Show oUs S Sit SILVER SR VER RE REEf i. i MINING S iS MAKING K Activities Going Along at Record ce High High Grade Ore Encountered Readers Headers of the Iron County Record i will no doubt be pleased to learn that there Is every prospect of the famous famous famous fam fam- ous old Silver Reef mining camp makIng making making mak mak- ing a comeback and produce as liberally liberally liberally lib lib- as it did forty or more years ago It will be remembered that an eastern eastern eastern east east- ern company purchased the property through a court sale and soon after began work of development A new road from the town of Leeds to the mine a distance of two miles new new dumps new hoisting works and offices S and cabins and much other improvements have been made since then and thousands of dollars spent A new shaft has also been driven to toa toa toa a depth of feet and a vein of very rich ore found the vein being more than a foot in thickness and still widening We are t told d that all the indications point to the miners soon teaching the mother lode when will begin and active shipping of ore ore ed The Dixie Power will furnish all the power necessary for operation on a abig abig abig big scale from their Virgin River plant plan that will be completed by the first o othe of the coming year Indications Indications' point so old timers as assert assert as- as sert that the famous old silver camp will be a bigger producer than It was when silver took a slump years year ago T The e old timers s oi ot which which there are but a few left claim that there 1 Is no question but that the rich ore are o othe of the famous old camp in the past was wa only merely scratched and although hundreds of thousands of dollars cam came from there Into t the e coffers of the owners at that period the real body of ore was not touched It Is ls claimed that now with the Improved Improved methods method of ml mining ng- ng the ore body will be opened up so that a heavy production will b be Continued on Page 8 Silver Reef Mine l Making l Comeback Continued from page 1 maintained and millions of dollars taken out In a few short years The Indications are that the ore body tf bf that camp Is practically In Inexhaustible inexhaustible in- in exhaustible and will produce for years to come corne until such time as the depth reached precludes mining be because because because be- be cause of interior earth heat It is also claimed by these old timers that In their opinion the ore depth of the Silver Reef is greater that was that of the historically famous Comstock lode The development of this property in Washington county means the employment employment employment em em- of hundreds of men in the very near future and also means that thata a ready market will be had for all the produce agriculturally that can be raised In Southwestern Utah |