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Show AUSTIN COMPANY I REPORTS STRIKE I Bmany local stockholders iKgLATED OVER THE SHOWING ' M JUST OPENED UP. , H Considerable talk was caused hero Hn tho past few days by tho reported Ktrlko 011 tho Austin ground in Bmerlcan Fork canyon. Tho company iHs backed by local peoplo to a largo Bitetu and thoy nil feel very good Bncr the reported strlko. Tho strlko Bias mndo last wock and soems to bo Bf a big naturo from all reports of Hho men who havo boon working here. 3iB The Salt Lako Trlbuno carried Uio Bollowlng story In Its Issuo of July Bth which was confirmed by Manager B,W. Karl: -'M "c. W, Karl, who with six minora HBimo down from Amorlcnn Fork can- Won Sunday to celebrato tho Fourth, 'Reports a most important strike in Vc V0 Au8lm proporty, of which Mr. " Bart Is superintendent. Tho now Wtriko was encountered about tho i B,Jl1'0 of mst wc0 'n n twenty-foot '11 Hpralso from tho old Austin tunnol, Had consists of about eighteen Inches Bt hlgh-grado sand carbonato with Bberal chunks of solid galena scatter- tHd through tho vein. iB"1"110 8trlko lookB 80 Eood that a ship- :i IBent of oro sacks has beon ordered oil will bo taken back with tho mon IBhen thoy rotum Wednesday. Tho IBlners havo not developed tho strlko jBuTiclently to dotormlno its oxtont, f But from all appearances thoy aro Just )Bi tho outsldo of n big body of ap jBoxImatoly $100 oro. I ?B"SuI)er'ntcndont Earl alfl0 rPrtR ' IBsother Important strlko In tho same 'Banc1, uut about sovcnty-llvo fcot jwlBom tho othor. This is tho opening B a four-foot flssuro llborally sprinkled jBth chunks of "gray copper," somo )B which assay as high as 1C00 ounces Bllvor, eighteen ouuees of gold, 1G pUh cent copper and 40 por cent lead. T"B"S formation is so looso that tlm- Br'nK w'" uo necessary beforo tho jBtent and real significance of tho oro tBn bo determined. (KThe intontion, howovor, is to placo ' oxport timberman In chargo and )V mi out whore- It will load to. Appar-Btly Appar-Btly Uio two veins, tho first a north-But-southwest ono and tho second Bth a north-south strlko, will form a ncturo about fifty feet distance. "Tho Austin company last year Bovo a 300-foot drift from tho old Brl-Englo tunnel to within about 100 Bt of whoro it should intorscct tho Bfliiros opened up last week. An ox-.Bnslon ox-.Bnslon of this drift would cut tho B Assures at n depth of about 400 Bt doopor than thoy wore encounter-' encounter-' "flj abovo, but Mr. Earl says that ho zalflpi "follow tho oro," at toast until it H nSdevelopcd to a reasonnblo certainty nctVfrt tho oro goes down. ,f!HMohn F. Brndshaw, Jacob Evans, jBorgo M. Sullvan, C. W. Earl and iBward Southwlck aro tho chlof I jBclals and stockholders in Uio Austin jBnpanjr, though its stock is wldoly -Bittorcd throughout tho stato." |