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Show UTAH MINES. Tiie Sevier District Rapidly Cumin? to the Front. The Sevier district in Reaver county is coming rapidly to the front as an ore producer. An important strike is reported in the Sevier mine, of which W. C. I'elding is superintendent. A vein, with from three to live feet of . pay ore. going lifteen ounces of gold : and I'Jo ounces to the ton. has been tapped and over three hundred tons liave been sacked for shipment to this ; city. The Sevier district. extends ex-tends north and south front the Reaver county line to the Sevier river, some .ten or twelve miles distant, and the ! beli' f is expiessed by mining men that it will become at an early date one of tie biggest mining camps in Utah. The directors of the Centennial-Eureka Centennial-Eureka minv at Tintie have declared a dividend of tier share, just double the usual monthiy dividend. There is said to be enough ore block -d out to warrant t'-e dividends being kept at that figure for an indelinite period. Ih Kupholt, an old-lime and reliable miner, recently returned from an extended ex-tended visit to the Deep Creek country. ; He says the mines are looking well, j and development in the different dis-: tricts progresses well. Xearly all the claims are piling up first-class ore on the dumps, ready for shipment as soon ! as the railroad, now projected, reaches i them. ! |