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Show PEPPER MINE IN CACHE COUNTY Tribune Tells a Whopper About Discovery. Gives Cache County Official Of-ficial as Authority. Some Cache county wag has been In Salt Lake recently. Tho ovldene comes In tho following story that appeared ap-peared In the Salt Lake Trlbuno Sunday. Sun-day. The Tribune says: News has Just reached this city of one of tho most remarkable strikes ever made In any mining property of Utah, and It bids fair to revolutionize one line of industry of the state and perhaps of the country. The nows comes from one of the prominent office of-fice holders of Cache county, within whose liberal borders Is contained the ground In question. Makes Big Strike. In sinking a shaft, whether for water, wat-er, mineral or oil It matters not, a gentleman, whoso name Is wlthcld for some reason, at a depth of not over llfty feet struck a heavy minor-allzed minor-allzed formation the exact character of which he was unable to determine at first. The substance was of a finely divided nature, black as the proverbial prover-bial coal, and having the peculiar property pro-perty of making everyone In the neighborhood neigh-borhood sneczo violently. Pure Black Pepper. A sample of this strange formation was taken by the gentleman In question ques-tion to one of the prominent assayers near by, who made a most learned Investigation In-vestigation of the same. After due consideration lie announced that the substance was pure black peppor, and the corner grocery man pronounced the same opinion. Following the announcement an-nouncement excitement reigned supreme, su-preme, and hundreds of people rushed out to the scene of the strike to make sure that the property had not been salted. , Looking for Cayenne. ' The owner, however, has put three shifts at work In the shaft, and Is sinking at a most feverish rate. He Is positive that within the next twenty-live feet the formation will change to a pure cayenne, the (level p-ments p-ments at the more shallow level leading lead-ing him to this conclusion. |
