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Show rHXj'fKf.Wictf iO'.V UTH. ioilN,U year Eastern capitalists tried t secure an ojion on the property for $15000; but as they made demands to wbichJbe-stockholderwould not agree the matter fell ES3Ithrough. During the coming year La Plata. . the company intends doing extenBLACKSMITH FORK. Promising Prospects io Var- y sive work on the claim, as present The same may be said of the indications fully justify the belief Blacksmith Fork, district to which that the ore body can be reached aa-h- ee considerable attention was at with as, ' been The done. company traded during .'this year, by the already the year was .made find rich during reorganized copper wonderfully " as L. with It. Martineau president oo Rock Creek iu that canyon. -.called is. as and lFred.I.Turner. it &eecretary. TheCopper King, was discovered by-- a prospector Perhaps the-moimportant thing wto had associated that hfls'y happened in mining named Jackson, ECHNIC AL-L- Y with him parties living in Ilyrurn circles here this year wa8 the offer speaking there and Ogden. Some of th8 very richest made some tyro months ago to the are no mines in kiod of copper ore was ytken but owners (jfthe Blue Bell claim, of this prpspect, and for jr tim9 the which is situated in the hills Cache, as in no prospects of the Copper King southeast of the town of Paradise, instance has people were veryr bright; some in the extreme southern end of the of Salt 'sufficient work handsome offers for the property valley. Mr.tJohn Tiernan eastern behalf of Lake work City upon rejected. Development been done upon a prospect to make being carried oa .until the ore capitalists, made a' cash offer of wa$ of it a producer worthy the name of pinched out,wfcjen it was disy f 20,COO fo r the property, w h ich "mi n e. There arT in numerabl e continued and .but little has been after consideration by itU company, was refused.. The Blue Bell ore and the beard of the claim since. however, prospects, discontains copper, silyer and gold, hills from. the southern to Miners who worked on the the' heaviest percentage being in believe co ore the very say they of the northern extremities a could reasonbe with found copper, Among the owners are body the valley are studded with pros- able amount of effortproperly direc- Hon. Joseph Howell of Wellaville, pect, holes in which lie, buried the ted, but they claim that the work J. II. , Squired of Hyrum, Jno. hopes and fond speculations of done so far on the mine, was not Squires of Logan, Sheriff Turner . many a farmer prospector, who for done in tli9 proper direction. Scores and others. Development work is a time forsook his pastoral pui-sui- of locations , were made upon being pushed, and a? several partied, to seek wealth .amid the rug- ground in. the vicinity of this ci&im, have a desire to purchase the mine, Put upon none of them was any etariliog news tnay le expected ged hills of the Wasatch. and fertile The valley being rich stirtling discovery made, although from that quaiter at any time. husbandattracted as settlers the feme very nice looking galena ore Mr. John R, Edwards of Logan 'miners,-and men rather thau the was uuoovered on. some of them. owns a claim, The Quyen of the this perhaps is the main reason . The assessment Work upon the Hills, situated upon the same lead why the mineral deposits in Cache old King mine, located by Mr. as the Blue Bell, and which looks county have not been opened and 1. A. Nielsen, and upon many quite as promising. He has had the rich treasure taken from other of the claims that were lo- several bonding offers, but declined Mother Earths tenacious clasp. cated and worked during the min- to accept them. Since the Blue Bell That'large deposits of mineral ing excitement of 1891 and 1892, people refused to sell, however, he exist here, no one who i3 acquain- have been kept, up but nothing has dnhounced his in'ention of of the greater pjrt of his ted with the country and the unusual has happened in the way dispo-in- g characteristics ofanineral bearing of new strikes of ore. ciarm. but will not entertain a lies few but Some at depth sales of minidg prop- propositions from' any but capitalit landdoubta; to reach. that will, require money erty in that district have occurred ists as, his sole reason for selling As to its value there are differences during the past year, but they were is to have a mine developed in the of opinion among those v whose not very large transactions, nor of county. He baa kept persistently at work on the claim, as long as judgment carries weight in regard much importance. to tnioingand minerals, some conIn Logan canyon but little cf in- his means would permit, and at tending tjiat nothing but low grade terest to mining men has occurred present the Queen of the Hills ore will be found here, while others daring the past year: Time was, is in excellent shape, considerable insist with quite as good reasons however, when the prospects at the ore of a very good grade being in that In the development of the head of Beaver Fork promised sight. Another important mining mineral resources of the county, great things; but gradually- - the transaction was the recent bonding phenomenally rich ore will be en streaks of ore over which men of the Gclden Gate property situacountered. went wild a few years ago, have ted in. Green canyon, and owned At the time of the Mercur exciteH. A. Pedersen-Eiri- l petered out and the camp has by Mcs-rs- . and when the ment . cyanide pro- been'abandohed. Anderson, Thos. Smart, Oscar cess of reducing ores first began to In 1892, when J. P. Hansen dis- Ejorkman, and others. The option, be talked about, many 4hen as- covered the much talked of Ama-- . wnich extends over a period of two serted that cyanide oro did not ex- zou mine, there was quite a lively years and was taken by Colonel M. ist here; yet within the past year little camp at Crystal Springs, Shaughnessv of Salt Lake Citv, is 'ir'hasbcerr demonstrated -- that about one railobove-the-hea- d of for $50,000, 10,000 of vvhicWiust large deposits of ore believed to Btaver creek, and on the Bear be paid at the expiration ofjbur be sufficiently valuable to work; Lak6 road. Moneyed men offered months if the . development work and that can be treated with the quite a handsome figure for the produces results. satisfactory cyanide method, exist in various Amazon and Humbug claims, but Should the expectations of the were unable to purchase them be- owners be realized, and they have parts of The county. From the time the tirst Settlers cause the ownere, dazzled by the good reason to believe that such discovered evidence of mining prospect of sudden wealth, were will be the case, Cache county in and demanded general and Logan in particular operations having been conducted unreasonable, in Blacksmith Fork canyon up to fabulous shins for their property. will experience a boom that will the present, there have been a few Finally other parties appeared bring us to the front as a mining venturesome, inquisitive people and claimed the Amazon property, center. The ore of the Golden who insisted upon prying into the litigation followed and the new Gate is of a low grade, yielding a eecrels of Dame Earth, and upou claimants won. Since then, how- versmall percentage of gold; hut these few who have spent their ever, nothing of importance has being easily treated by the cyanide limited means liberally, has de- been done there. process, it can be worked profitably howdown pended the development of Cache if Farther the supply of ore is sufficient, the canyon, Countys mineral resources. Some ever, interesting developments have and maintains the present average. e of them have wearied taskr tnken place. The Horseshoe claim, The indications are that there is a and quit while others are still originally located by Mr. J. E. mountain of the ore. Active depegging away, and the events of Anderonbf Salt Lake, and situa- velopment work is now goiDg on, the past year seem to warrant the ted about two miles-frothe city, and the showing is quite as good as has developed into a gold bearing could be expected. Other claims prediction that they will soon the reward of their persistent cyanide - proposition; Theclaim in Green canyon that have showed toil. was sold Sheriff under an ud well during the It is not the purpose of this execution bythe during the summer, as those worked by Mr. William H. article to make, a detailed was also one of its extensions, Mr, Palmer .ofJbis..cityndJ.the.Mam-moth- , the ruining operations and Anderson purchasing them both. owned and worked by Mr. episodes from the commencement of A company has been .formed. Jn Hamlett of Park City, who postreasure hunting in Cache, but Salt Lake City for the purpose of sesses the most unbounded faith in rather to note a few of the import- working these properties, and in- the future of that district. In ant things that have occurred in teresting results may be looked Smithfield canyon this year a new - connection, with mining -- here-dur for, meau3are strike of galena ore. was made-j- bf Messrs. Pitcher and Reeder, in what ing the year, and to mention members of the corporation. briefly a few of the new discoveries Among the most promising they call the Accident mine, which and the developments upon the properties in which Cache Co. peo- they have worked for some years old ones. , ple are interested,is theRich-Uach- e past. The ore in the new find carSince the La Plata excitement of mine, upon which considerable ries an unusually largo percentage 1891 subsided, a great many peo- development work has been done. of silver, and there is quite a streak ple have entertained the idea that It Is a copper proposition, and for a of it. The owners gro confident the mines in that' once promising time showed up as a probable pro- that if they had a small amount camp have bsen abandoned. This ducer. A company was incorpora- of money to spend they could soon is not the case however. Upon ted and stock issued, preparations make a producerjof the Accident. several of the most important were made for extensive work, but Another mining proposition which claims the assessment work has when the bottom dropped out of the has recently come before the public been .regularly done, and occasion- mining boom of the early nineties, and is at present attracting conally reports of new strikes being the Rich-Cach- e suffered with the siderable attention, is the made in, them have floated down rest. The owners have not , lost situated a short distanceElkhorn, east of into the , yalley, and the mining heart however nor abandoned the Providence on the face ot the fraternity. Jias not by any means hope bf making a mine out of the mountain, and owned by Mr. J. K. given up its belief iithe future of During the present Looslev of Clarkston. A tunnel has THE MINES' OP CACHE COUNTY. s -- mueh-again-wo- rk st , t , ts r J -- -- of-th- m re-cei- past-year-a- state-7xnent"- r 4 re bf , , - Rich-Cach- e. j A: V DECEMBER 24 18D8.. been driven 80 feet into the hill, there has been built two beautiful brick school houses, with the latest and it is claimedthat sufficient ore is in sight to warrant the commencement cf regular shipments. silver" and The ore carries to be a said is there and copper, of Two shifts ii. of foot vein six now. are each three men working in th mine, an;i ibe shipment of ore it U said wiii shoi tig begin. In .xuJditiom ments in the deposits of metal, con dderable effort has been expended this year in prospecting for 'coal. A'sbortdistauce'up Providence canyon a miner named. Elvers, who claims to have the backing of the Anaconda Mining :Cor, has driven a tunnel into the hill a distance of 213 feet, passing through all the strata peculiar to atcoal formation, in prosecuting his work. He pre diets that he will find coal in less than GO feet more tunneling A great many people scoff at the idea of coal being found there, but Elyerfl claims to have had experience," and Tiiawork" aUests 'his belief in ultimate success. Another coal prospeci, situated o ct the divide between here and Box Elder, and owned by Messrs. William Cunningham, F. Kidman and Willard Hansen, gives much promise of developing into a mine. Here, as in Providence, the coal bearing formation was encountered, and after digging depth the owners, who have' had experience in coal mining, became BQmuch encouraged that they purchased a boring machine and have at the present writing reached a depth of nearly 5UU feet. y Work has been suspended for a while, but as the coal indications increased with each foot bf depth, it will be renewed again, and the expectations ate that the mineral will be found within another 100 ' feet; ' This, perhaps, comprises all the important developments ip mining in Cache during the past year. Of course there are hundreds of claims which have been located and some little work done upon, that have not been mentioned in this article; but very little has been heard of them although the owners have kept . at work as long as their finances held out,' in' the' hope of making a strike. Just now the prospects appear very bright, for a mining ..boom in Cache during next year; certainly, more attention has been paid to the investigation of oar mineral resources during 189S than for many years previous. W e Jiopelto se&the same progress made in 1899. -- . Benson; six miles northabout Situated west of Logan, and oa the banks of the beautiful Bear and Logan rivers, lies the enterprising and prosperous settlement of Benson, with a population of about three hundred. The resburceB of this busy little burg are many and varied; among the most important are the products of the dairy, some of the people milking as high an forty cows. During this yeiyr, and yielding no small revenue to the people', was conveniences; seven or eight brick, two frame residences and a number of barns.Also the people are -contemplating the building of a new meeting house with a seating capacity of about 600. This alone i shows that the people have a desire of building up the country, beauti- - fyig4heiF . -b- y-so The pread of Death. A mad bound hand and foot upon a railway track can see the ap- -. proaebinij danger with his open eyes and realize how actual and terrible it is; but when a mahs faculties are- bound about by cords of disease he feels only by a sort of natural instinct the danger that is coming upon him although he cannot actually see it That awful sense of dread, the feeling that death is near at hand is described by a South Carolina gentleman, Thos. G. Lever, Esq., of Lever, Richmond Co., with a truth that everyone who has ever experienced it will immediately recognize : V -- Y I had what the doctors called nervous indi gestion, he saysr "I took medicine from my family physkUn for it, hut of no svatt. In looking over one ol the Memorandum hooks issued by Dr. R. V. Pierce, of tfuflulo, N. Y.. I found a case like mine describe! exactly. I wrote to I)r. Pierce and made a statement. He sent me a .descriptive list of questions, also hvgienic rules. I carried these out as best I could, but I thought it almost Impossible, as I suffered so much with pain uudei iny ribs and an empty feeling in mv stomach. At night I would have cold or hot feet and hands alternately. 1 was getting very nervous and suffered a great deal with uneasiness as to my condition, thinking that death would soon claim me; always expecting something unusual to take dace and having a great dread on my miud. I was also irritable and impatient, and was greatly reduced in flesh. ' 1 could eat scarcely anythiug that would not produce p. bad leeling in my stomach. After some hesitation, owing to my prejudice against patent medicines. I decided to try a few bottles of Dr. Pierces Golden Medical Discovery and Pellets. After taking several bottles of each I found 1 was improving. I have to be careful yet at times as to what I cat, in order that I may feel- good and strong. I fully believe if any who suffer with indigestion or torpid liver or chronic cold would take Dr. Pierces Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Pellets and observe a few simple hygienic rules they would soon be greatly benefited, and with little perseverance would be entirely cured." It is a very simple matter-t- o write to Dr. Pierce. No charge whatever is made for advice; which will be sent you (in a plain - sealed envelope) promptly by mail. 'BEAT i i MEAT -F- OR- Good. Fat, Juicy MEAT Ofaim&ds, Also Fish in Season, CO TO - me Union Heat Market. JOSEPH KNOWLES, Prop. For ndoors their beautifulharvestof"grairf7 there being raised in all about 45,000 bushels, with' an average yield of 35 bushels Hay, of which about 3,500 tons is raised annually,'yields all the way from one to five and eight tons to the acre. .Of the live stock, sheep and cattle are among the most important. There are about 5,000 head of sheep and 2,000 head of cattle. Although the sugar beet crop, due to a small acreage on account of drought,- - and- - the exceedingly low price . paid for them during this year, was somewhat of & failure, the people have proven by their experience that if the conditions are such, which in the fature no doubt they will be, sugar beet railing might be made a highly profitable occupation of the people. As high as 15 tons was raised to the acre, and the test went as high as 25 per cent Jf sugar in beats. The people as a general 'rule are free from debt, and own their own homes, which c&bnot be said of all communities. To show the enterprise and thrift of the people I need only mention, the fact that during the last four or five years 6urroundingr-an- d doing place around themselves the comforts and conveniences of ' this life. i We have room Jiere for ourselves and (threat deaTof land spare, and we say to all honest hearted people of thrift and industry, you are welcome to our burg. wt of Postoffice, 3rd.6tret, Logs BANKING OO. y Logaq City, Utab . IfllAldlM, 000..., SOiFLDS,. 9 DIKECTOE S- 310. W.TSATCHIR, L. 8, HILLS, fc. J. Tay'or. . d ,- r . President; Vloe pxeIdoatI ' David II. Peery , James Mack, Win. 1. Hendrlc- - , nocei Thatcher, Sharp, W. Ritor, ;rae 120,(0,. , 'kit, a. x, ii.ict, ttartiuean t. Hatch, Isthtei having Departmenti- . xays per cent Interest on saving depo, abject to withdrawal on thirty days' not. c teres t compounded quarterly. Sny end sell foreign and doiaMUa exehans Yy . ' ?ollotions Hade Promptly. Correspondents. wcern National Bank, New York. Omaha National !! ask, Omaha. .Beak of Calltornla. San Fraaeisc Edward VJ. Smith. ROTARY PUBLIC, . REAL ESTATE AGENT, FIRE INSURANCE, V and collector: Business Promptly, Attended Edwards Block, Logan. to |