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Show IRON COUNTY IS U IN POTASH Gigantic Ledges Carrying High Values Discovered in Hills Adjacent to Parowan. MILES OF COUNTRY NOW STAKED OFF Ledge Varying" in Thickness From 12 to (100 Feet, Extends Along ' Hills for Jinny Miles. Without doubt the biggest mining excitement Iron County has experienced exper-ienced since the discovery of oil in the vicinity of Virgin City, resulted this week when it was learned thnt extensive and high grade deposits of notassium chloride had been discovered discov-ered nnd were being loented in the mountains adjacent to Parowan. It later developed that a number of Cedar City people have been working away quietly for several weeks past, and had a man in the hills locating tho best of the ground for them, and nothing was known or thought of the maneuvers until the unusual numbers of location notices begun to find their way into the office of the County Recorder, Re-corder, when the excitement broko put. In the mean time, tests have been made, estimates formed of the extent and value of tho deposits, and negotiations arc even under way for their Bale to an outside company. Tho names appearing on the most of the location notices are Wm. H. Corry, H. W. Lunt, Gronway Parry. E. M. Corry, and H. H. Lunt. These locations cover a largo ledge, varying in thickness from a few feet up to GOO feet in thickness, and extending from Little Creek Canyon on the north to the Summit mountains on the south and is estimated to contain millions of dollars worth of the product at tho existing prices. orlnc 'fifclriinly-lna ' iff TiTso interested in the deposits. Recent reports from Parowan are to the effect that the people of that place have discovered and located another an-other rich ledge of tho valuable substance sub-stance half a mile or so higher up in the mountains. If all the reports circulating are entitled en-titled to credance, there is no farther necessity of going to Germany for potash, nor for the farms of the eastern east-ern states going short of this important import-ant mineial salt. Those who have socurcd good locations loca-tions aro very jubilant, and feel that a fortune is already within their "rasp, and it is now only a question as to which of the expensive mnkes of cars they will buy. In the mean time it is said that the hills are full of amateur Drospectors, and that tho recorder's office is being deluged with location notices, The values are said to range from TO to 30 per cent potash, and as tho foundation is a soft sandstone, it is said to be only necessary to emerso tho material in water, when tho potash pot-ash goes into solution leaving the sand and other waste material. According to tho figures compiled, the average nin of tho vein is worth $42 per ton delivered on the railrc)id at Lund. It is predicted that there will be a mining boom on within 30 days which will eclipse anything that this section sec-tion of country hascver known. |