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Show GOLDEN REEF WAS EARLY PRODUCER (Continued from Page On.) foot level, where ore is now being taken from a 19-foot mineralized vein. At present the ore is running 127c lead and 19, 100s in fcold, with samples taken before the cave-in, and previous records, indicating values at least twice that high at the 200-foot level. Between 1900 and 1912, according to Mr. Dunn, a Mr. Woodward, then operating the mine, shipped seven cars of high-grade gold re taken from the 200-foot level. Mr. Dunn's development program calls for extending the shaft at least to the 1000-foot 1000-foot level, and a diamond drilling campaign to block out and sample ore bodies has been scheduled for the summer of 19 16. An interesting and profitable feature of the Golden Reef ore is the highly silicious quality of the rock, which makes it desired by the smelters for use as a flux in refining processes. This results in great savings on smelting chaiges, the Reef paying $1.25 for smelting as compared to the usual charge of approximately $7.50 per ton. The Reef was last operated on a production pro-duction basis in 1927 by a Mr. Rolf, before the property was leased by Mr. Dunn in 1945. Jesse Knight, famous mining man of the Old West, was the first to prove it as a gold producer when he financed a prospect tunnel tun-nel about 1896. It was worked sporadically from 1896 to 1927, with spotty returns to the operators. However, its future as a paying mine would seem assured, with the Dunn interests operating under an R. F. C. loan after the property was inspected and approved by Herbert Fay and Guy Crane, engineers for the R. F. C. Associated with Mr. Dunn, a native of Canada who had made Salt Lake City his home for ten years before coming to Milford, Mil-ford, is Deal Mendenhall of Springville. Owner of the Golden Reef is Myrtle Mar-cuson Mar-cuson of Elsinore. Employees at the mine, all old-time experienced mining men and "the best crew I ever had," Mr. Dunn said, are Jerry Sullivan, foreman; Phil Roberts, Elwood Harris, George Westwood, Jim Smithson, Ed Frazier, Bob Price and Pete Peterson. |