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Show Begin Developing Horn Silver Mine on Extensive Scale . T Tintic Lead Buys Famous Old Mine At Frisco and Shifts Begin to Work MAKE ACCOMODATIONS FOR LARGE NUMBER OP MINERS KIPP IN CHARGE Each of the three larger Salt Lake dailies carried a story this week telling tell-ing of the sale of the Horn Silver mine to the Tintic Lead and mentioning mention-ing the development plans which would be carried out immediately. Crews of men have been arriving at the mine all this week for work at tho mine and it is contemplated that the total force will evenutnlly be in the hundreds. Boarding facilities facili-ties are being provided at Frisco and biink-houses are being built. A. E. Kipps. mining geologist who has a wide acquaintance in this mining section, sec-tion, will be the superintendent in charge of operations. The work will consist of only putting put-ting the mine in workable shape at first. Re-timbering will be done, shafts and levels cleaned out, and the mine put in shape for a few months of development. The history of Horn Silver has been a romantic one- It is the oldest silver mine in Utah, its ore being discovered dis-covered in 1S75 by James Ryan and Samuel Hawkes. It was sold by them for a song, figuratively speaking, speak-ing, and the succeeding operators, one of whom was Matt Cullen, mined it for five years. At the end of that period it was sold to a Philadelphia concern for $5,000,000.00. Fifty-four million dollars worth of silver-lead ore was mined down to the 900 foot level. Only the best ore was shipped due to the long haul to a railroad in those days. Present shafts at the mine reach to the 1600-foot level. The acquisition of Horn Silver gives the Tintic Lead control over S984 acres of mining ground in Utah. From the Salt Lake reports, Mr. Kipps is certain that the mine still holds fortunes within its depths. If this bo proven within the next few months it will result in a great commercial com-mercial growth for Milford. |