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Show COLORADO CAPITALISTS Invest a Million Dollars in Mining: Property Prop-erty in the Mercur District. The announcement was made in business bus-iness circles yesterday, savs the Salt L.lkfi Hpralrl. that, thp Mprmir Tirnnnrtn in the famed Camp Floyd gold mining district has just been sold to a syndicate syndi-cate of Colorado capitalists for the "mere bagatelle" of $1,000,000, a forfeit for-feit of $2o,000 having been put up pending pend-ing the final closing of the deal. As usual, the officers ot the company which owns the mines and mill refused to talk on the subject and leave the mining world to conjecture on their good fortune. The report ia vouched for, however, by several of the best posted mining men in Salt Lake, and the declaration was made last evening that the deal will be closed up within a few days, Colorado capitalists have their keen eyes on the new gold district and, judging judg-ing from their action in the very recent re-cent past, are prepared to gobble up everything in sight as soon as it becomes be-comes sufficiently loose. |
