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Show ORE THIEVES GET JIG HAUL BOLD ROBBERY OF THE MAMMOTH MINk Salt Lake City, Aug. 21. Orson Smith, general manager of tho Utah National Development company, wiled wil-ed to the Salt Lake offices of his company com-pany Wednesday that on Tuesday night the Mammoth mine at tho National Na-tional camp was hold up by armed bandits and a considerable quantity of high-grade gold ore stolen. - The robbers succeeded In making their escape es-cape with their booty. The National district has been ex-tiemely ex-tiemely freo from such robberies for a camp producing us much enormously rich gold ore ns has been and still is characteristic of the mines there. The National company Itself for ovor one e.ir has been sending hundreds of thousands of dollars' woith of gold bullion monthly to tho Satt Lake assay offlce, shipments being made by the United States mail In order to protect the bullion ns far as possible. Some of the oro of tho camp runs $100,000 lu gold to the ton, and only a few sucks of such rock can be carried away speedily to bring a husky fortune for-tune to the thieves. Tho Mammoth company struck Its rich oro a week or two ago and a very ilch shipment has arrived at San Francisco. It Is supposed that the lobbera got away with all tho oro |
