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Show HISTORY OF THE RED WARRIOR Development has been begun by the Moscow Silver Mines company, which has for its objective the opening open-ing up of its old Red Warrior mine at depth, one of the oldest in the Star district of Beaver county. Originally, Or-iginally, the Red Warrior was owned own-ed by Allan T. Campbell, who with Matt Cullen, Byram, and Denny Ryan Ry-an purchased in the early seventies the Horn Silver mine at Frisco for $30,000 from the original locators and sold it for $5,000,000 after producing pro-ducing several millions of dollars in ore. Later, the Red Warrior was purchased pur-chased by the Merritt Brothers, who are numbered among America's greatest trail-blazers and captains of iadustry. It was the Merritt Brothers Broth-ers -the Seven Iron Men of Duluth who had the vision to see what great wealth the Messabbi range held for the United States and the world, when everyone said there was no ore there. The Meritt Brothers Broth-ers also were the first to adopt the steam shovel for open pit mining, thereby founding a new method of mining procedure that has made the Utah Copper and other porphyries possible. Operations at the Red Warrior were directed for a time by Wilbur Merritt, one of the Seven Iron Men, but Alfred Merritt, considered the brainiest of the Merritt brothers, kept a check on conditions and visited vis-ited the mine frequently. Mr. Merritt Mer-ritt is still remembered at Milford for his simple tastes and keen perception per-ception of values. His attitude, like that of Matt Cullen, piuneed Star district miner who took a fortune out of the Moscow and the Horn Silver Sil-ver was always one of profound faith in the mineral resources of Beavei county. The present Lewis H. Merritt Mer-ritt of New York City, a leading spir- ' it in the Red Warrior and Moscow Silver Mines enterprise, is the son of 'Alfred Merritt. In the early days of the Red Warrior, War-rior, good ore was opened up on the surface at the Red Warrior by Campbell. Later, the Merritts took the property over and followed the ore deposits down to a depth of 500 : feet, shipping about $200,000 in ore. 'At 500 feet, a fault cut off the ore and mining stopped. With what is known about the .geology from the work done in re- cent years by the Moscow, it is believed be-lieved that ore deposits can be found in the Silver Bed at its intersection with the Red Warior fissure system. In a short distance, the 1,600 level drift from the Moscow should enter the ore zone of which there is 1,000 feet to prospect before the Elephant Canyon fault cuts the formation. Mineral Survey. |