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Show Famous Rob Roy Mine is Leased A bond and lease was taken this week by the Ro.elle Mining company com-pany on the Rob Roy property in the Newton mining district in Beaver county at the foot of the precipitous west face of the Tushar mountain caused considerable excitement i among mining men. The property was worked by L. H. Farnsworth. pioneer Utah mining man, who for ai number of years was in charge at the Horn Silver mine at Frisco and the Bullion Beck in Tintic. A gold quartz boulder dug out of Indian creek brought a net return of $3,000. A ten stamp amalgamation amalgama-tion mill was built in 1S92 and produced about 59,0 0 0 worth of gold. Although the gold was free milling and the values high, activity did not continue long for the ore did not seem to be in place and was soon exhausted. Recently Frank Rozelle, organizer and manager of the Rozelle Mining- company with extensive holdings in the South Tintic district, made an examination of the property. Formerly Mr. Rozelle had believed believ-ed that the ore found on the Rob Roy was float that came from near the summit of snowy Mt. Belknap. The problem intrigued him and he visited the property several times After frequent trips to the ground, he came to the conclusion that the rich boulders and nuggets, lor which the Rob Roy was famous, were drag ore from the big north-. north-. southfault that cuts the property. This same fault, Mr. Rozelle be-rtieves, be-rtieves, which truncates the Sheep Rock mine, about two miles distanl, is in line with the big Hurricane fault. The exposed rocks on the property are igneous and greatly shattered. The contact of the sedi-mentaries sedi-mentaries with the igneous rocks crossing the Rob Roy, according to Mr. Rozelle, has been faulted, fissured, fissur-ed, and metamorphoses, and it is along this highly mineralized zone, the Rozelle Mining Company will concentrate its operations. It is Mr. Rozelle's plan to sink a shaft and seek the lode from which the rich gold ore evidently came. Plenty of wood and water exists on the property. The mine is but a short distance from o. good road. Indian Creek, with a flow of about 12 feet a second, crosses the the property. To the east and south is Mt. Belknap and the Annie Laura mine, another gold property, and on the north and west lies the well-known well-known Fortuna. The Rozelle company also controls con-trols 764 acres in the South Tintic district, where a highly mineralized formation similar to that productive in the big mines of the Tintic district dis-trict exists. . o |