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Show Mining Prospects. Since the discovery of wonderful gold values In the Whltehorse district dis-trict where a number of Logan people aie interested, tlie Southern Pacillc Railroad has put in a claim for the 100 acres as belonging to them, one of tlie thousands of iiuarter sections given the road as It was being built. The following report comes from there: "The mine-owners of Ollnghouse, out of Reno Nev., are organizing for tho desperate struggle with the Southern South-ern 1'aclllc, which Is asserting ownership owner-ship to the territory and all the dis coveries within It, on the ground that this ownership was acquired In the grants by Congress. A few nights ago the miners of that camp, with reinforcements rein-forcements from White Norse, met en masse and determined to light. The Iteno Journal quotes Judge Cheney as follows: "I believe that if it is established that prior to the issuance of the patent to the railroad that that ground was known to be mineral ground the patent will be annulled The question has been ruled on several times. A similar case went to the Supremo court of the L'nlted Slates from Montana, and the comt hold that when grants were made to tho railroad It was the Intent ol Congress, Con-gress, in order that the resources of the country might be properly developed, de-veloped, that the minerals that were in the granted area should be left open for tlie explorer and prospector. In of fact, as to whether or not at the time of tlie Issuance of the patent the ground was known to to bo mineral, was the determining feature." The Great Western. Lewis Cardon, of this city, one of the main men in the Creat Western Mining, Milling and Smelting Co., with l'o claims near Pocatello, says i that the company will ship about I eight car loads of ore to the Mackay smelter in a few days. Various assays show a value of $lto in copper with strong traces of gold and copper. Mr. , Cardon says the ore now taken out Is from a vein four and one half to six feet wide. Seven men aio at work on the claims. On one proporty a loo j foot shaft has been sunk and a So foot .cross-cut tunnel. In another .10 feet this vein, a rich one, will be tapped. The management Is conlldent that the property will yet prove rich in gold and silver as well as copper, but heretofore have given out no particularly glowing accounts. A goodly number or local people are Interested In-terested In tho Great Western. r .- |