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Show I The American Fork and Silver Lake Mining Districts jH Several imporluiiL events which have taken !ac! in re- Hu cent months give further assurance that what nro believed to Unj 1)0 iiiitiHiial inveslnionl opportunities in American Fork Gan- Hjj yon are being offered hv a NVw York brokerage house. K The first, of these events was the deatli of Alexander Tar- 1; boll, the, principal owner of the Pittsburg group of mining Wm, claims, which am situated near the head of the Canyon ad- Bttj joining the Mineral Flat and Bog Iron Groups. Following Kf bis Heath, his widow also died and the interest is said to have iWi passed io strong financial hands in Now York City, from whom Mj an option Una been secured by an- SjD! othor Atrong croup who prnposii to W I rco thin splendid estate opened tip BM I and tho largo oru reserves marketed. jHH j A company with u capital of $1,2',0,- j 00 has lieon formed mid u limited din nmoiint of tlio stock offered by the MM I brokerage house of II. X. Dawson Co, (Mil 10 Courtland St., Now Vork nnd nl- 'Bff l tractive literature on tliu subject In MM being forwarded to Investors through Ml J out tho country. It In undurHtood JH j that this company have in prospect Mm. fc n very attractive prospectus showing njf Illustrations of the Pittsburg inliio, MM fi tho Pacific mill and other rioslrublu 'ij features of tho canyon with hlstor- H ical nnd other dnta and facts of the H jj productivity of tho district. W;9 Within roccnt weoks n man of ua- MWi B , tfonnl fame linn visited the canyon mm jj und mado critical Inspection of tho Htf IMttsburg mlno nnd stnted that lie Hjf Iwllovcs thoro Is ono million dollars Dili worth of oro In Hlght or readily ac- MrE eoBslblo In the Pittsburg mlno nnd (hat ho foots that It has tho mlnornl H?l formation to mako nnothor Ontario njij inlnb with a production of fifty mill. Bljl lonn. An tho Ontnrlo mlno Is in tho Hjjj Immcdlato vicinity nnd tho courm or mWll ,no Vo,llB trend towards tho Pitts- Bh I'urg mlno, such nn hypothesis Is cor K tal'nly tenable (jj Hut of tho greatost Interest to Am- MU crlcan Pork merchant and business BpSi pooplo Is tho further information that Hi tho workl,'K8 of tho mlno will bo on I tho Amorican Fork Canyon aide of j tho dlvldo for tho mlno lays strad- M ling tho Ulvido with workings on both H aides. Mr, J. II. Digger of Now York. j mado a trip horo last summer and H decided this point to hla own satls- fncllon nnd assured the writer that thoro wore throe IovcIh In tho mine on this fthlo from which tho oro could bo mlnod and taken very much cheaper thun It could from tho Park City dido nnd that u mill built on the othor side could not find n location whoio It would bo safe from snow-slides, snow-slides, while American Pork canyon prosentod sovoral such sites within easy tramway distance from tho tunnel tun-nel entrances, Komo of the American Fork canyon miners accompanied the cxicrti to tho Pittsburg mlno during tho summer and expre.mcd their surprise at the great quantities of oro exposed and th'o excellent formation to mako very largo deposits, not only of milling but of shipping grndos ns well, and stated that tho oro was continuous for tho entire three level? or 300 feet with frequent beddings of great extent. ex-tent. This oro was openod by leasers leas-ers In recent years, working on short loasos, which woro taken from them, with tho object probably to get tho mine opened up without making any notoriety of th'o great deposits of oro opened up, and tho loasers could do hut very llttlo shipping, as tho ore openod was principally of tho milling mill-ing grades. It Is highly probably that the sum-mor sum-mor of 1921 will sco a groat tram-Way tram-Way built to tho bottom of tho canyon can-yon nnd perhaps 200 men employed to mlno nnd mllj the vnluablo milling oro with many ore teams hauling the resultant product to market. The man of national reputation who la said to head tho company is nono othor than Al Myers, tho dls-covcror dls-covcror of Goldfleld. Nevada, and tho owner of the famous Jumbo Claim nnd later of tho llayo-Monotte lea-so lea-so which lias enriched tho world by millions of dollaru In gold and Is still a wonderful camp. Mr. Myers Is credited with cleaning clean-ing up Jl.dOO.OOO from this camp alone, but he Ih well nnd fitvorably known to many of tho successful camps from Alaska to Mexico. H. c. Johnson, secretary of the Pacific Company, accompanied him on IiIh trip to tho Pittsburg mlno Inst summer sum-mer nnd describes him us a groat big man, physically nnd mentally and altogether qualified to handlo tho executive end of tho big proposition prop-osition now in the making. Kx-Cov-cruor Wells is a director In tho now company nnd several well known eastern eas-tern capltallHts mako up tho bnianco of the Hoard of Directors. This is only ono of tho straws wh'lch lead us to belief that Amorican Pork canyon is soon to bo tho scono of groat mining activity. Othor mines nru known to bo In tho shipping list. The Uolorophon la to Instnll hoavior machinery and It is well known that they have shipping oro In oomo nUundnncc. Tho mining situation la Just at pro-sent pro-sent In a dep'rossod condition, but so also Is tho rurmlng, th'o stockrais-ing stockrais-ing and other branches of Industry, but long-headed people era propnrtng tor nn awakening which is surely to corao in all lines of endeavor, ns soon ns tho period of reconstruction la over ov-er and wo shall see our own nilnlng camp bustling with llfo which will mako of American Fork a city of prosperity, based upon substaritlon pay rolls of sovoral great mines. Tho productive mlues of tho camp may bo mcntlonod In tho ordor of their output na tho MUlor mlno, situated sit-uated noar the top of MUlor Peak, with' a shipping record of nearly tlvo million dollars, of which Its moro recent re-cent history was written between October, 1904 and December, 1907 when Tyng Urothors oporntod thoro under lease. Tholr shipments of oro bringing n total of 7C2,000,00. The Wild Dutchman has produced prob- I jably In tho neighborhood of tl.000,- j 000, tho Mvo Yankco nearly as much, tho Pacific about $200,000 and many fc moro of lesser yield. ! Tlio ovortlirust llnio contact of tho ; camp has not been more than Bcrat-; Bcrat-; died and tho only deep workings on tho quartxlto fissures aro in tho I'a-! I'a-! clflo and Hob Iron mines, from cltli-; cltli-; or of which no BlnklnB has boon dono. ; Tho mlnoral resources of tho dls- trlct liavo not ns yet been scratched, ', but tho opportunities nrc here nwnlt-; nwnlt-; InR tho magic touch of capital -a |