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Show HIGH GRADE ORE REABY FOR JHE IHLS H Hyrttm People Will nuikl Road Up uflill Let Hand Fork of Blacksmith IfllllH Fork Canyon. Shipping to fll Benin at Once jl Hyrum people are Interesting thonv ll selves In tho matter of tho mineral lil resources In our mountains nud on rlH Monday night a rousing meeting was tlfll held at that place, when tho mutter lll of building u good road up tho lutt rll hnnd fork of Blncksmlth Fork enn- iHI you wan discussed. Tho lessees of, ! flll tho Lucky Star properties, havo two j ilQH carloads of what Is said to bo high M grndo shipping oro and tho Hyrum peop'o hnvo Htillleleut faith In tho t BH proposition that tho Boosters Club ! IBH Is dolui; Us utmost to rnluu tho funds I H with which to construct the road. 1 tlH Homo of tho Logan people who nro til Interested In these properties nro Hl much elated over tiio outlook for this yfll mino. Tho lessees havo struck sov- HRI cial miIiih of high g"udo lead nud zinc Iflll bearing ores nnd In ti recent report Vl to tho ofllcers of the company, mnko Rll somo ntntomeutn which should cnuso nl local people to Investigate. For In- Rl stance, It Is said by Jeremiah Nolan Hl nu expert miner that tlio wholo hill H In tho vicinity of tho Lucky Stnr SfllH group Is filled with zinc. Surveys I KH havo roccntly boon mndo nnd plats I K aro on record of tho company's hold- lt.1 Here 1b an oxtrnct from n recent HH report mndo by Mr. Nolan: ilH "Wo havo found that zinc Is tho ffl predominating nud most vnlunbla KH mineral lu tho mines, according to KH tests mado by tho Union Assay Of- mII flco at Salt Lako City. It went 48.70 H In zinc, other samples 37.50, 35.87, Bl 41.00 nud several other samples low- BH or. I hnve Just recolvcd letters from HH II. K.rWood qt Dcnvor City to whom IH I sent llvo samples nsklng his optn- Rl Ion. Ho writes that they nro lino Hl specimens of zinc carbonates and frl- Hl llcatcs. Ho says n mine of such ore. jlDH Is undoubtedly of much vnluo, and IH will And a ready market, and excel- Ul lent prices. Mr. Wood hns been out ul of tho city or I could hnvo reported IH sooner. Ho had not assayed, H tho samples, hut said ho would and ' H send mo tho result ns soon as po3sl- jH bio. Ho showed the samples to n H zinc buying compnuy nnd their ex- H nmlnlng engineer will enrno hero to, , fU examine nud report on tho amount IH nnd dlfforont grades of zinc, with n H view of buying. Wood himself, Is nn H authority on nil metals proauccd In M this country nud Alaska, and very re- H llablo. My sot javy come from M Salt Lako City, and hnro found out H a great deal about '.mo from tho hlgn- H est authority, who had our samples and tested them. Ono of them offers H to buy and pay for both lead and H zinc, ns they havo n zinc ueparator. H Thoro Is also an engineer coming ' H from thero to mnko us n bid. My H sou reports that tho smelting om- , lH pnnys nro very much Interested, nnd H nil pronounco the zinc of tho finest H and inont rendtly marketable vari- H |