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Show A Bffi S1KE, Made Near Fairfield, Ulaii County, r4 An Immense Deposit of Remarkable Re-markable Cold-Searing Ore. An Eastern Company Arranging: Arrang-ing: to Erect a S40,OCO Quartz Mill. Assayer McVicker has recently made assay es for explorers no w prospecting pros-pecting at Old Lew istou, near Camp Floyd, now Fairfield, that will revolutionize revolu-tionize the mining map of Utah. These assays show $16 in gold for the Eagle claim and SIS for the Lion in ore taken from the grans-roots. Dut it is not the richness of the ore but the immensity of the deposit that mates this one of the most remarkable ore bodies eyer discovered. The ore lies in a great blanket, there oeiisg no w alls to constitute a lead. This deposit de-posit has been stripped 1201) feet long, 100 feet widr and 39 leet deep, and there have been thirty nine piospect holes put down over an area lrom three to four miles square, showing the entire country to be one mans of ore. An old experienced miner who was first to neruld the meat wealth of Butte, when it was comparatively unknown, un-known, pronounces this uiscovery the richest on earth. The country in this vcinity lo.d been extensively pros-pertr-d many years ago. but the tuineis at that iiiu'-were iiiu'-were looking for ore contsdnio " silver, and not gold. A company in which General Doisey. of Neisras;i. and Messrs. Pat ton and Smith aie interested, in-terested, and of which . Mr. Smiih is manager, has put up, a $40,000 mi!!, capable of treating ) pounds ol ore daily. The ore they are milling runs from $20 to $19 a ton. A company m tdf up of gentleman from Salt Lake and Provo have st cured eight claims, which li.e;. have surveyed, staked and rrconle i. They have an expert no-.v inspection these claims and more w ill l eleanu d of the country on their return in a few day. These prospectors haw been ov;j the Deep Creek country and say th d after inspecting Gilsoifs Buckhorn. they immediately returned to take v. -claims at Fairfield, b divving i ',: . t e Buck horn was no'.hnig more th ui y pocket,, while they claim to have discovered dis-covered the entire garment. l.v i;-v. discovery is located forty-five mil-"-, from Salt Lake and thirty fi t. in Pro-. o and is well supplied with water. Tio i mines can be worked the yeai round. .o!iL |