannot rob you, fibe cannot stroy them and you cannot loose or injure them. It will cost you onjy a small sum each year for a private box. We will gladly take care of your money " Department. Make OUR bank YOUR bank We pay 4 per cent per annum on Saving Deposits in.our-Bank-in- STATE BANK of BEAVER COUNTY BEAVER CITY, UTAH |